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zanek

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About zanek

dan (at) automatictrade.xyz

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    Comment #44630839

    I just tried Claude Squad this morning , the instructions to use and interface was very clunky . There also was no uninstall instructions or scripts , so I had to write one and uni…

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    Comment #42808791

    Silk Road was a neutral marketplace ? What kind of drugs are you on ? Or are you just completely not aware of what happened Ross willingly sold weapons, body parts, etc on it. He p…

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    Comment #42799694

    your argument is actually quite dumb, because they have messages from Ross giving the OK to sell most of these things. He wasnt some hands off executive who had no idea. Smart peop…

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    Comment #42788547

    I feel like I'm taking crazy pills reading the comments on this thread. Multiple teenagers (one in Australia) died from the drugs distributed on Silk Road. Ross was ok with selling…

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    Comment #38496256

    Location: Menlo Park, CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: - Scaled a company from 0 to a $50 million contract with software I wrote from scratch - Wrote a trading …

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    Comment #38028521

    Bing's chatGpt does most of this, but their usage seems to not growing that much. I think people's learned behaviors are entrenched with Google paying for default search access (Sa…

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    Comment #36780084

    Thanks for posting this ! I actually laughed outloud at the response

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    Comment #35335616

    Where is the pricing for the API ? How is that under custom when Eleven Labs and everything else clearly describe the price. Not showing that is an instant reject for me

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    Comment #34320962

    Link: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-talks-invest-10-bil...

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    Comment #33615510

    Looks like its just matching words near other words. It doesnt understand NOT in sentences or what anything actually means. I'm not impressed Q: What is a protein that does NOT wor…

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    Comment #32756131

    How were the VCs aware of the MRR of a private company ? I'd assume some external indicator like position in the app store, but outside of that, I'm curious how'd they know ?

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    Comment #32640143

    This reminds me of counterfeit capitalism https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/wework-and-counterfeit-ca... "Engaging in such a strategy used to be illegal . Capitalism works because…

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    Comment #32537226

    I agree, I just disabled it today. I'd say 3 out of 10 times it produced a good result. Most of the time the structure looked ok but the variable names were wrong, or the types wer…

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    Comment #30120088

    yea, that's my biggest fear right there (in terms of raising money). I doubt he walks away with anything after pouring his life into the company for years. I get that they raised $…

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    Comment #29944256

    Can you elaborate on what you mean by this ? Do you have any examples of what this could look like in practice ?

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    Comment #29608872

    Relevant tweet with Tai Lopez explaining: https://twitter.com/tailopez/status/1333228688456904707?s=21

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    Comment #28349780

    Funny, I've actually had a lot of fun working on this compression software. It's a weird mix of needing it to be fast and hitting a compression threshold of it being useful. One of…

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    Comment #28349553

    I'm working on a different type of compression (for all file types). I am able to to get in the 10-20% range, but the speed to compress is to slow many times, or the compression do…

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    Comment #28272243

    Slightly tangential, the image on the homepage of the woman/baby is 11MB and scaled down by the HTML attributes ! Thats ridiculously large for that image

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