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bragr··on I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
This is not how OpenAI has structured their comp according to public info: https://www.levels.fyi/blog/openai-compensation.html
bragr··on I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
It's bellow the pay fold but he hasn't been there that long in this case. Skimming his LinkedIn, unless he's got family money, he doesn't seem to be independently wealthy.

>After three and a half years at OpenAI,

bragr··on U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels
You can only ship packages from post offices now or by scheduling pickup. Too much darknet drugs I guess. You can drop them in a bin at the post office, but you still have to go in and get on camera.
bragr··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
17 US states have monopolies on the sale of alcohol at the distribution or retail level so it is not just a Nordic thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_beverage_control_sta...

I believe this is common in Canadian provinces as well?

bragr··on Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
I doubt it for three very big reasons and you're wrong about one big point:

1. Time barring is pretty iron clad. Sucks for the author but consider the alternative where anyone could sue anyone after any period of time.

2. If a court did find in favor of the plaintiff, the court would be more likely to award the 90s cash value of the stock, plus interest, rather than awarding the shares or current market value (damages being how he was actually wronged in the 90s rather than speculating what he might have done with the stock to present)

3. Given 1 and 2, Nvidia is unlikely to make a big settlement, meaning an expensive and risky trial.

Which brings us to hidden reason #4: nobody would pay that much for the rights so it probably isn't worth the author's time. He'd still be the man at the center of the suit: depositions, testimony, cross examination, records subpoenas...

bragr··on California is chasing wealth that has feet
Karl Marx had a lot of great ideas that have been integrated into our modern liberal democracies (antitrust laws, labor unions, public schooling, etc). One can have a nuanced discussion of Das Kapital without being a communist. If you assume otherwise, that's your own cognitive blind spot.
bragr··on California is chasing wealth that has feet
And where do they advocate wholesale adoption of Georgeism? You can like one part of a theory without adopting it all.
bragr··on California is chasing wealth that has feet
I would challenge you to point out exactly where in OP's comment that he advocates abolishing all taxes except land taxes. I see only a comparison to taxing land vs property.
bragr··on OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005
>It has no prior experience of similar programs in the program-class Walking

Crawling?

bragr··on OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005
A private archive doesn't necessarily mean a non-public archive. Simplest reading is someone rehosted the files.
bragr··on OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005
Is that a completely novel problem? Babies spend roughly a year watching us walk before they do so.
bragr··on Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him
Well he's not dead yet.
bragr··on Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds
Well the US government tried to deny it was a school at first, so that's put to bed at least.
bragr··on IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]
Trade dress is protected in addition to the actual brand marks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dress

bragr··on Ubisoft's FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux players starting September 10
It is advertised as a Windows only game so I doubt they'll honor them, but we'll see.
bragr··on I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked
You can do DNS challenges for air gapped networks as long as the TXT records resolve publicly.
bragr··on Anthropic IPO filing will show AI backlash as a risk factor, sources say
Social media and gaming companies probably have it too
bragr··on Anthropic IPO filing will show AI backlash as a risk factor, sources say
I'm sure you can find similar stuff in the prospectuses of many controversial companies spanning oil, cigarettes, alcohol, cannabis, adult entertainment, guns, gambling, defense, etc... Anything someone is trying hard to ban.
bragr··on Kobo can run apps now
If someone made a Libby client for this, it would essentially be perfect for my uses.
bragr··on The August 17 outage
I remember when you had to pay for private repos in the first place.
bragr··on MH370 mystery deepens with new evidence
And the amount of mystery is not deepened.
bragr··on A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux
3D printing patents mostly expired circa 2010-2015 which is why we have affordable consumer 3D printers today
bragr··on AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain
We sort kids into the smart and non-smart labels when they are young, and those labels tend to stick, even when what we're measuring isn't raw intelligence but just variance in childhood development that wash out in the long term. I don't think either group is well served by this.
bragr··on Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified
I don't know. 3 days, even if it is great, doesn't sound great. Trip reports from long lasting research chemicals all seem pretty awful.
bragr··on The most official water costs $120k a gallon
Generally states can't. I wonder if what could technically trip you up is the lack of tax stamps. But can you get in trouble for having unstamped cigarettes? I'd think generally no.
bragr··on Premier league bans gambling sponsors
I'm not saying the market doesn't exist, just that the marketing never seemed to match the size of the market. It's the old dirty open secret of the alcohol industry that their market was never really social drinkers, and I've just never seen the equivalent consumer regularly going through multiple 6 packs of NA beer a week.
bragr··on Premier league bans gambling sponsors
It just now clicked with me why they are doing that. I've been wondering why they are pushing them so hard. Barely anyone seems to buy NA beer.
bragr··on Italy Blocks Reproductive Health Websites Women on Web and Women Help Women
>There's a reason why they are expected to be used in a hospital setting, with medical personnel nearby.

Not really true. They've been repeatedly shown in studies to be safe for home use. They're evaluating packaging and instructions for possible OTC sale in the the future:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/articl...

bragr··on Show HN: I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data
>In practice, when countries ration their oil that's beyond the scope of the model.

Does your model assume that demand is constant regardless of price? We're already seeing a reduction in demand over the last several months.

https://finance.yahoo.com/energy/articles/global-oil-demand-...

bragr··on Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules
It wasn't hardcoded. The exact mission parameters (mission clock, moon position, orbital parameters, etc) were uploaded by mission control the morning of the launch. From that point, they had 15 days. The longest Appolo mission was 12.5 days.
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