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by shapefrog 3y ago
If you have not been through the process you may not truly understand how nice (and rare) your thought process is. Sadly I have chased up situations like that only to get told "you provided one of the strongest pieces of work, however,
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by shapefrog 3y ago
> They wanted to know which coding question they’d only gotten partial credit on during the screening phase, and why. You gave them results / feedback on the screening phase? That is probably more rare than their email!
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by shapefrog 3y ago
I need to dig out the article(s) ... I've been hiring people for 10 years, and I still swear by a simple rule: If someone doesn't send a thank-you email, don't hire them. Jessica Liebman Apr 5, 2019 https://www.bus
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by shapefrog 3y ago
(65,355,919,909 + 80,085) = 65,355,999,994 obviously /s
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by shapefrog 3y ago
Moving hoop won't let you miss - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myO8fxhDRW0 I guess in theory you could "catch" with the correct call by varying the height of the catching platfrom.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
They guy had a personal net worth of ~$100bn; lost all that and $8bn of other peoples money. The prosecution have cracked open the books, turned every single employee, and this is their smoking gun? I will at least say, "goes to charac
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by shapefrog 3y ago
> The backing of that number was testified to, under oath, to Congress, which by itself is a felony. He did not testify that the number on the website was real. He testified to the existence of the insurance fund and the single biggest d
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by shapefrog 3y ago
> certain customers (Alameda) are directly exempt from auto liquidation Certain customers (including Alameda) - I understang other customers had similar arrangements, and why wouldnt they? Every account was trading on margin and high lev
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by shapefrog 3y ago
There has obviously been some bad stuff going on over at FTX, but is the counter on a website really the "most" proof that they could find? https://www.ycombinator.com/ Is every number on that page real time acc
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by shapefrog 3y ago
It is paywalled so I can not. However, I was unaware that they already conducted said experiment. I am now left confused as to why they would not mention such in the abstract, and refer only to natural experiments and second order measureme
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by shapefrog 3y ago
Can someone who has access to a precision robot and controlled environment please check; if one applies the same force on the coin in flipping, with it landing on a (soft) surface at the same height it - will it land the same side every tim
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by shapefrog 3y ago
I am pretty you can get there by doing a print, scan, OCR and then translate it to and from a foreign language and voila.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
In your print statement ... (berkshire_return/100)*(1/10)-1:.4f ... gives the annualised return (assuming start with 100 and 10 years). That brings you into alignment with the article.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
> What leads you to believe that he doesn't understand it? People dont understand the subtle art of language. I, on the other hand, have always assumed that Buffett made the "I don't understand" remark with typical s
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by shapefrog 3y ago
Apple stock currently represents nearly 40% of Berkshire Hathaway's equity holdings.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
UK banks are 1.2% for human / 0.6% to use the machine - no free amount. https://www.barclays.co.uk/content/dam/documents/business/Ac... Consumer banking is a very different beast to business banking
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by shapefrog 3y ago
Docker hub was the one that pushed me over the edge, so I just paid the extra 50c a month per server for ipv4 on cloud servers. Update - 23 Aug 2023 — Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of IPv6 support for the Docker
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by shapefrog 3y ago
At the scale of BBC's social media managers I hope they are not on the x.com website typing in updates and clicking post. They should be using custom software and be able to redirect / duplicate the distribution of their news to d
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by shapefrog 3y ago
Banks also literally charge a % fee to deposit cash into your account.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
Unironically, those that rage against "The Cashless Society" also rage against "the poor and immigrants".
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by shapefrog 3y ago
> Should be noted that in most of the EU cashback programmes are also not as big as in the US. If they charge 100% on everyones transactions then my delux diamond card (sorry you dont qualify) can give me 200% cashback and everyone else
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by shapefrog 3y ago
Why haven't they at least taken the twitter feeds and cross posted? Or spit the beeb rss feed out via mastodon? The "experiment" seems to be little more than spinning up a server.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
It is a bit like the "Don't Talk to the Police" meme https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36371237
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by shapefrog 3y ago
> brokers like FTX FTX (excluding FTX USA co) were unregulated - they were not a bank or broker just a plain old LLC.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
None of these things are fraud - ignorance of the law is not an excuse.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
> What's the right punishment for a case like this? Run a chainsaw through them at the same height as they ran it through the tree - no need for further punishment.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
You are showing your Croydon roots.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
Each time a breach like this happens I want to download the file and check if; 1. People on my s*t list are in the dataset, and 2. Any of their passwords are in that dataset. Then I can use the information to make their lives miserable.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
TIL Elon bought Sam Altman a horse (or I assume he followed through with his promise to in exchange ...)
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by shapefrog 3y ago
Investors (in the arena) already have a portfolio stuffed full of losing crypto and web 3.0 plays - they cant handle any more exposure unless you sprinkle some Ai sugar on top.

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