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by pgodzin 4y ago
worth reading Matt Levine's explanation of this: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-01-31/matt-l...
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by pgodzin 4y ago
The government isn't saving SVB, their owners, execs and shareholders are being wiped out.
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by pgodzin 4y ago
Startups are risky enough as is without having to create and manage 50 different banks with 250k in each. Those mass layoffs were the result of poor decisions and execution by the companies, and they should face the consequences. We want st
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by pgodzin 4y ago
Part of the problem is that increase in population happened in outward sprawl. There isn't anything particularly incompatible with a modernized version of that transit system at that density.
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by pgodzin 4y ago
not lab made, leaked from a lab
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by pgodzin 4y ago
HN optimizes for increasing engagement from people in the tech industry to show more ads for portfolio companies job postings, which increases YC's profits.
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by pgodzin 4y ago
I'm very unclear about what "otherwise" means in "elevating when it otherwise wouldn't be elevated". There's no natural state of how content would be displayed, any choice of how to do it would result in a
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by pgodzin 4y ago
So if YouTube used the same deep learning models to push people to more extremist content but without using any user signals so that everyone has the same recommendations that's no longer promotion? Fundamentally any decisions a site m
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by pgodzin 4y ago
Choosing keyword matching as the algorithm is explicitly a way to target recommendations of information provided by another information content provider. As is sorting by most recently updated, as is using a machine learning model that opti
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by pgodzin 4y ago
But shouldn't we allow the rights holders to change things that they consider haven't aged well to allow broader appeal? Should they be required to publish the same version that they disagree with in perpetuity?
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by pgodzin 4y ago
that chart includes a huge market bubble and excludes the subsequent bubble pop
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by pgodzin 4y ago
Their cash balance can also make higher risk-free returns otherwise
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by pgodzin 4y ago
> Now I don't actually have proof that interest rates directly affect Google (who is probably flush with cash/very profitable/has high margins/has lots of money coming in). It affects everyone. When interest rates inc
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by pgodzin 4y ago
All new buildings that took advantage of 421a tax breaks are required to be rent stabilized, so they aren't that rare, just close to market rate right now
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by pgodzin 4y ago
The problem is that he is only learning when it negatively affects him. Plenty of people have already learned many of these lessons, he just has no interest in listening to them.
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by pgodzin 4y ago
What about all the other things he's wrong about that he just hasn't been personally aggrieved by yet?
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by pgodzin 4y ago
Musk disagreed with you until today, he explicitly said that he would be leaving this exact account up because he believed in free speech even when it was about his location.
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by pgodzin 4y ago
The problem is when what is "most pressing" seems to be entirely dependent on how it personally affects the wealthiest man in the country.
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by pgodzin 4y ago
Many people have been trying to get the point across that legal, unlimited free speech can put people in harm's way. Elon is happy to say that he's willing to trade harm to those people for his free speech principles, but as soon
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by pgodzin 4y ago
Presumably Elon does, given that he's feeding these people internal Twitter Files
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by pgodzin 4y ago
it is according to Bari Weiss's definition in her Twitter Files thread
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by pgodzin 4y ago
It's actually enforced by the NYC Commission on Human Rights
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by pgodzin 4y ago
Well you're also removing rights from the people who would be slaves or killed in your examples.
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by pgodzin 4y ago
It is not automatically triggered, it is a decision NATO can now make whether or not to trigger
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by pgodzin 4y ago
JW Player | New York (NYC), NY / UK / REMOTE | Full-time JW Player pioneered video on the web over a decade ago and continues to innovate as the world’s largest network-independent platform for video delivery and intelligence. Med
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by pgodzin 4y ago
JW Player | New York (NYC), NY / UK / REMOTE | Full-time JW Player pioneered video on the web over a decade ago and continues to innovate as the world’s largest network-independent platform for video delivery and intelligence. Med
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by pgodzin 4y ago
JW Player | New York (NYC), NY / UK / REMOTE | Full-time JW Player pioneered video on the web over a decade ago and continues to innovate as the world’s largest network-independent platform for video delivery and intelligence. Med
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by pgodzin 4y ago
Too late -- his baby is already beside him at the wheel
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by pgodzin 4y ago
Specifically at a time when markets were at all-time highs, and everyone had a ton of gains they didn't want to pay taxes on. We'll see what the migration patterns look like during a downturn after everyone else has been priced ou
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by pgodzin 4y ago
Why would anyone want to pass a law saying that anyone below a certain income threshold can cheat on their taxes and it's illegal for anyone to look into?

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