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by dahdum 4y ago
Some of those funds were legitimate though? A $1B loan would have been fine, probably a fair bit more. How would she know where that line was?
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by dahdum 4y ago
Couldn’t she just claim she believed those funds were coming from the customer margin accounts where the terms allowed that usage? That matches her public statements.
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by dahdum 4y ago
My understanding is that she was the CEO of Alameda and received a loan from FTX based on garbage collateral. That’s not a crime? SBF knew the collateral was junk, so it’s not misrepresentation. Was she also an officer of FTX? A good chunk
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by dahdum 4y ago
I haven’t seen any evidence Alameda itself committed any crime, only that they were terrible traders and lost many billions on margin through FTX, who gave them special treatment for collateral. SBF then tried to bail them out with FTX cust
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by dahdum 4y ago
I’m not an Elon fan boy, but he didn’t really “lose” those advertisers. Most just paused their spend due to the uncertainty, possible public backlash, and the downturn. If he turns Twitter into what he’s shooting for, they’ll be back and mo
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by dahdum 4y ago
I wouldn't say cringe, it's just a form of content marketing. If it were a standard dry job post would we even be talking about it? It drummed up interest for the position while simultaneously showing a humanized NYC government
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by dahdum 4y ago
He's been on the decline since the failed presidential bid in my opinion. He's pushing farther left and becoming more uncompromising in his rhetoric, driving his base but alienating independents and moderates. He focused his campa
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by dahdum 4y ago
I won’t say he’s a joker, but he does seem intent on losing elections at this point. Instead of focusing on winning in Texas he’s acted as if he’s running a national Presidential campaign. DeSantis did the same but was an incumbent with str
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by dahdum 4y ago
> subvert California's high-speed rail project. HSR is doing a fine job subverting itself. Even if it completes in the optimistic case of 20 years, autonomous electric vehicles are likely to be mainstream. Some possibility of electr
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by dahdum 4y ago
> I also watch most things with subs but I find it frequently leads to a worse experience. I end up reading things too early (e.g. a punchline) for one. I find it frees up the mind. A quick glance at subtitles then your mind is free to a
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by dahdum 4y ago
I've always taken that as the characters not knowing which language is being spoken. If it's been established I expect to see [SPEAKING MANDARIN] or some such. They don't subtitle it because the audience isn't expected t
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by dahdum 4y ago
I love those additional details and always watch with subtitles. Often enough the subtitles provide additional information about something left otherwise ambiguous or undefined. Names of characters are a common one, but in horror/mys
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by dahdum 4y ago
> I wish someone would invent scuba lite. People are constantly inventing new products to fill this niche. Snuba being one of the least objectionable ones. Most are just flat out dangerous and marketed to uncertified divers, you can see
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by dahdum 4y ago
I'd just make a backup AWS account with separate billing before I worked on multi-cloud.
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by dahdum 4y ago
> AWS or Microsoft would be no better, sadly I think you are rationalising loss In my experience AWS has much better support. Google is famously indifferent to user support issues.
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by dahdum 4y ago
SBF's definition of collateral is far too whimsical to believe anything he's saying here. The gist still seems to be "we took customer money to ponzi our way back to solvency before anyone found out".
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by dahdum 4y ago
It's promoting the welfare of a certain very privileged class of citizens, of which you belong, at the expense of overall American interests.
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by dahdum 4y ago
It's a net gain for America to have more skilled tech workers. If that means slightly lower wages for everyone, so be it. Given the number of large tech companies founded by immigrants, I'm not certain wage suppression is a given
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by dahdum 4y ago
> Some employees said that founder Toby Neugebauer had a volatile temper and drank on the job, and that the company’s unusual workspace—Mr. Neugebauer’s home—added distractions. A pseudo-bank run out of a drunk's house whose unique
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by dahdum 4y ago
This article is 3 days old, before the "hack" was revealed as SBF transferring the funds (after bankruptcy and stepping down) to support Bahamas regulators in a jurisdictional fight. Which, in the Vox interview, he said winning wa
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by dahdum 4y ago
EA is a mishmash of ideas and philosophy that's been changing over the past decade through endless pontificating debate, book sales, and billionaire largesse. Sam and his core team were all EAs since the beginning, I don't think i
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by dahdum 4y ago
In the Vox interview. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-frie... The polycule/testosterone stuff is just speculation. It’s known a number of stimulants were used by him and his top people
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by dahdum 4y ago
You seem to be arguing for more aggressive American interventionism, a perennial national political debate of rather global concern. I think you can rest assured it will be on quite the rise for the foreseeable future.
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by dahdum 4y ago
> Has Russia been defeated, though? No, but even a Pyrrhic victory appears out of reach. A 100% instant capitulation by Ukraine wouldn't undue most sanctions, NATO expansion, Western military buildup, their tarnished military reputa
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by dahdum 4y ago
Was that just a very high return rate or an outright scam? If the latter how could they sell for anything?
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by dahdum 4y ago
> Some people (you, apparently) agree with that and just want to shift the definitions so "man" means "someone who identifies as a man" and will be replaced by "biological man". I don’t particularly care wha
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by dahdum 4y ago
> It imples some choice has been made, by someone. Who is doing the assigning? And it happens before birth, if we want to be accurate. It's on the birth certificate, so it is assigned. There are some efforts to remove it, so perhaps
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by dahdum 4y ago
You're arguing definitions, but ultimately language is use, and use is always changing. You can carry on as you've always had, but some fraction of the public will assume ignorance, some stubbornness, and some malice. It's no
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by dahdum 4y ago
I wish the media, especially conservative media, focused more on this point rather than partisan politics. Putin’s hubris coupled with Ukraine’s bravery is reshaping the world for decades to come. Instead of fomenting chaos, the war is expa
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by dahdum 4y ago
He’s rational, he’s just using a different set of ethics. In the Vox interview he says he’s trying to win a jurisdictional battle with Delaware, this just part of that fight.

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