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by funstuff007 4y ago
Forget about this loss, how much income was Roku giving up by holding $500MM (at least) in checking or savings accounts?
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by funstuff007 4y ago
I don't know about that. I think it's more that they never hedged their interest rate risk (or they invested in assets that were too long duration).
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by funstuff007 4y ago
That's a bold statement and not in line with FDIC actions for previous bank failures.
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by funstuff007 4y ago
I agree. Once you have an SLR with a real pentaprism (not 5 mirrors), it's hard to go leave.
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by funstuff007 4y ago
Yes, these flux files are yuge (given the amount of actual data they contain). It seems to me they should compress well, but I can't see to remember if tried to do so the last time I fiddled with flux files--during the pandemmy when I
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by funstuff007 4y ago
> the population doesn't care if porn is mixed in with everything else Good luck bringing that up at the water cooler at work.
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by funstuff007 4y ago
That's a very naive view. At the customer size of Twitter, it's more like the old adage. If you owe the bank $1MM it's your problem, but if you own the bank $100MM it's their problem.
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by funstuff007 4y ago
His spreadsheets goal seek on increasing the number of invites to French Laundry.
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by funstuff007 4y ago
Coming from Shopify, this feels like a ZIRP (zero interest rate project). i.e. projects that need not bear any fruit in the next many years. Snark aside, this looks very cool, and I definitely see use cases in gaming (and maybe in web hom
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by funstuff007 4y ago
Then how does the cash get into Tether?
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by funstuff007 4y ago
Reminded me of when I found out Al Gore spent $30K a year on utilities. Not posting to call out hypocrisy, but posting to show how the rich are different from you and me. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/GlobalWarming&#
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by funstuff007 4y ago
$10B down the drain it seems.
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by funstuff007 4y ago
very true, but just because a bubble has different causes doesn't make it not a bubble.
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by funstuff007 4y ago
No mention of ZIRP or a decade plus of quantitative easing. Without those, there would have been no lunacy.
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by funstuff007 4y ago
I see your point, but our tests ensure that out functions work as expected. usually when test function foo, the test is called test_foo. But if we have a function or class that will ensure that X is a valid sparrow, we have a test called
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by funstuff007 4y ago
We often use the word "ensure" in test names and / or doc strings.
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by funstuff007 4y ago
might take a while to adjust given how generous and long lasting recent severance packages have been.
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by funstuff007 4y ago
The New Yorker had a recent piece on Whisper as well. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/whispers... For them, the key difference (other than it's great performance) was that it was a standal
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by funstuff007 4y ago
or the X who took your seat: - POC - child of alum - athlete - famous person or child of famous person The list goes on.
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by funstuff007 4y ago
The one on vue has 2MM views. Any thoughtful reactions yet?
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by funstuff007 4y ago
> These AI queries are resource intensive. But perhaps only for now. When youtube first started taking off, Google was bleeding cash on the resources needed to support it. Perhaps the same will be true for LLMs.
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by funstuff007 4y ago
> Airlines would save 90,000 gallons of fuel on average and reduce emissions by 27,000 tons annually, which is equivalent to the amount of fuel used by 62 Boeing 737 flights between New York and Cleveland — or the annual carbon emissions
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More Airports to Use Greener ‘Glide’ Approach to Landing(subscriber.politicopro.com)
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by funstuff007 4y ago
I'm not sure I buy this. Isn't most of the pollution generated by a small % of vehicles. e.g. diesel trucks and maga pickups tuned to burn oil. In short, all the sedans on the road can be electric, but the pollution levels are
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by funstuff007 4y ago
I find it very hard to give to charity when any meaningful contribution I make can be immediately dwarfed by a single contribution from a whale. Maybe when / if there are less billionaires, I'll feel differently.
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by funstuff007 4y ago
Seems like a whole of pork to me. Sorry for the Chicago joke. But definitely not even close to the boondoggle that ITER is.
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by funstuff007 4y ago
Recent vintage Porsche 911s only have FM. anti-flex.
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by funstuff007 4y ago
It's only getting more expensive because we've let AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure own all the machines.
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by funstuff007 4y ago
> They could get multiples of that $10B back if they sold it to investors now. Maybe so, but MSFT is not a mark-to-market / opportunistic trader.
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by funstuff007 4y ago
Rachel by the Bay would hate this: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/08/30/pain/ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/08/31/lines/

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