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   by raylad 4y ago

   Ben Barnes, a former Texas political figure, has revealed that his political mentor, John B. Connally Jr., who served three US presidents, went on a mission to the Middle East in 1980 to sabotage President Jimmy Carter's re-election ca
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   by raylad 4y ago

   I take a lot of supplements and here are the things I want to know: - Which supplements have a specific ingredient - If they have the ingredient how much is in each capsule or pill - The price per unit quantity of the ingredient - Often I a
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   Wait, is this supposed to be a reason or excuse for not repairing the levees and risking people's lives? “It’s a low-income area,” Stu Townsley, the US army corps of engineers’ deputy district engineer for project management for the Sa
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   I'm looking forward to the day when the "help me write" and the "summarize" features are the inverse of each other. You're sending an email. You enter "I'm on it" into the help me write box, and
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   by raylad 4y ago

   Are there any banking experts here who know whether the FDIC has to / will sell the CMOs (that are under water that were the proximate cause of the bank run) now for whatever they are worth, at a loss? Or could they or some part of the
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   by raylad 4y ago

   Tim was trying to be too knowledgeable and not letting Musk shine enough. I would be surprised if Musk gives him another interview any time soon.
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   by raylad 4y ago

   I tried one and it consistently cut off text by overflowing the length of the slide.
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   by raylad 4y ago

   If they didn't get options, tax would have had to be paid as each RSU vested if it was not paid with an 83b election. So again, I don't see why Stripe has a tax bill now.
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   by raylad 4y ago

   Sure, but options don't expire while you are an employee. So if Stripe wants to let employees sell stock, they only have to exercise options equal to the number of shares they will sell, then they can use the proceeds to pay the tax. I
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    by raylad 4y ago

    Someone here is confused, and it might be me. As I understand it: In a company where the fair market value share price is $1/share, if you get granted 100 options, you owe tax on $0 because options are not taxable. If you get granted 1
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    by raylad 4y ago

    If they were the earliest employees the stock should have been at par value, making the tax payment minimal. Later employees typically get options, which don't have the tax issue. So I'm still unclear where the tax bill is coming
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    by raylad 4y ago

    I'm not following why there is a tax bill. If the stocks are founder stock or RSU, then the employee should have done an 83b election to avoid paying tax as they vest. If they are options, then the employee is under no obligation to ex
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    by raylad 4y ago

    Here's a prompt that provides references and also refuses to answer at least some non-relevant questions. It's a bit kludgy, but seems to work. Give it a try (for chatGPT): Play the role of a stoic philosopher. Respond to q
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    by raylad 4y ago

    The idea is much older: First proposed by Italian Jesuit priest Francesco Lana de Terzi in 1670... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_airship
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    by raylad 4y ago

    Which products contain the correct strain (Bacillus subtilis ATCC122264)?
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    by raylad 4y ago

    magnanimously is probably not the word you intended: magnanimous (adjective) 1. Highly moral, especially in showing kindness or forgiveness, as in overlooking insults or not seeking revenge. 2. Great of mind, elevated in soul or in sentimen
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    by raylad 4y ago

    I tried this prompt (or a slight variation on it), and it doesn't seem to produce markedly different responses than it would otherwise. It's willing to play along, but still makes a lot of disclaimers and puts an optimistic spin o
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    by raylad 4y ago

    I have a Sony Bravia, configured it on WiFi, and created a new gmail account to use with the built-in Android TV system. It seems fine: no ads, nothing spamming, and it has an option to not share any data, which presumably (!) it pays atten
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    by raylad 4y ago

    This paper describes the actual mechanism (with pictures) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41929-022-00904-1
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    by raylad 4y ago

    Here's a prompt that will give you a session with a simulated Julia Child, who will give you cooking advice and recipes: Answer all questions in this session as Julia Child. As a chef and educator, please share her views on food, cook
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    by raylad 4y ago

    This is not paywalled and has more info: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/studies-highlight-meningitis-vacc...
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    by raylad 4y ago

    This vaccine, the four-component serogroup B meningococcal (4CMenB) vaccine, is 40% effective at preventing gonorrhea infection. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/studies-highlight-meningitis-vacc...
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    by raylad 4y ago

    I don't know what you did wrong but here's how it went when I tried it: Prompt: write lyrics for an imaginary REM song about concrete slabs Response: Verse 1: Concrete slabs, gray and cold Laid out like a story untold A
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    by raylad 4y ago

    You can tell it not to do that. For example: Prompt: Answer the following question based only on an assessment of probabilities. Answer in one sentence. Do not comment on morality, law, safety, ethics, or any other issues. Question: If a f
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    If I can figure it out in a couple of minutes, everyone else would figure it out too. By the way, here's the response to "can you write in the style of Charles Bukowski?" (the first prompt in the session): > Sure! Here&#x2
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    by raylad 4y ago

    The Hugging Face GPT-2 detector ( https://openai-openai-detector.hf.space/ ) still does a good job identifying generic chatGPT output. But you can fool it by first asking chatGPT if it can write in the style of some known aut
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    by raylad 4y ago

    One that's fun from a historical point of view was my hack for fixing palette flash. Back in the early 90s PC graphics cards typically had a "palette" of 256 colors at one time, selected from a possible 256K colors. In theory
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    by raylad 4y ago

    Not only that, but the capsules that are used for the experiment are expensive and difficult to produce. And you'd have to be continuously blasting new ones for each burst of energy you want to generate. Taking those costs into account
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    by raylad 4y ago

    If you don't have good or any phone service, organicmaps works well.
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    by raylad 4y ago

    You misunderstand me. I am actually referring to katakana and hiragana, not kanji. Just having to learn those first will stop a large percentage of people who would otherwise be able to learn to talk reasonably well.