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by dannyw 4y ago
Some people enjoy the process of hardware and software tinkering. I personally like to "cost golf" all my home gaming PCs, by taking advantage of great deals, auctions, and some judicious part selection. I have a lot of fun doing
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by dannyw 4y ago
You can never rely on a storage medium being perfect, so you must always plan for redundancy (e.g. ZFS, off-site backups). When you have that, cheaping out on storage doesn’t matter so much anymore.
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by dannyw 4y ago
Use the API
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by dannyw 4y ago
All signs point to the downing of MH17 as an accident. That's not solid foundation for casus belli.
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by dannyw 4y ago
This law affects GitHub. You shouldn’t be able to upload code or submit a pull request anonymously?
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by dannyw 4y ago
Charge is not arrest
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by dannyw 4y ago
Natural selection applies to companies too.
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by dannyw 4y ago
The recent wave of AI came from launches (Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT). Has Moez contributed to launching anything, or just talking about it?
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by dannyw 4y ago
But you aren’t using someone else’s service. You are using model weights of something that is explicitly uncopyrightable; like public domain. It may be against XYZ’s TOS to scrape public domain content from their website, but if you obtaine
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by dannyw 4y ago
Those who have work experience usually skip degree requirements.
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by dannyw 4y ago
There are some studies showing that LLMs are capable of representing internal state and knowledge in its models, even when only trained on language tokens: https://thegradient.pub/othello/ > Back to the question we
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by dannyw 4y ago
To prepare for launch they have been radically distilling models which may lower performance.
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by dannyw 4y ago
Not available yet.
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by dannyw 4y ago
Until your money gets locked up and/or you face a haircut...
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by dannyw 4y ago
Who, if not the government with a printing press, can insure nearly all the money in the banking system? Where does it come from?
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by dannyw 4y ago
Rippling used their corporate reserves to do so.
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by dannyw 4y ago
Is a startup that having one banking partner "cheating the system"?
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by dannyw 4y ago
Nearly all? Their "held to maturity" portfolio was down 17% as of year-end 2022. Source: https://www.netinterest.co/p/the-demise-of-silicon-valley-ba...
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by dannyw 4y ago
Don't some states make directors personally liable if their companies miss payroll?
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by dannyw 4y ago
Bill Ackman says ~50%: https://mobile.twitter.com/BillAckman/status/163466228684441... That should be enough for payroll, but not enough to spark a mass exodus from small and regional banks into the "systemat
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by dannyw 4y ago
Tether has successfully maintained its peg for nearly 10 years now, despite being an enemy of the US government. That is actually an incredible achievement.
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by dannyw 4y ago
The balance sheets of banks are very weird. They have a lot of special rules and exemptions.
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by dannyw 4y ago
Open an account at one of the biggest banks (JPM Chase, Wells Fargo, etc). You don't need 16 banks when you can bank with a "too big to fail".
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by dannyw 4y ago
Institutions deemed relatively safer (e.g. JPM Chase) are the banks that people withdraw to. Nobody is taking out $20M in cash, they're moving it to the "too big to fail" banks.
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by dannyw 4y ago
SVB was only able to borrow $15B from their FHLB debt facility, before they got cut off. The FHLB total capacity is ~$60 billion. Is First Republic stating actual numbers they are guaranteed to have access to? Their shareholders are already
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by dannyw 4y ago
Tech businesses tend to have more direct access to information (e.g. Twitter, emails), and listen to VCs and investors. Regular people and businesses don't hear about these things. Today, only 1 other person in my friend group of 6 hea
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by dannyw 4y ago
The Fed has shareholders, pays dividends, and are partially owned by the biggest banks. Interests are not perfectly aligned.
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by dannyw 4y ago
The investments were long term treasuries and mortgage backed securities, yielding about 1.6%? As rates have increased, long duration treasuries and MBSes are now worth 20-30% less.
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by dannyw 4y ago
it's to justify a takeover.
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by dannyw 4y ago
Honour system for the financial industry. What could go wrong.

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