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by jameslk 11mo ago
For those that don’t know, the point of the bitcoin holding strategy of MSTR is that they sell convertible notes to buy bitcoin, which is essentially a put against the US dollar (they’re making a profit from the US dollar losing value over
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> coconuts kill 150 people per year This appears to be a myth or not clearly verified: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_coconut > The origin of the death by coconut legend was a 1984 research paper by Dr. P
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Telling people who are playing slot machines “it’s just a random number generator with fixed probabilities in a metal box” doesn’t usually work either
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> Tool Search Tool, which allows Claude to use search tools to access thousands of tools without consuming its context window At some point, you run into the problem of having many tools that can accomplish the same task. Then you need a
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> In particular, her blowing up was highly influenced by the stylistic direction, composition, production and sound engineering of people associated with the PC Music record label. No, if anything Charli XCX was the one that put PC Music
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by jameslk 11mo ago
Music is a subjective thing, but what I like about Charli XCX is her albums have completely different sound from album to album, but are consistently fun to listen to. As if it puts you in a certain energetic mood. Listening to albums in f
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by jameslk 11mo ago
It makes me sad to think you have formed this opinion on her more than decade long career that spans a variety of genres and many collaborations based on a few brat songs you may have listened to
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Charli XCX is diverse and experimental enough that my first instinct would be to assume she’s rather intelligent. For example, her collaboration in the PC Music scene comes off rather nerdy and eccentric actually, not exactly pop. And her l
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by jameslk 11mo ago
The steel man of your argument sounds like: If we let states have more power, they may enact good or bad policies that others cannot as easily enjoy or escape because of their financial or family standings prevent them from moving. National
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To me that seems like a necessary trade off for the benefits gained. The stricter laws wouldn’t have necessarily been achieved nor maintained had they not been enacted at the state level. What does seem like something the federal government
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> Supply and demand as the reason for profit percentage increasing margin makes no sense. I’d be interested in how you’d debate that. That was never my argument. The commenter I responded to edited his comment to add those points after I
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It’s good that it’s a state policy, not a federal one. We need more policies to stay at the state level, regardless of the policy. Federalism is how we can test the effects of competing policies under the same house. If the policy is a prob
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The arguments for more humans always sound like a Ponzi scheme to me: we need more people so we can support existing people. There’s plenty of downsides of having more people on the planet. And tech seems to be making it so there will be le
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What are McDonald’s profits adjusted for inflation?
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Nvidia crushed its quarter–and CEO Huang said 'the market did not appreciate it'(businessinsider.com)
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It was an internal codename that leaked out and then despite trying to use a more corporate-friendly name that was terribly boring (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image), they got trolled into continuing to use nano banana because nobody would stop calli
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by jameslk 11mo ago
This article seems to be just a summarization of https://news.gallup.com/poll/697382/record-numbers-younger-w... which has a lot more information and specific stats
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> The percentage of younger women wanting to move to another country first rose decisively in 2016, the final year of President Barack Obama's second term. That year, Gallup surveyed the U.S. in June and July, after both parties’ pr
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> Behind Canada, top choices for where the American females would relocate are New Zealand, Italy and Japan.
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Thank you for the context! I genuinely didn’t know anything about this person until recently
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Why is this on the front page of HN other than the mention of OpenAI? The article barely even mentions how this is related to OpenAI. What’s notable about this event other than this person is disliked by many?
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Meta's Victory Opens the Way for Silicon Valley to Go Deal Shopping(nytimes.com)
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by jameslk 11mo ago
Cloudflare's own status page is not responding. I guess it's down too?
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Share of articles that were written by humans or generated by AI(axios.com)
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> I swear this one looks like a tiny seahorse when you squint > everyone says it looks like a seahorse anyway > Sorry for the chaos — I was having too much fun watching you wait for the “real” one that doesn’t exist (yet)! That&#x2
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by jameslk 11mo ago
Lack of supply exists because housing is an investment. If you suddenly flooded the market with housing, prices would drop (see Austin) and this puts everyone from your typical homeowner to your friendly neighborhood PE firm in a difficult
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Housing as an investment vehicle is ultimately the problem. Those who buy into it expect prices to keep going up, like any good investment. If rising prices falter, there’s big rippling consequences, especially for those whose net worth is
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> Our ancestors of the distant past can be invoked in conversations about nearly anything: They supposedly worked less, relaxed more, slept better, had better sex, and enjoyed better diets, among other things. That’s just an artifact of
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https://paulgraham.com/disagree.html
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Cash is just another asset class, and since becoming a pure fiat it’s never been a good one: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCSL Given the fiscal dominance we’re in now that pretty much guarantees higher rates

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