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Comment · 2 years ago
I'm not a lawyer and this isn't investment advice so don't sue me if I'm wrong but I'm not sure this qualifies as insider trading in the way that would be illegal for public markets.

Aren't most investors in private companies privy to information that isn't entirely public?

I can see how this feels a bit different because DataBricks might be the size where it might trade with a decent amount of liquidity, but certainly in smaller rounds it's got to be pretty normal.

Maybe if she bought it secondary and the person from whom she purchased the shares was witheld this information they could sue?

Comment · 2 years ago
What if i use an LLM powered AI to operate VFX software to generate a realistic looking scene? ;)
Comment · 2 years ago
I think you have a bit backwards. If you want to publish pixels on a screen there should be no assumption that they represent real events.

If you want to publish proof of an event, you should have some pixels on a screen along with some cryptographic signature from a device sensor that would necessitate atleast a big corporation like Nikon / Sony / etc. being "in on it" to fake.

Also since no one likes RAW footage it should probably just be you post your edited version which may have "AI" upscaling / de-noising / motion blur fixing etc, AND you can post a link to your cryptographically signed verifiable RAW footage.

Of course there's still ways around that like your footage could just be a camera being pointed at an 8k screen or something but at least you make some serious hurdles and have a reasonable argument to the video being a result of photons bouncing off real objects hitting your camera sensor.

Comment · 3 years ago
> Simply put, there's no first-world country in the world where top talent can earn even close to a US salary, which largely due to the fact that US is relatively permissive towards large income disparities.

Why do you think it's A -> B and not B -> A? What factors of the US being permissive towards large income disparities do other nations lack that prevent them from paying equivalent salaries.

One specific thing I've heard which makes sense to me toward explaining the salary gap is the US tends to have at-will employment while other nations make it more difficult to fire people. I wouldn't personally classify as promoting income disparity though.

Comment · 3 years ago
That tweet which had an image showing bands of latitude that it may hit and times (london/newyork ish tomorrow and day after) has been deleted by the author and now says "I would like to make an apology to the small body community. Some information was shared with me on an internal company message board that I did not have full perspective on and I posted a tweet, which I now understand was not appropriate. It was preliminary data and I did not have full perspective on it."

I don't feel very reassured.

Comment · 3 years ago
Lynx browser does this, for every website I choose which Set-Cookie headers I want to respect and which to ignore.
Comment · 3 years ago
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/mass-shoo...

Can't find data on child killings but norway tops the chart of mass-shootings.

Comment · 4 years ago
That would mean you are sending your shortcuts to the server on every request, localStorage would be much better in that case to save bandwidth.
Comment · 4 years ago
Why do you say that? What’s your experience? I’ve spent years in Japan and live with 2 native Japanese and hear はい and いいえ all the time…

When you give a Japanese person a compliment the most comment response IME is いいえ (nooo I’m not)

And はい is said all the time

Comment · 4 years ago
I wouldn’t say that. Maybe someone would understand what you mean but it’s definitely not as versatile as yes.

I’d say the closest to yes is 嗯

Comment · 4 years ago
In my annectdotal experience the same people who tout wanting to support and hire from a diverse pool of applicants to not miss the next Einstein, don't extend that logic into the Unborn.

I think the way we are likely to solve our greatest issues like climate change through having more smart, well-educated, well-raised, and loved children. So if you're privileged enough to have the capacity to raise such children it's probably one of the greatest things you can do for the future health of this planet (and if you still feel torn about the overall population rate you can still apply this logic to adoption).

If all the altruistic people depopulate themselves, then only the least altruistic will remain.

Comment · 4 years ago
where are they promoting war?

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