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by richbell 4y ago
It can be equivalent, in practice. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-microfinance-banks-p...
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by richbell 4y ago
Rest in peace, Nortel. https://nationalpost.com/news/exclusive-did-huawei-bring-dow...
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by richbell 4y ago
It's such a dumb take. The US is already funneling billions into Ukraine, why would they need a convoluted way to secretly send a few hundred million more?
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by richbell 4y ago
> We are literally hearing only one side of the story Which side of the story do you think is missing? SBF has been on a huge media tour. > maybe there is a 1% chance that the books were not cooked, that the rapid crypto crash combine
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SBF Interviewed by Coffeezilla(youtube.com)
6 points by richbell 4y ago|1 comments
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by richbell 4y ago
> All in all, sorry, I will pass due to the Soldered Memory The specs are configurable, OP just linked to a specific configuration. Though the soldered memory is an unfortunate compromise to the conventional ThinkPad experience.
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by richbell 4y ago
> Their goal should be informing the public-- putting SBF up does that, he's not duping anyone else now. Arguably, allowing SBF to make unsubstantiated claims and not challenging them is the opposite of informing the public. Like yo
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by richbell 4y ago
> But to make this all appear legitimate they claimed these bets were fully collateralized, but the secret being that they'd accept illiquid magic beans as the collateral (and not just their own, but other random trash too). This is
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by richbell 4y ago
> “They were wired to Alameda, and…I can only speculate about what happened after that,” Mr. Bankman-Fried told the Journal. In a sane world, this would be an obvious confession to criminal negligence and violating his fiduciary duty. SB
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by richbell 4y ago
But then it wouldn't be free money.
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by richbell 4y ago
I thought you were being hyperbolic but the linked article and study does seem to miss the forest for the trees. Surely it's possible to acknowledge the flaws of a measure without devolving into ideological and cultural warfare? > I
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by richbell 4y ago
This has a name: Yellow Journalism. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
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by richbell 4y ago
> Anytime I read a story by big publications about a topic I’m an expert in, I recalibrate my expectations around accuracy and effectiveness in coverage of big publications. Reminds me of Gell-Mann Amnesia. https://www.epsilon
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by richbell 4y ago
It doesn't hurt that he's greased a lot of palms and his family is well-connected. His mother runs a large secretive Democratic PAC. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33681750
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by richbell 4y ago
> He said he donated about the same to both parties, with the Republican donations hidden as dark money. And he allegedly did so that he could get credit for supporting Democrats, which is incredibly cynical and undermines his "inno
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by richbell 4y ago
CoffeeZilla covered this in a recent video. The effort to paint over such blatant fraud and negligence and pretend it was all a mistake from a well-meaning kiddo is disgusting. https://youtu.be/0rL35_WV3lE
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by richbell 4y ago
That's hilarious; I'd heavily encourage you to remove this comment, just in case the lawyers turn out to be real. :)
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by richbell 4y ago
I read your comment several times before replying; it still doesn't make sense. > This press release only makes any sense if they intend to preemptively combat investigations which show that these are actors and not the people that
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by richbell 4y ago
FWIW I agree. We are dangerously close to living in a world where you cannot trust any videos, pictures, or audio. I just think that this approach is perhaps more 'cool' than it is useful, it makes me think of Mr. Swirl[0] who go
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by richbell 4y ago
That doesn't stop clips from this or future videos that use this technique from being taken out of context.
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by richbell 4y ago
> Shame on the West for such blatant imperialist attempt at meddling with chinese internal affairs. Shame on you for creating a throwaway account defending China's brutal authoritarian regime with whataboutisms.
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by richbell 4y ago
> Because the faces aren’t real? They want to arrest dissidents not random people. How can you tell? The entire point of the GP's comment is that they could be mistaken. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33735239
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by richbell 4y ago
> This only makes sense if you filmed actors and wanted to cover that glaring mistake in your propaganda, because you lack the necessary talent to actually render them with AI. Can you elaborate what you mean by this? I don't unders
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by richbell 4y ago
> Why would governments be using this content to look for people to arrest? Why wouldn't oppressive regimes that are arresting dissidents review footage of dissidents that makes them look bad? Harassing reporters and their sources
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by richbell 4y ago
It's a novel approach, but like you've said I think the potential negatives far outweighs the positives. Perhaps they could use obviously fake faces with weird proportions and features? Idk, this seems like a case of using cool fl
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by richbell 4y ago
I agree. People tend to search for variations of "$application docker" to see if there's an existing image they can reuse. People also tend to associate search engine ranking with credibility (a big reason why ads disguised a
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by richbell 4y ago
It's a shame that Google still seems to favour Postgres 9.x documentation and blogspam over the current documentation.
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by richbell 4y ago
Rolling updates are the #1 source of "I don't understand why this isn't working anymore, it worked just fine yesterday!" and annoyances when you need a specific package version (n-2) to align with your deployment environ
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by richbell 4y ago
> His mother is also the founder of a Super PAC: https://www.influencewatch.org/person/barbara-fried/ This is a good article about Mind the Gap, the Super PAC she leads: https://www.vox.com/rec
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by richbell 4y ago
"Corporations are people, my friend." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlPQkd_AA6c

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