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by woeirua 4y ago
You should be much more concerned about the prospect of nuclear war right now than the sudden emergence of an AGI.
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by woeirua 4y ago
Here’s the contrarian viewpoint just for the sake of being a contrarian, in spite of decades of evidence that helmets improve cyclist safety.
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by woeirua 4y ago
Once you have a fractional reserve system a run on the banks becomes inevitable.
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by woeirua 4y ago
The problem with Tether is that the exchanges themselves have huge stakes in it. If Tether were to lose its peg all of a sudden by a significant amount, the exchanges themselves would have huge holes in their balance sheets. They may refuse
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by woeirua 4y ago
This assumes that the backing assets: 1-actually exist in the claimed amounts, and 2 - are easily liquidated in a timely fashion to provide cash to USDT holders when they trade in. You can cause a liquidity crisis in USDT if either of thos
516.
by woeirua 4y ago
Luna is a sideshow. Sad for the people who got caught up in it and lost their savings, but Tether is the real game. When Tether blows up the entire crypto system is going to blow up. And this is why Luna was important, because it caused a
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by woeirua 4y ago
The fundamentals that drive each bubble are different, but it always ends the same way.
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by woeirua 4y ago
There is a nonzero chance that all of the "growth" that we've seen over the past 14 years was just fueled by cheap credit. If we can't avoid a recession after raising rates by 100bps then we've had a false economy t
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by woeirua 4y ago
Yeah, Figure 9 is the money figure in this paper and it actually splashes some cold water on the claims in the rest of the paper. While it generalizes OK to some tasks that are held out, it does pretty poorly on the Atari boxing task, which
520.
by woeirua 4y ago
I think we really could be witnessing the start of the end of massive compensation packages for many engineers. Turns out that easy money propped up the valuations of companies with marginal business models, and there just aren't that
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by woeirua 5y ago
How many homes do you need to actually live? Most likely, the answer is one. Are homes for living in, or for making money? That's the fundamental question we need to resolve. Because if its the former, then we are doing an abysmal job
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by woeirua 5y ago
This is a pretty good sign that its time to short SNAP. This is so far outside their core competency, and in such a crowded market, that they must be desperate to try this.
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by woeirua 5y ago
I won't feel one ounce of pity for the "investors" who lose their shirts when this bubble finally pops. We should regulate investors almost entirely out of housing. Yes, there is still a need for people with lots of capital
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by woeirua 5y ago
This is why my wife's company has started doing "stay" interviews instead. Basically its just an hour where everyone down the receptionist gets to bitch at senior management about whatever is bothering them. If you're si
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by woeirua 5y ago
I'm going to be blunt. Unless you are a rockstar that is irreplaceable in the organization, no one is going to give two shits about what you say in an exit interview. Your management isn't totally blind or naive. They know whats g
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by woeirua 5y ago
I prefer to ask the applicant to either submit code that they are proud of, or to do a small toy problem if they don't have anything they can readily share. Then we talk through their code during the interview, asking them questions li
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by woeirua 5y ago
The physical wheat may exist, but it may not be possible to supply it at the same prices (especially given increased transportation costs due to energy prices). There may be no physical shortage, but if prices for wheat increase 50% in Egyp
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by woeirua 5y ago
Well, the theory around neural nets strongly suggests that enough nonlinear activation functions combined in the right way should be able to learn any function, including basic arithmetic. Now, whether or not you have the right approach t
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by woeirua 5y ago
I don't understand the argument against "playing god." Frankly, almost everything we do is playing god in some way, shape, or form. There is no way the planet could feed this many humans, without humans actively shaping and a
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by woeirua 5y ago
Yeah... I'm going to go with, not having to worry about clicking malware links is probably the one use of censorship that I am totally OK with.
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by woeirua 5y ago
So the author predicts the rise of a cable like on-demand service... which is exactly what Netflix was before the major content providers all started yanking their content. We're quickly getting to the point where I'm paying alm
532.
by woeirua 5y ago
There's a nice doctoral dissertation sitting out there for someone to demonstrate that cross-reactive T-cells mostly explain why some people get sick with Covid and others don't. Even better if they can point to a specific virus
533.
by woeirua 5y ago
It always amazes me at how many people don't really understand how buoyancy works.
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by woeirua 5y ago
So? Something is better than nothing.
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by woeirua 5y ago
Anyone know what the cost is per gallon for SAF versus conventional jet fuel?
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by woeirua 5y ago
A 50% reduction in the emissions associated with flying, with no additional changes to the infrastructure involved is a game changer. If we can do this for planes, then ships and trains aren't far off.
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by woeirua 5y ago
The problem with the antitrust narrative is that it will take years to force corporations to break up or do anything about their pricing if that is truly the source of the inflationary pressure. In which case, the Democrats will get crushe
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by woeirua 5y ago
Pretty unlikely if you're walking around outside. You'd hear/feel the bat flying near you.
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by woeirua 5y ago
Did you not vaccinate your dog?
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by woeirua 5y ago
Amazon’s going to have to start paying out on some SLAs if this goes on for much longer…

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