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by arkis22 2y ago
That is such a weird thing to say. People should just give up? You've got that famous quote from Edison about failing at make a light bulb. Or you think everyone who studies cancer and doesn't cure it should think of themselves as
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by arkis22 2y ago
your AI girlfriend/boyfriend is totally real, its just that its a south east asian who works at a pig butchering scam farm. https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/02/06/the-vast-sophis... https:&#x
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by arkis22 2y ago
Reminds me of my high school physics final. A difficult class, one of the few that curved grades. Maybe half the multiple choice questions were phrased to trick you into giving a wrong answer that broke newtons 3rd law.
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by arkis22 2y ago
I don't really think he'll lose access, but they are absolutely in contact with the SEC and there is a non zero chance he gets charged with market manipulation.
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by arkis22 2y ago
>FTX added that a jump in crypto prices since the company failed had not given its finances a major boost. It said almost all of the Bitcoin and other digital currencies believed to have been held by the exchange at the time of its colla
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by arkis22 2y ago
It might be helpful to understand that "extraordinary" is an accounting distinction: >An extraordinary loss is a loss resulting from a business transaction that is highly unusual, should occur only rarely, and which does not re
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by arkis22 2y ago
Or the flip side. Russia is trying to take control of land, but what's the point if you level everything and make it uninhabitable.
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by arkis22 3y ago
If you are upset at trading shops or the stock market as a retail trader, you dont understand the game you are playing.
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by arkis22 3y ago
You are wrong that prices falling prior to deregulation proves that deregulation wasn't a factor in declining prices. A graph of numbers showing decreasing costs measures purely quantitative factors. The trend continuing completely exc
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by arkis22 3y ago
If you do proper server side rendering you wouldnt even have if statements in the template. your backend code should have divided everything into correct buckets for you to iterate through them. application logic shouldnt be in your view.
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by arkis22 3y ago
He bought all of the domestic competitors. Which is why they broke up standard oil into different oil companies. Then they all floated on the stock exchange and made him monstrously richer. Or at least he tried to. The idea was once you dis
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by arkis22 3y ago
From what I remember he did have an unstoppable monopoly. It helped that he could push around the railroads. But remember this is oil. When he was in charge Pennsylvania at one point was the oil capital of the world. That is obviously a pos
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by arkis22 3y ago
I do recall taking a constitution test in grade school and high school. I would definitely say that they weren't taught for a whole semester. The test was just something that needed to be checked off. This is also kind of silly. You ca
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by arkis22 3y ago
If the summation of the popular view is at odds with the facts of the man, is that a flaw, or perhaps the natural contradiction of Rockefeller as a human being? The title is "Titan", but he dies just like all of us. I can't h
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by arkis22 3y ago
the unfortunate reality of America is that the constitution is taught for less than a semester, and then kids take a test on it, and then everyone forgets everything about it the semester after. they have 0 understanding of any of the theor
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by arkis22 3y ago
Ron Chernow's biography on him is really excellent. It's so good that I think it's actually a disservice to mention that it inspired the Broadway play. If you can respect Scalia's legal talent, this video where he mentio
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by arkis22 4y ago
everyone enjoy your Stanford or elite school education!
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by arkis22 4y ago
This isn't just comingling accounts and bad accounting. They borrowed between firms. They absolutely knew where liquidity was, and where liquidity wasn't - liquidity follows profits. Their solvency was based on their own manufactu
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by arkis22 4y ago
wow, thats an incredible picture. thanks
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by arkis22 4y ago
I think that based on his enthusiasm to invest in Elon's takeover of Twitter he thought he was a big dog. He thinks he's a celebrity billionaire. He's still calling people to invest in his companies, which is like lighting mo
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by arkis22 4y ago
The concepts bleed into each other, but Matt Levine explains it well. The Ponzi scheme is unsustainable. it gives you a solvency problem, your assets are bad and no amount of time will help. With fractional reserve banking run on banks usua
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by arkis22 4y ago
I've been waiting for this for years.
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by arkis22 4y ago
just my years of experience, sorry
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by arkis22 4y ago
https://github.com/hotwired/hotwire-rails deprecated. they use stimulus and its worse obfuscated JS than htmx IMO
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by arkis22 4y ago
plain old ruby object. basically you take your truth from the database and you plug it into an object that takes the data and functionally produces a data output that you feed to your view.
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by arkis22 4y ago
you're looking for what? my personal million dollar website or my billion dollar startup?
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by arkis22 4y ago
rails, postgres, PORO, and htmx is a monstrously productive stack
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by arkis22 4y ago
I find apnews.com an excellent and mostly emotionless free news source
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by arkis22 4y ago
He flugtagged too close to the sun I assume
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by arkis22 4y ago
the breadth of knowledge of the visual word embedded in these lines and what they unlock is astounding -the point

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