Sparkle-san

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by Sparkle-san 9d ago
I think that's a pretty fair take on the situation overall. There is the potential of a merger between Tesla and SpaceX which might help him paper over the short-term issues Tesla is facing around deliveries, largely due to the public
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by Sparkle-san 9d ago
Right, that's the point. It doesn't matter if he delivers on his promises as long as people believe he will eventually and the stock goes up. People have also made money investing in Ponzi schemes but they're still Ponzi sche
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by Sparkle-san 9d ago
He's an effective conman for those with money that needs investing. His track record is objectively bad[0] and that doesn't matter as long as he can say the right thing at the right time to keep the stock high and his investors ha
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by Sparkle-san 1mo ago
A personal blog isn't the time or place for playing around with things?
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by Sparkle-san 2mo ago
It's 4-5% increase when averaged out across the population. Some have personally faced much larger increases.
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by Sparkle-san 2mo ago
I feel like no-earth orbit is always going to beat out low-earth orbit in the long-term. I live an area that the USDA classifies as rural and I now have multiple fiber options, including municipal. This isn't to say that Starlink doesn
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by Sparkle-san 3mo ago
no, a combo meal (entree, side, drink) there is ~$10.
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by Sparkle-san 3mo ago
Scrabble only comes with one Z, so some of those are gonna have be sideways N's.
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by Sparkle-san 4mo ago
https://i.redd.it/lbsy5h46bql21.jpg
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by Sparkle-san 4mo ago
I can't find the source anymore since 538 is no more, and I recall Nate even describing what could (and did) happen, which was that one swing state moving to the right had a high likelihood of them all moving to the right.
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GitLab Outage(status.gitlab.com)
2 points by Sparkle-san 4mo ago|3 comments
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by Sparkle-san 4mo ago
Pipelines and jobs have effectively halted across the platform
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by Sparkle-san 5mo ago
The thing with all AI-isms is that they all started humans, but we're apparently not allowed to use them anymore. Emily Dickinson obsessed with em-dashes, now they belong to ChatGPT.
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by Sparkle-san 6mo ago
Glad to have one less reason to incentivize ISPs to monitor every single thing we do on the internet.
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by Sparkle-san 6mo ago
Just put it in an oven if it gets too cold.
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by Sparkle-san 6mo ago
Because there is often a large tech component to it. The United States and Israel have two of the most advanced high-tech sectors in the world and they are playing a large role in this conflict.
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by Sparkle-san 6mo ago
> I don’t think we should hold our guidelines hostage to pleas for the heart. I don't think that's an accurate framing of the situation. It's a single post that enough people decided was worthy of being upvoted to the fron
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by Sparkle-san 6mo ago
At the same time, there must be a point where general humanity overrides community guidelines.
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by Sparkle-san 6mo ago
Writing good code might be a bottleneck and the same can't be said about code in general.
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by Sparkle-san 6mo ago
I think fewer people would care about Palantir (and several other notable companies) if their CEOs/founders weren't using the company as a platform for their own ambitions and ideologies.
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by Sparkle-san 7mo ago
That approach may need to be reexamined as it didn't appear to work. https://seekingalpha.com/article/4872657-us-goods-trade-defi...
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by Sparkle-san 7mo ago
We will have to keep waiting. The science isn't there yet.
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by Sparkle-san 7mo ago
Feb 2021 was peak covid tech bubble stemming from ZIRP. There are a number of companies that hit highs during that period that they'll likely never see again (or for quite some time) despite being profitable.
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by Sparkle-san 7mo ago
Arresting people solely on the basis of their skin color or having an accent is akin to kidnapping. How many legal residents and citizens are you comfortable with being arrested without a sound legal basis? My number is zero.
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by Sparkle-san 7mo ago
Other comparable countries also having roving gangs of secret immigration police that are unbound by the law and the only departments responsible for overseeing them are managed by the same boss that controls them?
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by Sparkle-san 7mo ago
"This isn't just huge. This is a paradigm shift"
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by Sparkle-san 7mo ago
There's a lot of value in helping out locally as well. I don't have as much lived experience of someone in Vietnam as I do someone in my community. Nor do I understand the language or the culture. There's more overhead in mak
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by Sparkle-san 7mo ago
Why not rural Americans? When helping someone in my community, I don't first stop and analyze whether my time/money could be better allocated to maximize some sort of utilitarian loss function, I help them because they're the
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by Sparkle-san 8mo ago
Amongst all of the technological advances available to us, tying my shoes using the Ian Knot is the one thing that will get people to accuse me of witchcraft.
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by Sparkle-san 8mo ago
They don't even stop when it's a crosswalk with a flashing light system installed and there are no obstructions.

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