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by c7b 4y ago
How are you supposed to take an article with this title seriously, on a website that makes heavy use of modern CSS (flexbox, grid,...), has a Twitch stream link and even embedded Twitter (with JavaScript)? This is 'Do as I say, not as
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Is there any model or rationale behind introducing breaking changes in a minor release? What are the version numbers good for if not to indicate how important the changes are?
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Law, really? Aren't there a lot of legal terms (like 'ownership', 'possession' 'contract',...) that have precise legal definitions that may differ in crucial aspects from their colloquial usage? I think yo
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Frankly, if your standard for a good definition is that it is readily apparent to the public at large , then pretty much every academic discipline will fail your rigour test. Even (or especially) mathematics. Which should make it clear t
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It's interesting that the article notes the similarity of EA to a religion. I don't just mean the 'cultist' element of people afraid to speak out, message control,... but on a more fundamental level: the sort of practica
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The only thing that bugs me about Copilot is that Microsoft apparently got an exclusive (!) license to the underlying "Open"AI models [0]. I fully welcome the technical progress those models represent, even if they should result i
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I agree, I also often think that the web should become more decentralized again, but the thing is, it also needs to be fun to use. Mastodon is an interesting experiment in that regard. Maybe one could argue that link aggregators like HN are
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> A webring was prided on offering a free and decentralized experience. Sounds great, and I imagine they were useful for the 90's web to jump from one Star Wars fansite to the next (which would have been much harder to find otherwis
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Maybe, but it might be worth following the money a bit further (especially on the later transactions). Was the money at Alameda really just lost on bad trades, or which accounts did it end up in eventually? I read somewhere else that the po
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> It’s an Excel file full of the howling of ghosts and the shrieking of tortured souls. I wish I had Matt Levine's eloquence to put this madness into words. Great analysis and I just want to add a small thing: while a balance sheet
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For various reasons, I've been switching both in hardware and software between two different QWERTY (US and UK) and two non-English keyboard layouts for years (usually, I'll have multiple keyboard layouts configured, but I'll
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It's in the abstract already: money creation is a result of bank's loan creation - the two are connected. Banks don't take deposits that they then lend out, they instead create those deposits ex nihilo when they make a loan.
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Have you even had a look at the article that I linked? You are making a claim without providing any backup whatsoever for your position, after it's already been pointed out to you with a scholarly reference that your belief is wrong.
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i) that's not how banks work [0] ii) that's not how these exchanges work. if they are non-fraudulent, they'd have to hold cryptocurrency and cash on behalf of their clients. they'd never have a problem meeting withdrawal
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'Totally separate' is basically untrue. For the vast majority of users they're the only on- and off-ramp for major blockchains.
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True, the 'genius trader' was probably part of the VC pitch.
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If I get it right, SBF had already become a billionaire through trading his own money, and only then he founded FTX and started gambling with customers money too? He'd already won, he could have had meth orgies and not work another day
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by c7b 4y ago
Yeah, I might have had those mixed up
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Bloomberg News once tried to track down Tether's supposed commercial paper holdings [0]. It's a small market with just over a dozen major players, and Tether's claimed holdings would put them in the top 10. Bloomberg called a
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Hmm, I remember hearing that they purchased Overleaf several years ago - maybe I misremembered, or things have changed again since then.
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The question is, what is the exercise for? We already know from studies that there's very little transfer even between logic-related tasks (say, Sudoku and Chess), so what sort of carry-over could we expect from fitness to logic-relate
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> because they lost access to systems after learning they were laid off, they switched to LinkedIn instead to say farewell LinkedIn? What sort of verdict on Facebook is that?
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Oh wow. Elsevier alone has much more grip on global academia than any one company should have (what the article didn't mention, they also own Overleaf, so they have access to a non-negligible fraction of all STEM research before it is
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Haha, well it seems that overlooking the ruin probability is exactly what was missing from both SBF's effective altruism 'life calculus', as well as the risk management in his fund. It appears that he really inhaled the EV th
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> I met a drove of Jane Street interns who thought exactly the same way, in terms of "EV" or expected value It's interesting that you say that. When I read the article claiming that a trader should be neutral between $50 a
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I'll admit, it was too long for me now, but I got to this bit, which makes for a perfect tl;dr I guess: > SBF needed to find a path on which he’d be a coin toss away from going totally bust.
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ASPD? Not focussing on important work sounds more like ADHS, no?
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Yeah, except that he took a leveraged long position, not short, it wouldn't work because the company is no longer publicly traded, and he could go to jail for just attempting that.
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You might be forgiven for thinking that Musk, who arguably incorporates the Silicon Valley spirit like no one else, is taking a 'fail fast' approach to his Twitter adventure.
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I remember some statements around pricing for Tesla models by him that made me wonder (I think it was something like 'a Tesla model should cost the same amount everywhere on earth', which struck me as both admirable and naive), bu

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