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by berkeleyjunk 3y ago
I really thought there would be a statement detailing what the risks are but this seems more like a soundbite to be consumed on TV. Pretty disappointing.
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Are Innocent Students Paying the Price for Turnitin's AI Detection Flaws?(goldpenguin.org)
2 points by berkeleyjunk 3y ago|0 comments
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Photo of Selena Gomez at the 2023 Met Gala Goes Viral–But She Wasn't There(yahoo.com)
2 points by berkeleyjunk 3y ago|0 comments
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by berkeleyjunk 3y ago
Archive link https://archive.is/8hhdv
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He Paid $69.3M for an NFT So You Can Download It for Free(bloomberg.com)
3 points by berkeleyjunk 3y ago|2 comments
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by berkeleyjunk 3y ago
It maybe impossible to predict what the Fed would do but it is certainly possible to avoid a lot of the damage by duration matching of assets and liabilities. e.g. Do not take short term deposits in checking that are callable at any time an
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by berkeleyjunk 3y ago
After the war, Robert Oppenheimer remarked that the physicists involved in the Manhattan project had "known sin". Von Neumann's response was that "sometimes someone confesses a sin in order to take credit for it." -
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Coincidence? Bitcoin developer visited CIA, then Satoshi Nakamoto disappeared(finbold.com)
3 points by berkeleyjunk 3y ago|0 comments
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by berkeleyjunk 3y ago
Yes. It is a bit lacking. If I had to guess it would be something to do with the Qualcomm iZat https://www.qualcomm.com/site/privacy/services
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by berkeleyjunk 3y ago
>> summarizing large amounts of text in speeches; > Again, this seems fine. Not sure about that. Imagine all the misunderstandings of the speeches already and add on ChatGPT making up something or wrongly summarizing something.
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Meet the elite couples breeding to save mankind(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by berkeleyjunk 3y ago|0 comments
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Bluesky’s CEO wants to build a Musk-proof, decentralized version of Twitter(theverge.com)
7 points by berkeleyjunk 3y ago|1 comments
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by berkeleyjunk 4y ago
I always thought it was 3)
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Inside the Suspicion Machine(wired.com)
2 points by berkeleyjunk 4y ago|0 comments
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by berkeleyjunk 4y ago
I don't think so. I think they are saying that if the original regulations were still in place, the bank would not have been able to make these "investments" even without a Risk Officer.
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by berkeleyjunk 4y ago
Soon, the only "content" will be the SEO optimization junk floating around and it will create more content using Chat GPT 4. It will be turtles all the way down.
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by berkeleyjunk 4y ago
I think avoiding smart people starting competitors by keeping them employed with high comps might be a good strategy for some of these cash rich and profitable companies. They might have been thinking of this as a good insurance.
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by berkeleyjunk 4y ago
They got too much in deposits very quickly and could not originate loans at the same speed. If they kept the money uninvested their operating costs would have eaten up their principal (even if they had to pay 0% in interest to their custome
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by berkeleyjunk 4y ago
Actually not. The kind of asset they invested in does not really matter. If they invested in super safe government bonds at <1% at the same time, they would have had the exact same issue . It is the rapidly rising interest rates that di
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Google, Meta hired talent to do 'fake work'(fortune.com)
56 points by berkeleyjunk 4y ago|89 comments
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Future Generations Commissioner for Wales(futuregenerations.wales)
1 points by berkeleyjunk 4y ago|1 comments
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by berkeleyjunk 4y ago
Looking out for the interests of the future generations. Reminded me of Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Ministry for the Future"
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Roald Dahl: Original books to be kept in print following criticism(bbc.com)
210 points by berkeleyjunk 4y ago|303 comments
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by berkeleyjunk 4y ago
I used to think like you but there are quite a few things that justify this * Out of the 5K some fraction, say 2K, is going towards the principal (i.e. it is building your wealth). So now we are down to the same 3K you were paying for rent
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by berkeleyjunk 4y ago
Yes. Agree. The only thing preventing this going all the way is the friction in timezones and difficulty in co-ordination (i.e. still requires someone local to the remote people to manage their work).
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Tesla’s Master Plan 3 is coming March 1st(theverge.com)
6 points by berkeleyjunk 4y ago|1 comments
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The Strange Story of Cisco's (Sort of) Beloved Hold Music(theatlantic.com)
1 points by berkeleyjunk 4y ago|1 comments
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by berkeleyjunk 4y ago
Or if you want a more uncharitable take, Google used its position in search, email, videos to keep nagging people to install Chrome in order to be able to get performance benefits.
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by berkeleyjunk 4y ago
> Telling them the Earth is flat doesn't seem like something that would make much difference--offhand I can't think of anything I would actually do different if I believed the Earth was flat--so I'd expect there to not be
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Magenta: The colour that doesn't exist(bbc.com)
2 points by berkeleyjunk 4y ago|1 comments

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