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by erostrate 4y ago
If you try to buy base jumping gear online, some manufacturers' websites will now check who your instructors are and how many jumps you have. That's because people have been known to just buy gear and go base jumping, with no expe
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by erostrate 4y ago
It's worse than that. That spreadsheet was created after FTX became insolvent. When Sequoia invested, they probably didn't even have something as good as that terrible spreadsheet. Or more charitably, Sequoia presented with some
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by erostrate 4y ago
Of course now that he's aware that the mistake was on his side, he has apologised and amended his Twitter posts. Because he wants his followers to get accurate information that allows them to make informed decisions based on rational t
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by erostrate 4y ago
So in that theory they do get sufficient USD to cover USDT (as opposed to printing it out of thin air) but are using it to buy questionable CP. I think many people believe they don't even have enough USD to start with, eg because some
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by erostrate 4y ago
Do you know by what mechanism Tether gets CP for USDT? Would they be paying CP issuers with USDT directly? What would they do with it? I believe you're right just curious about the mechanism.
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by erostrate 4y ago
It's less direct than that. Some crypto fund has say 10M$, they want to buy a lot of BTC, so they borrow 20M$ denominated in USD but settled in USDT from iFinex treasury, and use it to buy BTC. iFinex can now claim that they are backed
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by erostrate 5y ago
Some points I found interesting: - Kristian Andersen offered to abuse his power as editor to stealthily edit a preprint. He is the main author of the most notable paper supporting a natural origin, and has been one of the major resources of
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Israel’s NSO Group considering sale or shutdown of Pegasus unit(ft.com)
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by erostrate 5y ago
A lot of effort went into these efforts to understand neural networks in terms or kernels or SVMs. To the best of my knowledge, these efforts have not inspired useful new architectures, nor have they made useful experimental predictions on
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by erostrate 5y ago
Thanks, I like Levine and remember reading that. He basically argues that airlines financial strategy was optimal for shareholders, given covid and guaranteed government support. But firstly, he only considers the two uses of money proposed
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by erostrate 5y ago
Some financial facts that help explain the situation: over the past 10 years US airlines have spent about 95% of their free cash flows on stock buybacks. This is the money they could have used to have a buffer to deal with these situations
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by erostrate 5y ago
The articles ends with a suggestion that Mark Zuckerberg should be fired from his CEO role, but he controls 58% of the voting shares, so I'm not sure who this appeal is directed at.
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by erostrate 5y ago
TFA spends a long time belaboring the point that this is not correct. Because many people who click on your URL would have bought the item anyway.
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by erostrate 5y ago
How does your theory explain Rust or Python?
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by erostrate 5y ago
"Crypto AG was a Swiss company specialising in communications and information security. It was secretly jointly owned by the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and West German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) from 1970 until
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by erostrate 5y ago
I checked out of curiosity and the SuperMicro article was written by the same author, Jordan Robertson. Make of that what you will. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-h...
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by erostrate 5y ago
The cord is designed to get rid of an incorrectly opened main parachute. Not an unopened one. This is to allow safe deployment of the reserve parachute. On modern parachutes it won't actually get rid of an unopened main parachute. A ma
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by erostrate 5y ago
Do you have a source for that?
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by erostrate 5y ago
Estonia is ranked 5th in reading, 8th in maths, and 4th in science, despite having a budget per student lower than OECD average! It's the first non Asian country. What's happening there?
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by erostrate 5y ago
The most positive thing about this leak is that it includes government officials. The more they realize that the mass surveillance they are pushing on us will also apply to them, the more chances we'll have that they push back against
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by erostrate 5y ago
Combine that with the sick lab researchers, with the work performed at BSL-2 instead of BSL-4, with the main researcher being a world leading expert on gain of function research, with a WIV database of genomes surprisingly taken offline, wi
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by erostrate 5y ago
I'd encourage you to read what she says before you decide. Her background should make you take her more seriously that if she was, say, a software engineer, but less seriously than if she was a virologist. But for me, her background is
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by erostrate 5y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. I agree with your first point about the book deal. On your second point, she has stated repeatedly and explicitly that her position is that she doesn't know what the origin of the virus is, natural origin
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by erostrate 5y ago
An interesting aspect of the evolution of the lab leak theory is the unhealthy relation of mainstream media to scientific research. When the Andersen paper came out conflating the lab leak theory with the crazy bioweapon theory and lumping
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by erostrate 5y ago
Where does the potential energy that the water gets when moving up come from?
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by erostrate 5y ago
Vision models need the pixel ordering to match the one they have been trained on, in order to work. They won't generalize after training to transformations of the data that they haven't been trained on, even simple ones such as ro
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by erostrate 5y ago
Sorry if that's a naive question but why do you need several signed messages? If you have a quantum computer and a quantum period finding function don't you get immediately the discrete log? Assuming you have one public key (not h
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by erostrate 5y ago
This was as fascinating and engaging than the best documentaries I've seen. Thank you!
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by erostrate 5y ago
In the long run it is preferable to lead the world by example, through moral authority, which implies respect of international conventions. Authority derived from economic and military might can vanish quickly once economic and military riv
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by erostrate 5y ago
What they are wrong about is that backdoors would only be "exceptionally used". It might be that way for a couple of years, then there will be a terrorist attack or a major child abuse scandal, new laws will be passed eroding lega

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