ethbr1

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I halfheartedly honestly concur
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> What will trigger the downturn will be folks who've overextended themselves on margin forced to sell in order to liquidate assets Curious question... do the ultra wealthy ever get margin called on personal loans secured by unsol
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> If you take a piece of lumber and carve it into a dresser you've just generated wealth. I'd make the note that you've converted raw materials and labor (and maybe some capital machinery/tools) into a finished good
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> With investing Timing is everything, if you invest in Pets.com you lost, if you invested in chewy.com you won. If you invested in Broadcast.com you lost, if you invested in YouTube.com you won. During bubbles valuations are driven by
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Elon AND Russell Vought's / Project 2025 Let's not fall for the transparent narrative of post-hoc branding DOGE "Elon's thing" so that when there are inevitably Congressional hearing the real architects go unca
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> If I was in charge with saving money I would look at consolidating welfare and slashing the bureaucratic apparatus. Research grants wouldn’t even be in my top 10. It's almost like a bunch of kids with no experience in government
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Making their wealth in a democratic society is a temporary embarrassment to a Ellison/Thiel/Musk would-be technocrat.
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Parent is presumably making the case (and I'm assuming this extends to their respective ad pricing models) that it's revenue equivalent but profitable either way. Either you have intent but little attention (Google et al.) and so
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In this case, it's probably more about preventing a foreign-compromised build system / developer from getting malicious code into lethal devices.
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White nationalism's (and any mono-nationalism's) goal is the prioritization and domination of ethnically white people over others. It's not an "us and" philosophy: it's an "us over" one.
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Cigarette companies who as part of the 1998 MSA (1) are banned from television and radio advertising, (2) are banned from outdoor and transit ads, and (3) have print media, retail displays, and sponsorships federally regulated. Most of thes
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> Or it could have gone well and you could have lost your share in a divorce. The Duplex: the perfect property for divorce settlements!
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The Sackler family ultimately had to pay $6.5b of ~$10b they took out of the Purdue Pharma in its last decade of control. It'd be more than fair that Zuckerberg has to pay 65% of his personal wealth gained by preying on adolescent inse
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The #1 reason not to work in gaming: rampant unprofessional middle and upper management. The amount of shit-show stories about a VP or designer with a god-complex straight up abusing their staff while still thinking they're the best? A
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Absolutely. I have an inkling that there's an AI version of Amdahl's law to the effect of: the speedup obtained by AI is proportional to the amount of AI output that isn't verified. Folks push back and say "But there are
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In the case of Flipper, we're talking about fixed hardware (granted, eventually parts may need to be substituted) and firmware as the rotting target, so no OS level above that. Which makes it a simpler problem. I'd say SOTA AI cod
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Imho, this is the biggest concern for civilization-scale cost of AI being deployed all fields. On the one hand: Amazing power! Look at how much more output everyone is generating! On the other hand: Society maintaining guardrails that were
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This is the industry in general though, and why you see so many historical AAA studios go bankrupt after one bad game. The problem was that if you kept a studio small and lean, you were often at the mercy of predatory publishers who control
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I remember that was my calculus in the PS2 era. At one point near launch, they weren't much more expensive than a dedicated DVD player.
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Also, Chris Roberts should never be allowed to manage anything bigger than a shoebox. Sometimes, adults minding the financial shop focuses creativity.
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Oof, that burned-code scheme sounds like it has some painfully sharp UX edges if something goes awry in the new code resync portion. But I'm guessing that's for serious security, where going to the guard shack is preferable to let
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Software rot is mostly about dependency size, ne? I'm curious if the agentic-based code flows will start to optimize higher-order programming goals in future evolutions. 1. Code works 2. Code works in all situations 3. Code
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I heard a graybeard story about a manager who walked into a new ~90s sysadmin shop and was immediately horrified that everyone was calmly and slowly working. At his old company, the sysadmins had been constantly putting out emergency fires!
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I read the post as implied they were talking about continuous realtime engagement. Which TBF, answering every monkey with a typewriter on the internet is a huge time commitment from any team.
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Everquest was 1999. Ultima Online was 1997 and had a $10/month subscription price.
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Hence why corporate leadership is salivating over AI.
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I wouldn't say victim, but I would say ideologically-aligned patsy. Watching Elon seem flummoxed at politics as usual was entertaining. Like, yeah, of course this administration is going to try to dump the blame at his feet and cut h
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Another way of looking at that is that the people who have been able to accumulate excessive gains from the capitalist system are forced to pay some of that back, to maintain the system that enriched them and those whose labor they profited
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If you think that was Elon's doing, read up on Stephen Miller^, who was talking about what he'd like to do to the federal bureaucracy even before Trump won a second term. Elon has some racist and oligarchical views, but was also a
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> "pull pin to destroy" Insert old joke about folks rigging a packet of thermite with an igniter over their hard drive.

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