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jakderrida··on Officers Are Less Intelligent: What Does It Mean?
> they don't want to risk their lives defending it

Well, defending it is something else entirely. Being sent to a remote outpost in Afghanistan without even a broad objective for any US soldiers being there to complete is only arguably "defending" and quite a poor argument at that. The country, itself, is well defended without me.

jakderrida··on Someone bought 26.9 BTC on Binance and sent it to Satoshi's dead wallet
Serious question... Why wouldn't Satoshi have it?

I'm only aware Satoshi created Bitcoin and remained anonymous.

jakderrida··on Short sellers lost more betting against Tesla than any other company last year
> which is divorced from reality in general.

It's not exactly divorced from reality. You can synthetically create the very same position. While it sounds like what they're doing is attacking markets and economy, that's just not the case. Unless they made both the options and derivatives markets illegal and also made borrowing and lending stock shares illegal, shorting the security is a position that can easily be created. It was organically discovered at the Amsterdam Stock Exchange within like a couple years after it was founded. The exchange didn't invent it and start offering it either. The traders simply realized that if they could borrow/lend and buy/sell, then they can take an inverse position.

jakderrida··on Ultima (2012)
You mean like an 8-bit space shooter like Gradius or Blazing Lazers for Turbo Graphix?

If so, I definitely agree. Actually sounds way more dope as a space shooter, tbh. Like the "ULTIMAte" fighter spaceship. Would also explain why even a novice pilot with an NES controller can still annihilate 100 other ships before going down.

jakderrida··on Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release?
My objective was to figure out whether their "always be honest" mantra they preached to employees had even a shred of merits. All I did was explain it in a way that didn't mention that I was not in any way in the vehicle, but performed hand gestures that would imply I was. The whole meeting was being typed out for records sake and I knew the fact that I wasn't, once revealed, would render them helpless. Especially because the policy of documenting who had each vehicle meant to go after employees, could also be used to demonstrate that I wasn't guilty, even if they chose to lie.

Another thing to consider is that the outcome (which is the one I wanted) resulted in me having them by the balls. I could repeat it to them as retribution in front of other employees with records to back it up and even in front of higher management to demonstrate how grossly incompetent they are.

jakderrida··on My history of economic thought reading list
Perplexity is actually pretty good. The main one was probably first to access internet in the responses. Even better, the labs site gives access to models with uncensored versions of models with zero guardrails. Has some pretty good quality models to select from, too, including Mixtral 8x7B. You ever wonder how to make crack? Just ask Perplexity Labs.
jakderrida··on AI Is Already Killing Books
Nah, those are different. Especially the second one. lmao. It also happened to have few sales till a bit later on. I think my goal back then was to see what someone would find if they were just trying to learn about it at the library. Reason why is because the ROI using the Fama-French data back then would suggest someone could have rapidly become a millionaire and billionaire off of a thousand dollars if they performed even the most basic value investing formula back then to bifurcate the market or, better yet, divide it into deciles based on (book equity)/(market equity). Only in the past 10 years, you'd actually underperform the market return.

So, considering a very simple formula could have been so effective, I wondered what they'd find at the library and if even that simple concept would have been available. What wouldn't be available is SEC data. But, as your second suggestion made clear, you could get the information for ratings agencies.

jakderrida··on AI Is Already Killing Books
I remember wondering what books on the stock market would have been like before like the 50s as a curiosity. I've taken 2 CFA exams and have a Finance degree and noticed that none of the major concepts introduced seem to go back further than the 70s and market was definitely older than that.

So I searched on Google Books and limited the timeline... What I found were the pretentious ramblings of an old man that thought way too highly of himself for getting lucky at a time that a little luck could make you a fortune to last a lifetime. He wrote a bunch of books on the market. It was like 1910s or something. They were so worthless, but I did find them hilarious to read.

jakderrida··on AI Is Already Killing Books
> I am utterly fine if no new culture is produced

Although, I would be a little upset if they stopped making high-budget binge-worthy series.

Then again... What the hell do I care if it's made by AI? Especially if they use one of those preference-based RLHF and penalize the model against episodes where the series lost all its viewers.

jakderrida··on Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release?
> I’m not sure that your experience should be generalized to a broad rule against volunteering “any information about yourself to anyone in the office beyond what is required to complete your job.”

While I don't have IT experience, I can tell you as someone that both worked as an electrician and a FiOs technician that I also assumed that honesty reflects well on people and would be careful not to discourage it. I started at Verizon at like age 20 with that attitude and had no record and seldom anything to hide.

I learned fast that the policy of managers in both companies was, "Encourage narratives that honesty will always result in a better outcome to all employees... And for those stupid enough to believe it, punish them severely because only when they're honest do we know with certainty they're guilty."

First time I was questioned by management at Verizon, I made sure I was ambiguous in a way that made them think I was guilty. They said I was fired immediately and I said, "I'm fired? For what? I wasn't even in the truck. I told you what happened and I told you I was up a pole. The bucket truck was 2 blocks away when I saw it all."

Their faces turned white as they realized that I can tell everyone it's a lie and they can't just dismiss me as disgruntled for getting fired.

jakderrida··on Power over fiber
It's the irony that I find hilarious. I imagine them saying, "We should make it a woman to portray more women in STEM" while completely neglecting that she's a cautionary tale.
jakderrida··on Power over fiber
> Inclusion goes both ways?

Yes, I agree. That's why making it a girl is so hilarious. As to why you're so offended that I find it hilarious, I honestly don't know what to tell you. It's funny for the same reason I'll refer to a hypothetical serial killer as "him" and follow by saying "or her, of course" to females as if I'm pandering. The joke is that they weren't offended to be excluded from being serial killers.

jakderrida··on Power over fiber
> I guess depending on your political agenda they were either trying to be inclusive and promoting gender diversity in STEM, or they were being subtly misogynistic by implying that women aren't as careful as men.

Nah, I actually believe it's the first one. That's why it's so hilarious. The irony is what it insinuates about what happens to women in STEM.

jakderrida··on Power over fiber
You probably still shouldn't look into the laser with your remaining eye, though.
jakderrida··on With revenue declining, Mozilla CEO gets a 20% raise
Not to sound like snark, but where does the money even come from? I feel like you've ruled out either donors or investors, which really makes me confused over what's left.
jakderrida··on Suicide Rates Are Up for Gen Z Across the Anglosphere, Especially for Girls
>There have been literally thousands of articles and blog posts that point out in the headline that men kill themselves far more than women do. People don't care.

So when they don't make it the headline, it's a conspiracy. When they make it the headline, it's still a conspiracy? At a certain point, we need to accept the fact that you're the one that's hopeless.

jakderrida··on Suicide Rates Are Up for Gen Z Across the Anglosphere, Especially for Girls
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hillary-clinton-victims-of...

Holy crap, it's true. Oh well. Still would have been a thousand times better than Trump.

jakderrida··on Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada 32GB Workstation GPU Review
You're literally doing what you still think I was doing and are literally not realizing the hypocrisy. The "fewer" line was a Stannis Baratheon reference.
jakderrida··on Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada 32GB Workstation GPU Review
Even "literally"? While my original comment was just a Stannis joke, I really think you need to rethink how useless it is to have a word that means both "not figuratively" and "figuratively" (by common usage) at the same time. If it means both, we literally have no further use for it in the English language because it modifies nothing.

Why not have the word "no" mean "yes" and "no" while we're at it?

jakderrida··on Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada 32GB Workstation GPU Review
> you take this as a critic, which is not.

Interesting. What is it?

jakderrida··on Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada 32GB Workstation GPU Review
>So the comment was grand and your prescriptivist response

There we go. The "response" was prescriptivist. The person posting it (me) and yourself are both somewhere in between the two. Now I think you're starting to get it.

Regardless, the original response was a just a joke referring to Stannis Baratheon (from Game of Thrones) saying it. I think some people read it that way. You didn't.

jakderrida··on Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada 32GB Workstation GPU Review
It's extremely pedantic and condescending, which are the only emotions I can feel any more and that's why I posted it.
jakderrida··on Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada 32GB Workstation GPU Review
Prescriptivist? Nah. Mandarin blow rid nails for happy deranged elf nestle corruptive hand wither. If it seems I stopped making sense, it's because I was briefly testing where your binary labels lead. Apparently, there are things between descriptivist and prescriptivist and both of us fall within those categories.
jakderrida··on Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada 32GB Workstation GPU Review
>much less cuda cores than in 4090

"fewer", not "less".

jakderrida··on Japan's 18-year-olds at record-low 1.06 million
I'm sorry.
jakderrida··on Japan's 18-year-olds at record-low 1.06 million
So we're going raw with the antisemitic conspiracy theories now? Sure, you could have provided any example, but the others just failed to convey what's at the core of your paranoid imagination.
jakderrida··on Japan's 18-year-olds at record-low 1.06 million
How is that existential? If it's not a threat to our existence, it's not existential. Downvoting me doesn't change that, either, you childish dolt.
jakderrida··on Japan's 18-year-olds at record-low 1.06 million
> Yes the population decline is alarming but does slowing growth really matter when you have a strong culture?

Wtf is "strong culture"? I guarantee your answer would be different than Tucker Carlson's because he never intended it to be defined. It's just a fake term he made up because, in the heads of his mindless listeners, it invokes the idea that some cultures are superior, but deliberately with no criteria to define it.

jakderrida··on Japan's 18-year-olds at record-low 1.06 million
> Demographic collapse in advanced nations is an existential threat to our civilization

Explain why.

jakderrida··on Tether reveals partnerships with Secret Service, FBI in letter to U.S. Senate
You missed my point. Just because it's in a statement that they made in no way means we need to interpret it as anything but a meaningless attempt to convey to the government they are more than cooperative.

Think about it... My fake example takes it to the extreme and portrays it as a serial killer sending a statement to the police department on how excited they are to help them find more of their victims' bodies. Obviously, it's not really a "partnership". Saying it's a partnership is just an attempt by the serial killer to reframe the situation in a way that implies civility and cooperative pursuit of mutual benefit. As if they are being employed by the police department. In reality, they are a serial killer withholding information in hopes of getting a chance at leniency. We are literally saying the same thing.

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