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by bogomipz 4y ago
The cartoon image would be of Elon scrolling through Twitter and spite-banning and spite-unbanning accounts in real time and according to his whim. This cartoon image is also the one that feels increasingly more likely to be true.
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So they were basically a 100 person company before the pandemic if they grew up 2.5X. I feel like a 100 person company it's still possible to be familiar with most names and maybe even have interacted with all of them at one time or an
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January 1st would be calendar year though and not necessarily the fiscal year. The fiscal year can start and end any month the calendar year a company chooses. The fiscal year often does not correspond to the calendar year. See: https:&#x2
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Not only is not common but it's definitely not "extremely common." In the current wave of layoffs signaling the end of the "cheap money era" it does seem more common however. At least among the types of companies th
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He sure wasn't concerned with publishing real time information 6 weeks ago when he staged that cringe-worthy PR stunt of himself parading around the Twitter office lobby with a porcelain sink: "Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink
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>"I have sent five emails to Mr. Ray. Mr. Ray has never responded, nor has he reached out to me to communicate in any other ways. He has not responded, for instance, to an email of mine that stated: >“I have potentially pertinent
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by bogomipz 4y ago
From your link: >"Sweeney, a first-year student at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, says he uses publicly available transponder data from Musk’s private plane to track its location. That data, which includes the plane’s
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>"That's what happens when you decide to write your smart contract language in what is basically javascript and your smart contracts are interpreted in a stack based VM." What was the language and why did running it in a s
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I know her parents would have been colleagues of SEC Chair Gary Gensler when he was still at MIT, that's a large faculty though. Is there evidence that they were more than just colleagues though?
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The Times and Washington Post perhaps but I haven't seen any puff pieces from WSJ about SBF. In fact quite the opposite. The WSJ seems to be decidedly anti-crypto. The most recent piece concerning him before this announcement was title
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by bogomipz 4y ago
Interesting timing, he was supposed to testify tomorrow before the House, albeit remotely. My understanding was that there were two scheduled hearings, one for the Senate the House, today and tomorrow respectively. You would think the DOJ a
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Thanks, yes that does sound like an unfortunate limitation but I wanted to say your graphics really look fantastic! I really enjoyed reading this.
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>"I'll add my own opinion which is that he seems to—at least on some level—legitimately believe that all of this is extremely complicated and impossible to understand unless you're someone of his intellectual caliber.&quot
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This was a great read. Does anyone know what software the author may have used for the hand-written or napkin-sketch looking graphics?
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>"I made the hard decision to reduce the size of our team, and in doing so, to say goodbye to approximately 260 talented Plaids." It's fascinating to me that this individual at once acknowledges he made a hard decision and
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I think the surprising thing for me about the ChatGPT story is that there was almost no lag between the time it hit tech news sites like HN and it hit mainstream news sites like BBC, NYtimes etc. Or is this just part of a shift where all te
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I had a question about the pictures at the bottom of the post. Is this an example of "wire wrapping"? If so what mechanism is actually holding the wire securely around those metal posts(terminals?)
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Thanks for the clarifications. I think I may have articulated my first question poorly. What I mean to ask is how does the CPU's decoder circuit interface with the Microcode ROM? It sounds as though the opcode bits are basically an ind
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by bogomipz 4y ago
Another really amazing article! I had a few questions: Does a CPU's decoder circuit connect directly to this ROM then? If so is it connection to the translation ROM? The second question I had was regarding the the image used to demonst
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I believe in that era you used to be able to sell airline tickets you couldn't use. I think it was just about whomever had the physical ticket.
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I do think it's more of power trip than anything else. The TSA overwhelmingly seem to want to browbeat the very people they are supposed to be serving. Indeed the rules seem to vary arbitrarily by time of day, by airport, by passenger
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Interesting. Do you have any links that demonstrate this technique?
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Agreed, the actual time it takes once inside the body scanner is nominal. The bottle neck is waiting in line to get into the thing. It's not just the line though, there's this weird "power trip" charade where you have to
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by bogomipz 4y ago
The article states: >"FTX lent to traders so they could make big bets on crypto with just a small initial outlay, known as trading on margin. If the traders made losses, FTX would automatically sell the cash or margin they had put u
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The real time consuming part of the security process is the conveyor belt, those awful plastic tubs and pulling all the crap out of your pockets and carry on. Followed by the bottle neck of having a single full body scanner. The showing you
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I really enjoyed this article and more generally this site. Are there other similar literature sites people can recommend?
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There were a couple of things that stood out for me in this: >"The move seeks to satisfy investor demands for greater profitability at the company, which has seen its capitalisation fall from $1.8tn a year ago to $940bn today"
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Indeed. It's up there with Andy Jassy's recent announcement about upcoming layoffs at Amazon that ends with "we should all be very optimistic about Amazon’s future. I know I am." https://www.aboutamazon.com&#x
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>"I didn't take this decision lightly. Since becoming CEO, I have had the opportunity to spend time with Elasticians around the globe." One bizarre side-effect of these layoff announcements is learning all the cringe-worth
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>"So how much longer will we look away from this threat to the future of the internet? How many more consumers will be denied choice? There's been a lot of talk. Talk is helpful but we need action," Ek wrote." This fr

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