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by koolba 10mo ago
If I'm reading the chart correctly, the current stock price of ORCL is 15% below the price before they announced the OpenAI deal in September. 40% down from the peak is one thing, but I see the net v.s. before the craziness as a be
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by koolba 10mo ago
> Why do they care so much? They're a non-profit dedicated to the betterment of humanity via open access to AI. We're still talking about OpenAI right?
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by koolba 10mo ago
A shot or two of liquid courage doesn’t hurt either. Though beyond that you risk exceeding the Balmer peak.
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by koolba 10mo ago
If movie contracts are any lesson, you always want to be on the gross. Too many ways to game the system otherwise.
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by koolba 10mo ago
What’s the point of doing this? I don't understand the justification for the expense or complexity.
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Zelensky's Government Sabotaged Oversight, Allowing Corruption to Fester(nytimes.com)
4 points by koolba 10mo ago|3 comments
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by koolba 10mo ago
> A large part of the middle class would be priced out of most modern amenities if these would be produced domestically. Who said everybody would get to keep buying as much cheaply made foreign crap as before? From an environmental persp
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by koolba 10mo ago
> It’s the opposite. It makes things from other countries more expensive. It doesn’t make things from the US cheaper. All prices are relative. If something is more expensive then de facto its alternatives are cheaper in comparison.
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by koolba 10mo ago
Sure, but with AI we can automate that incompetence.
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by koolba 10mo ago
With CloudFlare specifically probably not. IIRC, they require DNS resolution of your domain to operate so if they’re down, I don’t see how you’d change it to route directly to the underlying site. Even if you could, having two sets of TLS t
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by koolba 10mo ago
> So let's say you have a generally fair time bonus for mild (clinical) anxiety. The issue is that it's fair for the average mild anxiety, it's an advantage if a student has extremely mild anxiety. We might as well make ra
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by koolba 10mo ago
> There are now also online telehealth services that don't hide the fact that this is one of their services. You pay their (cash only, please) fee and they'll make sure you get your letter. The same thing is happening with &quo
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by koolba 10mo ago
I don’t know why people are so hesitant to just fire bad people. It’s pretty obvious when someone starts actually working if they’re going to a net positive. On the order of weeks, not months. Given how much these orgs pay, both direct to h
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by koolba 10mo ago
> However in this case there are no other users, and their server is one of the "ends" doing the communicating, which is... perhaps not a literal contradiction in terms, but certainly breaking the spirit of the phrase. Am I und
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Administration Wants to Exclude 'Pornographic Activity' from 'No Tax on Tips'(nytimes.com)
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IT consultant arrested after posing with gun on LinkedIn(telegraph.co.uk)
26 points by koolba 10mo ago|11 comments
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by koolba 11mo ago
> Looks to me like it is accurate enough to locate even the smallest network-connected devices! This should be a standard feature of server cages. The base rack itself could have a GPS receiver and provide the relative location of each r
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by koolba 11mo ago
> To be honest, the alternative for a good chunk of these users is no interaction at all, and that sort of isolation doesn't prepare you for human interaction either. This sounds like an argument in favor of safe injection sites for
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Amazon Leo: High-Speed Internet Wherever You Call Home(leo.amazon.com)
4 points by koolba 11mo ago|3 comments
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by koolba 11mo ago
Who’s “we”? Like most tech, I can see this spreading quickly to the porn space.
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by koolba 11mo ago
> Randal had a long career of good takes, until around 2016 when they stopped being objectively good. Specifically it was at this point in 2016: https://xkcd.com/1756/ > I’m not kidding at all, that my guess is h
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by koolba 11mo ago
The article says: > Never Handroll Your Own Two-Phase Commit And then buried at the end: > A few notable features of this snippet: > Limiting number of retries makes the code more complicated, but definitely worth it for user-facin
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by koolba 11mo ago
> I think the real question is why didn't the Biden administration release the files. How many very powerful people left and right are in there? If I had to guess it's because there's nothing incriminating about Trump in t
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by koolba 11mo ago
In related news, Harvard is also launching its own investigation into its former president Summers: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/19/harvard-opens-...
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Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board(cnbc.com)
334 points by koolba 11mo ago|377 comments
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Epstein files: Larry Summers steps back from commitments over email fallout(cnbc.com)
25 points by koolba 11mo ago|2 comments
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Trump buys at least $82M in bonds since late August, financial disclosures show(cnbc.com)
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Woman pleads guilty lying about astronaut wife accessing bank account from ISS(cnbc.com)
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by koolba 11mo ago
> The private insurance can help you with the payment there but not wait times. That must be a great deal for the insurance company. If it takes multiple years to get an appointment, they must pay out significantly less claims as well.
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by koolba 11mo ago
> It's not all over government Web sites. In fact I doubt it's on them at all. I can’t find reference to “Obamacare” but there is one for TrumpRx: https://trumprx.gov/

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