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by jmyeet 9mo ago
There's a lot going on here and it's not just the price going up and then going down (see my other comments). Basically, the entirely silver market is dysfunctional at the moment. And it's all about bailing out banks who are
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So I found a chart showing silver prices vs margin requirements on Linkedin of all places [1]. Yes, margin requirements change and the exchange tries to protect the market in times of high volatility but increasing the margin requirements s
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This isn't a simple correction. I've been following this for a couple of months and there's a lot going on. I suspect this isn't over. It's noteworthy that the year 1980 because that was when the Hunt brothers tried
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by jmyeet 9mo ago
Buying Twitter was a financially disastrous decision. It had reportedly lost at least 80% of its value [1]. The loans were secured against Tesla shares so there was the real risk of a margin call and a forced sell off. And then along came
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by jmyeet 9mo ago
This is a known problem and an active area of research [1][2][3][4]. [1]: https://arxiv.org/html/2505.15623v1 [2]: https://medium.com/@adnanmasood/why-large-language-models-st... [3]: https:&#x2F
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I love stories like this because there are still allegedly tech-savvy people who will insist that AIs don't lie, don't hallucinate and rarely if ever make errors. At the end of the day, LLMs are a statistical approximation or proj
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by jmyeet 9mo ago
> Tesla will become a case study on how to completely waste the first-mover advantage. It's a study in many things. Tesla only exists because of the transfer of wealth from the government. DOE loans, EV tax credits and other incenti
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London is the money laundering capital of Europe [1]. The entire London property market has been propped up by Russian kleptocrats [2]. I'm not saying startup money is (necessarily) illegal or at least dubious in origin. I am saying th
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by jmyeet 9mo ago
The only thing keeping Tesla afloat currently is tariffs and restrictions on far cheaper and far better foreign alternatives. That's not a solid foundation. It's certainly not a trillion dollar company. The dam is breaking. We hav
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It seems fairly easy to find figures on how many cars Tesla has produced each quarter but, surprisingly (at least to me), it's harder to find compiled information on (for each quarter): - Average Selling Price; - Cars produced vs cars
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by jmyeet 9mo ago
Here's what people should take from all this: the Constitution isn't a magical document that guards your rights. It's a piece of paper. Judge, particularly Supreme Court judges, are political actors, not some neutral paragons
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What you're describing here (ironically) is unironically the basis for Western political thought. What I'm referring to here is idealism [1]. Whether it's European colonial powers or the US, the basis for foreign interventi
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by jmyeet 9mo ago
Heh, no [1][2][3][4]. Meta and Google (including Youtube) kowtow to the administration in what speech they promote and suppress in the exact way the administration (both parties) says China might theoretically do in the future. [1]: https:
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Why do so many tech people push this "federation is a panacea" idea despite all evidence to the contrary? I don't get it. First, the obvious: if federation was clearly superior, it would've won. No medium since email has
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by jmyeet 9mo ago
I predict a future showdown over Section 230 because "algorithms" are used to cheat on the safe harbor protections. Let me explain. The general principle of Section 230 is that a platform provider isn't generally liable for
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How long will it be before somebody seeks to change AI answers by simply botting Youtube and/or Reddit? Example: it is the official position of the Turkish government that the Armenian genocide [1] didn't happen.. It did. Yet for
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Anyone who is unironically saying China attacking Taiwan is a real threat (eg The Anthropic CEO quoted in the article) is either simply echoing the administration's painting of China as a geopolitical bogeyman or they're just igno
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A lot of work is fake work. It's just social signaling. It's just a game of being liked. Just look at the stats for autistic people who have difficulty finding and maintaining employment, not because they're bad at their actu
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I find almost all modern content producers to be a depressing business, fundamentally incompatible with being a large corporation. This includes movies, TV and video games. The problem is the large corporation wants to remove creativity fro
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It depends what you mean by "original". The very first Prince of Persia game came out in the early 90s. It's at least 35 years old. It was noteworthy as being one of the first games (if not the first) to have ragdoll physics
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by jmyeet 9mo ago
This particular vulnerability relied upon passing the require function to a scope to allow the loading and running of arbitrary code. This is what I tend to call a blacklist approach. You're saying in this sandbox certain features can&
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by jmyeet 9mo ago
> Voters aren't immune from failure. Hard disagree. Voters are never at fault. It is incumbent upon the candidate to give the voters something to vote for. > ... they stay home and don't bother to vote at all Because they ha
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> Do people really believe this? It's objectively true. > That there are no policy programs from Democratic candidates? Does increasing ICE funding count [1]? > Nothing on healthcare, childcare, eldercare, education, housing,
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by jmyeet 9mo ago
Maybe I'm a dinosaur in this regard but I don't like nor trust any of these desktop application that are really just Web technologies with an embedded browser eg Discord. They're resource hogs and the attack surface is huge.
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No candidate is owed votes. Candidates must earn votes. If voters didn't vote for your candidate, your candidate failed. The voters didn't fail. The candidate did. And what we have in the modern Democratic Party is an intentional
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by jmyeet 9mo ago
You must be young because nobody who lived through his campaign would say that. He was anti-war. In 2007-2008. Only a few years when the majority of Democrats voted in favor of the Iraqi War Resolution, something that helped sink Hilary Cli
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by jmyeet 9mo ago
Capitalism. The problem is capitalism. Any handouts for farmers go straight into the coffers of multinationals to pay for farm equipment, support for the locked down farm equipment, the patented seeds, the pesticides for the patented seeds
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This is an example of taking the wrong lesson from history. The lesson from the last 20 years is that voters consistently vote to people who speak to their interests and their problems. The biggest electoral landslide in this time is Obama
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Der Spiegel has a report detailing the efforts of Germany (particularly Merekel) and France (under Sarkozy) actively blocking any efforts to block Ukraine from joining NATO [1]: > [2008] was the year that Ukraine was likely closer to bec
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This shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what happened in WW2. The tl'dr is Hitler lost, fascism won. Germany only became a national project in the 19th century. It was a collection of principalities before that. Unlike its neighbo

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