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There has always been some level of misalignment between the (beauty of high) quality of products made by craftsmen and the value of these products by whoever consumes them. If you…

The more we measure, the better we get at separating the false positive cases from the serious ones. Especially in a world where AI plays a bigger role in the development of the me…

They are quants with a deep experience in trading that started to develop general LLMs as a side business, that does not mean their experience is baked into their models.

I think most comments miss the point on why many small businesses don't have websites: It's not about it being hard to create and manage a website, it's that the vast majority of c…

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> Here's a thought experiment: Would you feel good if someone read your blog and learned something from it? Probably yes. Would you feel good if they passed along something they le…

> But then I stopped because I had no return from it. > The main reason was to get back into the habit of writing, and by extension thinking. ChatGPT has weakened my thinking capac…

To summarize the current Dutch personal income system: besides income from salary and income from own business (these are taxed quite high), income from investments (stocks, passiv…

These laws may very well be terrible, but no need to mention on an internet forum you want to help (hire?) someone to mass murder people involved in making them. Jokes and sarcasm …

Reminds me of MSN back in the day. When I was a kid, there was a big trend of rushing home after school to log into this chat messenger on the computer, everyone would be online fo…

What do you mean things in node breaking? JS is extremely backwards compatible. I think everything I wrote a decade ago in node still runs fine.

> I dont care which part of the world you are from and how the date settings differs. Months are only show up as Jan, Feb, March Except for the vast majority of the world that does…

> Who wants to give over their financial life to a computer program? Where do you think your income and bank balances are tracked and stored? On pieces of paper?

Coinbase shady stuff around listings has been an open secret in crypto, everyone knows about it. Dates all the way back to LTC listing and probably earlier.

What article is claiming is based on a misunderstanding of how Bitcoin works, this really is an odd way of thinking about it. If half of all people stop sending bitcoin around, the…

This really dips into conspiracy levels: Tether has many customers who can redeem USDT for real dollars. Many companies do this and are very open/vocal about this. Our company has …

USDT is the fuel that powers a lot the crypto ecosystem. Good luck trying to move USD around between different places in the crypto ecosystem (especially outside office hours). Whi…

Agreed very much. Especially in crypto you see a lot of (more than luck) success with quants/traders with no prior trading experience.

While I agree and want this to work (in an economic model that works well for everyone, so not a cashgrab). It might be fundamentally hard or close to impossible. What makes open s…

SWIFT is just a messaging system, they can probably still use Telex which is the precursor to SWIFT.