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by Traster 6y ago
In all your examples (and the examples the person replying to you has made) the descriptions don't lose the persons identity. People refer to the "Winklevoss brothers" they don't appear in headlines as "Twin brother
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by Traster 6y ago
I don't work in cloud, I work in a completely different part of Tech. However, we do deal with big clients, and essentially it was always a different game for them- extended support for products, alpha/patch releases where necessa
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by Traster 6y ago
I'd like to hear a statement from ICANN regarding this before I jump to any conclusions, so far TF seem to just be repeating whatever Sunde tells them without any other sources. There's about a thousand different reasons I could s
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by Traster 6y ago
The real moral panic is the moral panic panic.
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by Traster 6y ago
That's a hell of an exception.
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by Traster 6y ago
You think that CNN being full of ex-Russian agents is the same thing as CNN having former CIA people?
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by Traster 6y ago
That the actual story is the source of the October surprise and the fact it was an obvious attempt to sling mud. Greenwald didn’t want to sling mud, he just wanted to turn up and write an article about how muddy Biden was looking these days
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by Traster 6y ago
You're making my point for me. You say "How can you trust these people! They're hiring people who used to work for the CIA!", I say "If I want accurate reporting about the intelligence community, I probably want to
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by Traster 6y ago
I'm saying that "Objectivity" isn't the same thing as only reporting facts. It's a valid point that journalists should feel a responsibility to present their facts in a way that they believe accurately reflects the
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by Traster 6y ago
I find it kind of ironic that Taibbi undermines his entire argument that he's holding to standards despite not being at a reputable news organisation by making a douchey jibe about his subject's job in the first sentence. >The
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by Traster 6y ago
Well the implication of that sentence is therefore that if you click "Accept" you're simply accepting that you can consent by closing the notice. Therefore clicking the X is consenting, and clicking "Accept" is ch
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by Traster 6y ago
Yeah this is exactly what the author was talking about - this absurd “well actually everything is a Ponzi scheme!”. If you think that wall street investors are the same as gamblers and the entire American economy is a Ponzi scheme then you
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by Traster 6y ago
I’m going to come back to this because I think it’s an important point that you’re missing from the article. I mentioned 4 attributes of an investment strategy (each of which we could dig into in incredible detail). You’ve taken 1 and gone
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by Traster 6y ago
I suggest you go and talk to a software dev about what they’re building for wall street- because the last thing they’re doing is gambling and this “well everything is gambling” is the exact kind of thinking the article warns about. There is
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by Traster 6y ago
It is kind of funny that exchanges have become so successful for Bitcoin- since they lose 100% of the stuff that made BTC attractive in the first place. They’re centralised, regulated and transactions don’t even go on the blockchain. The re
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by Traster 6y ago
We can have a totally different attitude towards commercial property, I agree.
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by Traster 6y ago
I think you’re missing the wood for the trees a bit here. Firstly, the scale of the incident in TX went for beyond what could be handled by demand management through price controls anyway- most of the supply isn’t designed to handle those t
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by Traster 6y ago
Whilst it’s vaguely interesting to hear the blow by blow of the process via which Google screwed up Stadia, I would be much more interested to hear the thought process behind the executives who chose the strategy in the first place. This is
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by Traster 6y ago
I wouldn't have thought I would have to explain this on hacker news but if you're lending a multiple of the deposit than you have fractional reserve . (which is not the same thing as lending the actually number of shares you have
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by Traster 6y ago
This is categorically not like fractional reserve. The whole point of fractional reserve is the bank can lend out a multiple of its deposits- hence fractional. In this situation no one is lending anything they don’t have. This is just lik
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by Traster 6y ago
Congratulations to Twitter for discovering only fans, twitch, substack and Patreon. Personally I think this monetisation is slightly in the wrong direction - Twitter provides most high profile users free advertising of their external projec
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by Traster 6y ago
What exact transparency do you want?
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by Traster 6y ago
The problem isn't that we don't think about requirements. The problem is that there are no requirements. The Bomb and the SR71 had two very clear things in common - they were built to address existential threats. The bomb was desi
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by Traster 6y ago
It's quite funny isn't it - GS has this reputation for brutally insisting their employees working like this whilst Tech companies very quietly and passively set up conditions where people can work like this. If you think "W
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by Traster 6y ago
Well firstly, Bill Gates isn't dumb enough to publicly announce his stock picks. But secondly, I suspect Bill Gates, famously best friends with Warren Buffet, isn't going around picking individual stocks to short.
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by Traster 6y ago
In the video he makes this super weird argument > How can a company learn how to find better and better ways to deal with things if it takes all of the intelligence of its people and diverts them from those big problems. This is an argum
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by Traster 6y ago
I don't know where you get these ridiculous ideas about imposter syndrome. Take one look at her career. She's written signal processing algorithms at Apple, won awards at conferences, got a PhD and worked for Microsoft in their AI
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by Traster 6y ago
Doesn't this just ignore Enterprise value? Ford has something around $160Bn in debt, so the real enterprise value of Ford is close to £200Bn. A hot new startup is probably still a little over-valued at 10% of Ford, but I don't thi
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by Traster 6y ago
I wonder if the FAA should revisit its airworthiness decision on the basis that essentially an entirely different organisation is planning to launder the certificate.
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by Traster 6y ago
Quality is always an organisational issue not a matter of individual talents.

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