leroy_masochist

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by leroy_masochist 6mo ago
Regardless of whether Carreyrou is right, Mr. Back's life has now changed massively. The article points out that the market value of Satoshi's wallet is north of $100bn. Time to invest in some personal security.
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by leroy_masochist 3y ago
PDF of the full Antarctic English dictionary is here: https://monoskop.org/images/8/8b/Hince_Bernadette_Antarctic_...
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by leroy_masochist 3y ago
I feel like there's a big market opportunity to create an EV-only rental car agency that will eventually get rolled up by an Avis or Hertz. Besides the body damage repair cost mentioned in the article, one other reason for Hertz'
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by leroy_masochist 3y ago
> I think OpenAI should have prioritized character more in its hiring. I think OpenAI should have prioritized sanity more in its board member selection.
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by leroy_masochist 3y ago
She literally wanted to destroy OpenAI in order to save it. Unbelievable. We need a total and complete shutdown of EAs serving on startup boards until we figure out what the hell is going on.
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by leroy_masochist 3y ago
Can we have a quick moment of silence for Matt Levine? Between Friday afternoon and right now, he has probably had to rewrite today's Money Stuff column at least 5 or 6 times.
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by leroy_masochist 3y ago
You're nitpicking via an overly literal interpretation of what I wrote and missing the point entirely. In the case of nonprofits, the fiduciary duties of board members pertain to keeping the organization financially healthy as opposed
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by leroy_masochist 3y ago
Right, my point here is that the "design" of the board here raises a lot of questions. Board charters are often written so that this kind of thing doesn't happen - especially in the case of startups with small boards and char
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by leroy_masochist 3y ago
> the board (at least what remains) seems to disagree strongly with the direction in which the organization was headed Yeah that is clearly the case, but when you have a situation where four of the six board members execute a coup agains
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by leroy_masochist 3y ago
Nope. This is a 501c3 board, so it explicitly doesn't have any Revlon or other fiduciary responsibilities.
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by leroy_masochist 3y ago
> Ultimately one important job of the board is to be able to replace the CEO. This is true in the abstract but it is not common to see the narrowest possible majority on a six-person board oust the co-founder/CEO (also a board membe
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by leroy_masochist 3y ago
I can't find the exact quote, but I distinctly remember Sam giving founders advice along the lines of, "operate under the assumption that co-founders and investors are not going to screw you". Pretty sure it was a Startup Sch
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by leroy_masochist 3y ago
Someone else in this thread answered that it's because of NAICS standards, which is an interesting hypothesis, but I think the real reason is, "because investment banks organize their coverage groups that way". And the reason
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by leroy_masochist 3y ago
There's a bogus argument about GCT scores in this article: > In Joint Force Quarterly, Matthew F. Cancian showed the long-term trend in intelligence among Marine officers. Comparing the absolute scores on the General Classification
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by leroy_masochist 3y ago
I agree with this assessment; the words "probably helped" are doing a lot of work here. Maybe a better way to put it would be, "probably were a factor in the timing of WWI". The German general staff was indeed very focus
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by leroy_masochist 3y ago
https://archive.ph/TAOu9
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by leroy_masochist 3y ago
> Fred Pearce traveled to the Menominee Indian Reservation with the support of the American Hardwood Export Council. Sustainable forestry is good and this is a nice story, but an advertorial nonetheless.
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by leroy_masochist 3y ago
Pretty surreal to see this trending on HN! "The NVIS loop: so easy, a marine could do it"
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by leroy_masochist 3y ago
> ...passages like this set the tone: “In these men there lived an element that underscored the savagery of war while also spiritualizing it: the matter-of-fact joy in danger, the chivalrous urge to fight. Over the course of four years t
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by leroy_masochist 3y ago
> Testosterone therapy isn’t about gaining muscle, it is about getting testosterone levels to “normal” ranges. To gain muscles, the dose will be 10x of a therapeutic dose. Your math is way off. A TRT dose of testosterone is going to be s
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by leroy_masochist 3y ago
> Any woman you see in a bodybuilding competition is on it (no a woman doesn’t have 2% bodyfat and 18 inch arms naturally). Not to nitpick, but this actually isn't true. A lot of these women don't run testosterone, but do run P
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by leroy_masochist 3y ago
> Does this apply to Longfolia leaf (Tongkat Ali)? No -- Tongkat and other naturally occurring compounds like Fadogia increase testosterone by stimulating the body's production of Luteinizing Hormone, which in turn spurs the testes
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by leroy_masochist 3y ago
That's why you get your blood work done and titrate anastrozole, which a good TRT-prescribing office is going to do without you asking. I would disagree with your contention that it is hard to dial in estradiol. It is, in fact, a ve
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by leroy_masochist 3y ago
Seeing a lot of conflation of a) TRT dosages of T, b) bodybuilding dosages of TRT, and c) T-related PEDs in these comments. I think the key things to remember here are: *Monitoring your own response to the therapy is key, whether you&#x
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by leroy_masochist 3y ago
> Invasive security measures that constantly take audio and video of you when you are working absolutely helps address the “Investment banker tells his college buddy about the deal” step. Literally nobody who is thinking about maybe doin
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by leroy_masochist 3y ago
The surveillance system described does absolutely nothing to counter the most common workflow of MNPI-driven insider trading conducted by investment banking employees, e.g.: - Investment banker is working on a deal to sell CorpCo to BuyCo a
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by leroy_masochist 3y ago
Yup. The stamped design was intended not only to make mass production cheap, but to make the factories themselves a viable export product for the USSR's client states in the third world during the cold war.
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by leroy_masochist 3y ago
This is hardly surprising. The Russian Army (and before it, the Soviet Army) never had a maintenance culture. Most of their military-industrial complex's greatest contributions to weaponry innovation have been distinguished by their re
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by leroy_masochist 4y ago
The more stories like this I read, the more I fear that there is some truly horrific, Unit 731-type program out in the western Chinese desert where they are using Uyghurs and political prisoners as laboratory models.
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by leroy_masochist 4y ago
Yeah, this is a good point. There are a lot of lonely and sad old people out there, many of them living in increasingly hoarder-y situations as they age and lose executive function. We go on some pretty sad medical calls/welfare checks

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