TheOsiris

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by TheOsiris 6mo ago
what a fascinating story. a surprising amount of similarities with the Bitcoin story. I wonder...
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Sandcastles Made of Bits(jsfour.substack.com)
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by TheOsiris 7mo ago
the west is regressing on climate because, quite frankly, almost anything we do is pointless. we're not the ones who need to do anything to have an impact on the world. the entities that must do something don't want to
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by TheOsiris 3y ago
yeah, there's absolutely no "maybe" about it, you are definitely out of touch :). I don't know in what way exactly, but something is off. What is your per kwh rate exactly? You might be getting some kind of subsidies
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by TheOsiris 3y ago
isn't that an attack? removing/reducing subsidies removes incentives for people to install more solar
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by TheOsiris 3y ago
> but most Americans believe that continuing to create smarter and smarter AIs is dangerous, so who's playing god now? Aren't you just making this up? I haven't seen any surveys on what "most Americans believe"
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by TheOsiris 4y ago
better for whom?
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by TheOsiris 4y ago
the effect this kind of thing has on the broader market is that it makes everyone else reconsider their hiring plans. I doubt there will be as many open positions after this announcement and it won't all be from hiring
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by TheOsiris 4y ago
Twitter used to remove the blue checkmark if the user changes their name or their handle. and the verification was an attestation that Twitter verified that the user's name matches the identity. not sure why they've removed that.
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by TheOsiris 4y ago
honestly, after seeing how badly twitter has handled all the crypto attacks any change is a good change at this point. i know people love hating on elon but twitter has always been a terribly run company. they've been a joke for a lon
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by TheOsiris 4y ago
exactly. as long as people are willing to pay they'll continue testing the upper limits of that price.
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by TheOsiris 4y ago
> The Fed has been funding extremely reckless fiscal policy for two years. We literally shut the economy down and gave people checks for doing nothing. I don't think we need to reach for fancy explanations. The reason for inflation
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by TheOsiris 4y ago
their ads hurt my eyeballs. feels like there's an ad every damn second. how can people tolerate this
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by TheOsiris 4y ago
elementary kids are using Snapchat? holy shit. please tell me you're making this up
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by TheOsiris 4y ago
> in practice their lawyers will be telling them this is their recommendation to minimise legal risk, and I have no doubt that they’ll listen to their lawyers and do what they say. there isn't even a need to see a lawyer about this.
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by TheOsiris 4y ago
> Are you or anyone impressed by this? absolutely, and so should you. he made all the shareholders a massive amount of money. not just that but he got them the best outcome possible. he should be celebrated
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by TheOsiris 4y ago
> Legally, Musk has to pay Tesla for this, and someone very senior at Tesla (the board or the senior executive team) has to approve – without Musk being in the room. But, why wouldn't they say "yes"? that's not true a
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by TheOsiris 4y ago
you're describing how most startups are founded: find a problem, build a solution, find users. from what you're describing you're doing an excellent job at it. PMF is only needed when you're trying to build a certain ty
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by TheOsiris 6y ago
it should be, and it needs to be if we ever want to fix this problem, but it'll be political suicide for anyone that even says this out loud. corporations would be all for it to. (majority of) people with jobs have no idea how bad&#x2
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by TheOsiris 8y ago
SFOX | YC S14 | Fulltime | Los Angeles | Onsite/Remote Be a part of a team on the front lines of a technology revolution. SFOX is a trading platform used by institutions to get the best pricing of cryptocurrency assets. We are backed b
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by TheOsiris 8y ago
am I missing something? Is my page not rendering correctly, maybe? Because, why else would I not see a screenshot of this "beautiful user interface"?
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by TheOsiris 8y ago
SFOX | Front-end Engineer, DBAs, Systems Engineer, Trading Systems Engineer, Blockchain Engineer, DevOps | Remote (US & Canada) | Full-time | $100k - $150k | https://www.sfox.com/ SFOX is a leading cryptocurrency OTC an
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by TheOsiris 8y ago
SFOX | Backend, Frontend, Quant Analysts | CA/TX/Remote | Fulltime SFOX is a leading cryptocurrency liquidity provider and trading platform. We are currently 14 people (7 engineers and growing). We are a YC company (S14), backed
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by TheOsiris 8y ago
why is spying on the rest of the world scary? that's what they need to do
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by TheOsiris 8y ago
these are not startups though and you can't compare them to a startup. sure, luck is a factor in everything but it's not a make or break factor in startups. in startups you make your own luck. you work hard, suffer the small win
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by TheOsiris 9y ago
where did you get these facts from exactly? because they're all made up. > teachers, parents, advisors all too often say tech is not for women. let us know who does this so we can shame them. btw, some parents might be doing this b
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by TheOsiris 9y ago
it could be that the job needs a security clearance, which effectively makes citizenship a requirement
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by TheOsiris 10y ago
I don't think anyone disagrees that single payer requires higher taxes than we currently pay. so given that, you're trying to tell me that a state with the highest taxes (much much higher than #2) in the nation, with the lowest h
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by TheOsiris 10y ago
same here. the macs are under powered and overpriced but razer's quality is not high enough imo. I had to return my razer blade because of the constant fan noise even on idle. I just can't even take it to meetings or work in qui
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by TheOsiris 10y ago
imho this is the definitive guide to eastern vs western philosophy: https://youtu.be/0N_RO-jL-90

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