okwubodu

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by okwubodu 2y ago
Out of curiosity, how did you notice this?
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by okwubodu 3y ago
> several exist and they track the BTC:USD rate relatively accurately They are terrible assets with severe discount/premium swings reaching the high 40%s [0]. The ratio's only tightening now that a potential arbitrage opportuni
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by okwubodu 3y ago
This is likely the biggest disconnect between people that enjoy using them and those that don’t. Recognizing when GPT-4’s about to output nonsense and stopping it in the first few sentences before it wastes your time is a skill that won’t d
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by okwubodu 3y ago
Within individual files I tend to create a mental index of names and purposes from top to bottom before tracing, which usually helps avoid redundant jumping or branching so deep it becomes difficult to keep track.
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by okwubodu 3y ago
Not the opposite. The full group referenced here is “US citizens and certain non-US citizens whose permission to live in and work in the United States does not expire," and they went after SpaceX for discrimination against the latter (
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by okwubodu 3y ago
I think it’s fair. When a clone of your product is funded by the same entity that rejected yours, it's only logical to assess the differences that do exist. Had she said “as a first-time founder,” I doubt the victim card argument would
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by okwubodu 3y ago
Discord is the most prevalent and lowest friction communication app for the highest portion of the relevant audience, and will only become more so with every new (younger) developer cohort. The average 16-34ish year-old probably-male develo
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by okwubodu 3y ago
I agree. My point is that calling them a security is consistent with the SEC’s position on what makes a digital asset a security.
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by okwubodu 3y ago
Just as there actually are people who really do want the tokens just to cover gas fees and not for resale.
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by okwubodu 3y ago
To be clear, I think Celsius committed actual fraud. I just want to talk about one particular point here. > So the burden of proof seems to be on the claim that they're the same, or that it's a meaningful analogy. I have a pair
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by okwubodu 3y ago
This is functionally an extension of Instagram. It’s no more standalone than, say, Messenger.
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by okwubodu 3y ago
I made a similar comment almost a year ago and it seems like it's panning out nicely: > "Apple has been testing overengineered features that are suspiciously well suited for AR in broad daylight for a few years now. If they can
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by okwubodu 3y ago
> I wonder of if*
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by okwubodu 3y ago
> In the Bronx, DiMango’s job was to review cases and clear them: by getting weak cases dismissed, extracting guilty pleas from defendants, or referring cases to trial in another courtroom. At the start of 2013, there were nine hundred a
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by okwubodu 3y ago
> Since 2002, 779 Muslim men and boys have been held at Guantánamo, nearly all of them without charge or trial. Today, 39 men remain indefinitely detained there, and 27 of them have never even been charged with any crime. Fourteen of tho
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by okwubodu 3y ago
I wonder if some of the perceived benefits of alternate layouts, like Dvorak and Colemak, are due to users being forced to consciously touch type.
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by okwubodu 3y ago
Oh, DuckDuckGo just does that sometimes. Pretty often I'll pick a result then back out to the search results, and the one I had in mind to click next just isn't there anymore. However annoying, I wouldn't immediately jump to
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by okwubodu 3y ago
> That doesn’t negate the fact that hip-hop is a lyrical artform, with the emcee being the star since the 1980s. I don’t think this is true. Instrumentals in hip-hop are largely first class citizens. Lyrics are at the forefront, yes, but
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by okwubodu 4y ago
Isn’t the concept of intellectual property theft a capitalist construct?
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by okwubodu 4y ago
Most wealthy nations export a large chunk of their plastic and other waste to poorer countries. The conclusion that article came to is very strange.
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by okwubodu 4y ago
By turning the server off and not introducing MITM attacks to the judicial system.
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by okwubodu 4y ago
Isn’t most traffic caused by cascading human error? I assumed true FSD would be a mesh net where every car broadcasts its next move to its neighbors.
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by okwubodu 4y ago
"Streetwear" itself has a snobbish connotation as of late.
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by okwubodu 4y ago
There’s an odd juxtaposition between the net negative sentiment towards The Technology That Shall Not Be Named and the near daily “X banned my accounts and my business will never recover please help” posts.
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by okwubodu 4y ago
Maybe I’m more optimistic than most. In any case, the gymnastics needed to explain why one was totally wrong and the other is absolutely necessary will bring about an era of US dominance in the sport.
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by okwubodu 4y ago
The second order effects of affirmative action's repeal are going to be very entertaining. You can get a sneak peek by taking a look at the student body at a school like UT Austin where, by law, 75% of students must be in-state and aut
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by okwubodu 4y ago
> An example, I don't know of a Western style democracy, where it is legal for a cop to walk by your house, notice an open window, and crawl through it... Police can generally use open doors (and windows?) as “probable cause” to ent
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by okwubodu 4y ago
> There is an obvious rational non-racist explanation for the outcome in question > A black person, a white person, and an asian person with the exact same credentials mean extremely different things in terms of absolute rather than r
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by okwubodu 4y ago
First recorded instance of spaghetti code?
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by okwubodu 4y ago
Most people, regardless of salary, already bear the risk of jail for intentionally committing fraud and rights violations. Government employees are the only ones consistently exempt from this.

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