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by chlodwig 4y ago
From the article: "FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried said in investor meetings this week that Alameda owes FTX about $10 billion, people familiar with the matter said. FTX extended loans to Alameda using money that customers had de
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by chlodwig 4y ago
" 4) FTX International currently has a total market value of assets/collateral higher than client deposits (moves with prices!). But that's different from liquidity for delivery--as you can tell from the state of withdrawals.
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by chlodwig 4y ago
Google is wealthy enough to create a G-rated version of its service that doesn't have the privacy issues. Or a startup could tackle the problem.
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by chlodwig 4y ago
Right. I'm just saying that there would have to be laws punishing providers who falsely label porn as PG-13 or something. Or punishing providers who label their open, unmoderated forums as PG when in fact it has lots of obscene content
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by chlodwig 4y ago
This is how things have worked for countless years, and worked reasonably well. Things have never worked that way for any other medium. Mass internet access has only been around 15 to 30 years, depending on how you count it and arguably i
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by chlodwig 4y ago
Hmm, that would work too. Under this kind of system, the laws protecting children wouldn't ban serving possibly-adult content, or require age checking, but would mandate that you must label certain content with the correct and appropri
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by chlodwig 4y ago
Any site that is used by children and has user-posted content should spend enough on moderation to keep that user-posted content safe, and they should charge whatever they need to charge to be able to afford the moderation. Children don&#x2
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by chlodwig 4y ago
As a parent and also a startup guy and big fan of the anonymous web, my preferred solution would be a requirement for major operating system and browser makers to allow me to set an age linked to my child's account that gets sent as an
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by chlodwig 5y ago
Stealing their childhood away, really? It's an article of clothing. It's an article of clothing which covers of the faces, the facial expressions, the smiles of all their friends and teachers. A typical modern preschool for tw
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by chlodwig 5y ago
Covid is extremely dangerous in kids. No it's not. Death rates are less than 1 in 50,000. Death and hospitalization rates are similar to the dangers of the flu or RSV or riding in a car. It's a 100X less dangerous than owning a
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by chlodwig 5y ago
Do you plan on wearing a mask for the next year while socializing with your friends? If yes, do you see this as a big burden or a small burden?
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by chlodwig 5y ago
The net-benefit of the vaccine in kids is likely to be borderline at best. That is because 1) kids are already at very, very low risk from covid 2) the side effects of the vaccine seem to be as bad or worse in the young in healthy 3) actual
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by chlodwig 5y ago
I'm not sure how 21% lower is considered "not statistically significant", in trying to suppress the spread, ANYTHING > 0% is helpful. Full stop. 1) Is your government adopting a comprehensives and realistic plan to achie
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by chlodwig 5y ago
Even a 50% reduction in spread is huge in a population. Maybe we aren't getting that with masks, but it's not a binary "you are protected"/"you are not protected" problem. A 50% reduction and we still a
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by chlodwig 5y ago
Not being able to see the facial expressions and smiles of their friends and teachers.
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by chlodwig 5y ago
Depriving kids of seeing facial expressions, depriving kids of seeing the smiles on the faces of their friends and teachers, for an entire year (or more?), during most of their socialization hours, is in and of itself a direct and terribl
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by chlodwig 5y ago
If it turns out that they weren't useful, what harm has been caused? Socializing in masks is massively inferior. It sucks talking to other people and not being able to read facial expressions or to see smiles. Right now American heal
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by chlodwig 5y ago
If someone chooses to intentionally reduce a conversation to an "effective/ineffective" dichotomy to deliberately mislead or obscure conversations, then it might be disinformation. Disinformation can consist entirely of fact
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by chlodwig 5y ago
Are you referring to the theory that the severity of covid has a dose-response relationship with the infectious inoculum? It's an interesting theory, but I think it is far from proven. It's a shame that it's not studied, beca
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by chlodwig 5y ago
Is it disinformation to say "the rythmn method is not an effective form of birth control"? Or is it disinformation to say, "the rythmn method is an effective form of birth control"?
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by chlodwig 5y ago
No the word "usually" does not capture that at all. I and a lot of other people spend a lot more time at the office, at the gym, at school, at entertainment venues with friends than we spend at grocery stores.
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by chlodwig 5y ago
Wearing masks is usually only a minor inconvenience. It's a minor inconvenience at the grocery store. It's a major inconvenience to wear one at gyms. It's a major inconvenience with regards to socializing with friends (a co
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by chlodwig 5y ago
Cloth masks are effective in preventing covid in the same way that "the rhythm method is effective at preventing pregnancy." Which is to say it reduces the probability a small amount, but not nearly enough to justify a person trea
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by chlodwig 5y ago
Fewer particles admitted means reduced chance of infection, no? The thing to keep in mind is that blocking 50% of the particles does not mean a 50% reduction in infection. It may mean a 50% reduction in infection -- or it may mean a basic
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by chlodwig 5y ago
I got past it by disabling javascript (using ublock) and reloading the page. This works on a lot of websites, but not all websites.
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by chlodwig 5y ago
That was the first case of something my child learning contradicting my own outdated education. The funny thing is that it is not like this is some new discovery or new knowledge -- Webster's 1913 dictionary has five oceans: " O
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by chlodwig 6y ago
Are all boys a problem? And it should be noted -- it's not the boys that are the problem it is the schools. Raise young boys in a way that is completely stifling and unnatural compared to how boys were raised for tens of thousands ye
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by chlodwig 6y ago
Why don't we have universal daycare / preK? How about increasing the tax credit that goes to all parent, regardless of they choose to do childcare? Maybe for some parents that would be enough that one parent could quit their job
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by chlodwig 6y ago
How is it possible that girls perform better academically (in 2015) yet are under represented in the top tier of jobs? I'd argue mostly for 1) and 2). Here is my model: 1. Men have higher variance on any skill, even if men and women
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by chlodwig 6y ago
You've fixated on a particular date (1 MYA) and understood "major component of diet" / "majority calories in some groups" to be "all of our ancestors ate mostly plants". Neither is what I said. My w

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