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ilamont

53,799karma·6,821submissions·October 11, 2007
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Sequoia also had to apologize to its investors for an embarrassing bet on FTX after the crypto exchange imploded It wasn't just the embarrassing bet. It was the way it happened: a totally amate…
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Enderman pointed the finger at AI, claiming it was AI that linked his secondary channel to a foreign channel, and subsequently terminated his accounts. Not surprised at all. Hallucinations or other …
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We purchased a low-end LG OLED TV in 2022. A few months ago it started inserting LG text ads with a little bullseye at the bottom of the screen while watching OTA programs or using streaming apps. It …
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WSJ is not owned by Jeff Bezos, but by another billionaire Rupert Murdoch. By all means skip the Wall Street Journal's sneering editorials, but don't ignore the reporting. For example, the T…
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I took this train or another one that crossed to Sicily in the early 90s. It was at night, so there wasn’t much to look at while the mechanics of being transferred from the wharf to the boat and then …
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Account created 10 minutes ago, hitting talking points of the almond growers industry association.
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From the intro to the original paper: But deep conceptual shifts within twentieth-century science have undermined this Cartesian-Newtonian metaphysics; revisionist studies in the history and philosop…
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“An HCP which resets while driving may cause a loss of motive power which can cause a vehicle crash without prior warning.” I assume other modern hybrids have control processors that perform similar…
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This fact was included in Walter Isaacson's bio, describing his return to Apple.
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