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by eloff 4y ago
The expensive part here is the 1/16 inch gold around the tungsten to fool x-ray scanners, they say that's enough to prevent x-rays from reaching the tungsten.
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by eloff 4y ago
Unless you feed them huge quantities of seafood, I fail to see how this is an issue. From an allergy standpoint small exposure would be enough to reduce risk of developing an allergy.
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by eloff 4y ago
Plus interest mind you, but it’s negligible.
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by eloff 4y ago
That was pretty obviously going to happen, so I’m doubting that’s the catalyst.
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by eloff 4y ago
Plus it’s “free” money. People have been fleeing from regional banks to the big banks, so they have all this sudden influx of deposits coming in. The interest they get from FRC is basically paid right back out to their new depositors and is
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by eloff 4y ago
I read in one news article that they got the same terms as all the other depositors at FRC, so the interest rate is negligible. Obviously the real benefit to them is calming the panic in the banking sector, which is harmful to all of them.
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by eloff 4y ago
I disagree, these kinds of models don’t do logical reasoning. What they do is predict the next word. You can get it to give you its reasoning, but it’s bullshit dressed up to be believable.
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by eloff 4y ago
Except the machine can’t explain its reasoning, it will make up some plausible justification for its output. Humans often aren’t much better, making up a rational sounding argument after the fact to justify a decision they don’t fully under
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by eloff 4y ago
This one is at 10kpa. Nearly ambient pressure. If it’s for real, it’d be an historic breakthrough.
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by eloff 4y ago
Except you don’t have to take a loss if you don’t have to sell. If you can hold it to maturity, you get all your money back. It’s only really an issue if you’re forced to liquidate early, and the fed is allowing you to loan the assets out a
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by eloff 4y ago
Taxpayers are not covering any cost. The banks will pay for it via potentially higher FDIC insurance premiums. It’s possible they pass that on to customers, but there’s no direct link here.
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by eloff 4y ago
There’s so much victim blaming in this comments section. I’m amazed.
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by eloff 4y ago
That’s pretty extreme. There’s plenty of blame for SVB, but the depositors? That’s victim blaming.
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by eloff 4y ago
Don’t put it in a bank. Use a brokerage that gives you extra insurance - some insure up to $100M. Also brokerages that aren’t regulated as banks generally can’t touch your assets. Equities and bonds are yours. You can fill out a form to hav
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by eloff 4y ago
A more charitable interpretation of what the OP is saying: the execs may not have anticipated how fast the shit would hit the fan. I doubt they believed there would be a run on the bank this month, not even the short sellers were predicting
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by eloff 4y ago
Exactly. This idea is so dumb, it reminds me of solar powered roads or solar power on the roof of your car. There’s no shortage of land out there that can’t be used for agriculture. The American southwest is full of empty land that just hap
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by eloff 4y ago
Add the —no-verify flag when working out of your cave.
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by eloff 4y ago
Too damn cold
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by eloff 4y ago
Since the move from single use plastic bags to reusable ones, my environmental impact has increased. Firstly I now have to buy garbage bags, where I previously reused shopping bags. That completely negates the benefit. But let’s ignore that
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by eloff 4y ago
Cloudflare uses V8 for sandboxing, not virtual machines. It’s much lighter weight, but it’s also limited to just what V8 can run (JavaScript and web assembly). Quite a different offering to lambda. It shares no source in common.
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by eloff 4y ago
That would be an improvement
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by eloff 4y ago
The depiction of Commodus by historians was not favorable either. He's widely thought of as the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire.
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by eloff 4y ago
In the Python codebases I work on, I always create a monkey.py in the repo root. With a comment warning against adding to it, but occasionally it’s the lesser evil. A long time ago, when Django was less mature we had a monkey patch to add a
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by eloff 4y ago
It is true. Society paid a price from their crimes and then pays an ongoing cost to prosecute and maintain them in prison. It’s a very high cost. I imagine the underpaid labor goes to reducing that cost either directly or indirectly (if it
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by eloff 4y ago
I met a Russian in the “banana export” business once. He espoused that exact same mentality: "4 years for X million euros? Would gladly take that deal". Interpol caught up with him since and he’s living that deal now while his wif
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by eloff 4y ago
Why is that a bad thing? Most of those people are a burden to society. Let them pay it down a little. I mean I’d rather they were getting free education and preparing themselves for reintegration into society, but it’s not a perfect world.
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by eloff 4y ago
Is there any advantage to this over copilot?
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by eloff 4y ago
The most worthwhile things tend to be hard.
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by eloff 4y ago
Even moderate alcohol consumption is also associated with cognitive decline. It reduces your white matter (connections between neurons.) My brain is my biggest asset, I would not do anything to compromise it. I don’t touch marijuana or stre
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by eloff 4y ago
It’s time for the next paradigm in search. In the beginning content was king until Google came along and discovered linking was a better signal of quality. Then people abused linking and technology for “understanding” content reached the po

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