Sambdala

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by Sambdala 6y ago
I think it's great they're doing this, but GPT-3 is the bellwether not the end state. Open models will function a lot like Open Source does today, where there are hobby projects, charitable projects, and companies making bad strat
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by Sambdala 6y ago
Wild-Ass Guess (Ass-Guess) incoming: OpenAI was built to influence the eventual value chain of AI in directions that would give the funding parties more confidence that their AI bets would pay off. This value chain basically being one rev
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by Sambdala 6y ago
It gives cover to those who dismissed the concern pre-covid. It's common for a pragmatic 'Cassandra' to point to the newest evidence as permission for people to finally wake up to the problem rather than berating them for not
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by Sambdala 6y ago
It's the 'movie' version of negotiating that plays to a populist crowd. It intersects with other 'tough guy' identity tropes that are being (successfully) used in domestic political battles to gain power, and then a
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by Sambdala 6y ago
I agree, we invented this stuff, and we should be able to fix it when it 'breaks.' However, we see this constantly in any manmade system (system as defined by Systemics), where we can't control the emergent behavior of the sy
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by Sambdala 6y ago
Funny enough, in the UK/islands I've found it to be much more common for the 'door close' button to work. As the other replies have said, the button isn't for you, but it does have the psychological side effect of g
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by Sambdala 6y ago
They specified Municipal and/or State governments which cannot monetize a deficit.
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by Sambdala 6y ago
"X need not apply" is a well-known trope that has historically been used in a discriminatory sense, e.g., "Irish need not apply." "Humans not invited," isn't super derivative of either...
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by Sambdala 7y ago
No, $2/month is the introductory rate for 3 months, then it goes back up to $34 or $39 a month, so if you're subscribing long-term, it still makes sense to go for the yearly package after your introductory price.
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by Sambdala 7y ago
IANAL, but Promissory Estoppel might apply here?
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by Sambdala 9y ago
Funny enough my non-fintech failed (shuttered) company is listed here, but my more-or-less fintech company that's actually profitable and raised a bunch of money isn't listed. Probably because we concentrated more on PR/Press
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Ask HN: New PrimeNow “Security” Checks?
2 points by Sambdala 9y ago|0 comments
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by Sambdala 9y ago
Qadre | London, GB | Full Time & Contract | On-Site (Chancery Lane) http://qad.re - nick@qad.re Open Positions: - Python Developers (3+) - Web Developers (2+) We build underlying blockchain infrastructure that's not bas
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RethinkDB Failure Was Engineering, Not Marketing(movingfulcrum.com)
7 points by Sambdala 10y ago|0 comments
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by Sambdala 11y ago
The name was donated by the company that bought Hyperledger last year, and one of the codebases being donated also descends from the original Hyperledger codebase.
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by Sambdala 11y ago
Saw a calculation that estimated it at $0.25 / day at current hashrates.
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Isle of Man Announces First Government Run Blockchain(coindesk.com)
1 points by Sambdala 11y ago|0 comments
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by Sambdala 12y ago
I remember King's Quest 3 had a bunch of spells and/or potions you needed to use to win the game that required precisely worded commands, and they were only included in the physical manual.
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by Sambdala 12y ago
Don't try that with an otherwise unhealthy lifestyle or if you have a heart condition. http://www.artofmanliness.com/2010/01/18/the-james-bond-show...
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by Sambdala 12y ago
Check out https://www.deckbound.com (project of a friend and business partner). The initial concept is focused on Trading Card Games and built on the Bitcoin blockchain, but there are very interesting medium-to-long term plans t
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by Sambdala 12y ago
Yes: http://hn4hn4x.herokuapp.com [0]. Obviously very tongue-in-cheek. [0] https://github.com/ConceptPending/hn4hn4x
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by Sambdala 12y ago
Even ignoring that $300k isn't that much for most companies, there's insurance for big prize payouts where you'd pay the expected % time you'd have to pay out times the prize amount, plus a vig for the insurance provider
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by Sambdala 12y ago
You don't appear to need an account to launch instances.
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by Sambdala 12y ago
It's probably more likely to be technically legal in the US than Australia.
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by Sambdala 12y ago
Well, I think that theoretical guy would just be succeeding in a different industry than the one I happened to succeed in so far. It's not like I didn't apply myself to anything, just not to schoolwork; except when I found a class
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by Sambdala 12y ago
Corporate services provider.
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by Sambdala 12y ago
I'm hiring a CSP to handle all the paperwork/taxes/etc and an assistant to handle organizing my appointments/schedule. I'm hoping that will be sufficient for at least the first six months or so.
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by Sambdala 12y ago
I remember high school. During class I hid whatever book I actually wanted to read at the time inside the class book and drowned out the teacher. If homework was worth >10% of the total grade for the class (so that you couldn't get
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by Sambdala 12y ago
It's a fiction that money is just sitting around not doing anything. Given money is just an abstraction that is used to allocate goods and resources that appear in the real world, someone not spending money (or destroying money) means
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by Sambdala 12y ago
Good. The IOC has always rubbed me the wrong way as well as the fetishisation of the Olympics to the point where a country/city is willing to sink ungodly amounts of negative ROI money into a bunch of permanent infrastructure with a te

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