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by morelisp 4y ago
But this is literally what was going to happen as soon as the FDIC moved in. If that's all they want, why all the extra noise?
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by morelisp 4y ago
Founders drained the whole Bay Area of anything culturally interesting, tech companies all just did massive layoffs, years of shouting "learn to code" at every other profession, the world's art output fed into an AI meat grin
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by morelisp 4y ago
You don't need to spread it out so each account is < $250k, you need to spread it out enough so you can still make payroll if one fails while you wait for its assets to be sorted out. In most cases for a startup this means two, mayb
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by morelisp 4y ago
Not that long, it was raised from $100k to $250k in 2008. They were up for review last in 2020, and again in 2025. Most people - people - have far, far less than this. And it's fundamentally about protecting people - institutions,
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by morelisp 4y ago
Which is what the FDIC is going to try to achieve anyway, and doesn't need a bathetic orison to Yellen to happen. .... which is maybe a weak signal that nobody's biting yet and YC feels the need to escalate to actual government mo
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by morelisp 4y ago
If any significant payroll gets missed I'm getting out the popcorn, regulators and courts will get that back.
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by morelisp 4y ago
> Several years into my time in San Francisco, someone explained to me how, as a partner at a venture capital firm, they were expected to commit personal capital to the fund, which is often several percentage points' worth of the to
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by morelisp 4y ago
As always the devil is in the details, and I'm old enough I was around and paying attention for the Bush years. The debt limit fight referenced in the essay was actually extremely minor - there was never a real risk of a shutdown, unli
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by morelisp 4y ago
> Over the weekend, Germany conducted a hard and close-fought election with calm, ease and not a peep about voter fraud Yeah, I'm gonna trust this guy for sure.
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by morelisp 4y ago
Really? I see it all the time. For example, last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35024471 And two weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34947944 It actually seems like some people can&#
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by morelisp 4y ago
Arguably the rift created within the Republican Party allowed the Democrats to win nation-wide elections for the first time since the ACW making the room for Wilson to do this; it's not a very good legacy for a progressive campaigner t
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by morelisp 4y ago
The FDIC insurance won’t make the rest whole, the bankruptcy process will. The assets are not fundamentally toxic and someone will buy them, with a haircut. Play stupid games, win 70 cents on your dollar.
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by morelisp 4y ago
Whatever you mean by "relationships" is in fact an "innovation" in the banking sense.
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by morelisp 4y ago
VCs and founders must believe SVB offers at least one, or why not go with a normal bank?
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by morelisp 4y ago
Only indirectly; the tide is receding for the first time in many years, and it's exposing a variety of... issues.
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by morelisp 4y ago
The falloff is extremely rapid. They're closer in both an absolute and relative sense to the 40th than even the 10th.
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by morelisp 4y ago
> They lost on multiple fronts, interest rates rose... the tech market slowed... word of all this got out The first two are the same thing and the latter is not really an "event" but rather the legally-mandatory observation of
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by morelisp 4y ago
> 100s of millions of years. Most animals don't acquire language, and the non-humans who are the best candidates for it all appear to have developed it independently; specifically in humans the potential is at most around 10mil ye
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by morelisp 4y ago
GPT3's input is something like 45TB of data. It's a significant fraction of all text humans ever produced , to the point researches are concerned we may run out of text within the next few years. Normal healthy language exposur
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by morelisp 4y ago
How like the LLM enthusiast to use a term without care for what it means! Still, GPT itself wouldn't instantly retreat to such vulgar moralism.
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by morelisp 4y ago
None of Chomsky’s statements you quote are ad hominems. They’re not even misidentified ad hominem fallacy fallacies (which is what Aaronson’s are, actually). I’m not sure you know what an ad hominem is.
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by morelisp 4y ago
> In this piece Chomsky, the intellectual godfather of an effort that failed for 60 years to build machines that can converse in ordinary language At least he leads with the fact he doesn’t understand Chomsky’s research program at all.
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by morelisp 4y ago
Invest in Apple, their phone is going to be a big deal.
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by morelisp 4y ago
If it costs as much as a context switch, you might as well just do context switches. These hosted language scaffoldings - whether that's asyncio, go routines, TPL, Webflux, etc. - exist specifically so you don't have to do a full
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by morelisp 4y ago
Matching the cost of a genuine context switch should be a (laughably bad) upper bound for any language's particular concurrency offerings. It is not reasonable.
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by morelisp 4y ago
> the GIL does not come into play at all with async. In the sense that the GIL is still held and you can have at most one path of Python code executing at a time regardless of whether you use async or threads, sure. Most blocking I/
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by morelisp 4y ago
If every foodstuff costing as much per flower as vanilla - a spice usable in famously small quantities - isn't a crop-apocalypse, what is?
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by morelisp 4y ago
Only in an aerobic environment, no?
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by morelisp 4y ago
B is practically bounded by ~20736000 * S. You're just asking for ISPs to play games with S.
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by morelisp 4y ago
These threads from mrkurt a few months ago seem relevant here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32955520 If they are a multiplier for a whole portfolio, there's not much reason for any particular branch to purchas

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