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chroma205

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    Comment #46709355

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    Comment #46694010

    > Are you a financial analyst by any chance, because the "here's a few facts, interpret how that's going to impact the market yourself" is very on-brand. What do you want him to sa…

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    Comment #46681514

    > Has Nadella had one original thought? He simply passes through whatever the board orders. No. But for mega-tech CEO salary, I’d probably do exactly the same.

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    Comment #46625358

    > You can have all the weird lifestyle preferences you want that don't involve conspicuous waste of natural resources and accelerating anthropogenic climate change. you’re right. b…

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    Comment #46612798

    > and several people with mortgages and children made it happen. Solution seems to be don’t have kids. Then the employees are less scared of losing their jobs and can push back aga…

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    Comment #46597805

    > You will pay a cloud subscription to perform anything remotely computationally taxing. What’s wrong with that?

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    Comment #46442935

    >Agreed. Even xAI's (Grok's) access to live data on x.com and millions of live video inputs from Tesla is a moat not enjoyed by OpenAI. Tesla does not have live video feed from (ev…

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    Comment #46409357

    > Fines should be designed to make it uneconomical to continue to reoffend. Great. Fine me $1 million, and I will fight the case with lawyers, thus slowing down the public legal sy…

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    Comment #46350406

    > The term for that is false advertising. No different than Elon Musk claiming self-driving will be deployed to all Teslas in 2017; 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, …

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    Comment #46309256

    > I so much hate it that we have built an economy where companies believe the best way forward is to cram ads into everything instead of building better products. Blame the consume…

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    Comment #46252559

    > They are also tied for first for having the highest cost of living. Who cares? Absolute savings rate and net worth are what matter. Any European will gladly live in America for U…

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    Comment #46250995

    > Being pompous and self obsessed requires none of those things. Sufficient, but not necessary

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    Comment #46250799

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    Comment #46219164

    > The next step forward has been to stop moving scooters to power and instead bring power closer to where vehicles operate. Asia already has swappable batteries not just for bikes …

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    Comment #46188937

    > You just made sure only people who can afford to live near work are hired. And what’s wrong with that? Is every person on earth entitled to a job? If yes, voice your concern with…

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    Comment #46182658

    > I've always assumed peer review is similar to diff review. Where I'm willing to sign my name onto the work of others. If I approve a diff/pr and it takes down prod. It's just as …

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    Comment #46165101

    > There are no exchanges where market makers get any kind of priority to bypass the FIFO queue. Nope, several large, active, and liquid markets in the US. Legally it’s not named “b…

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    Comment #46164516

    > That sentence alone tells me that you're a LARPer cope. Equity options are sparse and have 1 order of 1 lot/qty per price. But usually empty. Too many prices and expiration dates…

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    Comment #46162158

    > If you actually were in the industry, you would know that most retail traders don't fail, because they lose a tick here or there on execution Where did I say “retail trader”? Bec…

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    Comment #46156655

    >but for various reasons can end up flopping when actually executed in the real market. 1. Your order can legally be “front run” by the lead or designated market maker who receives…

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    Comment #46154624

    >We gave each of five LLMs $100K in paper money Stopped reading after “paper money” Source: quant trader. paper trading does not incorporate market impact

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    Comment #46154537

    > you can write all you want about an AI bubble Bubble =/= useless Bubble means over-hyped

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    Comment #46131285

    > Were Xerox, Dec, or Apple burning investor money by the billions of dollars? Shhh. You are not allowed to ruin OpenAI’s PPU value. Can’t make the E7’s feel bad.

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    Comment #46131117

    > I guess that's mostly true, but why does Jane Street get to have a moat in models but LLM companies can't? Common misconception by people outside quant trading. Modern “alpha” in…

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    Comment #46120497

    > A citizen being rounded up by the state and bundled off to a foreign country illegally and with no process is absolutely kidnapping regardless of how much you want to pretend oth…