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by sdfghswe 4y ago
Since the downvoters moved on to the next shiny thing, I'm paraphrasing it for posterity. The poster I was responding to said something like: libertarians are like cats - fierce in their independence but utterly reliant on a system tha
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by sdfghswe 4y ago
I would count that as a different kind of power, distinction from soft and hard. Maybe "commercial power"? "Trading power"? To me soft power sounds more like culture - being appealing to other country's populations.
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by sdfghswe 4y ago
> The Fed bowed to political pressure related to high inflation rather than following the plan they laid out When circumstances changed, they changed their plan. What do you normally do?
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by sdfghswe 4y ago
> Only retroactively in a bank run are you really able to see just what duration and what amounts were the limit. Exactly, so don't lock it up. Glad you agree with me.
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by sdfghswe 4y ago
> I suggest that the FDIC does what it should do and cover all losses that were insured, and let the uninsured losses be realized, as they should be normally To which someone like would you say "but who's paying for that? the o
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by sdfghswe 4y ago
No you didn't answer my question. You made the case that how you value it depends on the plan. So what was the plan? The answer, of course, was that these people didn't have a plan because they're incompetent, and that has no
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by sdfghswe 4y ago
Wrong. The business model of banking is managing the money to an appropriate duration. Locking it up isn't a business model.
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by sdfghswe 4y ago
That's like saying that any time any one makes a loss, it's everyone _else's_ loss, because guess where their money comes from. What do you suggest should happen here?
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by sdfghswe 4y ago
> I don’t understand. If you hold a bond to maturity you get it’s NPV. Valuing it at NPV vs mark to market has more to do with your plan than any sort of fundamental truth - they’re both legitimate ways of valuing it. Correct. So, if you
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by sdfghswe 4y ago
Wow that's beautiful.
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by sdfghswe 4y ago
Which is exactly what is happening here. A large business is failing and its investors are losing their investment.
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by sdfghswe 4y ago
> But in the end, even if we could argue that SVB should have been more prescient, it is clear that the root cause of the problems is the actions of the government and the FED. No. SVB hid market to market losses by saying "these se
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by sdfghswe 4y ago
We already knew these were bad people from the fact that they use the name to confuse. After that, this is no surprise. What surprises me is how long most people take to pick up on the pattern. They see person X do bad thing, shocked. Then
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by sdfghswe 4y ago
> How can audiophiles continue to exist with knowledge being so easily available? And how can someone be clever enough to be a software engineer and not clever enough to figure out crystals in bags taped to cables do not affect music qua
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by sdfghswe 4y ago
Why was this dropped off the front page? Sounds like majorly interesting.
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by sdfghswe 4y ago
What do you mean, there isn't a real problem? It's already been shut down.
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by sdfghswe 4y ago
From the reference to the mistress I guess this is probably a joke. But it's in really bad taste, and callous to those who might be in actual distress.
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by sdfghswe 4y ago
> As this incident demonstrates, errors can easily creep into mathematical proofs, even those written by experts. The only way to mitigate this is to use computer-readable proofs, (...) Ironically, computer programs seem to be a lot more
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by sdfghswe 4y ago
Exactly the same as me. Up until then I could've built stories to defend him. He's shit to his employees buuuuuuut he built successful companies, so maybe the two are connected? But the pedo story was indefensible. There's no
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by sdfghswe 4y ago
Remember when Elon Musk, someone with like 50m followers at the time, called a random guy on the internet a pedo?
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by sdfghswe 4y ago
> It's getting out of control in the US. Tips are supposed to be for service workers, not for anyone who you interact with in any way while conducting a basic business transaction. People who are performing a direct personal service
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by sdfghswe 4y ago
Exactly. For example, I care about pictures and emojis but not groups. And groups crucially is the one thing that (from what I hear) is extremely non-trivial to do well alongside with E2E encryption. So nothing "basic" about it, i
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by sdfghswe 4y ago
I never bought an iphone, because it seems to me outrageously overpriced (especially since we know now that it takes 2-3 years until they make it lag on purpose) and I don't like the company anyway.
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by sdfghswe 4y ago
You don't care about any features, apart from the features you care about. Just like everyone else.
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by sdfghswe 4y ago
It's funny that you typoed Python as Pythong. I do that a lot - in my case I know it's faulty muscle memory, but I don't know where it comes from.
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by sdfghswe 4y ago
I wasn't even born when the dot-com crash happened.
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by sdfghswe 4y ago
I was using "magic beans" way before it was cool. I could prove it, it's just that I've had several HN accounts banned since then.
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by sdfghswe 4y ago
Can't comment, as I don't use Chrome. But to answer your question, a button in the UI is not considered an Ad when it's there to facilitate whatever the app is used for.
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by sdfghswe 4y ago
> (...) this isn't even really an ad at all -- it is part of the onboarding for our completely optional (...) Wow. So disappointing.
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by sdfghswe 4y ago
The title is part of the article. So I didn't read the whole article, no. I read enough of it to understand it contains bullshit.

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