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by kenneth 4y ago
So then perhaps the equity in Anthropic will be owned by the FTX creditors through bankruptcy and will appreciate greatly to the point where it could repay all the creditors. That would be hilarious. For what it's worth, when MtGox ble
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by kenneth 4y ago
Chinese is simple like that: beef is "cow meat," pork is "pig meat," etc.
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by kenneth 4y ago
As a fun side thing, I am also a travel agent with access to some of these internal systems on the booking side. The technology is incredibly antiquated. Most of the US runs on a system called SABRE, which is basically a MS-DOS system with
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by kenneth 4y ago
Vanilla is notorious for this. Vanilla extract tastes basically identical to real vanilla and is fully artificial (no vanilla pods involved in making it). I like to make crème brûlée in which it's a distinctive flavor. I sometimes use
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by kenneth 4y ago
Cooking perfect rice in a pot takes technique, for sure. But it's not that hard, and if you do it right it comes out perfect just like a rice cooker. Wash your rice. Throw in cold pot with 1:1 ratio of rice to water, + a bit extra to a
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by kenneth 4y ago
I'm a European who finds kettles stupid. I own one because someone didn't appreciate my house's lack of kettle and got one despite my protestations. I own (1) a induction stovetop, (2) a microwave… both will perfectly boil wa
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by kenneth 4y ago
You can't compare a moka pot with a french press, they are fundamentally different things that make different styles of coffee. Espresso and coffee are not identical. Personally I find french press too grainy, so at home I use aeropres
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by kenneth 4y ago
We can likely make the very strong assumption that the training data didn't contain any CSAM so it would be more difficult for the model to produce CSAM. Also, I would imagine they trained the model without porn too, so inferring CSAM
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Robbie Coltrane, Harry Potter's Hagrid, has died at 72(theguardian.com)
2 points by kenneth 4y ago|1 comments
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by kenneth 4y ago
In Chinese the weekdays are also numbered and indexed to Monday: Monday = 星期一 xingqi yi (1), Tuedsay = xingqi er (2), all the way down.
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A Chinese Spy Wanted GE’s Secrets, but the US Got China’s Instead(bloomberg.com)
10 points by kenneth 4y ago|2 comments
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by kenneth 4y ago
I wish I had this much clout as a VC but I'm sad to report that it doesn't quite work out like this at all.
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by kenneth 4y ago
I'm learning Chinese, and it was also quite tricky to realize that it also does not have a word for yes and no. (Despite what translators will tell you, yes is not 是 (shi), no is not 不 (bu), rather 是 means 'to be' and 不 negat
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by kenneth 4y ago
I hate all of that just as much as you. But I love cooking. But here's the thing: I live in HK — so I just pay for a full time domestic helper who takes care of all of that (though the main reason is to have someone to take the best ca
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by kenneth 4y ago
So in order to be spiritually closer to god, they prefer to burn a fuel that takes much more work to gather, that creates exponentially more emissions, and that is way less efficient? Seems rather silly.
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by kenneth 4y ago
Biological immortality could be possible. Certain organisms are biologically immortal, and it's possible we can achieve that through technology. I think it's actually not at all unlikely we will get very close within a couple cent
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by kenneth 4y ago
If your goal is simply to increase population as the end goal, then sure I guess the Amish are winning. I know it's generally accepted that population growth is always desirable, but I am not at all convinced of it. I would love to see
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by kenneth 4y ago
I live in Hong Kong (and am a westener), and my identity documents flip my English name showing LAST, First Middle. It's never bothered me, but at least it's rather obvious given the capitalization and punctuation.
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by kenneth 4y ago
I imagine most people in Königsburg would much rather be part of Deutschland than Россия though.
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by kenneth 4y ago
Czech people are usually referred in English as being from Czechia (if you don't wanna use the unwieldy Czech Republic)
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by kenneth 4y ago
How did we arrive at Guamanian as the adjective for of Guam?
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by kenneth 4y ago
You mean, in Español
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by kenneth 4y ago
My middle name is Olivier, by in English for a while I just translated it to Oliver.
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by kenneth 4y ago
I barely charge my A7C ever. I go weeks without a a charge and never really worry. The battery life on cameras these days is just insane
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by kenneth 4y ago
It's easy to think so. And I did for a while. I was on Canon DSLRs and eventually as iphones got better I stopped using the setup. For a few years I was back to fully mobile photographer. Now recently picked up a Sony full frame mirror
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by kenneth 4y ago
Maybe a silly question but… why can't we use a vacuum instead of hydrogen or helium to be lighter than air?
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by kenneth 4y ago
Cold emails do not work.
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by kenneth 4y ago
> 1. Wait if you can. Even just a few months. VCs tend to freeze up in the face of macro uncertainty. This happened in Q2 2020 when COVID was very new – nobody knew what was going to happen, so investors just paused for a few months. The
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by kenneth 4y ago
> but I’d guess a first-order rule of thumb is the seriousness of the investor is more or less proportional to the size of the firm & fund. Entirely disagree here. I know lots of bullshit investors with big funds, and lots of serious
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by kenneth 4y ago
Swiss expat living abroad. I'm in Switzerland just enough every year to feel the pain of the full fare tickets, and yet not enough to justify the cost of the half-fare card. I live in Asia, but I'm often flying in and out of Switz

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