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by vba616 4y ago
I thought the customers were "earning" interest on the deposits. Where would that come from if not "gambling"?
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by vba616 4y ago
>and strike a hardened target !!! That's the point! There are a hell of a lot of "unhardened" targets and using a full scale aircraft as a drone is missing the point about cost. I mean, there's not just the news fro
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by vba616 4y ago
>Do people really get paid by checks in the US? If they don't have a bank account or refuse direct deposit or direct deposit isn't set up yet. Or if the employer is treating them as an independent contractor, maybe.
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by vba616 4y ago
>if a large company said "here's a list of our authorised resellers, and a signing bonus paid by cheque, please use it to buy equipment as it's faster than going through procurement That's not how I've seen thi
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by vba616 4y ago
Pikers! You can configure a new Challenger to slightly over $108,000.
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by vba616 4y ago
I think it was in high school, that I found out about the basic money-back scam, because I innocently tried to buy something in a store with a certified (bank) check for more than the right amount and they wouldn't give me change. Even
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by vba616 4y ago
Hmm...isn't it close to a quote from Back to the Future? Is there any connection between the movies?
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by vba616 4y ago
Do you mean B-1 or B-2? I thought the B-21 was intended as a successor to the B-2, only cheaper. Also, they look the same to me.
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by vba616 4y ago
Aren't things getting to the point where drones are a global commodity and indigenous manufacturing capability is mostly moot?
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by vba616 4y ago
Not long ago, Musk publicly stated that if the vision of a huge fleet of self-driving cars doesn't work out, then Tesla is worth zero. Sure, that could be hyperbole, but it is straight from the horses mouth.
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by vba616 4y ago
>In fact language literally only works because we all share it and share the meaning of it. Most human communication is to some extent adversarial and constantly subverts the assumption of shared meaning on purpose or by accident. It&#x2
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by vba616 4y ago
>No, we just didn't read foreign language websites I don't understand. You're just denying that, before machine translation worked well, some people translated their websites into more than one language? Not many , but s
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by vba616 4y ago
>Me: Yesterday I walked on four, today I walk on two, tomorrow I walk on >chatGPT: three. Why is this impressive? It looks to me like just looking up something in a database. We know it ingested this exact riddle, so it doesn't
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by vba616 4y ago
The debate seems to be whether this sort of error is qualitative or quantitative. I vote for the former. There is some separate "secret sauce" or governor that is missing. But I don't believe it is just a database of rules li
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by vba616 4y ago
"The people who are right are the people whose beliefs haven't led to the undermining and collapse of all mathematics." If this is a criterion for determining who is right, then it implies there is an imaginable alternative.
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by vba616 4y ago
You heard of Douglas Adams? Also, I can't help wondering whether this study's results are applicable to what they call a "stress test" at your doctor's. Or is that beyond the regime they were examining.
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by vba616 4y ago
Lights? Where we're going we don't need lights... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_out_(manufacturing)
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by vba616 4y ago
So, he was evil and/or a hypocrite and shouldn't have had a lot of money to begin with. Sure, fine. Nobody was questioning that. I first heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy on HN,
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by vba616 4y ago
"It's in the comment above:" Your comments here, as well thought out as they may be, are not part of "the comment above". "they stole customer funds" = FTX stole customer funds. "SBF isn't some r
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by vba616 4y ago
Altruism being effective seems like a good thing in the abstract, much like being anti-fascist. If you have a bone to pick with the "effective altruism" movement, it would be better to critique what they actually have done than ma
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by vba616 4y ago
On the other hand what exactly makes the "shitcoins" less real than bitcoin? How could someone who built FTX make a principled distinction? >with some worth maybe one cent on the dollar, if that But if they aren't worth
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by vba616 4y ago
>surely someone could spare a few racks to run some CFD on a detailed GIS model of our planet, to create lookup tables that would allow everyone to cheaply simulate all kinds of fun events, such as nuclear detonations, asteroid impacts,
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by vba616 4y ago
I feel like I read somewhere that the K-T boundary asteroid is thought to have been more destructive due to hitting relatively near land than if it had been in the deepest ocean. I don't know how that would compare to hitting land.
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by vba616 4y ago
Can it be used offline to, for instance, shorten the names of top secret projects?
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by vba616 4y ago
I love this: “Here’s a list of stuff, will you give us a few billion dollars for this list of stuff? Look! The top thing on the list is this nice clean Robinhood stake. Okay that’s enough looking.” You take a wad of crumpled $1 bills and $3
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by vba616 4y ago
The "least bad scenario" I read is that if we assume the money was lost through "well-intentioned but incompetent bumbling" then nevertheless the company "lied, constantly, about how carefully it was keeping track
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by vba616 4y ago
>"I can only guess", sounds like a 17yo that never had to buy his own toilet paper Some people, and I was one of them, who weren't paying much attention, read that he had worked for Jane Street, and said to themselves, &qu
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by vba616 4y ago
How do we know what Musk is for, let alone what he has been "for" during his entire past life? Your last sentence implies that he "explicitly" says stuff and we should take that at face value. He was openly crowing ove
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by vba616 4y ago
"maybe it’s time to accept that there are certain inherent advantages to not giving all your economy’s money to people who will stick it in an offshore account instead of spending it" Strange to read in a time of constant chatter
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by vba616 4y ago
I remember many many years ago a game with a minor stock market element, where you could manipulate the market simply by increasing the dividend of a company you owned to an absurd amount. The share price would skyrocket, you could then sel

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