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by gizmo 3y ago
It also means his co-conspirators will get a much lesser sentence (if any). Kind of disappointing that nobody else will see the inside of a prison cell. Ellison, Wang, Singh and SBF's parents all deserve lengthy sentences.
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by gizmo 3y ago
I don't think the banality of evil applies here. Banality of evil is when cogs in a bureaucratic machine don't think about how their actions hurt others, because they are just processing paperwork or following standard operating p
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by gizmo 3y ago
I very much agree. "Number go up" by Faux is the better book in many respects, but Lewis's book contains much background info not reported elsewhere. Lewis's book is damning about SBF as you said. About how unapologetic
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by gizmo 3y ago
> This reads to me like a reflection of his own difficulties with dating in the bay area I'm pretty sure the professor is married.
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by gizmo 3y ago
Technically the professor didn't quite say that women in the Bay Area are worse people. The argument made (or implied) is that when women are not "plentiful" (his words) then you have a skewed dating market where men will on
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by gizmo 3y ago
Why did you go along with this for weeks. Morbid curiosity? Blinded by greed?
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by gizmo 3y ago
When CEOs and politicians speak you have to listen to what they say but also listen for what they don't say. If OpenAI had GPT-5 almost ready to go, sama would have clearly hinted towards that. He wouldn't talk about a model bei
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by gizmo 3y ago
Clickbait title and contradicted by the sama quote: > We’ll release in the coming months many different things. I think that’d be very cool. I think before we talk about a GPT-5-like model called that, or not called that, or a little bit
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by gizmo 3y ago
It turns out you're right. Thank you for the correction.
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by gizmo 3y ago
If you go once every 2 weeks, where do you get your fresh fruit and veggies? Do you just live off of frozen food? Do you plan all your meals 2 weeks ahead? What if you have people coming over for dinner on short notice? Urbanites still have
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by gizmo 3y ago
How is driving to a costco, parking on a giant parking lot, walking through a massive store, loading up a cart, walking the the cart to your car/truck, unloading everything, returning the cart, and then driving home at all efficient? P
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by gizmo 3y ago
How does this sync the other way? If you delete or complete a reminder or change the description do you get duplicates or do your changes get clobbered? What about conflicts? Does it matter if you make the changes in obsidian or reminders?
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by gizmo 3y ago
Today it's a lot easier to match the level of success pg had with viaweb back in the 90s. No MIT genius required.
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by gizmo 3y ago
What I have seen is that people who don't quit eventually become pretty successful. Some people have to quit because of health reasons or other unfortunate circumstances. But in the overwhelming majority of cases people just get demora
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by gizmo 3y ago
The number of billionaires yc has produced in 4000 or so startups (with many future billionaires in the pipeline) suggests your numbers are off by, what, 100x? If we assume that a Google Engineer is as qualified as a yc founder, which isn’t
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by gizmo 3y ago
The belief that luck is the dominant factor in success is false and harmful to the extent that it keeps people from trying. I mean trying for real as opposed to giving up after a bunch of setbacks.
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by gizmo 3y ago
The tone isn’t smug. pg simplified his language for a teenage audience. Simple arguments made simply can come across as smug because they lack caveats and polite hedging, but I don’t think the accusation of smugness sticks in this case. I a
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by gizmo 3y ago
Which ones of those fines were because of inappropriate use of cookie consent popups? You just copy-pasted a list of GDPR fines.
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by gizmo 3y ago
Their privacy policy states they use Google reCAPTCHA, which requires disclosure.
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by gizmo 3y ago
The problems with the current law are: - no fines for non-compliance (or malicious compliance) - no legal liability for data leaks of PPI When businesses believe (correctly or incorrectly) that the benefit of tracking outweighs the cost (an
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by gizmo 3y ago
Except many companies respond to the cookie law with a cookie consent popup that violates the law (by making opt-out harder than opt-in). Could we really have predicted from the "Law of Unintended Consequences" that companies wou
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by gizmo 3y ago
Do you have /any/ examples of websites that don't have a bunch of 3rd party cookies that still have a cookie banner? Middle managers absolutely love anything with charts and graphs because it makes their decisions feel more s
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by gizmo 3y ago
Do you have more info on this? iDRAC doesn't have the best security track record either, but people don't really seem to care.
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by gizmo 3y ago
Stripe is crushing it. Processing a cool trillion in payments. A full percent of world GDP.
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by gizmo 3y ago
Congratulations, you've created an unfalsifiable worldview for yourself where Musk's outrageous success with Tesla and SpaceX has turned into evidence of his unhinged incompetence as a CEO.
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by gizmo 3y ago
Musk has also made what I consider bizarre and impulsive decisions with SpaceX and Tesla. The gullwing doors of the model X almost bankrupted the company, for instance. Or take the blast pad incident during a recent starship launch. Experts
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by gizmo 3y ago
I'm no fan of Musk but his business acumen is undeniable.
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by gizmo 3y ago
You also have to fire a lot of management that allowed the org chart to explode in the first place. Maybe take a few lessons from the Elon Twitter playbook.
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by gizmo 3y ago
> In 2023, the company’s revenue was $804.0 million. Research and development, at $438.3 million, was more than half, an awfully big number for a company of this age. Total costs and expenses were $944.2 million. The net loss was $90.8 m
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by gizmo 3y ago
* East Germany is poor. Ruhrgebiet is poor. * German manufacturing is struggling because of their reliance on cheap Russian gas. * German car industry is struggling because they can't compete with Chinese imports. * Germany is still in

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