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by bhawks 4y ago
> Hopefully, the positive uses will outweigh the negative, but our world is changing rapidly, and the consequences are likely to be huge. The word hopefully is holding an Atlas class amount of weight in that sentence. People are not capa
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Shh you'll ruin the moment. Yes there is a huge appetite for fixed income products, especially when the credit quality is initially strong or at the moment when the credit is so-so but the yield is just right. These end up in your pens
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by bhawks 4y ago
So how long before exploiters train code completion ais to generate back doors in the mountains of other boilerplate?
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The question asked is why socialized losses need to be accepted, not posit a new financial system. The current system requires socialized handling of losses. If that were what was asked - then yes the answer is crypto. No central bank nee
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Our society has created a complex set of rules and regulators to prevent bank runs. That system society created failed to detect a problem in one of the top 20 banks in our country. What other problems is it not detecting? The full backstop
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Instinctively I love term limits - however they are already in place in many states and there are many studies indicating mixed results at best - see: https://www.mischiefsoffaction.com/post/political-science-te... A r
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by bhawks 4y ago
The people created the system though - indirectly thru flawed / corrupt leaders but you get what you get. I'd like to understand now why we'd get a better set of leaders if we tear it all down now. I personally don't hav
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SVB was literally playing by the rules outlined in banking regulations to reduce risks. Those rules are dumb, don't really reduce risk and don't fit SVBs business customers but they must be followed. Society forced SVB to structur
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by bhawks 4y ago
> Time for a forceful redistribution and system change. Can’t happen soon enough. Sadly revolutions have a really bad track record for the 99%. It may feel good in the short term but the people who end up assuming power are usually much
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by bhawks 4y ago
If the startup has no operating cash the equity collateral has a known value of 0. Buying SVBs loans make no sense unless SVBs customer liabilities (eg tech deposits) are guaranteed. I think we will see fed and regulators coordinate a shotg
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by bhawks 4y ago
I would be very surprised that SVB would be able to write terms into their loans that gave them the option to demand immediate loan repayment (these would be puts not calls). Those terms would have to come with much lower interest rates for
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by bhawks 4y ago
I find the value of code coverage goes down when the size of the instrumented codebase goes up. It's helpful for smaller tests as you can eyeball where you may be missing cases but on integration tests you end up getting a high coverag
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Even if the standard consolidated on one way or another to pack up secondary exceptions (or discard them) how likely is the calling code going to be able to handle and recover from this case? I am personally on team crash - I would rather m
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by bhawks 4y ago
> Roblox is an entirely microtransaction-driven experience, you create games and publish them on the developer's platform so you can charge players for things and make money, not because you simply want to create something for peopl
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> maybe this technology is deployed in light industrial, heavy industry or at the electricity substation and plant. With all the wonderful people shooting at electrical substation in populated areas maybe this isn't the best place?
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> I think it's obvious. ChatGPT could be a precursor to a future AI that is more intelligent then humans. I don't think this means skynet apocalypse. I think this means most people will be out of a job. Would a superior intelli
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> Evolutionary biology strives to make us logical creatures to fulfill the singular goal of passing on genetic material. Your sentience and your humanity is a side effect of this singular goal. Evolutionary biology is the study of proces
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by bhawks 4y ago
Most of OPs dissatisfaction with shopping for laptops on Google stem from query understanding fails. Google needs to understand that the challenge is for them to evolve their UX so that users can intuitively tune their searches in a natural
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by bhawks 4y ago
What is the likelihood that intelligent life develops encryption before radio communication and therefore any signals they send appear to be random noise? The Romans used encryption for military purposes and there is no hard precondition on
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by bhawks 4y ago
1.4 million people in the us alone would disagree with you. Type 1 diabetes has nothing to do with diet it is an autoimmune disease with genetic and possible environmental antecedents. If you're interested in learning more about type 1
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Insulin is typically delivered by a pump device that monitors patients blood sugar levels and doses accordingly. The pump is a medical device too that is manufactured by the drugco. It only accepts insulin vials from drugco. It's like
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by bhawks 4y ago
They make pills for that :)
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The article directly explains this. # 1 competition works > When a company develops a new drug, it gets a period of exclusivity, 10 years or more, in which it is the only one able to make or sell that drug. But after that exclusivity per
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by bhawks 4y ago
Big pharma has totally pwnd the regulations the government enforces on the prescription drug market ensuring they have monopoly pricing power. Why wait for CA to spin up it's own insulin manufacturing industry - just do not prosecute
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> More details in my blog post here: https://predr.ag/blog/speeding-up-rust-semver-checking-by-ov... Tl;Dr implementations of the adapter api can provide hashmap lookups and the query engine will use this when possi
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by bhawks 4y ago
Netflix job at faang is to keep the acronym family friendly. Now that Facebook is Meta it has much less work to do. In all seriousness Netflix has approximately 10k employees. Meta is the smallest of the rest at 90k employees. The scale is
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by bhawks 4y ago
The fuchsia os has a very interesting security model in this respect : https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/principles/secure The tldr being a very powerful and lightweight sandboxing mechanism complement
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It is rare to build general purpose computing hardware in lockstep with software. The two worlds are only bridged by the ISA interface. It'd be interesting to see what interface we'd choose today with multiple decades of hardware
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OP links to: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479 Which in the very initial paragraphs points out it is not about having a hidden set of registers to work with - it's about exploiting parallelism and the tension
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by bhawks 4y ago
Scrambling F22s and multiple stratotankers for refueling took that card off the table.

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