bluecalm

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by bluecalm 2mo ago
That's a rule but then Stripe won the market by having very friendly interface and minimizing the pain of dealing with paperwork for merchants. When PayPal (the worst offender, just hostile company) acquired BrainTree it was clearly a
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by bluecalm 2mo ago
>> Don't fall into a grumpy luddite trap, the train is leaving the station and you'll struggle to catch up if you don't learn and grow. If that's true things are truly hopeless for pre-school/school children w
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by bluecalm 2mo ago
You take the output and run it through another LLM with "please re-write this in xxx style". Then you repeat that a few times on different part of text and glue it all together at the end.
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by bluecalm 2mo ago
Yeah, wait for LLM "scrambles" that put every paragraph and then the whole text through multiple re-write/edit style cycles.
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by bluecalm 2mo ago
I am sorry but this is just nonsense and luckily I don't know any country where you are required to do that. I started a business myself, first I spent a lot of time making something and then I tried to sell it. I had no idea if people
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by bluecalm 2mo ago
I think they don't want to cut funding to math projects or engineering projects. They want to cut funding to research that goes against their politics. Cutting math research because "inequality" keyword is a bad look for them
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by bluecalm 2mo ago
Decoupling health insurance from your job and going single payer are separate things. You can have one without the other. You can have a very healthy system with private insurers (like in Switzerland) and you can have completely dysfunction
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by bluecalm 2mo ago
Why not use an LLM to filter research they don't want to fund? Keywords list seem like the dumbest way to go about it.
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by bluecalm 2mo ago
It still feels a bit strange to me that no one comes up with "secret sauce" that gives a big edge for at least a few months.
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by bluecalm 2mo ago
Revenue based taxes are a an idea to consider as they have many advantages - a big one is that they are harder to evade. One disadvantage of them is that they give advantage to big players that own the whole supply chain. Imagine you are a
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by bluecalm 2mo ago
VAT and income tax are completely different taxes. One is a tax on income. The other is a consumption tax - like a sale tax but with additional accounting steps.
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by bluecalm 2mo ago
>>Everything you named should be included in the price you charge for a cup of coffee. So the money you extract from it, minus the cost you named is your profit. When you first invest 100k and then sell something for 2$ you don't
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by bluecalm 2mo ago
He doesn't need AI background to commentate on financials. Your post reads like a personal attack. His record talking about stock market doesn't matter either. There is about 0 information in anyone talking about what stock market
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by bluecalm 2mo ago
The problem of money mattering more when you are younger is something that often appears in personal finance discussions. One thing is consumption but another are opportunities to invest in yourself. There is case for not saving at all whe
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by bluecalm 2mo ago
Google search is getting shittier by the day. For example searching for "Adobe stock" returns PayPal Holdings stock (with a graph) for a few days now.
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by bluecalm 2mo ago
With any kind of gambling site your major cost will be credit cards chargebacks and other fraud. >>Is there anything I could do at a practical level to keep the game fair? (no tools, no bots, no collusion.) You can try catching unsoph
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by bluecalm 2mo ago
>>A more modern approach instead “re-solves” each spot to a limited search depth and uses a neural network as an approximation function at the depth cutoff. Both tabular (e.g. Piosolver) and neural (e.g. GTOWizard) commercial solvers
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by bluecalm 2mo ago
Yeah but that doesn't work for any kind of performant code which is the reason people who write those data structures use unsafe. This is one very annoying thing about Rust community. The language sucks for coding self-referencing data
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by bluecalm 2mo ago
The point is not that those specific implementations use unsafe Rust but to illustrate that to write even basic data structures you need unsafe Rust.
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by bluecalm 2mo ago
>>, and that gives an approximate value of how using specific languages maps into monetary loss, and why companies are starting to care nowadays, given computers are always exposed to the world network. You need also factor developmen
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by bluecalm 2mo ago
Their stance on cyber-security is so naive it hurts. The bad guys will get access anyway and it will just hurt companies that don't. You don't need a huge model to find vulnerabilities either. It's only matter of time till a
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by bluecalm 3mo ago
One recent case in point: Google Finance redesign. How anyone signed that off, especially senior engineers supposedly behind it is beyond me. Basic functionality like sorting by column is gone. To add/remove positions you have to talk
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by bluecalm 3mo ago
>>$98B in unrealized gains on equity securities Now the question is how are those equity securities valued. If for example they value their Anthropic stake based on the latest funding round then it's not very reliable (it's
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by bluecalm 3mo ago
Oral-B is an American company. Phillips is an European company. Phillips toothbrushes don't have removable batteries (at least none of many I owned had them). Now connect the dots. That is how things work in EU.
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by bluecalm 3mo ago
It's a culture thing. There are even smaller markets like Taiwan that developed industries EU didn't. Western EU countries are very risk averse, anti-business and has too conservative hierarchy to develop this kind of culture. You
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by bluecalm 3mo ago
>>If you do HIIT you cycle as fast as you can for 10-15 seconds (or until properly worn out) then rest long enough to be able to do it again. You only end up working out for less than one minute or just half a minute in total but you
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by bluecalm 3mo ago
HIIT vs LISS is a false dichotomy. If you look at endurance athletes the most important part of the training is in "heavy domain" that is between what typical LISS and HIIT are. This is intensity high enough that you need to breat
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by bluecalm 3mo ago
There are too many levels of indirection. At least in some countries you can vote on a person representing your town/area. This is one level of indirection less and allows people who aren't just chosen party members to win and the
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by bluecalm 3mo ago
It's not like we can do anything. We don't have democracy - we can't vote on issues and we (in most countries) can't even vote on people. We just vote on 2-3 non-fringe parties and they choose people and policies. You ma
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by bluecalm 4mo ago
EU is very lucky USA still has very strict immigration policy. If USA made it easy for highly skilled professionals to emigrate there then there would be almost no one capable left here.

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