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by shockeychap 4y ago
My #1 wish for Excel is named aliases in a formula so that I don't end up with repetitive incomprehensible formulas that are impossible to follow because I'm using the same VLOOKUP in three different places for a calculation. My #
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by shockeychap 4y ago
Yes it will.
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by shockeychap 4y ago
You're correct that some of the scams yield hundreds of thousands of dollars. Like I said, I knew someone to whom that happened. However, most scammers look for smaller payouts in quantity. Think of ransomware that make it look lik
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by shockeychap 4y ago
I'm sorry to hear that. It was almost the exact same thing with my uncle. When I first started asking questions, he tried to assure me it was legit because he had heard his grandson talking in the background. My guess is that they had
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by shockeychap 4y ago
> You might have telco experience, but you have no clue whatsoever about the economics of these scams. Please watch your tone and choice of words. That sentence is more focused on defaming the OP than addressing the merit of what they sa
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by shockeychap 4y ago
My uncle almost drove two states away to give a stranger $10,000 because he was duped into believing his grandson had gotten into an accident and killed a pregnant woman. The only thing that stopped it was that he first needed to borrow the
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by shockeychap 4y ago
I won't argue that the existing system isn't broken. But elimination of life imprisonment and capped sentences of 25 years for all crimes is just absurd. What about Dennis Rader? He murdered numerous people throughout the 70s an
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by shockeychap 4y ago
I had originally heard it during the congressional testimony, but given that it's over three hours long, I don't know exactly where. The gist of what was said, is that a lawmaker cited something about FTX.US being "98% solven
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by shockeychap 4y ago
This looks like a potentially huge revelation. The wallet analysis looks sound, and, if correct, the implications of US customer funds being comingled in this manner could set the stage for an even worse scenario for US customers than that
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by shockeychap 4y ago
> child prostitute, child who has been trafficked, Using person-first language helps to not define people by just one of their characteristics. I'm sorry, but I'm aghast (is that term okay, or is it too close to "ghost&quo
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by shockeychap 4y ago
> "Yellow" is often used disparagingly against people of Asian descent. Has anyone ever (let alone "often") heard the word "yellow" used in this manner?
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by shockeychap 4y ago
I don't know why, but this one made me chuckle: would_you_mind { // Code here } actually_i_do_mind (Exception £e) { // Politely move on cheerio('Message'); }
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by shockeychap 4y ago
Ten minutes in, and I continue to be astonished at the kid-glove treatment he continues to get, even as the scale and brazenness of the fraud is known. They lent money - customer money - to Alameda using THEIR OWN TOKEN as collateral. They
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Sam Bankman-Fried Interviewed Live About the Collapse of FTX(youtube.com)
3 points by shockeychap 4y ago|1 comments
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by shockeychap 4y ago
It's fair to observe that meanings of words change in practice, and the dictionary is there to document what words "do" mean, not what they "should" mean. However, a dictionary also plays a part in legitimizing new
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by shockeychap 4y ago
"The act or practice of grossly misleading someone especially for one's own advantage." This is a very sloppy definition based on how the term "gaslighting" has been recently (ab)used, but it's not the right me
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by shockeychap 4y ago
This is not a link to a video describing a specific bug in the product. It's just a link to a search of "onewheel injuries" in YouTube, which presents a variety of videos detailing all manner of injuries that come from operat
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by shockeychap 4y ago
A "true believer" isn't able to carry out their work without a marketplace. Nobody lost money in crypto on the scale we're seeing 5 years ago. The largely unregulated, uninsured, and opaque marketplace of crypto, facilit
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by shockeychap 4y ago
I'm not arguing on the basis of what Levine thought of the conversation. At the very least, it's apparent that SBF sees crypto as being heavily based on speculation that's disconnected from any actual value proposition, but h
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by shockeychap 4y ago
In this case, jail. He openly talked about how the whole thing was a Ponzi scheme. https://youtu.be/KZYqL79GDXU?t=1277
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by shockeychap 4y ago
I don't disagree with any of this. The mechanisms that ensure that only one person at a time can consume the content in question provide appropriate friction to mirror most of the limitations of physical media. I'm not a fan of th
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by shockeychap 4y ago
If you're talking about loaning a physical copy of a movie to a friend, sure. We have to make arrangements to get the "thing" from one location to another. Surely you can understand that freely "loaning" digital cop
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by shockeychap 4y ago
The only problem with this is that with physical media, there's an intrinsic amount of "friction" that prevents gaming the system. It's not convenient to, for example, have five people buy and share one set of DVDs. The
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by shockeychap 4y ago
What is the source for this claim? I haven't heard anything to this effect and nothing I've seem from Apple signals anything along these lines.
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by shockeychap 4y ago
I'm not an expert, but I understand chess well enough to know that if a person at that level is going to cheat, they can't just play their own game and then let the computer tell them what moves will save them. They have to use th
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by shockeychap 4y ago
Encryption and use of signed certificates has certainly been a big help against web fraud. No, it's not perfect, and can't prevent certain kinds of phishing, but it has definitely raised the bar for would-be scammers. It makes it
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by shockeychap 4y ago
Throwing up materials that randomly fall into the shape of a crude shelter can certainly happen. But without a LOT of evolutionary mechanisms already in place, that crude shelter will just fall apart, and it certainly won't turn itself
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by shockeychap 4y ago
In fairness, should they? It was your vehicle, insured by the carrier of your choice, with the coverage and cost tradeoffs of your choice. I would certainly expect Lyft to pay enough to make it worthwhile after all costs, including fuel and
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by shockeychap 4y ago
Wholeheartedly agree, but with an important caveat - Google is no longer fighting for the best interest of it's users, it's fighting for the best interests of it's advertisers. How useful the results are is now secondary to &
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by shockeychap 4y ago
It is common for companies to randomize all data containing PII. It's not common for them to obfuscate one data point and leave all the others alone.

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