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by silisili 7mo ago
Derivatives are a de facto prediction market. It feels strange to regulate them any differently than Kalshi et al. This is why Kalshi will win in the end. There's way too much money at play for this to turn into a slippery slope for
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by silisili 7mo ago
As much as I see these 'prediction markets' as thinly veiled gambling, I agree. What both have in common is a direct buyer and seller, a seller whom thinks the item will become worth less, and a buyer who thinks the opposite. Ka
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by silisili 7mo ago
Oh this is clever. In writing my own short feelings about LinkedIn, it turned 'circle jerk' into 'synergize through mutual validation.'
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by silisili 7mo ago
What is the use of software eng/architect at that point? It's a tool, but one that product or C levels can use directly as I see it?
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by silisili 7mo ago
I'm not sure the notion I keep seeing of "it's ok, we still architect, it just writes the code"(paraphrased) sits well with me. I've not tested it with architecting a full system, but assuming it isn't good at
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by silisili 7mo ago
Not OP, and nothing makes it impossible, but from my experience in big companies, being visible is way more useful than being productive. I got further faster by just answering emails right away than by churning out code. I got constant kud
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by silisili 7mo ago
I'd argue it's more workload dependent, and everything is a tradeoff. In my own testing of compressing internal generic json blobs, I found brotli a clear winner when comparing space and time. If I want higher compatibility and fa
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by silisili 7mo ago
The whole problem is trying to be a catchall where people with zero knowledge or skills can hang out. Twitter/X and Reddit especially suffer from it. Topical forums tend to have a much higher SNR. My favorite forum of all time, johnbr
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by silisili 7mo ago
> The region's GDP is 100 billion dollars, so these are tiny amounts, although they may seem large to some. It's a fair point and easy to handwave away "it's only $100 per resident." But it's a lot of money
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by silisili 7mo ago
I haven't lived there in years, nor do I have exact numbers, but they make national news enough for the same problem nearly every year. I'll drop you some links if you care. 1 - 38 million between 2017 and 2022. 2 - 29 million in
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by silisili 7mo ago
> After a couple million dollar lawsuits the city or state will learn to be more careful with their methods You'd think, but watching how many millions my local police department and city paid out every single year leads me to belie
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by silisili 8mo ago
And yet this article itself has all the hallmarks of AI slop. Fitting.
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by silisili 8mo ago
Whatever points this author was trying to make were completely obliterated by the LLM it was run through or used to generate it. A shame because it seems to have interesting points, but was too wordy and LLMified to keep attention. Stop tel
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by silisili 8mo ago
Fun fact: Bippy was the name of the caterpuppy from the fine film House 2.
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by silisili 8mo ago
I've tried these as apps before, and they never worked that well unfortunately. Perhaps the ticks aren't loud enough, or phone mics aren't that great, or background noise gets picked up as ticks, who knows. I bought and use
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by silisili 8mo ago
I'll speak from my own experience and not one of study or professional recommendation. No matter how much I got out and about each day and night, I'd still feel 'alone' when I was home alone. I ended up developing panic
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by silisili 8mo ago
It's called bikeshedding. It's highly annoying, but unfortunately every public mailing list or tracker is prone to it. The maintainers did the right thing by just saying "no."
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by silisili 8mo ago
Absolutely. And if you take a step back and look at Covid spending, what it was spent on, and how much fraud was involved, it's absolutely maddening that the government isn't instead spending money on solving actual problems its c
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by silisili 8mo ago
As much as I love this forum, the one thing I learned to never say is that it's normal and even good that people die (usually on threads about people trying to live forever). I've never received such hateful responses on any other
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by silisili 8mo ago
I don't mean to disagree with you in spirit, but profitability is pretty closely entwined with probability. So companies are chasing solving problems that more people have, even if it's for the wrong reason.
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by silisili 8mo ago
This was figured out a while ago based on the hints given. That said, I'm pretty excited. Motorola of the last decade or so has made really good hardware with basically stock firmware and a terrible update policy, which is why many av
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by silisili 8mo ago
Mind sharing any resources? I've been thinking about trying to understand them better myself.
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by silisili 8mo ago
Based on this and several other of your responses below, would you say that it's fair to conclude that it's been a term for a long time, perhaps more in military/defense circles, but recently has gotten more mainstream media
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by silisili 8mo ago
Not in payments... but I thought I've read many times payment systems specifically do -not- use floats, more often integers with a known/predetermined denominator. Is that roughly accurate?
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by silisili 8mo ago
Interesting, I guess I have less exposure not being in defense or military circles. Thank you for the level response.
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by silisili 8mo ago
Not to intentionally sidetrack the conversation, but when did we start calling service members 'warfighters?' I've been seeing it a lot lately, but don't remember ever really seeing it before. Do members of the military
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by silisili 8mo ago
I'm not sure any emdash use at all is what people are calling out typically(maybe it is?), more the sheer number of them typical in LLM written stuff. Just ctrl-f'ing through previous public posts, I think there were a total of 7
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by silisili 8mo ago
Yes, you're right. I'd read the quote out of context and for whatever reason read it as "for either of these ages", but the preceding sentence clarifies it as two individual kids. Still absurd to me, but perhaps less
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by silisili 8mo ago
An enterprising person, great with children, would see an opportunity to make 72k a year to watch three kids. And another might offer to do it for 60k, and so on. Regulations prevent that, and kill the free market. Now everyone pays a cra
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by silisili 8mo ago
With all due respect, why in the world does 28k sound like a reasonable number for care of a single child? That's more than many people make at a full time job.

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