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by xapata 4y ago
We recently had a nearly 0% interest rate. That makes capital almost free / nearly endless.
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by xapata 4y ago
... almost, but not quite, entirely unlike ...
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by xapata 4y ago
> just a fraction 1/1 is a fraction. What fraction is oil of the total energy market?
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by xapata 4y ago
Maybe. Arcade owners might buy a game that doesn't offer free plays instead.
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by xapata 4y ago
If that's true, that demonstrates the sellers aren't exercising monopoly power to set prices artificially high. A preferred buyer means someone able to negotiate.
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by xapata 4y ago
It's an auction. The buyers are driving up prices until it's no longer profitable.
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by xapata 4y ago
And as _Against the Grain_ points out, working in farms was not always better for the farmers.
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by xapata 4y ago
I'm not familiar with this program. Could you give me a few keywords to search for, so I can learn about it? > using taxes Is it a tax credit? The key is allowing tenants to invest and get dividends from the portfolio, which they c
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by xapata 4y ago
In a weird way, a skim of your comment reads as the opposite of what I think you intended, after I read it twice.
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by xapata 4y ago
Isn't that a common theme for certain kinds of criminals? I remember reading that organized crime bosses are often prosecuted for tax fraud rather than the violent crimes they're also (presumed) guilty of.
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by xapata 4y ago
Suppose a large, publicly listed real estate investment trust (REIT) owned a diversified portfolio of housing across the country and operated it all as rental housing. Tenants could buy shares in the REIT and thereby invest not only in the
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by xapata 4y ago
Many ML practitioners aren't software engineers. I don't expect that cohort (non-engineers) would manage a deployment well in any language.
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by xapata 4y ago
Even better when the public surveils the state.
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by xapata 4y ago
To some degree, it's about familiarity with your tools. And different tools are optimized for different tasks. Besides, aren't you deploying Docker containers, anyway?
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by xapata 4y ago
> has been asking for guidance Coinbase has announced that they've asked for guidance. I find it equally plausible that the SEC hasn't decided the rules as that Coinbase asked for overly specific (or overly broad) guidance tha
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by xapata 4y ago
Reminds me of when a sushi chef apologized to me for the sea urchin tasting nasty: "Sorry, it's out of season. It's not fresh." "Why do you sell it out of season?" "People still buy it."
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by xapata 4y ago
Intent and practice are sadly different. It doesn't seem like Bitcoin, etc. are widely used enough to be crucial to a society such as you describe. And I have a hard time imagining how they could become so, given the difficulty in con
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by xapata 4y ago
It sure sounded like a claim about prevalence. I know that some people win the lottery, but I wouldn't say that "plenty" of people win the lottery.
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by xapata 4y ago
Why do you not believe it?
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by xapata 4y ago
Reporting outlier anecdotes is more profitable than reporting systematic data analysis. Outliers are true in the sense of factual, but false in the sense of accurate. The "Don't Look Up" metaphor applied here would be that t
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by xapata 4y ago
Most of that is to pay employees. And to rent hardware, perhaps.
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by xapata 4y ago
Many of them are not (yet?).
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by xapata 4y ago
You're implying that car-theft would be equally as bad or worse than phone-theft. I'm not sure that's true for everyone. Further, stealing a car may be more difficult than stealing a phone.
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by xapata 4y ago
From the article, it sounds like they are using a GAN. The system was trained on a large database of facial expressions/movements.
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by xapata 4y ago
News articles are biased towards likelihood of clicks.
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by xapata 4y ago
> impossible to confiscate If the purpose of the confiscation is simply to freeze the funds, it seems many agencies can do so. If they're patient enough, they'll eventually catch the owner when the funds move.
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by xapata 4y ago
Both the article and the comment?
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by xapata 4y ago
Quite possible. There's been a rush of LLM products marketing their use for creating "content marketing" articles. I suppose there's an enjoyable inception/dogfood possibility in this industry.
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by xapata 4y ago
> you will not kill someone if you ride after a night drinking; A pedestrian I know was seriously injured (brain damage, years of therapy) by a cyclist who was going the wrong way down a one-way street. To be fair, the cyclist wasn'
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by xapata 4y ago
Liability insurance is required for automobile drivers, because of the externalities. Perhaps bank run insurance should be required for depositors, because of the externalities. That'd force depositors to internalize the externality

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