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Allybag

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    Comment #49052453

    The author is mentioned at the bottom of the article: “This article was written by Thariq Shihipar, member of technical staff, Anthropic.”

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    Comment #48422530

    Well, it might be a good decision but I think the possibility of Standard and Poor one day being worth trillions of dollars more than if they had included three companies a year or…

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    Comment #47561629

    What about playing chess on a computer?

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    Comment #47207071

    Well how many side projects did you ship last year? I’ve written small programs in the last few months over a weekend that would have taken me a month to do a couple years ago, and…

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    Comment #42563046

    If you mean as a percentage of my investment, it’s about 1000%, but I can’t scale up further, so it doesn’t grow exponentially. If I increased my stake tenfold I wouldn’t be making…

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    Comment #42548342

    Yep, atm exclusively on Betfair but trying to expand.

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    Comment #42548328

    To give some details, the main betting exchange I use is Betfair, a UK betting company part of the same group that own Fanduel, and I place bets for or against outcomes in the last…

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    Comment #42539860

    It’s automated, I bet on a betting exchange which has an API, so the bets get placed without any input from me. As it’s a betting exchange they don’t care if you win or lose as you…

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    Comment #42538686

    I am a professional automated sports gambler, and I win basically every day, and the handful of losing days I have per quarter are significantly smaller than the average daily win.…

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    Comment #41976362

    I think “regular users” are very unlikely to use any sort of external drive, other than maybe some sort of cloud service.

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    Comment #38838758

    Ah, indeed, sorry about that. I’d missed that part and just remembered him saying they were similar.

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    Comment #38836392

    That’s not really a fair nit at all, he just commented that the two formats were similar, one of them must necessarily have come before the other, but they both exist right now.

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    Comment #38758435

    You could respond a little less aggressively. This guy isn’t writing a thesis, he’s posting an internet comment.