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Comment #48650791
This is their only option. Someone who is the head of security for a hospital IT department needs access to mythos, and some 17 year old with fraud convictions doesn't. It's the sa…
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Comment #48385782
Yeah, it's a 24 year old company that controls space Internet and is the most competent company building data centers. If a passive index doesn't include it they are taking a much …
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Comment #48379577
The goal of SP500 is to provide exposure to the 500 biggest companies, not protect shareholders. I think IBM might do poorly when AI destroys their overpriced IT outsourcing busine…
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Comment #48379546
You misunderstood what you were buying if you thought that S&P500 could never change their processes.
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Comment #48374236
Yes, if someone thinks that the top 500 companies include too much risk then yes too bad, you need to move out of SPY. It isn't called the S&P495 because they kick out 5 of the big…
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Comment #48373879
Why do you assume SpaceX will be a failure? Do you have a track record of being correct on Elon companies? If SpaceX succeeds and its in the SPY from day one that serves everyone w…
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Comment #48370070
The whole point of index funds is that you don't have to pay management fees to managers. It's very expensive to hire a team of people to analyze the entire stock market in detail …
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Comment #48369933
This fundamentally misunderstand the point of an index. The fundamental reason S&P 500 exists is to let people buy the entire market ( the top 500 companies make up most of the ent…
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Comment #45615008
I don't understand why you assume that the government is following all the laws when it comes to cell phones and cloud data but won't when it comes to ring data?
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Comment #45614974
To all the people talking about government surveillance do you not realize the government already can track you by your cell phone?
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Comment #45270124
Waymo cannot scale. So for most people it's irrelevant. Tesla FSD makes driving 90% less taxing mentally. It does 99.9% of the driving perfectly. And its getting better. We are qui…
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Comment #45226913
LOL, the BTC people who thought "Digital Gold" was a good slogan are going to learn what happened to self custody of gold and the gold standard. BTC is in a much worse situation th…
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Comment #44675832
Config error, being rolled back now
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Comment #44618990
AI sceptics are on a trajectory towards philosophy.
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Comment #44618598
This is such an interesting time because the percentage of people who are making predictions about AGI happening on the future are going to drop off and the number of people comple…
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Comment #44618546
Nails are not zero sum. You can get a bunch of nails without limiting how many nails I have. Social status is zero sum and as more of the economy gets automated that becomes all th…
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Comment #44611591
The counterintuitive part of automation is that it removes parts of the economy rather than making the economy bigger. You end up with more goods but the value people assign to the…
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Comment #44556140
Not really, they can just stop insuring people who take them at all.
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Comment #44528035
Many people use IE 11. Still an edge case.
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Comment #44517338
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Comment #44515859
Just using git isn't the vulnerability. The vulnerability is that you clone a repo that an attacker was able to put this in. 90% of the time this would happen it would be due to an…
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Comment #44515843
Those people won't be vulnerable to this attack, since this attack is only useful in supply chain attacks. The people vulnerable to this would be maintainers of open source repos w…
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Comment #44511646
You can always find edge cases in security. Someone somewhere is running Internet Explorer 10 but that doesn't mean Chrome fixing bugs doesn't dramatically reduce effectiveness of …
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Comment #44503945
This seems easy for GitHub to block