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The main problem with prediction markets as "truth machines" is, that they can only work efficiently if insider trading is allowed (even encouraged). If insider trading is illegal,…

the Play store reviews for Curve are attrocious, especially the most recent ones. Looks like Curve is absolutely unusable, for many reasons

How do you use voice-to-text? You mean, in the browser? I am only familiar with Claude Code, which I have installed on remote server, and there obviously, voice-to-text does not wo…

yes! Michael Munger expressed it beautifully: "anything that is going to happen has already happened"

An S-1 full of fantasies, insiders who will pocket millions, index companies that have changed the rules: it's all a recipe for regular people to have their pockets picked.

I noticed you only respond to comments that are positive (or neutral). The majority (and the most insightful) comments here are negative, but you seem to ignore them.

can you please give me a real-life example of an application, on a typical linux laptop or typical linux server, which userspace application would use this CRYPTO_USER_API ? None t…

can you please give me a real-life example of an application, on a typical linux laptop or typical linux server, which userspace application would use this CRYPTO_USER_API ? None t…

is CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API needed for hw acceleration for cryptsetup (dm-crypt) disk encryption ?

I completely agree with you. The only thing I would add is, that prediction markets are not necessarily oracles for predicting the future. They can just as well be used for hedging…

is there any danger this data is biased? Everything good gets corrupted eventually (amazon reviews, consumer reports, ..). is it possible they get some kickbacks for positive revie…

> a noticeable amount of LLM output sounds like I’m getting answers from a millennial reddit user LLM was trained on data from the whole internet (of which reddit is a big part). T…

you can configure Alt+Left to go up level

how would that help? either they check the returned boxes or they don't. sending back 1 shoe does not fools the inspection

I assume upstream. Hard to imagine that Debian would be adding this "feature" themselves.

Package: chromium Version: 138.0.7204.49-1~deb12u1 I am experiencing very weird and suspicious issue on debian 12. For context, I am using grsecurity + RBAC, which gives me the pos…

I think, firefox allows you to display url without uncicode

more alarming than .help domain is the domain registration just few weeks ago. I got scammed just last week when paying with credit card online, and only later when investigating d…

imagine suing a library for having lent you a copy of "The Sorrows of Young Werther" by Goethe

a library containing all possible books is no more useful than having a random number generator

> Eric Weinstein is the Steven Seagal of Physics he reminds me of Jordan Peterson. Both are clearly smart (raw IQ) but are deranged, they speak in convoluted sentences that are int…

I sometimes intentionally ask naive questions, eve if I think I alredy know the answer. Sometimes the naive question provokes a revealing answer that I have not even considered. As…