irln

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The next 50 years: humanity, AI, power(youtube.com)
2 points by irln 1mo ago|0 comments
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How do you feel about AI today?(vote.how-you-feel-about-ai.workers.dev)
2 points by irln 3mo ago|0 comments
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by irln 2y ago
So interesting how your conclusion (which I strongly agree) is a bit of knowledge that can be obtained with diligence and research, however, it's a limitation of Bitcoin that it requires that level of diligence and research to understa
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NBER: The Employment Effects of a Guaranteed Income [pdf](nber.org)
1 points by irln 2y ago|1 comments
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by irln 3y ago
What are your thoughts on requiring payment to participate as a way to reduce spam? I realize that in this particular context payment could prevent participation for some, however, are there other reasons why payment would be ineffective?
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AI is going to be real benefit to Chegg(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by irln 3y ago|0 comments
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by irln 3y ago
I'm guessing emotional pre-prompts are difficult. The current offerings like ElevenLabs and WellSaidLabs provide amazing voices for narration but lack any way to change the emotions (e.g. happy, angry, excited, etc.). I wonder what are
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The death of Amazon's no-fee returns is the end of retail's 'laissez faire' era(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by irln 3y ago|0 comments
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by irln 4y ago
The interface is great. Did you create the front-end/back-end from scratch?
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Trump to launch his own social media platform(techcrunch.com)
6 points by irln 5y ago|2 comments
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by irln 5y ago
I was struck by how close a Bugs Life and Ants movie flying scenes was to this video.
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The Leading Causes of Death in the US for 2020(jamanetwork.com)
3 points by irln 5y ago|0 comments
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The UK’s NHS just approved a drug that costs nearly $2.5M a dose(cnbc.com)
7 points by irln 6y ago|0 comments
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Google Outage due to “an internal storage quota issue”(twitter.com)
15 points by irln 6y ago|3 comments
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by irln 6y ago
His reference to David Graeber led me to 5 Types of BS Jobs https://youtu.be/utdDB10usZg which seems spectacularly on point.
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by irln 6y ago
If the "Dev Team" upped the number of coins it would be a fork, none of the existing nodes would accept it.
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by irln 6y ago
What does a fraudulent bank have to do with the fact that the FR is the ultimate backstop to loans (IOUs) created by a bank...a "power" you claim is the same as a non-bank created IOU or a an individual IOU? Further not sure how y
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by irln 6y ago
> Deposit insurance is a fundamental difference between bank IOUs and non-bank IOUs. Deposit insurance is a fundamental difference but it's not the main difference. Individuals and most non-banks don't have access to Federal Re
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by irln 6y ago
> "and buying assets at market rates." Without sarcasm, given the latest purchases of assets beyond Treasuries and MBS, why do you think the Federal Reserve has purchased assets at market rates?
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New Sodium-Ion Battery Paves Way for Sustainable Battery Production(interestingengineering.com)
1 points by irln 6y ago|0 comments
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by irln 6y ago
Even, even better that "central bank" could choose winners and losers providing credit to certain participants eliminating the need for petty "price discovery" and creating a system where 20.5 million people can lose th
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by irln 6y ago
Not challenging your assertion, however, what doesn't he understand about how the Federal Reserve works?
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by irln 7y ago
Completely agree, most texts concentrate on teaching outdated fractional reserve based monetary systems. Fractional reserves are no longer the major constraint on an expanding/contracting money supply. This course builds up an understa
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by irln 7y ago
I'm reminded of this thread The FCC Has Fined Robocallers $208M, Collected $6,790 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21492782 . Enforce collection of the fines in the first place would be a good start.
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by irln 7y ago
Clearly you could read the headline as sensational. However, if you look at the fed balance sheet, it has increased significantly recently. [1] The increase in the balance sheet has been in overnight or short term repos. The question remain
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by irln 8y ago
The content is amazing. Concentration, insomnia, etc. Is it difficult to build systems?
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by irln 8y ago
Three data points: Fed Balance Sheet https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL Fed Balance Sheet hasn't been reduced in any meaningful way. Bank credit: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TOTB
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by irln 8y ago
The Future of Film? I love Netflix, however, isn't the jury still out if their pricing model is sustainable given their debt issuance?
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by irln 9y ago
You raise an interesting argument, however, doesn't the good outweigh the potential negatives (e.g. the kids that will be inspired to learn science from seeing this)?
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by irln 9y ago
The booster landings were incredible, however, the initial shot of it clearing the pad looked like a scifi movie intro.

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