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I personally never specifically consent to anything, yet get a ton of marketing emails. To most companies that send me those emails 1.8m would be a slap on the wrist.
er. okay. The good thing about this test is that I am the only person in the world with my full name, and I know all the people with my last name (about 30-ish people). None of us are ambassadors, none of us are related to Congo in any way.
1. Like everything, apts degrade over time, maintenance usually happens in spikes, so the state of the place goes down until someone pays for the new paint job
2. It depends on the market, in highly attractive places, owners don't care about keeping tenants, so they'll let the place fall apart, until they can't get anyone anymore. Then they'll put in the price to put the place back in order and start again.
As long as these models require a lot of computing power, the best models open source or not will be served by corporations who can afford the infra.
Also, I don’t about others, but I personally strongly dislike OpenAI’s leadership’s hypocrisy. I find them losing the race highly satisfying.
COVID, Trump's second election, Musk turning into the Bond villain he was cut out to be, Altman's good guy mask melting down slowly, the AI bubble sucking up all the money and making developers anxious about their future.
One shouldn't wonder why the mood is gloomier.
At least we have Mark Rober still out there working for the greater good, but I think it starts to transpire that things are starting to weigh on him too.
Did he donate the money away? In the video you sent, he seems quite anxious about his nightly budget.
EDIT: ah it seems his trip was before that
It means the entire economy runs on borrowing to fuel growth.
When all that cash is still coming fron QE, it’s gross.
On a side note, I find it very sad that strong job numbers make stock plummet.
It really is an indication that the stock market is mostly speculative and not concerned about the actual economy.
Those funds that perform better probably take a higher management fee that might cancel out the gain. May be worth it to have a smoother return though.
Btw I don’t really know how index funds work, but if they need to track the index as closely as possible, they will all have to buy those stocks on a certain day, no? There will be a crazy price hike when they do so. Or maybe they have terms that let them smoothen their trading around entry and exit?
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/new-fast-tracks-account-olde...
Regular people want to invest so they can make money and companies want people to invest so that they can raise money. So pretty much everybody wants the 401k money to be invested in the stock market.
But the issue is that investing in the stock market is very technical, so some smart asses invented the index funds to make it easy for daddy and mummy to put their retirement accounts to work.
The index has safeguards in place to try and reduce its volatilty. So people are happy, cause they are investing in stock without having to look closely at what it is they bought.
But if suddenly some people change the safeguard rule, so that their buddy can dump their overvalued stock over people who think they are investing relatively safely, then it can be argued that there is foul play.
People are not finance specialists and they are heavily incentivized to buy index funds, so they need to trust that the people who are telling them to invest are not hiding things from them. If that trust is broken, lawsuits will follow.
It’s like: imagine you own a Toyota and have a maintenance contract with Toyota, and one day you have your car serviced and they tell you they changed the brakes. They tell you the brand of the new brakes and they tell you it’s fine while in fact, they put some cheap garbage that fail after 100 km of driving.
When the brakes fail and your car falls off a cliff, you go and see them and they tell you: “yeah those brakes were bad, but we told you we put them in, you could have looked up that these were bad, it’s all over the internet, so that’s on you”.
When money is lost in the order of billions, someone is getting sued.
If SpaceX tanks and 401ks are left holding the bag, this could result in the biggest class action lawsuit ever.
Sure, buddy, you know how to live a meaningful life, then why are you trolling the internet?
Similarly, "this kind of projects" sounds derogatory, as you don't specify what kind you're talking about, which implies "the kind of projects where the author didn't think things through thoroughly".
Also "AND", why do you need to capitalize here? Cause you want to show that your idea is a much better one.
I think you know pretty well that you were criticizing the project in a way that was not very friendly, as in: if an actual friend of yours had made the project, you wouldn't have used the same wording.
But I doubt that Trump and the Cuban diaspora in the US just want peace or remove the leaders like they did in Venezuela. They really want to take the whole thing.
Rich Cuban families that were driven out by the revolution want their land back. And Trump probably wants another golf resort and its name on the 51st state.
It’s a shame that the president is not great at making deals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Be_Lazy
But that has never stuck enough for masses to fight for it. It’s a shame.
Personally, the way I cracked it is by freelancing for an american company and living in France. I can totally take the day off.
Apparently not that friendly on HN :-D
Since law evolves, I wouldn’t be suprised that LLMs would spit out arguments that are out of date.
People don’t realize the breadth of the impact of the low rates and quantitative easing policies.
This stuff clearly helped navigate the 2008 crisis. But the cost is huge: bubbles everywhere, inequalities through the roof, spiralling government debt.
And while the interest rates have gone up, bank reserves are still nowhere near their pre-2008 levels.
Unfortunately, the way the monetary system works is quite difficult to understand, and is unlikely to ever enter the political debate.