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by Slartie 6y ago
If Tether Ltd. had at any point in time made any significant USDT -> USD redemptions that outweighed the new USDT given out to new buyers, we should have seen that by a significant number of Tethers being destroyed. Looking at the histor
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by Slartie 6y ago
The first buyer is DoorDash however, and if they somehow want to take vengeance on you after you managed draining their funds in an otherwise perfectly legal way, they might just use the non-fulfillment of their initial purchase contracts a
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by Slartie 6y ago
In which way is my interpretation "disingenuous"?
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by Slartie 6y ago
Look closely. It is just illegal for the food delivery platform to arrange for a delivery. It is NOT illegal for YOU to arrange for a delivery to you, even if you do that through an online platform. Go to Craigslist and offer some dollars t
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by Slartie 6y ago
No, it is just illegal if that someone pretends to have some sort of reseller contract with the restaurant in order to acquire you as a customer. If you go to some guy, ask him to pick up food for you and the guy agrees for a fee, that&#x27
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by Slartie 6y ago
They have, but not if they pretend to be X or to be somehow contracted by X to do deliveries if that is not actually the case.
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by Slartie 6y ago
They had to produce something that could legally be called a pizza to at least fulfill the purchase contract with DoorDash and avoid making themselves legally liable. But what would probably have worked would be to pull this off with two re
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by Slartie 6y ago
How much does that tell me about potential software failure modes that don't kick in until a significant scale (speaking of double-digit percentages of all traffic, these test fleets are not even close to that) has been reached? Or abo
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by Slartie 6y ago
This calculation is actually very rational. What you seem to ignore is that, with conventional cars, there is a relatively small amount of "known unknown" risks. There are of course significant risks, but almost all of them are kn
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by Slartie 6y ago
The problem is: you have to assume "something", because otherwise you simply can't make any predictions. Either assume progress is linear (which seems to be the instinctive default most people use if they don't know much
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by Slartie 6y ago
> It's not clear that the transition from low quality to high quality full self driving will be linear. Most claims around anecdotes come with an unspoken assumption we ought to see steady improvement over time vs a step-function li
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by Slartie 6y ago
That is true, and likely one of the reasons for that favorable EU deal. But what's also correct is: neither Pfizer nor BioNTech did accept money from the Trump government (except as payment for the finished product once it was approved
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by Slartie 6y ago
Actually the partnership came together the other way round: the "comparatively tiny startup" saw articles about SARS-CoV-2, decided to start sketching out a vaccine, called Pfizer, which they had prior business relations due to jo
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by Slartie 6y ago
> Apple allows you to buy a computer with more than 8 GB RAM, but I think it's just a trap how to satisfy and charge those who don't believe the reviews and just want more RAM whatever it takes. And 640kb ought to be enough for
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by Slartie 6y ago
There is no threshold that makes people non-infectious. Or there is, and it is zero. Because even a single virus instance can potentially infect someone else. It is extremely unlikely to happen, but not impossible. Because of this, for prac
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by Slartie 6y ago
There is the virus replicating itself in a body, which leads to the body being able to spread the virus to others. And there is the body getting sick. The second often follows the first, but the two are not necessarily connected, which is p
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by Slartie 6y ago
This is really interesting. There seems to be a significant difference between the US Christmas Tree economy and the one in Germany. We got our tree for this year a week ago directly from a grower in the local area where we always buy our t
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by Slartie 6y ago
Interesting. However, this does not undermine my original claim - actually I think it even increases its viability. The undisputable fact that several UK officials specifically praise Brexit as the enabler for this quick approval process, e
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by Slartie 6y ago
This is so much oversimplification that it hurts. 1) BioNTech/Pfizer haven't "just" tested for safety (I'm implying that's what you meant with your "trying to lift the ban" hyperbole), they have also
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by Slartie 6y ago
To all the downvoters: they even openly kind-of-admit it, I've now got proof from the mouth of Matt Hancock, UK health secretary: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/02/hancock-brexit... Mone
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by Slartie 6y ago
Generally approval of this is fast-tracked everywhere, but the UK being first is a political marketing stunt in my opinion. The UK government is in dire need to demonstrate positive aspects of leaving the EU, and being able to independently
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by Slartie 6y ago
Serious answer: yes!
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by Slartie 6y ago
If you hadn't tethered your software to proprietary AWS services in the first place, you wouldn't have the problem to "replicate" all of that on your own infrastructure. You would simply "have" that stuff - or
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by Slartie 6y ago
If I were Canon, I would make this guy a generous job offer to integrate a better stock heat spreading solution and optional external cooling into future camera models.
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by Slartie 6y ago
So JavaScript is not benchmarked, fast ref counting does not improve native application benchmark results, and the memory model trick does nothing to improve benchmark results of x86 applications? Yeah, you can of course say that each of th
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by Slartie 6y ago
I disagree regarding the importance of this kind of "tricks". You are right in pointing to all the "boring" stuff that is considered state of the art in chip design being the main reason why these chips are impressive. A
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by Slartie 6y ago
A wiki? I thought it was an electric toothbrush!
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by Slartie 6y ago
It means absolutely nothing. Because every GPU vendor has a different notion of what a "core" is. Some count the smallest parallel execution unit as a "core" and thus boast chips with thousands of "cores", some
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by Slartie 6y ago
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. We already know that Intel's offerings suck, and have sucked for a while. I get that Apple has exclusively put Intel into their MacBooks and hence that's used for comparison almost everywhere, but Intel
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by Slartie 6y ago
It is alpha and it is from Google. Electron has neither of those flaws (which btw combine in my opinion to some kind of super-flaw, like those Transformers toys).

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