fsckboy

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by fsckboy 2mo ago
yeah, and imagine living without decameters and hectometers, unthinkable!
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
bean counters are better at establishing asset value than you are, and as I mentioned elsewhere, income streams are assets also
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
you're describing risk that's a future worry, you don't get debt in the present without assets
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
contracted revenue streams and subscriptions are also assets. Having first claim on those has tangible value.
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
bankers do not engage in "impossible to evaluate", they simply don't. bankers are reductive. the rest of your post says "there's risk". equity and debt investors understand risk, and either engage or don't
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
no, today's hollowed out husk of internet is what is cringy and self conscious, as well as namby-pamby. the attitudes of those who created the internet cannot be called cringy.
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
you won't get debt if you don't have assets that can be repossessed, so having debt means these AI companies have assets: that's a strong thing, not a weak thing. interest rates are what they are, and they go up and down for
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
you are correct in what you say, but the other thing you need to do is hit the flippers, not to impact the ball but because they rotate the lights that are on and off (your goal being to light all three) so if you see the ball rolling towar
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
> Does the radiant heat not increase the room temperature, thus affecting the indoor temp sensor? if that was true, I would not feel the need to adjust the thermostat, i'm basing this on the pattern I've noticed wrt feeling di
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
> HVAC equipment does this with standardized thermostat terminals. yes, they standardize thermostat terminals, but they should allow additional inputs such as a measure of radiant heat entering through the boundary surfaces. I have to c
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
> Let's pick one. Why is the BBC trash? i don't agree that I should do all the work to prove something while the person (GP) whose naked opinion I was responding to is not asked the same about his opinion. This leads me to bel
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
screen sharing is not a static screencap that you would need to email or something
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
BBC, CNN, and al jazeera are complete trash. Economist always was good but I have not read it in a while so I can't speak to it. If it has not changed, that would be great.
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
if mainstream media has gone downhill, why would somebody have a preferred outlet? What's your preferred outlet?
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
technical people developed the systems that print out confusing glyphs. it's certainly nobody else's fault.
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
> Theres no one technical in a court room. oh c'mon, if a technical person receives a piece of paper with a printed out user__name on it with the wrong number of underscores they'd just as likely make the same mistake. Rather
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
> Exercise works for depression. So why isn't it treated like real medicine? Clinical depression is a serious mental illness, it causes great suffering, broken relationships, and far too frequently, death by suicide. A person suffe
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
that's the University of Minnesota Les Bolstad golf course https://www.uofmgolf.com/teetime
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
you are dodging the "regulatory competitive moat" angle and constantly reinforcing the marketing angle. they are different.
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
The All-in podcast discussed an adjacent topic this past week, and I found what they suggested pretty interesting: the big AI players, the first movers, are trying to scare the bejeezus out of everybody on purpose, to cause the government t
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
> How would it affect retirees if they dropped 40-50%, likely taking the market with them? a drop of 40-50% in the S&P 500!? That didn't even happen in the market crash of 1929. It would lead to unemployment and breadlines for
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
from Le Guin and then Stanisław Lem's wiki pages: Le Guin refused a Nebula Award for "The Diary of the Rose" by withdrawing the nomination in protest of the Science Fiction Writers of America's revocation of Stanisław L
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
> But that's not a reason to blanket-discourage expression nor was there a reason to blanket discourage treating books as precious and worth preserving. i'm interested in the part where you note what you noted and let the othe
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
are you referring to GP or OP or both?
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
does "mold proof" mean mold won't grow on the surface, or that mold will not affect the silicone?
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
bitcoins are sold at marginal cost, that's how much miners are willing to spend to mine them.
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
the durable goods in question are not produced in advance, they are sold as they are produced, possibly manufactured in limited quantities to create artificial shortages; so there is nothing to discount. The question is, what pricing patter
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
the theory is about the asking prices charged by the producer, not the purchases made by consumers. After the people you are talking about buy, for whatever reason, what does the price do in the following months.
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
I assume there are local people living in the jungle there? did the researchers ask them what they think? perhaps Likweli looks, well, like other monkeys around there, and in the pre-Darwin West people were probably not super clear about ab
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
> rather than the recommended 8 hours of sleep for people getting 7 hours of sleep you're good. Improve your sleep hygiene, ok, but artificial interventions to get 8 may not be worth it for you.

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