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by cft 2y ago
Time to leave HN for me. It's become a cesspool of this vitriol.
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by cft 2y ago
you need to expend resources (e.g. "proof of work") to post, to drive away low effort spam. https://stacker.news/ is an interesting experiment in that regard.
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by cft 2y ago
I agree with the first part, but I disagree with the conjecture. There are also people who enjoy writing comments, and inasmuch they have to read a bit of context (at least the comment they are replying to). Those will always exits.
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by cft 2y ago
Does it mean anything for the Pixel program? Is it going to be continued?
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by cft 2y ago
I changed the typo, thanks. Chash dividends. This analysis does not negate common sense: when a company does not pay cash dividends, owning its stock is purely speculative, like owning Solana. When it does, you get cash dividends funded by
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by cft 2y ago
Since the time when companies en masse stopped paying cash dividends on owned shares, the value has become highly speculative. In the absence of dividend payments, the stock pricing mechanism is not essentially different from Solana or Ethe
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by cft 2y ago
@jetbalsa - HN does not allow me to reply, the reply depth is limited, so replying here. I was simply clicking the paperclip and attaching the .py files to the prompt.
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by cft 2y ago
DeepSeek R1
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by cft 2y ago
I am writing some python code to do Order Flow Imbalance analysis from L2 orderbook updates. The language is unimportant: the logic is pretty subtle, so that the main difficulties are not in the language details, but in the logic and handli
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Ask HN: Is there an equivalent of Cursor for Vim?
3 points by cft 2y ago|6 comments
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by cft 2y ago
Public, yes. Interpretable- recent transactions- no. Have you done chain analytics on pay-to-Taproot key-path transactions?
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by cft 2y ago
Since we are hypothesizing, here is another hypothesis. Crypto, being non-government controlled, maybe be better than the hypothetic alternative: a government ledger, where the central planners decide which economic activity is "good&
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by cft 2y ago
Here Deepseek r1 fixes a python bug. Its fix is the same as the original code. I have not seen that level of stupidity from o1 or sonnet 3.5 https://x.com/alecm3/status/1883147247485170072?t=55xwg97roj...
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by cft 2y ago
There's a difference: I wear my watch, and I expect it to always work, and be accessible even at night
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by cft 2y ago
This is not just special interests. It's also a Blueprint for future internet censorship in the US, so the government likes it too
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by cft 2y ago
Those problems are relatively recent and are getting worse
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by cft 2y ago
The Third world has never been insurable. Insurance, supermarkets with self-checkout, home order delivery, all these things are only possible in high trust developed societies.
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by cft 2y ago
HN' turn
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by cft 2y ago
Yes, YouTube was sold to Google essentially at gunpoint. But since then the balance of power shifted from Hollywood to Google. So they they would benefit from relaxing this policy.
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by cft 2y ago
> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/775143.Golden_Fetters just wanted to note that they are using a 20-year history window as an argument, while the gold standard existed for about 3500 years before that, ac
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by cft 2y ago
There might be smarter elected officials in the future that facing two choices: USD losing the world's reserve currency status and: 1. Yuan becomes the reserve currency 2. BTC becomes the reserve currency they would understand that cho
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by cft 2y ago
>Also, when I ran the numbers some time ago, I figured a realistic max value for 1 BTC would be 500k-1M In what units? What makes you think there won't be Argentina-style inflation of the USD?
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by cft 2y ago
Why don't the copyright holders go directly after the violators of the copyright? Why do they need the extra judicial policing by Cox? Answer: because they want to shift the enforcement costs to Cox. If a copyright violation cost them
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Teardown of missiles' electronics used on Ukraine(cnn.com)
4 points by cft 2y ago|1 comments
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by cft 2y ago
Because, for an external observer, time infinitely slows down near the event horizon. In other words, during one hour by the clock of the far-away observer, the time that passes by the clock of the falling observer approaches zero as he app
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The longest-range, single-aisle plane is poised to shake up transatlantic travel(cnn.com)
2 points by cft 2y ago|0 comments
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by cft 2y ago
So far ChatGPT is read-only. Do Accessibility features give write access?
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ChatGPT macOS app can now work with native coding apps(help.openai.com)
3 points by cft 2y ago|2 comments
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by cft 2y ago
What about Bloomberg? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-13/polymarke...
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by cft 2y ago
https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1856841521334816928 they are investigating Polymarket itself

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