ur-whale

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by ur-whale 4y ago
You're assuming the world is a single country. It isn't.
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by ur-whale 4y ago
> The supply being finite is not that relevant. The relevant part is that the supply is predetermined, and that yearly supply inflation is acceptably small [1]. Yeah, some folks - notably the Ethereum crowd IIRC - are of that opinion. I&
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by ur-whale 4y ago
> There's no way the USA would adopt BTC as its central currency for example because it would lose that ability. Yup. A government surrendering their ability to print money is unthinkable. They'd be giving up a major policy enf
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by ur-whale 4y ago
> A currency which naturally grows in value is self defeating. An opinion, neither backed by any obvious nor posted arguments. > Currencies, by their nature, are abstract constructs devoid of value. My above remarks goes triple for th
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by ur-whale 4y ago
> The argument I always hear against this point is that you can simply continue to subdivide the currency infinitely. We just get into smaller and smaller fractions of "satoshi's" or whatever the base unit may be. You can
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by ur-whale 4y ago
There's a lot of attempts these days at conflating central bank digital currencies (e.g. "digital dollars") and crypto-currencies (e.g. Bitcoin). I think it's very important to point out something that may be obvious to
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by ur-whale 4y ago
Captain obvious here: look at the article's date.
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by ur-whale 4y ago
>He’s the Steve Balmer of Google No, he isn't. However misguided and ridiculous Balmer was, he at least showed that he was fully alive [1] Sundar wouldn't be caught dead wearing a sweaty shirt or yelling on a stage. The dude is
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by ur-whale 4y ago
> Why is this guy CEO? "We need to be real thoughtful about this", followed by strictly no decision / action will be the hallmark of Sundar's tenure which I hope will end real soon.
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by ur-whale 4y ago
To me, this article goes a very long way to demonstrate how screwed up people's thinking is in the windows users world. I mean, let's look at this objectively: the guy is amazed because he actually managed to boot windows off of a
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by ur-whale 4y ago
https://archive.is/qT1md
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by ur-whale 4y ago
> There's nothing obvious about crypto being a good asset if the us govt. defaults. Says you, and without even the hint of an argument to back your position.
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by ur-whale 4y ago
Gold: yes Land: hard to hold when the government collapses. Also, the first thing a failing govt is going to do is raise taxes on things that can't be moved about, like land.
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by ur-whale 4y ago
> Python has stolen everything it could from Perl It hasn't. In python, regex's are an effing library. In perl they're built into the language and can be summoned in a much more concise and efficient (metric:code clarity)
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by ur-whale 4y ago
Notably missing from the 5 points he makes at the start of the article: Perl's regexes (unlike python and a swath of other languages) are first class citizens in the language (and not some effing library you have to import, along with
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by ur-whale 4y ago
Notably missing from the release: - cost? - what new chemicals are involved and what is the environmental impact? - how many cycles can the new battery take? - volume? (density is always shown as weight/mass, it's no
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by ur-whale 4y ago
LOL, if you look at the amount of money Google has poured into Google and how much they got back for their investment, it's laughable. Things like the Wavenet "contributions" are just Demis paying lip service to the fact that
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by ur-whale 4y ago
About fucking time someone cracked the whip and get the money sinkhole that is deepmind to producing something that contributes to the bottom line. Only took something that can potentially take out Google (GPT4) to make it happen.
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by ur-whale 4y ago
Someone's been watching Ted Lasso.
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by ur-whale 4y ago
What is it beyond a linter. Also: speed is good, but when it comes to linting, that's not what I'd place first as a feature. How good is the code at spotting my potential mistakes would come before speed for sure. Hence: it's
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by ur-whale 4y ago
Here's what a famous british tabloid has to say on the topic: https://archive.is/8aqVH https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35591338
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by ur-whale 4y ago
> ENA, especially. Much that is wrong and has been wrong with France in the last 50 years can almost always be traced back to this ghastly institution. The folks who graduate from ENA are wildly disconnected from reality, especially when
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by ur-whale 4y ago
> ArianeGroup lost an entire design cycle due to bad decision making When you don't operate with market pressure, there is no such thing as bad decision making.
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by ur-whale 4y ago
The problem with Google is very simple: they have become entirely incapable of creating new products (specifically: stuff that people actually want). Most of the tech. that underpins OpenAI's stuff has been invented at Google, and quit
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by ur-whale 4y ago
> Sure ChatGPT can hallucinate For the non-ML crowd out there, in the AI world: to hallucinate <=> to lie
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by ur-whale 4y ago
> Sundar is a McKinsey consultant who is very pleasant and agreeable and can keep a boat steady Yep. In fact, he was specifically chose to step in as CEO for his meekness : voted most likely to preserve brand value by best distracting fo
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by ur-whale 4y ago
> He’s really… unimpressive. That's putting it mildly > He shouldn’t be doing interviews He should not be running Google at all, period.
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by ur-whale 4y ago
> Engineering is not glamorous here at all, which I think is a shame because it's a productive, generative, job, with good qualifications needed, and it has a good earning potential. Big focus on money here. Being an engineer is als
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by ur-whale 4y ago
> Hubbard had enough imagination. Hear, hear. To even contemplate, much less design and implement a racket on the scale of the church of scientology, you indeed need quite a lot of imagination.
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by ur-whale 4y ago
I'm going to get downvoted for being captain obvious here and also maybe because the OP is clearly sarcasm, but still can't help it ... : >Why did I waste my career being honest? Because living and ethical life is a worthy goal

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