jstanley

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by jstanley 1y ago
The blue/purple gradient is a Claude favourite. Also CSS animation with stuff fading in and moving in Y axis.
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Age of Discord II(peterturchin.com)
2 points by jstanley 1y ago|0 comments
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by jstanley 1y ago
Thanks, I didn't know that.
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by jstanley 1y ago
> the government is interested in subsidizing residential property ownership. As an aside: that doesn't work, it just makes houses more expensive.
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by jstanley 1y ago
It's not how bonds work because you can't pay off a bond early other than by buying it on the open market at the prevailing price. And furthermore, not all loans are fixed-rate. UK mortgage rates are relative to the Bank of Englan
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by jstanley 1y ago
It's insane because why would you offer such a product? You're giving the customer a free bet on interest rates.
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by jstanley 1y ago
This isn't about 30-year mortgages in the general case, this is about the US specifically, where a fixed-rate 30-year mortgage is typical, with a good rate and no early repayment penalty. And yes it's insane, because if rates go
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by jstanley 1y ago
Could you have it backwards? Viable rail transport could have increased the amount of people who can work in London, and increase the radius in which they can live.
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by jstanley 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic#Economic_probl...
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by jstanley 1y ago
NVIDIA is like the only company making money on the AI bubble, they're not the one I would choose to short. Tesla is currently trading at 260x earnings, so to actually meet that valuation they need to increase earnings by a factor of 1
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by jstanley 1y ago
If I earnt £10k a year from my job, and I was spending more than £10k a year getting myself deeper in debt every year, I wouldn't go out and sign up for £300k of goods and services. But maybe that's just me. I guess we'll fin
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by jstanley 1y ago
Here's some evidence: Oracle's share price recently went up 40% on an earnings miss, because apart from the earnings miss they declared $455b in "Remaining Performance Obligations" (which is such an unusual term it cause
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by jstanley 1y ago
Personally I am glad I learnt programming before StackOverflow! Precisely because it meant I had to learn to figure things out myself. I still use StackOverflow and LLMs, but if those things were available when I was learning I would prob
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by jstanley 1y ago
100% agreed, but that is not a reason to spend this much money on it.
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by jstanley 1y ago
Ah, this time it's different. Understood. (To be clear, I do agree that AI is going to drastically change the world, but I don't agree that that means the economics of it magically make sense. The internet drastically changed th
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by jstanley 1y ago
So, wait, you're saying that these guys just aren't impressed by the AI technology, and that is blinding them to the fact that the AI companies' economics look really good? That is a laughable take. The AI technology is very
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by jstanley 1y ago
The inputs are pre-recorded but the outputs aren't. What more is there to get?
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by jstanley 1y ago
I didn't downvote you but I have no idea what you're trying to say. It's a style of post common in twitter, where you obliquely refer to several things that you personally are familiar with and assume that the reader will und
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by jstanley 1y ago
Everyone always thinks they're right and the market is irrational. But taking the outside view, at least some of the people who think the market is irrational are actually just wrong and the market is right. And those are the people
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by jstanley 1y ago
You can't even pick colour out of infra-red-illuminated night time photography. There's no way you can pick colour out of WiFi-illuminated photography.
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by jstanley 1y ago
I'm confused about how it gets things like the floor colour and clothing colour correct. It seems like they might be giving it more information besides the WiFi data, or else maybe training it on photos of the actual person in the actu
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by jstanley 1y ago
> Bitcoin's ten-minute block time is a problem for real-world buying and selling In practice, the risk of suffering a double spend if you accept transactions with zero confirmations is less than the risk of chargebacks if you acce
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by jstanley 1y ago
> Unlike most people discussing them, I am not "talking my book". Is another way of saying "I am not putting my money where my mouth is".
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1 in 8 UK adults admit to committing fraud in the last 12 months (2023)(cifas.org.uk)
2 points by jstanley 1y ago|1 comments
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by jstanley 1y ago
The reason this phenomenon exists is because Amazon tried to block generic products from their site by saying the product must feature the seller's brand name. Solution: make millions of brand names and write them on the product. It&#x
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by jstanley 1y ago
What if it's maybe not as bad as alcohol, more like dropping food into a country that tries to deprive its citizens of food?
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by jstanley 1y ago
Which part are you upset about? This all sounds positive.
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by jstanley 1y ago
> we might start to name and structure our data, functions, types too specifically for that domain. I once worked on a Perl script that had to send an email to "Harry". (Name changed to protect the innocent). I stored Harry&#x2
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by jstanley 1y ago
> not sure why inefficiency as such would warrant government interference Agreed
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by jstanley 1y ago
It could be worse. I've noticed that the bursts have got shorter and less intense as I've got older!

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