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by viscanti 4y ago
It's not making accounting public. It's making accounting public in a way that you can't dupe the public. There's a question if that's possible, but you're arguing against a straw man here. I'm skeptical t
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by viscanti 4y ago
That "interview" that he's been trying to walk back ever since, seems more like the work of a sociopath attempting to change the public narrative. Instead of people talking about all the fraud, he's hoping they'll b
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by viscanti 4y ago
In a world of bots and sock-puppets, it feels pretty far from a town square example already. If you acknowledge that you won't ever be able to stay ahead of bot and sock-puppet detection enough to remove it from the platform (and no on
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by viscanti 4y ago
It's a bit of both.
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He built a special backend endpoint so he could move money from FTX to Alameda without triggering any oversight or audits. They have him on fraud.
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by viscanti 4y ago
> Neat rule, but, it won't work. You'd get the benefit of easier to reason about code everywhere you used it, even if others within the codebase don't. Using that argument, we would argue that it's never worth trying
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by viscanti 4y ago
If bots are scraping the twitter front end to grab the checkmark, and making irrational trades now by selling based on the news from parody accounts, humans would buy the dip. The price only stays down if all the rational actors agree the n
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by viscanti 4y ago
More than that. Their first move was cutting trading fees, which made FTT worthless (it was useful before for traders to use to reduce their trading fees but with free trading on Binance that became worthless). After Binance made FTT worthl
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by viscanti 4y ago
In that scenario they could point to some of the wallets to help calm the fears the money isn't available. Or they could approach a number of different lenders who would be comfortable lending at high interest rates if the money is the
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by viscanti 4y ago
But they're meant to store the customer assets in a cold wallet. They're not meant to invest them in illiquid assets that would need to be liquidated to give people their money. If it's not a contradiction, it's an inten
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by viscanti 4y ago
Well in this case, those people might be getting fired.
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I don't know enough about the science to have a strong opinion, but I've heard a lot of people who have been critical of hyper loop, a very expensive tunnel filled with Tesla cars in Vegas that has much less efficiency than a subw
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by viscanti 4y ago
Quiet quitting might be a thing. Maybe this gets rid of all the people who would have shifted to doing the bare minimum but wouldn't rage quit.
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by viscanti 4y ago
> Corporate communication is corporate property and fully accessible as it pertains to investigations of corporate wrong-doing. I guess it depends on your definition of corporate wrong-doing. If Elon just looked for all posts that includ
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by viscanti 4y ago
So did Elon look up every private message in company chat that had the word Elon in it? Then he's sharing some of the juicy ones on twitter?
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by viscanti 4y ago
> "Rising against adversity" is not the story I'd be be using here so much as just a typical strongman bravado leading to an absolute disconnect from reality. It's not really a story of rising against adversity though
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by viscanti 4y ago
Their promise to accelerate profitability was likely for their own operations and not their investments (where presumably they have much less control). $8.5B is a pretty big loss, but it might be unrelated to their actual business. That sai
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by viscanti 4y ago
> So far, that $100BN is a VC scam until proven otherwise. A lot of the self driving tech has already made its way into safety systems in cars. Things like automatic breaking seem generally useful. There's a question about if it&#x2
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by viscanti 4y ago
The question is what value would a city get after, what seems to be, a very expensive process? What value do they get from unlocking semi competent AI cars that's worth the time, effort, and requires dedicated street space and an incon
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by viscanti 4y ago
> Studies have not shown any increase in the average strength of storms either. “On average, there have been more storms, stronger hurricanes and increase in hurricanes that rapidly intensify,” NASA reports. In 2020, the world saw a reco
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by viscanti 4y ago
> Studies of frequency of storms show no change in frequency over time. Right. Which is why I said the models predicted stronger hurricanes. Which is what you're saying. Looks like we'll have to agree to agree here. The models
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by viscanti 4y ago
> It works by building models that make accurate predictions. Have climate change models been shown to be making poor predictions? From what I've seen, it appears they've predicted temperatures should warm and we've seen a
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by viscanti 4y ago
That's just in the DC metro area. Nationally it could be higher.
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Calculus is really simple. The part some people have trouble with is that they're forced to remember all the other math they've learned to that point. Others struggle with it because the concepts are new. There are successful stud
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by viscanti 4y ago
Economics, Statistics, ML, Engineering all use calculus. You might be able to get by in some areas without it, but it's not as if it's useless. It's also really easy and straightforward. You would create calculus if it didn&#
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by viscanti 4y ago
It may be an oversimplification but it seems like it might be challenging to classify how long someone intends to drive. Someone might drive for 6 months and leave because they were able to find full time work. I'm inclined to say that
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> My last driver on vacation said he was on his 3rd vehicle over 7 years of driving with Uber. I see lots of people argue that drivers don't understand depreciation, but you talk to these drivers who have been doing it for years acr
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by viscanti 4y ago
In case you are curious, you missed out on about 90 seconds of video of AR goggles rotating around and around.
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The argument is made in the article. AMD is cutting all the things that are expensive but with limited markets (no special hardware on chip for raytracing or AI as well as using a slightly older fab). They'll focus on being much cheape
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by viscanti 4y ago
"multiple crises" could be crises that are dependent or independent. "polycrises" tells the reader that the focus is on the subset of multiple crises that are dependent and likely have complex interaction effects.

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