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It's tricky because if you take the view that rightsholders licenses are necessary for training, it's not clear that the labels hold those rights. If you need the music producer ri…

Well sure, in 2014 you were not too late, but now ...

He likely means he's not sending spam.

If 95% of people voted in favour of apple pie, I'd become a bit suspicious of apple pie.

I think my comment come of as too literal. It wasn't meant to imply that there is nothing of value to the club experience, but rather that a busy and loud environment like a club m…

It's really wasted on clubbers. Much better to be shared on a beautiful quiet day with a loved one. From what I hear.

Agreed. In theory you can claim it back, but it's a major pain in the ass. Some ETF issued outside the US and holding US stocks will do it. Other strategies to avoid this annoyance…

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The reason to hold stock is that they return value to shareholders. Stock buy backs are functionally dividends but they are taxed more fairly. They also work better for foreign inv…

This is very plausible. Dividends are silly in a world where you can achieve the same result and save everyone 20% tax by doing stock buybacks instead. It's also silly to strongly …

Plus a tendency to make contrarian bets. Whoever is backing him is taking on the risk of SBF jumping bail (and I'd assume the house is under surveillance and he's wearing ankle mon…

Having worked as a quant GS on HFT, +1 on Flash Boys being criminally stupid at best and bad faith at worst.

Isn't the sound 7 seconds long though?

This isn't asking the hard question though: how did the oracle see the future?

But it takes an entire network of human neurons to simulate the behavior of an artificial one. There's overhead in translation, but that doesn't by itself mean one is superior to t…

Spam on most platform is a complicated engineering challenge. However, for some inexplicable reason, Twitter features a kind of spam that you don't see on any other platforms becau…

> “They were more likely to do silly things, like die in tar pits,” Gower says.

I wonder if there's any value in picking not one but a couple random directions, and then finding the update in their span. Increases memory consumption but reduces the noise. It c…

I skimmed the paper, so I'm not sure I got this right, but my understanding is the following: 1. pick a random direction 2. compute the derivative along that direction using forwar…

Indeed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di3fPj0pUbQ Microwave frequencies used in ovens would be dangerous because they can penetrate deep in the body and heat internal tissues, but…

I suppose you could defocus it a bit so that it hits a biggish spot.

One concept I've toyed with for a while is a laser blanket. A ceiling mounted infrared camera measures the temperature across your body, and an infrared laser automatically goes an…

> Richard Francis Burton was one of the first Europeans to visit Mecca while in disguise as a Pashtun. Burton supposedly spoke dozens of languages With any luck he's got the source…

> People (intestinal gas emissions containing hydrogen sulfide) He who unleashed it tarnished it.