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by vba616 4y ago
I increasingly get an overwhelming sense that all extant environmental activism is "canvas shopping bag virtue signaling" in a very profound and important way, but I wasn't convinced by specific printed or spoken rhetoric,
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There's no authoritatively correct reference for what "slow" or "fast" should mean in extraterrestrial contexts, however, I think it makes sense to look at it like this: Suppose you were watching a (CGI) movie or a
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by vba616 4y ago
"Ann Elizabeth Fowler Hodges...was an American woman known for being the first documented individual not only to be struck by a meteorite, but also to live through the encounter." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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I just read a page on meteors that said they tend to blow up starting around 300,000 to 200,000 feet or so. If I make a wild-ass guess that the fireball was visible over a trajectory of about 100,000 feet, that's about 30 km. At 11 km&
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by vba616 4y ago
Yes, relatively speaking. First likely hit I found: "Meteors enter the atmosphere at speeds ranging from 11 km/sec...to 72 km/sec ... The wide range in meteoroid speeds is caused partly by the fact that the Earth itself is tr
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What does texting and driving actually mean? I simply can't read messages and type with my fingers if I wanted to, while moving. Do people really do that without immediately crashing? Or is using Google Maps with Android Auto and tappi
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by vba616 4y ago
I don't understand how they could be refusing to allow clients to exercise puts if the people complaining don't have the stock to sell.
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by vba616 4y ago
I don't know if this is an accurate figure, but Google supposedly had about 3,000 employees in 2004. Since then it seems to have grown headcount at an exponential rate of almost 25% per year, compounded. Google + (arbitrarily choosing
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by vba616 4y ago
Isn't stuff like this covered in the booklet you are supposed to read when you get permission to trade options? From the OCC or whatever?
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I just asked ChatGPT for something today; I framed it in terms of a question in an attempt not to influence it - is there a...? And it told me firmly "yes" followed by fiction, with a plausible link that went nowhere. Honestly, I&
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by vba616 4y ago
I don't even see the position you are arguing against recently around here. But I see lots of comments similar to yours, so what do you have to add? Saying that intelligent machines are impossible because of hand-wavy metaphysical reas
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> it only takes a few depositors I don't think so? I mean if you had everything concentrated in a literal handful of depositors perhaps, but surely no real bank is like that including SVB. The deposits were in the billions; articles
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If other banks fail, I expect it will not be for the same reason. That's not based on any original thinking or analysis, but others have pointed out that most banks have more diverse depositors who don't have as much money individ
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It was a conflict of interest for some in Europe between helping Ukraine and securing their energy supply. The pipeline provided an incentive to hold back regarding Russia. Someone made the judgement that it was better to take the risk of d
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I mean, isn't it obviously true that, in hindsight, every tightening cycle for the last 40 years has ended in the Fed going a little too far, whoops? That's not to say there weren't underlying problems with the economy and fi
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>There's a principle in finance called the matching principle that you match the duration of debt to the life of what it's for. Hmm... If you have long term bonds, you can stagger them so you have some maturing at much shorter
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It did produce a snippet that worked when asked "convert html style 6 digit hex color codes to matplotlib colors". But the objection I have with giving credit for trivial but actually correct material - is that when it returns som
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I don't know how anyone who's used it for a bit cannot see how useless it is. When it contradicts itself, you can ask it to provide references for each side, and it will cheerfully fabricate what look like perfect and relevant r
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by vba616 4y ago
The last sentence can't be wrong if the individual doesn't exist. But if you've used ChatGPT a bit, you will see how it produces such comments out of thin air and can't address inconsistencies or contradictions. Try to z
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A car can explode, and so can a piñata. Therefore deciding whether they are interchangeable is a deep question that may take centuries to resolve.
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I am seeing this talk of a bailout everywhere. But why would a bailout be needed? Where are people getting the idea that they don't have more than enough assets for all their customers? What I read last week was that they had a classic
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by vba616 4y ago
>unless the data has been de-identified (a high barrier) It is claimed something like half the population can be uniquely identified just with DOB, gender, and zip code. "A high barrier" is ambiguous - it could mean that it is
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The pipeline, despite being valuable for its purpose, was a hostage for Russia, and there can't be any reasonable doubt who destroyed it and why. "Harry Temple: All right, pop quiz. Airport, gunman with one hostage. He's usin
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Over some period of time, possibly 2013-17: "there have been eight deaths attributed to animal attacks on infrastructure, including six caused by squirrels downing power lines that then struck people on the ground." 75%! https:&#
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>Can you drive a car for free (for 5 - 8 hours) until you decide that's the car you want to buy? This is a perfect analogy. I went to a Chevy dealer once, asked if I could test drive a car and they wouldn't even let me take it
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Ninth Bridgewater Treatise(en.wikipedia.org)
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In recent years there is a diagnosis "schizophreniform" which I believe basically means "looks like schizophrenia but we're not jumping to conclusions if this is the first episode". I don't know if that is univ
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``John C. Inglis, the former deputy director of the U.S. National Security Agency, said in 2015 "frankly, the No. 1 threat experienced to date by the U.S. electrical grid is squirrels." '' https://en.wikipedia
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Middle aged people I know seem to be into the affirmation horseshit too. I am not clear if anyone who really pushes it believes it, or it's just a substitute for Herbalife or Tupperware.
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If you're in a drive through, from what I've seen, you would need long arms and an SUV to cover the keypad. I don't know when they started placing them high up, if it's some sort of ADA thing or what, but it's ver

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