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by hooande 4y ago
This article makes some points outside of "Web3 is a buzzword/scam". The idea is that if a startup involves tokens as a form of equity, investors can request that some of those tokens be set aside for them. Then those tokens
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The Pivot to Web3 Is Going to Get People Hurt(vice.com)
46 points by hooande 4y ago|58 comments
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by hooande 4y ago
I HATE the Freestyle Libre. The concept of continuous glucose monitoring is life saving, but this particular product is very very bad. The hardware design is awful. I've received 9 of them and 5 have broken before their expiration date
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by hooande 4y ago
It's hard to imagine that severance from a 10% layoff is a significant cost for a company of Tesla's size and revenue. It's not small by any means, but not necessarily worth a complicated scheme in relative terms
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by hooande 4y ago
how large was the "pandemic bailout"? it looked like two checks from the govt and < 1 year of increased (doubled?) unemployment. seems like a total of $8,000 or less for most people, with a wide variance from person to person.
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by hooande 4y ago
this is a very intuitive analysis. well done and thanks
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by hooande 4y ago
I wish there was a better middle ground. Your enjoyment of in office work and related career advancement seems to require others to work in a way that they don't feel is necessary or productive. If only part of the company decides to w
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by hooande 4y ago
Cars also involve software, design, marketing materials. None of those things require physical presence any more than those jobs did when they were remote during the pandemic. Many of those roles were successfully performed remotely before
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by hooande 4y ago
This comment is saying "No one else here knows as much about this as I do", and little else. Your only concrete solution, produced by your years of study, seems to be "shut up and listen to educators". Well what are they
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by hooande 4y ago
I'm not sure if it's appropriate to paste such a large citation as a comment here. You could have just said "Read Matt Levine's article" and then added your own thoughts.
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by hooande 4y ago
I haven't been overly surprised by any of it. The final product is still the same, no matter how much they scale it up. All of these models seem to require a human to evaluate and edit the results. Even Co-Pilot. In theory this will re
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by hooande 4y ago
Human drone pilots are cheap and reasonably easy to train. The "AI" that you need is the targeting and guidance system. If I can see any enemy drone on a camera, all I need to do is get a lock and fire. The problem is that precisi
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by hooande 4y ago
wow, congrats!
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by hooande 4y ago
this has been true since photoshop existed? you don't need an algorithm to make a fake picture or to fake a military attack, etc. humans generally have better grasp of appropriate details
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by hooande 4y ago
this assumes there is a finite list of available actions. for example, a primate has to see that "sharpen a stick to use as a spear" is an option, and add it to the list
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by hooande 4y ago
Our brains are how many orders of magnitude more complex than gpt-3? honest question (I'd guess that the answer is "N/A" because we can't even approximate the complexity of the base algorithms operating in the biolo
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by hooande 4y ago
There are many stray cats in my neighborhood and I see them communicate vocally all the time. Mothers definitely call audibly to locate their kittens, and vice versa. They'll often call out to each other as adults, I think for mating?
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by hooande 4y ago
To answer this scientifically, you would need to observe the same sample of people both offline and online. If you compare conversations with people you work with or chose to socialize with to conversations between random strangers on the i
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by hooande 4y ago
off topic, but I wouldn't have understood anything that happened in the last few weeks without Levine. now most of my days are waiting for him to post so that I know wtf just happened
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by hooande 4y ago
you personally could view money itself as a collectible. that doesn't change the fundamental nature of money for 99.9% of the population. I completely understand people who are interested in being a part of creating a financial system
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by hooande 4y ago
this kind of assumes that the only goal of an economy is to avoid recessions. growth is also very important to the average person, and the gold standard does not optimize for that
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by hooande 4y ago
he or she just said. with bitcoin, the value of your dollar is going up. that sounds great, but it creates a pressure to not spend and means that the relative value of your debts are also going up I get that you don't want The Powers T
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by hooande 4y ago
You're just wrong. This is what happens when you try to play lawyer on the internet. You can crtl-f for "Specific Performance" and "Material Adverse Effect" in this thread for explanations of exactly how and why you
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by hooande 4y ago
The evidence against this is that tsla stock has gone up since musk said the deal was "on hold". This may be because the market expects him to not have to increase supply by selling more shares, but he's already trying to arr
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by hooande 4y ago
This is incorrect. The contract says that they can indeed to legally force him to go through with the deal and price that he agreed to. If it turns out to be more than twice the current valuation of twitter, they should do this. But they pr
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by hooande 4y ago
No. A shrewd move would have been to not do a fumbling hostile takeover. Everyone knows that tech stocks traditionally take a hit when the fed raises rates. He could have done this in a slower and more traditional way instead of attempting
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by hooande 4y ago
I started reading this column to follow this saga, and I have been delighted so far. He has a way of explaining very complex financial topics in a way that's easy to understand. And his writing about the twitter deal is full of wit and
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by hooande 4y ago
Yes, it is public though I don't have a link. To the best of my knowledge, Twitter is accountable to the SEC if they materially misrepresented any numbers about their business. I don't think the deal has any specific language abou
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by hooande 4y ago
There isn't formal due diligence, he's already made the offer. He doesn't (legally) have access to any information that he didn't have access to weeks ago.
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by hooande 4y ago
then...maybe he shouldn't have made the offer?

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