torlok

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by torlok 2y ago
Obviously none, but you should definitely watch this video on permaculture. It'll blow your mind.
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by torlok 2y ago
Thanks for taking the time to understand my question. It goes without saying that without any tangible value, you're just gambling that somebody will buy a stock from you in the future. I'm wondering if there's some other mec
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by torlok 2y ago
When you buy bonds, the government guarantees it'll buy the bonds back. It's a loan with interest. When you buy a stock that doesn't have any inherent value, due to a lack of tangible benefits of ownership, then you're g
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by torlok 2y ago
The discussion from the beginning was about the value of stocks. Traditionally it's a share of profits in the form of dividends and voting rights. If the stock doesn't pay dividends and the founder has 51%, then you get none of th
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by torlok 2y ago
Since you're still struggling, I'll try to be as clear as possible. Why does a stock have value if it doesn't give you a share of the company profits, or voting rights?
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by torlok 2y ago
You completely missed the point of the question. They're not the same. Dividends give you a share of the company's profits, thus pay based on company performance. "line goes up" mechanics assume somebody will buy your st
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by torlok 2y ago
Yes, it's "line goes up", but more in the P/E ratio sense, where the price of the stock doesn't reflect the true value of the company, however outside of tech you can usually reason that there's either dividend
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by torlok 2y ago
What are the economics of buying into a stock that has a 51% stakeholder, and doesn't pay dividends, outside of "line goes up"? I know this is kind of a standard in tech, but it still eludes me where the value of the stock is
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by torlok 3y ago
It's embarrassing enough to be an active user on a platform owned by the cringiest person online. People will now also think you're paying for the privilege.
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by torlok 3y ago
You can also just not play it.
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by torlok 3y ago
Anybody interested in dental health will be happy to hear that Vermin Supreme will be running for president this year. https://youtube.com/watch?v=4d_FvgQ1csE&pp=ygUgcHJlc2lkZW50I...
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by torlok 3y ago
Pythons may not need much water, and don't use energy to maintain body temperature, but their food surely does. Farming predators seems to me like doubling the amount of work per kg of meat. > They need very little food and will eat
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by torlok 3y ago
I think people expected him to "open" the algorithm so that you could tell how the recommendations are determined, and instead what people got was an Underpants Gnomes' Plan with a neural network step in the middle and no wei
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by torlok 3y ago
From the article, about Derek Amato: > He loved music and had played drums as a kid, but nothing more. And from a Guardian article from 2012 about him: > I'd played guitar in a couple of little rock bands when I was young but I&#
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by torlok 3y ago
This just smells foul; can't help but be sceptical. Diana de Avila sounds like an arist who crafted a story to sell her work, and George Logothetis sounds like a genius who was approched by Treffert and convinced that actually he'
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by torlok 3y ago
Because it's a search box, not a question box, and there's no way it's retrained each time somebody posts a review, thus is worse than a database query (arguably, because this is HN).
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by torlok 3y ago
Confusing title. From the article, it looks like glyphosate and genetic modification are two separate concerns. Which makes sense, since AFAIK there's no genetic modifications that give immunity to Roundup. Glyphosate is a general conc
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by torlok 3y ago
For 2023, the grain imported from Russia to Poland amounts to 1.2% of the grain imported from Ukraine. Should be 0%, but it's definitively not "much larger". How are you comforable with just making things up like that.
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by torlok 3y ago
It never ceases to amaze me how easy it is for people to tell an invaded nation, with countless atrocities commited against them, to just give up and move on.
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by torlok 3y ago
I live close to the border with Ukraine and I have no idea what you're talking about. Beyond it being a little harder to get an apartament due to the influx of Ukrainian migrants, it's business as usual. And I've not heard of
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by torlok 3y ago
It reminds me of how Eric Weinstein talks. It's either a complete lack of communication skills, or will to actually share knowledge, just an attempt to make what you're talking about seem impenetrable. It's a sad display of i
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by torlok 3y ago
The obvious solution is to have both. Also, HTML5 at the beginning was much less feature-rich than it is now.
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by torlok 3y ago
It sucks that the conversation always gets hijacked by people who should not be throwing stones, and ends up being a "debate" where there shouldn't be one.
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by torlok 3y ago
Vim is just an example. My point was that code at the end of the day is just text, and there's only so many features you need to be able to write/compile/edit efficiently in 99.9% of the cases. Any new power tools for text ed
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by torlok 3y ago
Had a look at the About page, and the live coding feature does sound useful. I'm sure the guys are excited; it's a fun project. You get to write algorithms, optimise performance, and do GPU programming. But who needs another text
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by torlok 3y ago
That's what I use. YouTube on a free account is unusable, and I don't trust ad blockers. YouTube Music isn't perfect. A lot of songs aren't there or it's a music video version, but there's things like concerts,
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by torlok 3y ago
You definitively should do that, but I doubt that it will prevent your data from being trained on. It sucks, but that's the reality now. I stopped using Spotify a while ago. Never using it again for sure.