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by sobellian 2y ago
> Many criminal gangs from biker groups to foreign cartels are doing the same thing and reaping profits in the $100Bs scale annually. That comparison does not flatter Ross Ulbricht.
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by sobellian 2y ago
It's definitely an edge case, but courts are not absolutely mechanical and given the context I think it can be argued either way (IANAL). Especially when the outgoing president just told his DoJ not to enforce the ban and leave it to t
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by sobellian 2y ago
Congress themselves wrote in the president's authority to do this. Although it is unclear if doing it this late would fall within the law.
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by sobellian 2y ago
I am not an "America bad" type of fellow, but US democracy is clearly reaching a local minimum. I suspect "never more functional" is an idea with which even your representative would disagree. There are multiple major is
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by sobellian 2y ago
I don't necessarily buy the argument that we should play the same game as a communist dictatorship in the name of fairness. If we eat our own dogfood then we ought to conclude that suppression of speech in fact marks a critical weaknes
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by sobellian 2y ago
I usually have the opposite intuition, that centralizing gives greater economies of scale. If a DC could be made more efficient by splitting it into N micro-DCs, then couldn't AWS just do that? That they do not seems telling. AFAICT ce
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by sobellian 2y ago
At some point SCOTUS will have to revisit the massive deference they give the other branches on natsec issues. We are days away from a new president applying blanket tariffs to everything on the same grounds. What isn't national securi
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by sobellian 2y ago
My parent post is notably not about the context that drove the cultists to adopt their practice. Even so. The pop-sci definition, directly quoted: > During the war they saw airplanes land with lots of good materials, and they want the sa
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by sobellian 2y ago
This is pretty generous, and while I'd like to believe it I don't think such a belief can be justified. The article, which is one of the best surveys on the matter I can find, doesn't really address whether the cargo cults un
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by sobellian 2y ago
I remember reading the cargo cult story and thinking "ironically, I don't even know how accurate any of this is." Well, this article actually convinced me that the pop-sci description is fundamentally accurate. The author lit
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by sobellian 2y ago
On a longer time horizon, we need to figure out how to conduct astronomy without holding large regions (countryside, LEO, etc.) as test articles to control. Constellations like Starlink have already blown through that roadblock and rather t
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by sobellian 2y ago
It's a form of institutional hysteresis. If a major change can get implemented by a simple majority, it has zero noise margin. If it requires (say) two thirds, then it has a noise margin of 33 percentage points. I am still stunned that
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by sobellian 2y ago
The rules themselves are silly. Jeans get tagged as a violation but you can wear a jacket that looks as if it belongs in NASCAR (i.e. every square inch belongs to a sponsor) and that flies. Looking at pictures from the event, Magnus looked
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by sobellian 2y ago
The excluded middle here is a paid tier that nevertheless serves you ads :(
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by sobellian 2y ago
Right, I pointed out the competition to show that the donors are suffering actual damages from the restructuring. I don't think any of the critics here seriously expect the PBC model to fulfill the nonprofit's stated mission in an
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by sobellian 2y ago
So there's really no legal recourse if a 501c3 markets itself as a research institute / OSS developer, collects $130MM, and then uses those donations to seed a venture-backed company with closed IP in which the donors get no equit
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by sobellian 2y ago
Surely it is easier to just check that all migrations have run before you start serving requests? Column existence is insufficient to verify that the database conforms to what the application expects (existence of indices, foreign key relat
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by sobellian 2y ago
You did misread me, I never said I administered k8s. The quoted phrase does not exist :)
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by sobellian 2y ago
EKS is priced at $876 / yr / cluster at current rates. Negligible for me personally, it's much less than either our EC2 or RDS costs.
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by sobellian 2y ago
I've worked at a few tiny startups, and I've both manually administered a single server and run small k8s clusters. k8s is way easier. I think I've spent 1, maybe 2 hours on devops this year. It's not a full-time job, it
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by sobellian 2y ago
The giant problem leaping out at me is, what evidence do we have that mammoths could even survive in the wild today, let alone thrive to the extent necessary to change the ecology? They went extinct, after all.
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by sobellian 2y ago
I doubt we see the same isolationism w.r.t. China, who remain Trump's main bogeyman (other than immigrants). The policy will probably make less sense, since as you mentioned his tariffs and transactional diplomacy may confound US effor
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by sobellian 2y ago
Well, this comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41932923 ) seems to indicate that Russian military industrial companies seem to get some use out of contributing to the kernel. As to your question, I cannot answer it
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by sobellian 2y ago
Well, what do you propose? We're obviously far past the point of diplomacy. The sanctions are not designed to change hearts and minds. They're designed to make Russia's war efforts more difficult. The sorry state of affairs i
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by sobellian 2y ago
The majority of damage to shuttle's TPS apparently came from foam strikes from the external fuel tank. Superheavy's optimized profile certainly helps here, since there are no large cryogenic tanks hanging ominously over the TPS wh
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by sobellian 2y ago
At least for the retro-propulsive landing burn, I think the modeling problem is probably aided by the high G-forces that must keep the fuel very close to the bottom of the tank. Even before re-light the booster is falling near terminal velo
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by sobellian 2y ago
In an attempt to stop talking in circles, it seems we primarily disagree on the definition of "to make money" and whether it should consider opportunity cost + time value of money. The CNBC headline doesn't say return, it use
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by sobellian 2y ago
Okay? I don't see how that makes it any less misleading. Compared to a universe where FTX did not go bankrupt, the creditors have much less money.
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by sobellian 2y ago
To the common man, "made money" and "experienced economic harm" would contradict each other. In that way the title misleads.
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by sobellian 2y ago
During sentencing, SBF attempted to argue that creditors had experienced "zero harm" as even then it was apparent FTX would be able to pay them back. John Ray himself rebutted that argument: https://www.courtlistener.co

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