rschneid

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by rschneid 4mo ago
Yeah that's what a primary source is: words from a principal architect of the deal, not a vague description using emotionally-charged terms. The interviewer is a professional eBay seller, so I think lots of what's mentioned in the
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by rschneid 4mo ago
You're grossly straw-manning a complex situation by reducing this deal to a 'Private Equity style takeover' that 'everyone hates'... If anyone is interested in learning more here's a great primary source interv
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by rschneid 5mo ago
It's a proof that something is possible to show one example. In this case the claim was ASIC-resistant PoW is possible, and the proof has been the historical behavior of miners after years of RandomX. Nobody said it would be eternally
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by rschneid 5mo ago
Sounds like a good opportunity for a big indexing company to add some value by using thei- Wait...
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by rschneid 11mo ago
You may be interested to know that your sweat glands come in two distinct types: Eccrine for thermoregulation and Apocrine for the wild mess of emotions we experience. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/ecc
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by rschneid 1y ago
I think their point is that, in general, social-scale healthcare is an under-solved problem in practice and LLMs have potential to improve a significant portion these challenges by increasing accessibility to treatment. The availability of
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by rschneid 1y ago
The consolidate audit trail regularly has millions of errors within a day... It's far from complete data; here's their latest report card: https://catnmsplan.com/sites/default/files/2025-04/04.0
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by rschneid 2y ago
To maybe help you alleviate a small bit of your presumably nearly overwhelming confusion I will repeat my reply to your SEC question[1], if that is indeed the 'first' one you ambiguously refer to. > When SEC approved Enron&#x27
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by rschneid 2y ago
The financial markets are more than the SEC but the SEC is part of the financial markets. Evidence of the SEC's imperfect lawlessness implies the greater financial markets are also, in part, lawless. But my point wasn't even to sa
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by rschneid 2y ago
Laws and their enforcement will always have some nonzero amount of selectivity by the localized nature of the universe but good legislation confronts these challenges proactively and tries to make prosecutorial discretion closer to the ques
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by rschneid 2y ago
You've got it backwards mate, a lack of enforcement isn't an agreement or resolution or much of anything reliable or solid or sound. This vacuum of enforcement actually ENABLES selective enforcement because a lack of enforcement i
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by rschneid 2y ago
The SEC has a three-part mission: to protect investors; maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets; and facilitate capital formation. These mandates are, of course, subjective and vague enough to be interpreted a variety of ways whether
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by rschneid 2y ago
Pretending to be subject to a law however in practice never prosecuting opens the door to inconsistent (aka selective) enforcement. How is this not the worst of both worlds? What a weird gotcha....
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by rschneid 2y ago
Well official disclosure in finance is very similar to assigning value, since many of the instruments that actually trade are derivative or abstract representations of actual assets with 'real' value. My only point is that the not
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by rschneid 2y ago
I humbly submit to you hypothesis that the lawlessness of finance is so pervasive that it has effectively become legalized through intellectual and regulatory capture. If you're interested in supporting evidence for this idea, check ou
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by rschneid 3y ago
Exactly, these diffuse international entities are merely responding to structures of incentives which are ultimately the government’s responsibility to create and enforce. Contrary to the quote in the article, proper investment in response
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by rschneid 3y ago
Hello, first of all you have my sympathies and I share your opinion that the 'tech' job market is seeming less appealing to new graduates for a variety of objective/measurable reasons you've mentioned. I also think your
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by rschneid 3y ago
>effectively banned In my opinion, these governments haven't implemented 'effective' bans (though maybe chilling, as you say) but primarily created awkward new grey markets for the personal data that these policies rely on
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by rschneid 3y ago
This is a wonderful lead and gives me hope at recovering this lost curiosity... I will continue to refine my searches, you have my thanks!
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Ask HN: Remember a Physics Puzzle about Gas with Elegantly Diagrammed Solution?
3 points by rschneid 3y ago|2 comments
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by rschneid 3y ago
To play devil's advocate, there was a potentially legitimate complaint about increased weight/size and potential loss of features (Waterproofing, durability, etc) during the earlier stages of these consumer products' existenc
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by rschneid 3y ago
Anecdotally, I think pesticides become 'necessary' when a specific farm desires greater than a particular density of crop. Sure, the collective can achieve sufficient production with less use of these chemicals however when a farm
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by rschneid 3y ago
If you believe that a computer can and inevitably will create this content, it’s also a foregone conclusion that its origin will be obfuscated and diffuse. I can’t see how an actor working in country X will collect on use of their likeness
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by rschneid 3y ago
It's clear we're seeing a revolution in funding models for media companies of all kinds from Spotify to Motion Picture/TV Producers and Journalism/Journalism-like enterprises. The core commodity of these businesses used
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by rschneid 3y ago
This south park excerpt is... frighteningly realistic https://youtu.be/Z5ZZ8bO9-Ig
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by rschneid 3y ago
Since I've gotten an upvote or two, anyone interested in learning more may find this video a good place to start understanding 1) How the market 'truly' operates and 2) how this operation is being abused https://yo
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by rschneid 3y ago
Thanks for this crucial point of both clarification and further confusion. The 'true believers' in this stock's idiosyncratic risk are expecting a short squeeze due to a confluence of relatively unknown market mechanisms such
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by rschneid 3y ago
Safety of systems isn't binary, so what's the risk profile? Newer medical treatments have higher risk, just like experimental transportation methods carry greater risk. Everyone gets sick/injured and everyone needs to get aro
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by rschneid 3y ago
I used to think this way too; until I recently noticed it was a false dichotomy! There is plenty of room to be spent on money for impoverished youngsters of any background and we should be petitioning our politicians to spend MORE OVERALL o
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by rschneid 3y ago
I think you two are largely agreeing but speaking past each other. It's true that technology enables individuals to objectively act in ways that were previously cost prohibitive. These previously unavailable actions, looked at on the s

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