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Out of curiosity, how did you notice this?

> several exist and they track the BTC:USD rate relatively accurately

They are terrible assets with severe discount/premium swings reaching the high 40%s [0]. The ratio's only tightening now that a potential arbitrage opportunity is on the table.

[0] https://ycharts.com/companies/GBTC/discount_or_premium_to_na...

This is likely the biggest disconnect between people that enjoy using them and those that don’t. Recognizing when GPT-4’s about to output nonsense and stopping it in the first few sentences before it wastes your time is a skill that won’t develop until you stop using them as if they’re intended to be infallible.

At least for now, you have to treat them like cheap metal detectors and not heat-seeking missiles.

Within individual files I tend to create a mental index of names and purposes from top to bottom before tracing, which usually helps avoid redundant jumping or branching so deep it becomes difficult to keep track.

Not the opposite. The full group referenced here is “US citizens and certain non-US citizens whose permission to live in and work in the United States does not expire," and they went after SpaceX for discrimination against the latter (refugees and asylees, specifically).

I think it’s fair. When a clone of your product is funded by the same entity that rejected yours, it's only logical to assess the differences that do exist.

Had she said “as a first-time founder,” I doubt the victim card argument would be raised.

Discord is the most prevalent and lowest friction communication app for the highest portion of the relevant audience, and will only become more so with every new (younger) developer cohort.

The average 16-34ish year-old probably-male developer that owns a PC with a discrete GPU almost certainly already has Discord installed, and does not perceive any undue burden from being "forced" to use an app they already use regularly, for better or worse: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1327674/discord-user-age...

In my opinion, the best solution is Discord getting ahead of this and letting admins make in-server threads visible to the clearnet.

I agree. My point is that calling them a security is consistent with the SEC’s position on what makes a digital asset a security.

Just as there actually are people who really do want the tokens just to cover gas fees and not for resale.

To be clear, I think Celsius committed actual fraud. I just want to talk about one particular point here.

> So the burden of proof seems to be on the claim that they're the same, or that it's a meaningful analogy.

I have a pair of “Dear Summer” Off-White x Nike Dunk Lows, the last collection released while Virgil Abloh was alive. The SNKRs (Nike) app randomly selected active users for the chance to purchase them; necessary, because they were guaranteed to sell out instantly. At the time of purchase nobody had any clue what the shoes would look like, nor which "n of 50" colorway they would get. We were presented with a picture of the shoebox, a size selection, a buy button, and a countdown timer. However, it's not far off to say that despite this, every single person (remember, only active users got this notification) that initially purchased the shoe did so knowing there was absolutely no chance that a limited edition Off-White/Virgil Abloh/Nike shoe would sell for less than a 100%+ premium over retail on the aftermarket. Completely risk-free, assuming $180 wouldn't hurt your pockets in the near term.

Under the SEC's reading of the Howey Test that omits the word "solely," the purchase of these shoes constitute

1. An investment of money (check)

2. In a common enterprise (check. Let's be honest, the majority of pairs sold hit the resell market immediately. Forman, 421 U.S. at 852-53 may not be applicable.)

3. With the expectation of profit (check, check, check) to be derived from the efforts of others (the ongoing reputation and marketing efforts of everyone involved),

making them unregistered securities.

Naturally, this means Nike has to "come in and register," for every limited supply drop, StockX and GOAT have to register as securities exchanges, and only accredited investors are allowed to purchase at retail. Anything else is clearly a violation of The Law.

All of this is perfectly reasonable because, "the law is clear, we’re obligated…to enforce the law as Congress passed it and how the courts interpret it," as Chair Gensler put it.

This is functionally an extension of Instagram. It’s no more standalone than, say, Messenger.

I made a similar comment almost a year ago and it seems like it's panning out nicely:

> "Apple has been testing overengineered features that are suspiciously well suited for AR in broad daylight for a few years now. If they can't pull it off, I don't think anyone can."

They've reached a stage where outpacing the field is just a matter of reaching into their grab bag of miscellaneous technologies.

> I wonder of

if*

> In the Bronx, DiMango’s job was to review cases and clear them: by getting weak cases dismissed, extracting guilty pleas from defendants, or referring cases to trial in another courtroom. At the start of 2013, there were nine hundred and fifty-two felony cases in the Bronx, including Browder’s, that were more than two years old. In the next twelve months, DiMango disposed of a thousand cases, some as old as five years.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/06/before-the-law

> Since 2002, 779 Muslim men and boys have been held at Guantánamo, nearly all of them without charge or trial. Today, 39 men remain indefinitely detained there, and 27 of them have never even been charged with any crime. Fourteen of those 27 have been cleared for transfer or release, some for years.

https://www.aclu.org/news/human-rights/20-years-later-guanta...

I wonder if some of the perceived benefits of alternate layouts, like Dvorak and Colemak, are due to users being forced to consciously touch type.

Oh, DuckDuckGo just does that sometimes. Pretty often I'll pick a result then back out to the search results, and the one I had in mind to click next just isn't there anymore. However annoying, I wouldn't immediately jump to a political motivation.

> That doesn’t negate the fact that hip-hop is a lyrical artform, with the emcee being the star since the 1980s.

I don’t think this is true. Instrumentals in hip-hop are largely first class citizens. Lyrics are at the forefront, yes, but consider that rappers are judged more on their technical ability to navigate the beats they choose.

It’s the only genre where artists are regularly deemed unworthy of their own instrumentals.

The author’s example is ironically the best example of this. It’s N.Y State of Mind by Nas (regarded as one of the best beat selectors of all time), on Illmatic (one of the best hip-hop albums of all time), and produced by DJ Premier (one of the best producers of all time).

Isn’t the concept of intellectual property theft a capitalist construct?

Most wealthy nations export a large chunk of their plastic and other waste to poorer countries. The conclusion that article came to is very strange.

By turning the server off and not introducing MITM attacks to the judicial system.

Isn’t most traffic caused by cascading human error? I assumed true FSD would be a mesh net where every car broadcasts its next move to its neighbors.

"Streetwear" itself has a snobbish connotation as of late.

There’s an odd juxtaposition between the net negative sentiment towards The Technology That Shall Not Be Named and the near daily “X banned my accounts and my business will never recover please help” posts.

Maybe I’m more optimistic than most.

In any case, the gymnastics needed to explain why one was totally wrong and the other is absolutely necessary will bring about an era of US dominance in the sport.

The second order effects of affirmative action's repeal are going to be very entertaining. You can get a sneak peek by taking a look at the student body at a school like UT Austin where, by law, 75% of students must be in-state and automatically admitted according to class rank (GPA). https://admissions.utexas.edu/explore/freshman-profile

You'll notice that when comparing Harvard and UT's student bodies to the US and Texas' demographics, respectively, Harvard's system was closer to the mark in terms of black and white representation. https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics

Most interesting is UT's 40/60 M/F gender ratio. Remember: that 40% of males is almost certainly being boosted by the 25% of admits UT has any real control over. Once AA is overturned, that's it—hands off the scale. I think half the population suddenly realizing they were beneficiaries of affirmative action this whole time—and subsequently understanding the nuances of discrimination in this country—will ultimately be a good thing.

> An example, I don't know of a Western style democracy, where it is legal for a cop to walk by your house, notice an open window, and crawl through it...

Police can generally use open doors (and windows?) as “probable cause” to enter in the US.

> There is an obvious rational non-racist explanation for the outcome in question

> A black person, a white person, and an asian person with the exact same credentials mean extremely different things in terms of absolute rather than relative competence level

Say these sentences out loud.

First recorded instance of spaghetti code?

Most people, regardless of salary, already bear the risk of jail for intentionally committing fraud and rights violations. Government employees are the only ones consistently exempt from this.