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by WJW 5mo ago
I thought their stockholders were super into direct registration to trigger the "mother of all short squeezes" when (or so the conspiracy went anyway) all the evil hedge funds would have to buy back their alleged naked shorts for
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by WJW 5mo ago
Wouldn't verification for almost anything beyond the extremely basic need specialized people? I don't think it's reasonable to train every Gamestop employee to be able to verify everything from fancy Swiss watches to brand na
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by WJW 5mo ago
Companies are shaped more or less like pyramids. If you want to cut a meaningful amount of people from the organization, there's just not enough of them at the top.
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by WJW 5mo ago
There's tons of people over here taking 3 or 4 weeks contiguous, especially if they have children. That is in addition to other vacations around christmas etc. It's definitely not 5 separate weeks. I don't think there's
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by WJW 5mo ago
The 2023 mini banking crisis has its own wiki page and it's quite informative. Of the three banks involved, one bank saw its shares drop 97%, another "shareholders lost all invested funds" and the third got auctioned off for
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by WJW 5mo ago
Interestingly, oil investors experience this boom-and-bust cycle too: every time oil prices spike, a bunch of extra companies flood into the market to drill some wells or weld pipelines or build tankers or whatever. All the extra supply cra
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by WJW 5mo ago
Be the change you want to see mate.
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by WJW 5mo ago
I guess that's what they're hoping for. With my admittedly biased opinion of the average linkedin user, about 99% will have the default set of extensions installed and so will not be very useful. Those users might have other ident
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by WJW 5mo ago
Does your country not have a set of books or a website where the law is published? Mine has a complete set of current laws published online, if it's on there then it's current law, if it isn't then it isn't. I don't
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by WJW 5mo ago
Do you re-read the source code for your keyboard drivers each time you boot up the PC? If not, how can you as a mere mortal be expected to understand if some keys still work the same as yesterday?
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by WJW 5mo ago
I don't mean to nitpick, but absolute values for both of these matter much less than how much it is compared to "enough". As long as the throughput is enough to prevent the video from stuttering, it doesn't matter if the
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by WJW 6mo ago
But what if those cultures are just objectively wrong? Farts are hilarious after all.
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by WJW 6mo ago
More or less straight from Latin? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaca_Maxima
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by WJW 6mo ago
It's just very small boxes.
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by WJW 6mo ago
TBH the AI that "gets there" will be the biggest bullshitter the world has ever seen. It doesn't actually have to deliver, it only has to convince the programmers it could deliver with just a little bit more investment.
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by WJW 6mo ago
1. The article already mentions the parents of the girl who caught it are looking into how to best keep an axolotl and a bigger tank has already arrived. 2. Axolotls can't survive in a Welsh climate. This creature will live much longer
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by WJW 6mo ago
"Syscalls are slow" is only mostly true. They are slower than not having to cross the userspace <-> OS barrier at all, but they're not "slow" like cross-ocean network calls can be. For example, non-VDSO syscal
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by WJW 6mo ago
OK that is true and I didn't mean to imply it was happening everywhere. Sorry to offend. At the same time, my point that "it's not always just bureaucracy" is sadly still quite true too.
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by WJW 6mo ago
I think you are overly focused on how things are done in the US, where it is thankfully quite rare to outright starve. In Africa it is quite common to kill foreign aid workers in order to deny food aid to the enemy. Bureaucracy and rent-see
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by WJW 6mo ago
Technically you could have negative feedback result in a system that diverges further and further from some baseline, until it eventually collapses. This is usually because the gain of the feedback signal is too high.
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by WJW 6mo ago
> that's enough to know the range to each other transmitter, right? Only in a flat environment without too much atmospheric distortions. As soon as you get multipath effects from eg waves bouncing off buildings and mountains then th
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by WJW 6mo ago
Multistatic radars (of which bistatic are just the case with N=2) are like the nuclear fusion of radar systems: everybody agrees it would be neat to have them, but they're always 20-30 years in the future. In practice it is extremely d
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by WJW 6mo ago
> but there's little to objectively distinguish it from those other practices. Isn't there? I would say that the key difference is that programming actually works, and works reliably. Even if it is opaque to normal people, at l
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by WJW 6mo ago
AFAIK learning to program these days is a fairly normalized process where people start with basic commands (ie hello world stuff), then move on to control flow (if/while/for) and eventually on to object oriented programming, highe
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by WJW 6mo ago
Can you expand on this? It has always seemed to me that while programming does indeed like to couch itself in magical terms ("he's a database wizard", "this compiler stuff is black magic", etc), it is fundamentally
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by WJW 6mo ago
For sure. Despite all the talking about "self-deification" and all that shit, they sure seem to care a lot about what society (and their imaginary demons) think about them.
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by WJW 6mo ago
A definition by which every human alive ever qualifies as a magician, and which is therefore not very useful as a distinction.
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by WJW 6mo ago
Github only reports 5012 changed files though.
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by WJW 6mo ago
If your moral development is at the level where you need to use neighborhood yard signs to make your argument, should you really be trying to educate people on the internet yet?
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by WJW 7mo ago
Philosphical treatments have got a bad rap because it is so easy for conmen to convert them into fake hope, but when properly applied they are still amazingly effective. It's just that "properly applied" is very often not pro

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