scottiebarnes

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by scottiebarnes 7mo ago
The same passcode prompt appears after software updates, multiple previous failed Face ID login attempts, and maybe more. Not a lawyer, but everyone has a password locked phone and its standard practice for device security. I'm not opt
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by scottiebarnes 8mo ago
Generally I'd rather be in a trade surplus; I would want my country to sell more things than it buys. Energy, technology, machinery, services, whatever it is, if I'm selling, it means I have productive capability/advantage ov
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by scottiebarnes 8mo ago
is that a daily ai generated podcast? and ai generated icons...
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by scottiebarnes 10mo ago
The swapping of any asset for another asset would be a taxable event
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by scottiebarnes 10mo ago
Every city should have its own municipal chip fabrication plant!
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by scottiebarnes 10mo ago
Are you going to be suing?
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by scottiebarnes 10mo ago
The root cause of this is: 1) population size, 2) social investment into math and science.
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by scottiebarnes 1y ago
Ah, so gold is a shiny rock that doesn't have a decentralized transmission network (the internet). Mining and smelting gold requires quite a bit of electricity. But Bitcoin the network undoubtedly uses more. As for small denominations,
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by scottiebarnes 1y ago
That's great. I also enjoy taking custody of my data and property.
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by scottiebarnes 1y ago
And how does it compare to gold?
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by scottiebarnes 1y ago
Your observations are also a bullish signal for Bitcoin, as it sort of functions as a "digital gold". Cheaper to transmit, cheaper to custody, basically instantly auditable/verifiable, as a financial instrument. No need to in
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by scottiebarnes 1y ago
Not sure if this applies to livestreams but look into the --download-sections arg? yt-dlp --download-sections "*05:00-05:10" <YouTube URL>
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by scottiebarnes 1y ago
On my reading list: Principles For Navigating Big Debt Crises by Ray Dalio
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by scottiebarnes 1y ago
A lot of manual labor and optimization on the marginal things. Ex: Raspberries start to get funky. Bad ones get picked out, good ones get regrouped into a new tray package. Ripe avocados with limited shelf life? Go into deep cold refrigerat
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by scottiebarnes 1y ago
Heart rate training is key for a smoother onboarding. Most beginners (myself included) simply try to do a pace that they simply can't sustain, think running is too hard, and then quit. Building that aerobic base is something I wish I u
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by scottiebarnes 1y ago
I bought shares, a sum that I could afford to lose but also a non-trivial amount. As it went up, I occasionally sold some and took profit, but not much, till now. I saw how important and productive machine learning was, and it seemed like N
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by scottiebarnes 1y ago
Fair enough. As someone who bought NVDA in 2016/2017 and held till now, I'm very happy with the way I applied my software knowledge to profit where I won't have to work again. Risk taking is best done in domains where you hav
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by scottiebarnes 1y ago
Yes, that is a limit of the model (PE ratio) that we're using. It requires the holding of all variables to be constant, which is not practical. We use it as a snapshot in time to check our sanity and to allow us to compare apples to or
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by scottiebarnes 1y ago
NVDA's current forward P/E ratio (price to earnings) is about 37. That means if we hold constant the profit earnings, if you bought the whole company at its current valuation ($4tr), it would take you 37 years to break even. Is th
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by scottiebarnes 1y ago
I'm not sure this is a "free market choices" problem. Some institutions like education should be funded by government, in part or in whole. The government threatening to take away that funding based on "taste" is mo
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by scottiebarnes 1y ago
Does the existence of Google or Stackoverflow result in poor work, or is it the way the programmer utilizes them?
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by scottiebarnes 1y ago
You don't really have a startup, you're back to searching for an idea to work on. Your team is no longer productive.
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by scottiebarnes 1y ago
If the consumer price index, which is a metric the Fed uses, goes up, then inflation has gone up. Every dollar buys you less (less purchasing power), and the nominal price has increased. To me this indicates inflation. Of course, you need t
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by scottiebarnes 2y ago
I believe he owns about 13% of TSLA shares as of now. I think he his outlived his usefulness to the company (how can he actually be productive considering the things he spending his time on?). As a shareholder I want him out. Or maybe I&#x2
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by scottiebarnes 2y ago
To be ultra targeted you actually have to know where your target is when your bomb goes off. When you detonate thousands at once, you're simply accepting the civilian casualty risk.
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by scottiebarnes 2y ago
This is like a rite of passage for young early web devs. Click the banners till you get banned.
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by scottiebarnes 2y ago
And recently, the firmness of the 2% target has changed. Flexible Average Inflation Targeting (FAIT) allows for the Fed to let inflation to run above 2%, with the hopeful expectation of bringing it down below it at some point. https:/
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by scottiebarnes 2y ago
They'll always "fix" it, until they can fix it no more. We are addicted to easy money. $35 trillion of national debt. $1 trillion in annual interest payments alone to service that debt. Cumulative inflation of 66.3% over the
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by scottiebarnes 2y ago
Or here's another perspective: Remember the point of "AI" is getting human-like productivity out of machines. So should it be surprising that the company at the forefront of this is has a low human-to-everything ratio?
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by scottiebarnes 2y ago
The internet is one big psyop

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