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josephlord

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    Comment #48450343

    Isn’t the thing that an LLM never knows (at all)? It just guesses words based on the context and previous words and often gets lucky. It isn’t thinking or knowing and then expressi…

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    Comment #31727196

    1. Shorting practicalities for Tether not clear. 2. Need confidence 3rd party will pay out. 3. Market can stay irrational longer than I can stay solvent. 4. Especially high risks w…

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    Comment #16690592

    You missed threatening to sue the newspapers and reporters before the first stories dropped with Wylie on the record blowing the whistle the previous Sunday.

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    Comment #14103579

    Bankruptcy is actually the way to reduce debt without destroying the matching money (but may have knock on effects on further lending and related money creation). Inflation is less…

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    Comment #14103058

    One is about telling other people how they should behave and possibly making them uncomfortable it they have had an abortion, the other is acknowledging the existence of people and…

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    Comment #14028353

    Firstly there are two ways that money is printed. 1) Government/central bank spend more than they take in taxes. 2) Private banks make loans to private sector (biz or individuals).…

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    Comment #13786543

    Muffett is ex-FB and worked on messenger. He truly believes in it and doesn't see Facebook as the threat that you (and I) do.

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    Comment #13755992

    Rackspace's Cloudfiles. Does support static websites.

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    Comment #13755680

    Looks like it. Brief panic caused here.

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    Comment #13750603

    Uber seems to be a slightly special case in terms of how blatant discrimination seems to be and the explicitly deceitful and in the obviously abusive responses from HR but the gene…

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    Comment #13750532

    If that isn't what you believe you aren't clearly expressing what you do believe and what responsibilities people, particularly senior people do have. Most who come forward aren't …

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    Comment #13749879

    My problem with your comment is the entitlement you claim to define acceptable behaviour of those being abused "what I demand from anyone who wants to call themselves a victim". Al…

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    Comment #13683097

    Speeding is illegal too, doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

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    Comment #13683054

    There are huge professional and personal costs to suing. She has done more by most to protect others by going public. Isn't her job to fix Uber via lawsuit.

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    Comment #13683036

    The personal and professional cost of bringing a lawsuit normally means it makes no sense to bring a case even if you would have a good chance of winning. You really need to be pre…

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    Comment #12140994

    But isn't that Clinton? We have no real idea of Trump's policies. He barely strings full sentences together, just fragments of thoughts that people turn into the full policies that…

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    Comment #12132767

    I still feel that there is a real difference in the shamelessness of Trump's lies. Many easily contradictable. At least Hillary would care if she was caught out, that puts some con…

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    Comment #12131543

    But he lies so much and makes so many factual errors how can you trust him on anything? His pro-torture position seems to show disregard of the 8th amendment is he really going to …

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    Comment #12131415

    I thought his policy was to "bomb the hell out of ISIS"? http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/11/18/new_trump_...

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    Comment #12130976

    What do you like about him?

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    Comment #12028368

    Then it would also be pretty cheap for the lender to insure against borrower's death or to bear the low (amortised) cost. There is no reason a guarantor couldn't be responsible onl…

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    Comment #11935138

    32 bit ARM has been supported from the start. As others have mentioned the 32bit Intel Macs do not support the latest OS versions anyway.

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    Comment #11785096

    I'd forgotten that Symantec had acquired Verisign at some point and they are huge certificate supplier. I was planning to untrust Symantec but not sure that is feasible for the Ver…

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    Comment #11639884

    There is the PPI (payment protection insurance) scandal in the UK. Billions has been paid out in compensation and it has been front page news.

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