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by paganel 7mo ago
My comment was mostly against the idea that due diligence is a silver bullet, it isn’t. Of course that it can “catch” the most egregious cases, like outright fraud, but, again, no due diligence process can read the future.
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by paganel 7mo ago
Even the best due diligence can't do anything if a crisis (not necessarily banking-related, a Middle East might just do the trick) starts manifesting itself and now many of those businesses have issues in paying down the debt they owe.
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by paganel 7mo ago
> So bank exposure to private credit generally means banks lending to non-banks who then lend to corporate borrowers. Isn't this similar in spirit to the infamous (according to Western media) Chinese shadow banking market? There are
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by paganel 7mo ago
> It is quite independent in Italy actually. Ask any Romanian and they'll tell you they're not. Ask them about the Mario Iorgulescu case [1], with the Italian justice system refusing to extradite him here to Romania only becaus
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by paganel 8mo ago
The majority (all, I'd say) of those are 15 years (and more) in the past by now. Not sure about Waze, well, looks like I was wrong, they were only acquired in 2013, so it's "only" 13 years in the past for them.
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by paganel 8mo ago
> well-thought-out response, even if it is LLM-enhanced? There's no insight nor well-thought-out response once a person decides to "LLM-enhance" their response. The only insight that the person using the LLM is too limite
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by paganel 8mo ago
>Also who's funding you for replication work? Do you know the pressure you have in tenure track to have a consistent thesis on what you work on? This is partly why much of today's science is bs, pure and simple.
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by paganel 8mo ago
> off work trees and running all the agents that I could afford, I still think that we, programmers, having to pay money in order to write code is a travesti. And I'm not talking about paying the license for the odd text editor or
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by paganel 8mo ago
This [1] is what really brought Germany's industry down, not the green non-sense spouted by articles like this one: > Gas prices rose to $70 per megawatt-hour in Germany — it makes it 6 times more expensive than in the US Germany wa
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by paganel 8mo ago
Suicidal move, Europe wide.
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by paganel 8mo ago
Try to do your best and “invade” the still existing third spaces, no matter if that involves some extra money that otherwise you wouldn’t have spent. The best example for that are coffee shops, pick two or three of them and try to go there
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by paganel 8mo ago
Sometimes news like this is upvoted, because it involves Japan, towards each a lot of Western techies have an unhealthy obsession on, but the moment when those techies are advised to not use the self-service thing at the super-market they s
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by paganel 8mo ago
Most probably Iran will not take part at the tournament.
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by paganel 8mo ago
It's also closely correlated with this not very happy decision put in place in 2020 [1]: > On 1 January 2020, a new limit on the sulphur content in the fuel oil used on board ships came into force, marking a significant milestone to
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by paganel 8mo ago
What can I say, I'm a Billy simp, there's one just behind me as I'm writing this comment and for about a year now I've been forcing myself to buy a new one to put it on the right-side of my current desk (sometimes I&#x27
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by paganel 8mo ago
This is absolute, pure, unadulterated evil: > "When Jonathan wrote 'I said I wasn't scared and now I am terrified I am scared to die,' Gemini coached him through it," the lawsuit states. > '[Y]ou are not
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by paganel 8mo ago
But can you mentally "keep hold" (for lack of a better term) of those tasks that are getting executed in parallel? Honestly asking. Because, after they're done/have finished executing, I guess you still have to "che
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by paganel 8mo ago
> not just genes. For me it would be just genes. Was it incest when the people who grew up in the kibbutz together ended up marrying each other? (and not blood-related, to be sure). Because they had affinity and the kibbutz community was
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by paganel 8mo ago
Is step-siblings sex incest? It may be disgraceful but I personally don’t see it as such, i.e. not as incest.
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by paganel 8mo ago
Disproven by whom and under which context? > evidence from neuroimaging and neurological patients Has "neuroimaging" successfully modelled those "universal human rights" the OP was mentioning? If yes, how did it look?
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by paganel 8mo ago
The tech-bros never learn any humility, we have here an actual example of one of their hellish AI darlings blocking the first responders in their way to the aftermath of a terrorist attack, and what do those tech-bros' do? They continu
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by paganel 8mo ago
At no point in life I would wish for my fellow citizens to get killed by a foreign power. I’m already in my mid-40s, I’ve spent a day or two out in the streets, protesting (granted, not against governments that the West labels as dictatoria
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by paganel 8mo ago
What moment would that be? Begging for the Americans to bomb their former country?
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by paganel 8mo ago
Funny how the Americans/Israelis are still so enamoured with the Big-Bad-Boss military view of the world, they've killed so many Taliban leaders in the past that they (the Americans) ended up giving control of Afghanistan to the s
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by paganel 8mo ago
France doesn't even have a nuclear triad in place, and last time they offered any big assurances at the international level Munich '38 happened and then June '40. Macron and the people running the French State are well aware
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by paganel 8mo ago
> Trump’s son in law (Kushner) has most of his net worth wrapped up in OpenAI. If true (too lazy to check but I honestly take your word for it), this should probably be bigger news. Not that the outright corruption when it comes to the h
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by paganel 8mo ago
> Power consumption That’a the thing, at the end of it all power consumption will matter more for the end-user who doesn’t have money to burn away, because I suspect that power-consumption will, in the majority of cases, exceed the price
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by paganel 8mo ago
They’ll go after their bank accounts and their financing, in effect killing them outright, no matter from where they’d be headquartered (other than China or Russia, that is). Also, EU and Japan would not risk their nuclear umbrella protect
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by paganel 8mo ago
Jeff Dean could have done a lot of good and add his name to the list of signatories, seeing as how leaf of AI at Google or some such. He was supposed to be this super-smart dude, I guess he’s far from that. Huge props for the the Google and
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by paganel 8mo ago
That was in the cards since Hegseth's initial announcement, when he brandished the option for Anthropic to be put on the same level as China and Russia, i.e. the same level as State enemies of the US. Got to give it tho Anthropic'

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