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VHRanger
4y ago
Thanks for the correction Yes, FSD is just a money making scheme at the behest of the gullible by now
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VHRanger
4y ago
Elon doesn't
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VHRanger
4y ago
Yes because they took LIDAR and other sensors away. Its a data (features) problem, not an algorithm problem at this point. More of the same approach wont yield a breakthrough as is
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VHRanger
4y ago
Given how Musk treats employees, I was wondering where the kind of sycophant ready to sacrifice their life at the altar of an uncaring billionaire actually existed. Glad to know they exist
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VHRanger
4y ago
Isnt Twitter in California where the WARN act applies?
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VHRanger
4y ago
You mean Oracle's entire business model?
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VHRanger
4y ago
Everything you say is correct, but Twitter employees should all still: 1. Document everything off company devices 2. Consult an attorney, preferably specialized in employment law. Prepare for a lawsuit, itll be worth it if one is necessary.
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VHRanger
4y ago
Having won a severance lawsuit in the past (Quebec jurisdiction though): Employment lawyers must be salivating at this point. Twitter is blatantly trying to avoid paying severance by using the for cause, and are likely sloppy in doing it gi
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VHRanger
4y ago
Didn't fix the actual annoyances I have with C++: - Long build times - Overly complex language - Ugly syntax
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VHRanger
4y ago
If only unique_ptr makes the whole experience so much better
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VHRanger
4y ago
Amazon and UPS know the output because it's an easily measurable menial task. You won't be able to do that for knowledge work, and you'll end up using proxies like butt-in-chair time or jira-tickets-closed which are easy to g
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VHRanger
4y ago
Silly you With annual bonuses, you set everything to max KPIs and leave when the house burns down next fiscal year. It's the Dick Fuld method(tm)
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VHRanger
4y ago
Yes, if absolutely no one wants to associate with you, you'll have to do everything yourself.
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VHRanger
4y ago
It's possible this is happening - we've seen similar behavior from Google before. But seriously. This post is a link to a reddit post, which is a screenshot of an unconfirmed tweet. The reddit comments are entirely unhelpful (&quo
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VHRanger
4y ago
It's not inexplicable. The political system froze up to protect entrenched interests (NIMBY land owners). It's making conscious efforts to make new construction onerous to get through permitting process. That restricts supply and
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VHRanger
4y ago
> The irony here is that Youtube videos from ten years ago are still alive and well. They're not, though. Because Youtube re-encodes videos every couple of years, with new "better" lossy compression algorithms. And each ti
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VHRanger
4y ago
Sure, Celsius may have topped up collateral in the meantime. But that would imply taking in the loan at a higher initial value. The numbers aren't exact, since we don't know when the loan was signed & negotiated. The numbers d
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VHRanger
4y ago
I can give you exact dates, I just didn't bother to look it up. You can see it in this address [1] which is a Celsius-owned payment rail between tether treasury and Celsius trading addresses. The exact transactions start here [2] (aug
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VHRanger
4y ago
Loan was overcollateralized by 30% and liquidated on June 15, 2022 [1] (BTC price ~21k) The loan was written somewhere in the first half of 2021 - it's when heavy USDT activity starts in the celsius core wallet [2]. BTC price floor in
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VHRanger
4y ago
As noted in the article, they announced that the loan was liquidated at a date where the difference in BTC price between when the loan was emitted and the loan was liquidated was greated than the overcollateralization ratio. It's a fai
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VHRanger
4y ago
Or distract that you're writing code for a platform that harms people
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VHRanger
4y ago
Having looked into tether really deeply I think they're between 50% and 90% backed as you stated. https://www.singlelunch.com/2022/06/14/the-state-of-stableco... Tether depegging would be an apocalypse n
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VHRanger
4y ago
Yuzu devs share a lot of code and knowledge with Dolphin and Citra devs. The progress in Yuzu has been more amazing in the last 2 years than Dolphin.
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VHRanger
4y ago
SQLite is made to replace "dread" by being generally better than storing the data as a json blob or csv There's still an argument for columnar formats like arrow, but compatibility is iffy compared to SQLite which "just
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VHRanger
4y ago
The charge could have been unpaid parking tickets, it wouldn't change anything. The point is they had a charge and they failed to engage with the legal system like functional adults. You can fight the charge like any other. Instead the
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4y ago
Waco and Ruby ridge were effectively the same. The end result of their actions was "How would you execute a warrant against El Chapo" and both forced the feds to act in such a way. There's an initial crime (sex with 12yr old
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VHRanger
4y ago
The author was raising huge red flags citing Waco Texas & Ruby Ridge as a reason to have government employees assassinated. That's the same rhethoric behind Oklahoma city bombing for those at home. It's the same sort of stocha
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VHRanger
4y ago
I love the low stakes drama, but seriously, who cares? All this effort could have been spent on something meaningful. After the "King of Kong" documentary we have the preponderance of evidence that his record shouldn't be tak
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VHRanger
4y ago
zstd: https://github.com/facebook/zstd Or any of the ones they benchmark against in their .README (lz4, snappy, zlib, etc.)
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VHRanger
4y ago
Yes, there's a lot better compression available these days, but not everyone has the software installed to unpack them
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