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by runeks 4y ago
They’re international
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by runeks 4y ago
That's a promissory note. It was redeemable in pound sterling. It's a large denomination note whose purpose and function is to extend credit to the issuing company. It was traded at a discount of its face value, since no business
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by runeks 4y ago
That's a strange definition of money. Are you suggesting that if I write "runeks money" on a piece of paper then I have created money? I don't think that's a useful definition of money.
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by runeks 4y ago
You have a point. I'd say all irredeemable currencies fit that description.
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by runeks 4y ago
The "zero coupon perpetual bond" is meaningless because it has nothing to do with a bond, ie. there is no exchange of wealth for income. If you take the only two defining features of a concept and remove them both then you're
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by runeks 4y ago
> What is a real world use case where Nix isn't overkill? When you need to tie together code in two or more different languages. For example if you need to call an Node executable in your rust program. In that case neither npm nor r
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by runeks 4y ago
No, all the problems are solved by this. It’s really no wonder that it’s hard to create a language that’s supposed to know whether the author intended to write a string or not without it being indicated by the syntax. No other language in
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by runeks 4y ago
> Leaving strings unquoted can easily lead to unintentional numbers. It seems like this sums up all the issues pointed out by the article. Ie. you’re safe as long as you quote your strings.
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by runeks 4y ago
> Walmart earns $13k of profit across each of their 2m employees. One could make the argument that if Walmart had to pay each employee an extra (say) $3k annually [1], management would instead choose to shut the whole thing down and retu
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by runeks 4y ago
More than 60% of New Yorkers live on less than a living wage
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by runeks 4y ago
> The difference between shortsighted and longsighted capitalism is just that the latter has lower interest rates. I disagree. If no consumer wants to buy your more expensive, "longsighted" beef, then it doesn't matter wha
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by runeks 4y ago
Sad? How is it sad that I don't earn $600k when I put up a video on YouTube of a bird on my balcony? The 99.9% don't earn as much because their content isn't as highly viewed. That appears completely fair to me.
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by runeks 4y ago
> The M2 showed that the M1 architecture is done. How so?
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by runeks 4y ago
Interesting. Something’s not adding up here, though. 8 cores = “tiny fans basically always off” vs 20 cores = “two huge fans”. Either those two huge fans are running at a very low RPM, or the fans in the laptop are almost as efficient as th
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by runeks 4y ago
What excites me about apple Silicon is this: performance that is roughly on par with competing x86 CPUs combined with ~5x lower power usage. My M1 MacBook Pro can run full throttle on all 8 "performance" CPU cores for an hour with
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by runeks 4y ago
https://archive.ph/XiGx4
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Free speech is not in peril in America(economist.com)
4 points by runeks 4y ago|1 comments
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by runeks 4y ago
> Can you give an example of what you use NixOS for that can't be easily replaced by like... `brew install ...`? Sure. At work I needed access to the office VPN. I copied a snippet into a single configuration file and everything jus
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by runeks 4y ago
I have a MBP M1 and considered this, but instead I went with NixOS running in a VM inside macOS: https://xyno.space/post/nixos-utm-rosetta . This means I can use all the stuff that Linux-on-M1 currently doesn't sup
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by runeks 4y ago
> […] giving an answer that sounds like what you'd like to hear the most. How did the training of ChatGPT make it do this? And could a different training avoid this?
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by runeks 4y ago
I'm using the newest macOS (Ventura) and I have no problem running unsigned apps. I don't understand where people get the impression from that it's a huge pain to run unsigned apps on macOS. It's a matter of executing
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by runeks 4y ago
> Requiring such auctions would be a big change. The SEC says brokers send more than 90% of marketable orders to wholesalers. Unlike exchanges, which display price quotes publicly and allow a variety of market players to attempt to fill
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by runeks 4y ago
https://archive.ph/hZOoJ
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by runeks 4y ago
> The indictment charges Mr Bankman-Fried with eight criminal counts, including acts of wire fraud against his customers, lenders and investors, as well as conspiracies to commit money laundering and commodities and securities fraud. For
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The former boss of FTX has been charged with eight criminal counts(economist.com)
1 points by runeks 4y ago|2 comments
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by runeks 4y ago
Go on… where in this 23-minute video does this happen?
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by runeks 4y ago
Ah, Mark Karpeles. The OG of bankrupt crypto exchanges.
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by runeks 4y ago
Let’s not be this simplistic. There’s nothing bad about either in reasonable doses.
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by runeks 4y ago
> "Intelligence" has become a taboo word [...] Doesn't seem to be the case. Quote from the paper: > Largely omitted from the conversation, by contrast, is cognitive ability—also called intelligence, and which reflects t
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by runeks 4y ago
For anyone else curious how they measured "cognitive ability", here's the relevant section from the paper[1]: Børge Priens Prøve The Danish Draftee Board administered the Børge Priens Prøve (BPP; Kousgaard, 2003) to the draf

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