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by ckastner 7y ago
Having worked in the financial industry for close to two decades, and with most of my friends in the same industry, it is remarkable to what lengths regulators went after the 2008 banking crisis. Banks are vital middlemen between many parti
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by ckastner 7y ago
I built a new workstation in December, and I like my computers to be as quiet as possible, so I looked for a huge cooler and a top-quality fan. Reading reviews of coolers and fans was just eye-opening with regards to AMD's recent succe
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by ckastner 7y ago
The optics of this might look bad, but I cannot really fault Google for this move (and I frequently fault Google). They're facing a dilemma of regulatory uncertainty, and this move resolves this dilemma for them (at least, they seem to
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Google parent pulls the plug on power-generating kite project(arstechnica.com)
2 points by ckastner 7y ago|1 comments
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by ckastner 7y ago
The author bemoans how everything has gotten (perceptually) slower, and then proceeds to communicate this not through a single letter or blog post, but instead through ninety-five (95) tweets. C'mon.
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by ckastner 7y ago
> If we look at recent AMD [1] and Intel [2] results, it is clear AMD isn't gaining much. This surprised me as well, but your explanation makes sense. I'm curious as to how the new Ryzen 4000s will affect laptop market share.
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Chinese x86 Chips Hitting the Market(hackaday.com)
6 points by ckastner 7y ago|0 comments
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by ckastner 7y ago
It's not public information, and it's considered identity-tied enough to be used in many forms of two-factor identification.
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by ckastner 7y ago
It says that it does not allow purchases beyond 10% weight (and in "rare and specific cases", exceptions are possible), not 10% per se. Appreciation of an existing beyond 10% is at the discretion of the portfolio manager.
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by ckastner 7y ago
An analyst firm, ARK research, on Jan 31st raised the forecast for Tesla to $7,000 by 2024, for a market cap of well above one trillion. Because "robotaxis". This confidence in Tesla was really odd, given that they apparently sign
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by ckastner 7y ago
> That's a pretty big negative spin on the "free + ads or pay" business model. Isn't that the model we all want? We all complain about ads, but what alternative is there other than to pay money? That's a good a
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by ckastner 7y ago
Because that makes the programs sufficiently different that the conclusion about "smashing" seems dishonest. Apples smash Oranges, etc.
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by ckastner 7y ago
I think it's sensible to assume that Apple is already looking, even if only to renegotiate their deal with Intel. But 8 cores at 15W is really enticing. Apple is already using AMD graphics, so they already have a business relationship.
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by ckastner 7y ago
Ad remember: see the sibling comment. And yes, Google getting me to subscribe to YouTube Premium is obviously a win for Google. However, if the most attractive thing about your Product A is that it's "not Product B", that doe
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by ckastner 7y ago
I "internalized" the bed model about as much as Bill Murray internalized "I Got You Babe" in Groundhog Day, or anyone else would remember something that they found extremely irritating. And the saying that there is &quot
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by ckastner 7y ago
About three months ago, I visited a friend and we looked up a 15-minute cooking recipe. We were shown three ads in the process. I subscribed to Premium quite early. They were showing me an IKEA bed ad multiple times a day, over a number of
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by ckastner 7y ago
I can't believe they made $15bn off of YouTube ads. Who are they reaching with that crap? They didn't specify how much they off of YouTube Premium, but at $120/year they'd need 125 million subscribers to match ads revenu
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Electric cars grab 44% market share in Norway in January(reuters.com)
51 points by ckastner 7y ago|32 comments
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by ckastner 7y ago
The article doesn't mention performance. I haven't benchmarked this yet, but after my first experiences with somewhat complex data transformations in numpy and pandas, I was left with the feeling that despite them being optimized,
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by ckastner 7y ago
> The video medium is incredibly powerful, and the damage it can do is huge. I fully agree. Even if rationally, one rejects a video is fake, it does have the potential to influence the subconscious.
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by ckastner 7y ago
This has got to be a US thing, as this would almost certainly be illegal under the GDPR. Facial recognition is processing of biometric data, which belong to the "special categories of personal data", which are protected under Arti
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by ckastner 7y ago
What if Microsoft were to assume and any all risk from a possible judgment not in their favor?
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Tesla Hits $100B Mark(bloomberg.com)
2 points by ckastner 7y ago|0 comments
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by ckastner 7y ago
Profile new clients, and assign to them a risk score based on that assessment. The client is a small wood-working shop somewhere in Ohio, has been registered as business for 30 years, and has a projected volume of 5-10 items sold per day? -
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by ckastner 7y ago
Even if these measures exist, their performance is evidently too poor to be acceptable. Online signups work when risk is low to the point of being non-existent. Regulators aren't worried about students buying Ramen noodles. Online sign
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by ckastner 7y ago
The problem is not that counterfeiting is not being reported to law enforcement. The problem is that Amazon is doing far too little to allow them to enter Amazon's marketplace in the first place. Amazon is making it far too easy for fr
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by ckastner 7y ago
You're appealing to an emotion that I have already conceded to share. And it can't be more than an emotion, unless you are one of the very select few who have seen this forest. However, my emotions occasionally tell me something t
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by ckastner 7y ago
This may sound cynical, but I'm honestly just curious in hearing arguments: What's the point of risking human lives and wasting resources on something that is kept a secret? For all we know, more people have walked on the Moon tha
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by ckastner 7y ago
> Foraging in a harvester ant colony requires some individual ant memory. The ants search for scattered seeds and do not use pheromone signals [...] This was surprising to me. Until now, I was under the impression that all ants used ph
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by ckastner 7y ago
Apart from the fact that there often are consequences to political lies (even if indirect), these platforms dramatically amplify the effects of these lies, and given that the platforms profit from it, there is a huge conflict of interest.

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