vba616

51 ms·

541.
by vba616 4y ago
In my opinion, this is the perfect example of why "not your keys, not your coins" is precisely backwards advice for sane people.
542.
by vba616 4y ago
>this comparison is disingenuous. I have no earthly reason for wanting practical fusion power to be impossible, or to prevent it if it is possible. I'm receptive to being un-convinced that it is hopeless, if you have anything to say
543.
by vba616 4y ago
"AI that has gorged on the internet and can recite answers and synthesize new ideas in response to my queries seems like something more valuable than a search engine. It seems like an answer engine. One of the most interesting question
544.
by vba616 4y ago
Dr. Dobb's Journal used to be good.
545.
by vba616 4y ago
Suppose that they were testing right now a dimensional portal to the core of the Sun. Would that provide practical fusion power? "At the center of the Sun, fusion power is estimated by models to be about 276.5 watts/m3." htt
546.
by vba616 4y ago
A single person living in a 3BR house with no roommates says “I find it difficult to believe normal people who live and work here would pay that amount,” Is it not a social good to discourage households of one or two people from occupying l
547.
by vba616 4y ago
>You seem to dismiss the corruption unless there is some how some grand narrative (some might say "conspiracy"?) that ties it all together and explains why Russia invaded Ukraine? I prefer to call it a "counter-narrative&q
548.
by vba616 4y ago
This increases accidental clicks on ads, so I would think there is a definite incentive not to fix it. Even if you can't find anyone who specifically can be blamed or had a conscious plan, it seems like something that would be an eme
549.
by vba616 4y ago
Have you ever seen someone jaywalk who isn't?
550.
by vba616 4y ago
I thought that you were repeating or paraphrasing a widespread description originating with Linus so I wasn't really speaking to your intentions.
551.
by vba616 4y ago
How is it possible to interpret any of this stuff as other than attempted cover or prep for the invasion, after it's happened? In order to see anything scandalous on the part of Democrats, Ukraine, etc. some kind of theory (that makes
552.
by vba616 4y ago
Vindman is of Ukrainian descent and was a star witness against the former President in his impeachment for meddling in Ukraine prior to the invasion. So, sure, that is probably the primary reason Musk dislikes or affects to dislike him now,
553.
by vba616 4y ago
>it is almost axiomatic to the intelligence/security world that a machine that could break much known encryption in human relevant timeframes would obviously be being developed under a shroud of secrecy at the bleeding edge I'm
554.
by vba616 4y ago
I'm completely unqualified to hold an opinion, but it seems so intuitive to me that quantum computing is theoretically sound but impossible in practice because error correction will scale exponentially in difficulty. Experts are clearl
555.
by vba616 4y ago
>an opinionated tool for an opinionated workflow done by a small number of peers This is a less than clear way of saying its purpose is gatekeeping, discouraging the "wrong sort of people". I'm not saying that gatekeeping
556.
by vba616 4y ago
NASA also trusted Morton-Thiokol with their astronauts lives.
557.
by vba616 4y ago
“Once in the dear dead days beyond recall, an out-of-town visitor was being shown the wonders of the New York financial district. When the party arrived at the Battery, one of his guides indicated some handsome ships riding at anchor. He sa
558.
by vba616 4y ago
Matthew Levine's newsletter mentioned this exact "bank" last month, although he seems to have been overly optimistic about their prospects: `Right now, if you go around saying...“I will consider ESG factors, but only to do th
559.
Anti-woke bank GloriFi has shut down after less than three months(fortune.com)
17 points by vba616 4y ago|7 comments
560.
by vba616 4y ago
"The company, which received initial backing from a group of A-list money types including Peter Thiel and Ken Griffin, was hoping to merge with a SPAC..."
561.
by vba616 4y ago
I can believe that a dozen talented engineers could in principle suffice for Twitter. But who believes those 12 engineers still work there? The author of this specific item is in fact not there any more . And a lot of other people are ne
562.
by vba616 4y ago
What I think makes people skeptical of him is that deep down we all believe in nominative determinism. Who do you think runs a rocket company behind the scenes, "Shotwell" or "Musk"?
563.
by vba616 4y ago
>I mention that advertisers were of course mad, the stated goal is to reduce reliance on ad revenue In the computer industry, there are some famous historical examples of companies that announced their new product before it was ready, pe
564.
by vba616 4y ago
Depends. "Chapter 7 of Title 11 of the United States Code (Bankruptcy Code) governs the process of liquidation under the bankruptcy laws of the United States, in contrast to Chapters 11 and 13, which govern the process of reorganiza
565.
by vba616 4y ago
Saying that the mess is good for him to write about now is completely different than insinuating he was promoting FTX this spring , especially while simultaneously taking the position that he exposed it (which is mostly hindsight). He&#x
566.
by vba616 4y ago
>but it probably gave him a huge bump in interest when he did and even more now Nobody listened to or remembered the interview until a couple of people pointed out how prophetic it was with hindsight . Levine found SBF pleasant to talk
567.
by vba616 4y ago
This makes me think of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoluminescence I would think that nothing in reality is infinite, but allegedly sound waves collapsing bubbles in a fluid can cause a very small amount of plasma
568.
by vba616 4y ago
>The incompressible Euler equations model a fluid as a two-valued field. This means that at every point in space, the field has two values, density and velocity I don't get it. If the fluid is incompressible, how can density have a
569.
by vba616 4y ago
>Teslas evolve over time. Other manufacturers still have days where the next model year starts being produced and the cars are very different than the previous day People who like Tesla and people who hate it both seem prone to making de
570.
by vba616 4y ago
The reason I submitted this wasn't because I need more schadenfreude, but because I'm getting an increasing sense of unreality from what I read about the situation, and my reaction to Moody's was - this, this is real. These

More ›