scottiebarnes

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by scottiebarnes 3y ago
Not sure why you think you're being trolled. Have a good one.
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by scottiebarnes 3y ago
Well consumer comes from the base word consume, which by definition includes the buying of a good or service, which is essentially a trade. Consume: - eat, drink, or ingest (food or drink). - buy (goods or services). - use up (a resource).
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by scottiebarnes 3y ago
The majority of gold usage is in investment/central bank reserve. Technology applications are a fraction of the usage. Jewelry is a major usage, however part of the reason for its use in jewelry is a hybrid combination of its store of
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by scottiebarnes 3y ago
Apple wants you to buy an ipad for each kid.
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by scottiebarnes 3y ago
Good, then you're on the path to figuring out what a better form of money could be.
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by scottiebarnes 3y ago
Asked for a PE ratio graph but didn't work, gave me a price only graph
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by scottiebarnes 3y ago
So, I think you understand computers really well. I think you probably have a good enough understanding of investing, economics. What I think you're missing the understanding of what money is, and the history of money. This is why gold
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by scottiebarnes 3y ago
Why does gold have a $13tr USD market cap? Why do governments hoard billions of dollars of gold bars in military protected bunkers? Does it have something to do with store of value, and difficulty in debasing gold?
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by scottiebarnes 3y ago
I suppose so. I'm just imagining these "ghost AI artists" who publish catalogues of music using the audible likeness of more prolific artists. I know that you could have always just hired an Eminem impersonator and have them
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by scottiebarnes 3y ago
Its true, any specific open source project will have a limited and influential contributor base. But the fact that its open source code also allows it to be fluid and dynamic; ie. you and anyone who has different ideas about the direction o
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by scottiebarnes 3y ago
So if you train an audio model on say, Eminem's voice, then write some songs and have it perform them...Would this output be legal to publish?
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by scottiebarnes 3y ago
No, I understand why investors want legal guarantees. Actually, the endorsement and legal guidelines by the government for crypto would send its price soaring. Being decentralized means no single party controls it, and thusly no single part
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by scottiebarnes 3y ago
> The idea that sophisticated investors have been putting their money into USD and need crypto people to explain inflation to them is ridiculous. "Sophisticated investors" never had access to an asset whose supply was predictab
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by scottiebarnes 3y ago
Your mistake is in understanding that crypto (Bitcoin) isn't just a transmission network, it is protocol with a defined supply rate. Your payment pipelines become less valuable when nobody wants those Liras, Bolivars, Argentine Pesos,
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by scottiebarnes 3y ago
Social media is media. Media surfaces to the top any subject which draws attention.
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Attorneys may face sanctions for “bogus” cases cited by ChatGPT(cnbc.com)
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by scottiebarnes 3y ago
What signals to you that other chip makers are capable of competing in learning and inference computation? We know they'll be motivated, but can they actually compete is the question.
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by scottiebarnes 3y ago
Agreed, if you were playing with computer vision and deep learning ~7 years ago, you knew the potential. Nvidia maintained their stranglehold on the software and hardware platforms. OpenAI (and all the great open source research published b
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by scottiebarnes 3y ago
And then he failed his way up with Tesla and SpaceX, two companies which were better off without his presence. I sure I wish I was that incompetent.
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by scottiebarnes 3y ago
lol, where did you learn your Elon Musk history? He started X.com which was an online payments company. Later, X.com and Confinity Inc, would merge and rename themselves Paypal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
Perhaps. Buffett isn't exactly playing the same game as the rest of us. He's one the few people the government calls and asks for assistance in bailing out private banks, or assuring the public by investing in them. https:/&
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
Translation: "I own lots of bank stocks. Don't screw this up for me."
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
> Insisting on a fixed money supply is insane and destructive I would argue an infinite money supply is the thing that is insane and destructive. Infinitely growing rollover debt is somehow is a feature of this system, not a bug. Having
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
All the job listings seem to be actual software/ML engineering roles and not really "prompt engineering" roles.
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
> He will stop fishing as soon as everyone has plenty of fish to eat because there is no way to liquidate his assets. Sounds like his problem is lack of demand, not currency liquidity. > But if the island became connected to a trading
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
> The economy only works if you have a slightly inflationary, stable, highly liquid method of conducting transactions. What's this statement based on? As a thought experiment, say a load of survivors wash upon a deserted island, ev
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
Can anyone explain the ruleset? Looks like MMA in a gi, with no ground strikes?
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
> Meanwhile deflation favours early adopters forever, and while you could chide me for "missing the boat" that doesn't really work, morally, for people not yet born. The deflationary model favors savers over consumers, giv
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
Carbon and environmental externalities get displaced along with the manufacturing/industrial base. If you buy "stuff", you participate in the exploitation of nature.
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
The problem is the fundamentals. The US will "never default on its debt" because it issues debt in its own currency, which it can control the creation of necessary to service that debt (money printer go brrrr). So nobody is ever c

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