vitobcn

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by vitobcn 3y ago
As obvious as it is once you think about it, people don't seem to realize ChatGPT is an LLM, a large LANGUAGE model, not a large knowledge model. Its response from a linguistic perspective, was valid and "human-like", which i
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by vitobcn 5y ago
Musk himself said the cost was <1M$ in 2019: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1179107539352313856 And in the next tweet, he mentions his concern is about "secondary structure", which I take it to m
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by vitobcn 6y ago
The gold mining company can generate future incoming cashflows, gold doesn't.
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by vitobcn 7y ago
The takedown is referring to charges of terrorism: "the movement Tsunami Democratic has been confirmed as a criminal organization driving people to commit terrorist attacks. Tsunami Democratic's main goal is coordinating these rio
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by vitobcn 7y ago
Here's a map that shows WhatsApp leading in most regions. And for Europe, even in countries where FB Messenger is the dominant app, most people will still have WhatsApp installed to ensure good "friend coverage". It is common
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by vitobcn 7y ago
In my experience, in most countries (and outside the US especially) WhatsApp has already won the network effects battle, and it's the default messaging app in any smartphone. Even people with iPhone will all have WhatsApp installed.
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by vitobcn 9y ago
For those interested, here's the actual paper: https://doi.org/10.1093/molehr/gay002
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by vitobcn 9y ago
That doesn't sound right. I believe he was referring to 30% and 60+% making it 90+% who haven't touched crypto at all. Or in other words, at most the US crypto population would be under 10%. To me, that still sounds generous, and
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by vitobcn 9y ago
>>with my Apple Watch I am more physically fit. Can you expand on that? I would be careful before making such a claim because of a watch; unless of course you're referring to the extra weight of the device... /s
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by vitobcn 9y ago
Of course you're saying that, you're the devil /s To be honest, I didn't think this Bloomberg piece was worth it; and I did perceive the advice from Elon ("stick to what we do best and focused") to be more ab
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by vitobcn 10y ago
I believe this is what https://privacy.com/ does as well without the wait time.
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by vitobcn 10y ago
I find this graph outlining the frequency of different grades from 1949-2009 to be enlightening [1]. Around 1940's only 15% of grades were "A", and in the last few years they went up to close to 45%. The source data is coming
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by vitobcn 11y ago
That's a great point; it goes both ways though. No media statement should simply be taken at face value in this type of international conflicts, whether it is RT or the NYT.
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by vitobcn 11y ago
I am not American nor Swiss but have lived for multiple years in both countries and can echo your sentiment. > The poster mentions the low rate of federal tax on the average wage. This is only part of the story. In my experience, when co
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by vitobcn 11y ago
> "Europe is not a single entity and never will be." Having lived in several European countries myself (Spain, Germany, France, Netherlands, Switzerland) I can only agree with the first part of the statement. It is not like Cal
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by vitobcn 11y ago
In Switzerland, you can use Yallo (yallo.ch - they use the Sunrise network) which has a flat package for 39 CHF/month allowing unlimited calls across both CH+EU. If you happen to be roaming abroad, they have data plans for 10 days &#x2
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by vitobcn 11y ago
Visa status does not affect your eligibility for payment plans. However, H1B holders are people having recently arrived to the US, and therefore with 0 credit history. This is what impacts the capability to get a postpaid plan, but after a
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by vitobcn 12y ago
The actual paper contains much more information than this BBC article. I'm not sure why they didn't link to it, but here is the original paper at the Lancet [1] as well as the full-text pdf file [2]. [1]: http://www.the
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by vitobcn 12y ago
qBittorrent ( http://www.qbittorrent.org/ ) is another popular free one available on most platforms.
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MEGA Changes Payment Systems(mega.co.nz)
4 points by vitobcn 12y ago|1 comments
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by vitobcn 12y ago
How is that different from other single points of failure, such as Obama, Putin, Angela Merkel, etc., influencing people both within and outside their respective countries?
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by vitobcn 12y ago
There is a great 2009 article from Stratfor [1] ( The Geopolitics of the United States, Part 1: The Inevitable Empire ) which outlines how America came to be the country it was in the 20th century. The article attributes most of American st
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by vitobcn 12y ago
Probably, he's referring to this official GAO (Government Accountability Office) audit report [1] from 2011, which exposed the Fed secretly loaned 16 trillion USD (!!!) to big banks worldwide at 0% rates (afaik, currently fully unretur
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by vitobcn 12y ago
Obviously time will tell, but it doesn't look like "Podemos" will fade away anytime soon. Spanish politics have been very polarized with only two major parties sharing the power since the end of Franco's dictatorship (la
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by vitobcn 12y ago
I don't know about BTC-e, but the swaps information from Bitfinex is usually available at bfxdata.com e.g. http://www.bfxdata.com/combined/btc.php
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by vitobcn 12y ago
You can get the daily historical prices since July 17th 2010 from [1]. Here's some quick calculation of the yearly averages (until yesterday): 2010: 0.14$ 2011: 5.43$ 2012: 8.25$ 2013: 191.90$ 2014: 717.93$ Lo
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by vitobcn 13y ago
The motion sickness feeling is not due to the product itself but the mixed sensory perception by the brain when different senses present contradictory signals: e.g. visual movement perceived by the eyes vs lack of movement by the ears. Ther
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by vitobcn 13y ago
I do think that countries not satisfied with the current status quo (e.g. USD having a dominant role) could embrace Bitcoin. Obviously, it will tend to be smaller or with less stable currencies, but that is simply where you start.
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by vitobcn 13y ago
I am not so sure that no governments would like to sponsor cryptocurrencies. Obviously, not states with dominant currencies for the reasons you mentioned, but I could see other countries jumping into the opportunity of altering the status q
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by vitobcn 13y ago
did you read the whole article?

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