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llama-2-70b-chat (courtesy of llama.cpp on m2) says: Pretend to be a commenter on hackernews. Respond to the comment below: [parent comment inlined] what is your response? "Wow, th…

The suckers aren’t just investors, but also employees who work at companies that hinted/promised liquidity via one of these transactions. I didn’t work at a company that failed to …

Ideally transactions denominated in Western coin align with western values (Good Things).

Some people say that the common folk now have cheap mass produced gadgets that were previously only available to the wealthy, and some rant about the enshitification (great term wh…

I am not a finance professional but… Say you make $1 of profit, does that translate into $1 your company can control for its benefit? If kept as profit part of that dollar flows ou…

Perhaps a silly question: If there were previously no profits does that mean they had previously paid no taxes and now will?

Agreed, this tornado thing sounds like a made up excuse. These companies, which are granted legal monopolies, have not safeguarded US interests.

Are there any chemical precursors these drugs all have in common that could have been exhausted by something else that is more important to manufacture? Alternatively is supply bei…

So… what’s going to happen now with all the behavioral science people and their fabulous data

When I was looking for an apartment to rent in Palo Alto I found a great deal on rent because I visited a place listed on Craigslist that had awful photos. It turns out the owner w…

One of the Montessori schools in SF (across the street from blue bird hq) was bought by some Miami PE fund… that and some other data points informed our decision to pass on it.

Which hotel?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35748566 Old threads lock! Enduro 2 Anytime now I’ll run my second marathon…

At the beginning of the pandemic I obsessed over large land listings on Redfin/Zillow. I thought I’d finally found the bargain when I saw something near a Clearlake here in CA. It …

Love this. Semi relatedly, the reason I chose my current smart watch is that it can go weeks without charging, I simply don’t worry about it. Yes it has a limited number of colors …

I wonder how much of it is explained by all the company retirement plans that are set to auto invest via an index fund. They says it’s retail meme stock buyers… but what if it’s ev…

Giving the cops great bike equipment seems like an amazingly creative way to fund the police. Get them the best e-bikes.

I recently learned that cops can’t drive after fleeing vehicles in SF. I looked into this because I saw multiple instances of cars driving insanely fast near me, and soon after see…

This rider could have been you or someone you know. I feel for them, their family, and their friends. I did a pretty regular bike commute while living in LA, Westwood to Santa Moni…

I’m far from an expert (just an engineer who likes to download and try out demos) but one dark view of the alignment chatter is that it’s really about whether can you can get this …

I tried out some AI autocomplete by Notion and wanted it to tell me about tools to do schema evolution on a database. It seems to blurt out two paid products, which surprised me be…

I don’t know if wiping out bond holders is good… aren’t some of these rolled up into fixed income investments by people who are retired or close to retirement?