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The same passcode prompt appears after software updates, multiple previous failed Face ID login attempts, and maybe more. Not a lawyer, but everyone has a password locked phone and…

Generally I'd rather be in a trade surplus; I would want my country to sell more things than it buys. Energy, technology, machinery, services, whatever it is, if I'm selling, it me…

is that a daily ai generated podcast? and ai generated icons...

The swapping of any asset for another asset would be a taxable event

Every city should have its own municipal chip fabrication plant!

Are you going to be suing?

The root cause of this is: 1) population size, 2) social investment into math and science.

Ah, so gold is a shiny rock that doesn't have a decentralized transmission network (the internet). Mining and smelting gold requires quite a bit of electricity. But Bitcoin the net…

That's great. I also enjoy taking custody of my data and property.

And how does it compare to gold?

Your observations are also a bullish signal for Bitcoin, as it sort of functions as a "digital gold". Cheaper to transmit, cheaper to custody, basically instantly auditable/verifia…

Not sure if this applies to livestreams but look into the --download-sections arg? yt-dlp --download-sections "*05:00-05:10"

On my reading list: Principles For Navigating Big Debt Crises by Ray Dalio

A lot of manual labor and optimization on the marginal things. Ex: Raspberries start to get funky. Bad ones get picked out, good ones get regrouped into a new tray package. Ripe av…

Heart rate training is key for a smoother onboarding. Most beginners (myself included) simply try to do a pace that they simply can't sustain, think running is too hard, and then q…

I bought shares, a sum that I could afford to lose but also a non-trivial amount. As it went up, I occasionally sold some and took profit, but not much, till now. I saw how importa…

Fair enough. As someone who bought NVDA in 2016/2017 and held till now, I'm very happy with the way I applied my software knowledge to profit where I won't have to work again. Risk…

Yes, that is a limit of the model (PE ratio) that we're using. It requires the holding of all variables to be constant, which is not practical. We use it as a snapshot in time to c…

NVDA's current forward P/E ratio (price to earnings) is about 37. That means if we hold constant the profit earnings, if you bought the whole company at its current valuation ($4tr…

I'm not sure this is a "free market choices" problem. Some institutions like education should be funded by government, in part or in whole. The government threatening to take away …

Does the existence of Google or Stackoverflow result in poor work, or is it the way the programmer utilizes them?

You don't really have a startup, you're back to searching for an idea to work on. Your team is no longer productive.

If the consumer price index, which is a metric the Fed uses, goes up, then inflation has gone up. Every dollar buys you less (less purchasing power), and the nominal price has incr…

I believe he owns about 13% of TSLA shares as of now. I think he his outlived his usefulness to the company (how can he actually be productive considering the things he spending hi…

To be ultra targeted you actually have to know where your target is when your bomb goes off. When you detonate thousands at once, you're simply accepting the civilian casualty risk…