short_sells_poo

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by short_sells_poo 8d ago
99.99% of finance is freshman level math if at that. Then 99.99% of the remaining 0.01% is somewhat more complicated but still not frontier level. There are very-very few cases where you need truly advanced math in finance. The problems tha
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by short_sells_poo 19d ago
Yeah, the issue is that it takes one disgusting degenerate who doesn't know how to use a toilet and pisses all over the seat or worse. I'm purposefully not calling these people uneducated, because I routinely encounter it in an en
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by short_sells_poo 25d ago
There's a trend where people go around claiming they built something and just happen to conveniently omit everywhere that everything was "built" using an LLM and the author doesn't even understand what the code does. Tha
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by short_sells_poo 25d ago
No they can't. The construction crew - which includes the manager - can say that they built a skyscraper. If the construction manager did lay the bricks or did the majority of the work in all aspects, they could claim to have built a b
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by short_sells_poo 25d ago
I'm going to sound harsh here, but please don't take this as criticism of the effort, it's criticism of how it's being portrayed. The quality might for all intents be great and useful. > But I built this for myself ou
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by short_sells_poo 1mo ago
100% inheritance tax would be ideal, but it's never going to happen in practice.
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by short_sells_poo 1mo ago
Recognizing the gaps in your wisdom is a sign of wisdom :D
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by short_sells_poo 1mo ago
What do you mean by consciousness here? Ie in what way do you think LLMs are conscious?
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by short_sells_poo 2mo ago
OK this sounds fantastic, but is it going to be another case of an expert dropping in on this thread and going "Ah, 100s of these come out every month. It's promising but nowhere near human trials yet."
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by short_sells_poo 2mo ago
Yes and the human would say: "your photos are ass, it's impossible to price the necklaces"
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by short_sells_poo 2mo ago
I was always wondering about this as well. How much more manoeuvrable can an unmanned drone be given that it doesn't need to lug around life support systems and avoid any G forces that would kill the expensive squishy mammal inside? To
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by short_sells_poo 2mo ago
The issue is that major US banks are systematically important to the US and also everyone else. Practically nobody cares about Icelandic banks - not even their depositors if their deposits were protected by the state (which they were). If a
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by short_sells_poo 2mo ago
The issue is the conflict of interest in POTUS' office. A news agency giving high speed access to news ostensibly just reports news, doesn't make them. The office of the POTUS literally makes the news, even more so today than in t
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by short_sells_poo 2mo ago
Inevitably yes, the question is whether the combined cyborg is still better than the original human. E.g. I'm sure we are generally less skilled in mental arithmetic since the advent of the calculator, but it has allowed us to solve va
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by short_sells_poo 3mo ago
> it should not be legal to redefine "buy" Your post made me go on a thought exercise: imagine a world where you could either own or lease software products. Game developers could decide whether their customers can actually buy
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by short_sells_poo 3mo ago
You raise a good point, but where would we stop? Should movies depicting medieval events use medieval English? It was the lingo at the time after all.
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by short_sells_poo 3mo ago
Chuck Norris can play a game of Russian Roulette with a loaded semi-auto handgun and win. Repeatedly.
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by short_sells_poo 3mo ago
It's important to make a distinction between ownership and carry permits. Ownership permits allow you to own and store firearms in your home in a secure place, and take them (unloaded) to a shooting range. Carry permits allow you to ca
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by short_sells_poo 3mo ago
There are plenty of countries aside the US where citizens can and do own guns. E.g. gun control is strict in most of Europe compared to the US, but it's entirely attainable to most people without a criminal record to own firearms.
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by short_sells_poo 3mo ago
The corollary is that there are no morals once the stakes are in the $ billions, let alone hundreds of billions. This isn't even about a single person or personality. Very few people in such position could stand fast by their moral cod
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by short_sells_poo 3mo ago
Population density is literally measured over a planar metric: people/km^2 You are suggesting it's measured over a cube volume?
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by short_sells_poo 3mo ago
I wonder to what degree this is a "if you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail" type of thing. The first place might have a strong surgical team and might be inclined to solve everything via surgery?
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by short_sells_poo 3mo ago
It's really telling about the state of the UK economy that the highest earner's business doesn't make anything but literally drains money from the masses.
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by short_sells_poo 3mo ago
> It even uses Ruff's code under the surface. This is the modus operandi for a lot of vibe coded stuff. Absorb the code of entire projects wholesale and then repackage it as something new. Some of them have the decency to at least g
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by short_sells_poo 3mo ago
I wonder if there's also another aspect: Games have to be fun for humans and this involves a lot of trial and error with actual humans in the loop. You can't just spin up a bunch of claude agents to implement a game for you, becau
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by short_sells_poo 4mo ago
Because that's the next generation's problem, and we can do more to mortgage their future for our own luxury :)
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by short_sells_poo 4mo ago
What? No that will not allow you to buy "most houses in London in cash after saving for 5 years" unless you live far out of town in a tiny place and eat plain rice for 5 years, and even then it'll be long odds. First, you&#x2
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by short_sells_poo 4mo ago
I think we are being got at, but I'll bite :D To be clear: my objection is not at all about enjoying the finer side of life, there's nothing wrong with that. Harrods and a lot of the surrounding areas are not about that. By and la
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by short_sells_poo 4mo ago
You have to be joking, right? So you are saying that it's all fine, because we can just go to Harrods to get quality food? Nevermind that I hate Harrods and that entire area with a passion. It's a tasteless, glitzy tourist trap. M
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by short_sells_poo 4mo ago
Don't be ridiculous. Learning? That's for the dinosaurs. Just throw an llm at the problem!

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