lake_vincent

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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong (please), but don't we still lack any kind of fundamental definition of what dark energy/matter is other than..."the cause of the difference between what is calculated, and what is observed"?
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
I feel the same way about the red 'N', and that association on a large scale is very bad for business. Once your logo becomes a marker for something to avoid, your brand is toast. Very hard to reverse such a perception.
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
It's interesting how legacy companies are not making exciting consumer/commercial products anymore, but infrastructure and technical projects are booming. Google TensorFlow and DeepMind, Microsoft WSL2, Meta AI, etc. Also worth me
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Just because the Great Pyramids were built with slavery doesn't mean that slavery is okay, or that there is not a better way to build a pyramid.
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Exactly, which is why I am advocating precisely for giving people what they need . Some people need pressure to perform optimally, others don't. Some people need to put in 80 hours of work per week, others don't. It is simp
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Indeed. For example, Musk fancies himself a champion of "hard work" but what he fails to realize is that humans have not actually merged with robots yet, and we still have human needs. If innovation and brilliant thinking are pa
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Here: https://truthout.org/articles/the-indisputable-role-of-credi... If you think this is not really happening, you are naive at best, complicit at worst.
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
I honestly cannot tell if you are joking/trolling or are just completely ignorant to the reality of what happened.
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
It's the exact opposite, bud. You very strongly compared my theories with QAnon , which is actual Alice-in-Wonderland level crazy. To compare financial crime theories that (given the precedent) could very well be true , to fucking QA
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Lol, right, because things like this have never happened before. In particular, the years 1998 - 2008 were devoid of financial crime, and are a decade of restrained, ethical capitalism that we should all aspire to. Gentlemen of Wall Street
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
I really hate to do this because it sounds lazy, but I strongly encourage you to watch The Problem with Jon Stewart's episode on this. He explains it very well, and it's a lot of information, so if you are genuinely curious, I wou
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Wouldn't it be wild if a market maker also controlled a hedge fund, and also had members installed on regulating bodies, but then like, PINKY PROMISED they wouldn't abuse their positions? And then imagine if the SEC were comp
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Back office systems are exactly where Citadel, the market maker , could put a tiny little window to peep at data they shouldn't, so they can frontrun every trade retail investors make!! The secret ingredient is crime ;)
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Spoiler alert: they had help. Robinhood is a wolf in sheep's clothing - they are controlled by, and beholden to, criminal enterprises such as Citadel. This "in-house" trade clearing system is actually Ken Griffin's perso
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Let's just embrace the chaos and develop a new flavor for every browser until there are precisely 31 different flavors of Markdown. We cap it there, Baskin Robbins style, and then watch the world burn.
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
If I may suggest something unorthodox - have you tried psychedelic therapy? And I don't mean just taking a psychedelic, I mean working with a therapist to go on an intentional healing journey. Might be worth a trip to Oregon :)
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Oh my...what an awful way to get back from vacation! It's such a shame when egos get involved like that. I deeply appreciate that level of wordplay though! Glad it worked out for you in the end, and I hope you have continued to express
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
The Fediverse sounds like the Federal government's even more dystopian version of the Metaverse. (I read the article, so I know it's not actually that, and in fact is kinda neat)
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Exactly! It makes no difference to the compiler what you call a variable, but it makes a difference to the human. Whenever I do a pandas dataframe melt, I name the variable "melted_cheese". I could just name it something plain&#x2
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
And here's a link to Story of Mel, for anyone who doesn't know who "Mel" is :) https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
This sounds perfect for me, because I don't actually know git, and just use some stupid gui. And even that's a step up from my old VCS called "clone a folder and slap a date on it." (I am a hobbyist programmer)
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
I am having a bad night with drinking, and needed to read this. Commenting live, next to a toilet bowl!! Thank you, stranger, and I wish you well on your journey.
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
+1 for this. Would love to compare all the algos on the same maze, so you can visualize the differences in their pathfinding approach.
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
This! I am coding something right now that Mathematica would honestly make 100x easier, but I refuse to use it because I want my software to be FOSS, and not depend on a proprietary language. I respect Wolfram's enginuity, but I rese
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Oh damn, that was good. The actual citation is what threw me, well done.
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
I would buy you another cup of coffee to replace it, but money is a little tight these days...
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Relax buddy, it's a meme [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Well, technically, it's only a recession if it comes from the Rècession region of France. What OP is referring to is called bubbly fiscal agony .
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
Yes, this!! I'll be in the car and will pull over to take good photos of a sunset if I have my DSLR with me, but not if I just have my phone. I agree there is a different mode it puts me in that a phone camera has yet to capture.
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by lake_vincent 4y ago
The Book Depository is another excellent Amazon book seller. Not the fastest shipping, but always real books, and great collection of specialty technical books. Highly recommended.

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