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> email clients that don't implement CSS properly (Outlook). Can anyone explain how this is even possible? It's 2025.

Awesome

is this better than miniconda?

my experience of trading and speculation has been the opposite. very little profit (or zero or negative profit) in return for an extraordinary amount of effort and expertise. see A…

> trading just doesn’t make sense to me. it's not complicated. suppose Bob wants to buy an Acura NSX and Kazuo wants to sell a Honda NSX. enter trader Joe. he knows Bob, and he kno…

> send one or two people into the boonies ... there was the small (vanishngly small?) possibility of a good payout This was called "wild catting." It gave people an excuse to carry…

Presenting: "Terminatrix." A console-based, AI-driven, text-based RPG video game, in less than 100 lines of Python. I've enjoyed minutes (even hours) of entertainment with this vid…

OK well good that you've done your research then.

Is that one for you?

Oh wow, I read this story as evidence that neural nets are not the future back when I was an undergrad studying machine learning. Maybe I should have followed my instincts back the…

Time for copyright laws to be rewritten then.

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that's not a thing. Lying to the court is a routine part of litigation, and there is no penalty or sanction for it - especially not against th…

This needs to be re-expressed as a % of GDP to be useful. And as already pointed out, the largest of them (Lehman) is missing

> Males have dominated all power structures in every society in the history of humankind > Why are men doing this to themselves? What you are doing here is using a tiny substrata o…

I know that those networks still exist, but literal "boys only" country clubs are no longer socially acceptable as far as I know.

> For admission to Chief, a women’s leadership network, members pay up to $7,900. That gets them executive coaching, big-name speaker sessions, a Rolodex of female executives and, …

That is a LOT of words dedicated to something that the author thinks is "ridiculous." People like this never pause to ask why they spend so much time thinking about things that the…

TLDR: Lobbyists are going to use AI to ply their nefarious trade more effectively. In order to stop them, Congress needs to stop passing "monolithic, multi-thousand-page omnibus bi…

They're being generous by saying it was merely a lack of competence. If they were in another mood, they could say that their aircraft was deliberately attacked in an act of war.

Imagine a convenient, Single Point of access for all your Redundancy-as-a-Service needs!

> Moody's was threatening to downgrade them, and they were forced to ac Ah I was missing that part of the story. It turns out that SVB hired Goldman Sachs to advise them on this cr…

How bank runs were historically handled in the US is that the depositors lost all of their money. Banks runs are a recurring problem that have a history going back hundreds of year…

Yes. I learned that the VC industry, at the company management level and even at the venture capital management level, had a very poor understanding of banking. Some crazy percenta…