michaelscott

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by michaelscott 1y ago
Yeah correct, the French relationship with modern English is much closer because of (among other reasons) the Norman conquest that happened long after the Indo-European split and much closer to our time
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by michaelscott 1y ago
3 trillion is just the top 5 or 6
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by michaelscott 1y ago
It's telling that my first reaction to this was fear. We watch the same shows
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by michaelscott 1y ago
I can believe this. I've spoken to many European entrepreneurial types that are really struggling with the red tape handcuffs in their countries, and those are people who actually have EU citizenship and for whom the red tape is as lig
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by michaelscott 1y ago
There is plenty of capital (eye watering amounts in most family offices in fact) and world leading expertise in many fields across Europe. The only factor here is more risk appetite and a culture for that risk in an effort to push industry
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by michaelscott 1y ago
They can, but OP's point is that a ban on US tech on its own will do nothing to produce a local Silicon Valley. It needs to go hand in hand with a massive push toward local entrepreneurial support, especially in places like Europe wher
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by michaelscott 1y ago
I've been in exactly this position and it's honestly insane, assuming Europe is actually interested in promoting startup growth. It's simply not set up from a legislative position to be able to compete with the US or China
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by michaelscott 1y ago
Article claims all cash but sounds like probably with vesting for retention
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by michaelscott 1y ago
For applications doing extremely high rates of inserts and reads, lock free is definitely superior. In extreme latency sensitive applications like trading platforms (events processing sub 100ms) it's a requirement; locked structures ca
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by michaelscott 1y ago
Store owners just make out paper receipts in this case, like businesses used to do back in the day
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by michaelscott 1y ago
In some isolated and probably anomalous societies sure, but greed-fueled expansion and growth is a hallmark of humanity across every single continent and at every stratum of civilizational development stretching back 10,000s of years
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by michaelscott 2y ago
Agreed, this seemed inevitable. And as a bull, I don't even think we're close to the bottom for the year
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by michaelscott 2y ago
That's the premise yeah, but it makes sense to buy more on red days
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by michaelscott 2y ago
"After the 25% YoY of the last 2 years, the bubble has to burst this year", I thought to myself in Jan. It looks like keeping some cash in the wings waiting was the right move. I think we'll see a nastier crash still though
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by michaelscott 2y ago
Yeah this is exactly my impression as well
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by michaelscott 2y ago
The American right has (always?) been anti-government overreach traditionally. I don't actually think Trump or Musk are particularly conservative or right wing (they'll say and do what gets them the support) but on this topic they
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by michaelscott 2y ago
NVidia's not selling LLM subscriptions, they're selling shovels in the goldrush. I don't think 3 trillion is a reasonable valuation either, but NVidia's applications extend way beyond consumer and they've effectivel
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by michaelscott 2y ago
Only the distilled models can run on everyday machines, not the full model
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by michaelscott 2y ago
To be fair, Greenlanders didn't have a lot of choice back then. You don't take extensive time to process food that's naturally toxic unless you really have to
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by michaelscott 2y ago
It's hard to imagine just how much the height of Everest affects the feasibility of any "normal" infrastructure as a tourist spot. The air density is exceptionally thin (so thin that even helicopters cannot climb past a certa
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by michaelscott 2y ago
True, I started as I began thinning and luckily caught it early enough. It hasn't solved the pre-existing thinning completely, but it's prevented any further loss and resurrected enough follicles that were on the verge of death th
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by michaelscott 2y ago
Completely ancedotal, but I've taken minoxidil and finasteride for a little over a year. I took a break from minoxidil only for a few months and found my hair grew considerably slower than when I was on both. I think this makes sense g
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by michaelscott 2y ago
Nah this doesn't work. Codebase is set up in this way already but VS Code just isn't having it :-\
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by michaelscott 2y ago
Having multiple Cargo.toml files across workspaces wreaks absolute havoc with editors like VS Code, which perform builds automatically while you work. Makes the debug cycle waaay slower, which is a tradeoff for the faster compile times I su
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by michaelscott 3y ago
Fwiw my own experience in France, even in Paris, was mixed. A number of people refused to speak French with me (although my French was terrible, it's true), while others were either highly encouraging and complimentary, or were content
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by michaelscott 3y ago
You can get a loan without any collateral in some countries and under certain conditions . Banks in the countries I've lived in, across 2 continents, would all still perform checks on you before handing you any money and this process
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by michaelscott 3y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you want; you want to get crypto through a loan to buy a car, but you want to post eg. fiat as collateral?
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by michaelscott 3y ago
If you have a solution on mobile, please do DM me :) I've tried multiple workarounds and none of them seem to permanently fix the problem
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by michaelscott 3y ago
Vanced has essentially been disabled recently, unable to play anything. I don't know if YouTube is going on a murdering spree of everything that threatens ads on the platform.
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by michaelscott 3y ago
> The same crazy idea might not resurface, but someone in the distant future will maybe (likely?) find some of our own, present-day convictions and schemes equally harebrained (like - cough - a renewed all out arms race involving multipl

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