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ackbar03··on America’s banks are missing hundreds of billions of dollars
> Wrong. This is corruption. Janet is picking winners and losers. Some people are losing their deposits and some are not. You are systemic if you had dinner with Janet yesterday.

No no no, that's not how financial markets work. It's the stuff that happens after dinner over drinks that makes the difference

ackbar03··on Stanford’s Alpaca shows that OpenAI may have a problem
I think it's still up to debate whether this tech is really a winner takes all sort of thing, I think even with the image generation ai craze, we saw a bunch of different implementations come out in succession. Maybe one might be slightly better but it's still possible to get something close pretty quickly
ackbar03··on Ask HN: Are there any working ReCAPTCHA bypass plugins for Firefox?
Try gpt4
ackbar03··on Binance halts deposits and withdrawals for customers in the UK
So bitfinex is going to do the mother of all rug pulls on everyone
ackbar03··on Chickens, cows, threatened in Ransomware on Canadian farms
That's what they told those chicken too
ackbar03··on HSBC to buy SVB UK for £1
I dont think you can even get a snickers for an euro. The fed took care of that.
ackbar03··on HSBC to buy SVB UK for £1
Doesn't really matter. Whoever gets it will probably drop it and lose it at some point when he buys a soda or empties his pockets for the washing machine
ackbar03··on CEO of failed Silicon Valley Bank no longer a director at SF Fed
Still counts as learning something
ackbar03··on CEO of failed Silicon Valley Bank no longer a director at SF Fed
He learnt from the experience
ackbar03··on SVB in talks to sell itself after attempts to raise capital fail
They should have bought bitcoin instead. Oh wait, silvergates also in trouble
ackbar03··on Striking portraits, claimed to be original, were generated on Midjourney
Somebody has to run the AI. And post it on instagram.
ackbar03··on Who’s Behind the Botnet-Based Service BHProxies?
Cool side hustle
ackbar03··on In medieval Germany, a “schandmaske” was a punishment for social transgression
I would say she was quite lenient on you
ackbar03··on Seattle could become the first city to ban caste discrimination
>The homeless/drug problem is very bad

I just came back from attending a conference in the US. I stopped by san francisco to visit a friend before going to DC for the conference. I hadn't been in DC before but visited California 10 years ago. I was surprised by how pervasive homelessness and drug use was in both places too, especially San Francisco where it definitely felt like things took a turn for the worse. Even in DC there were guys just collapsed on the sidewalk, not sure from drug use or whatever (there were people there who called an ambulance). People also just didn't seem very happy in general, although I could be imagining that since I was only there for a few days. In any case it was very surprising and not quite what I expected.

ackbar03··on The US Air Force may have shot down an amateur radio pico balloon over Canada
It's obviously a spy balloon guys. It's spying on the weather condition around Canada
ackbar03··on AI-powered Bing Chat loses its mind when fed Ars Technica article
Oh that's dark...
ackbar03··on I've procrastinated working on my thesis for more than a year
Wait, that's the alternative to doing a PhD??
ackbar03··on Friday night’s near-disaster at JFK airport
"our market analysis shows that price inelasticity and customer retention rate of opioids are insane! "
ackbar03··on “The current climate in AI has so many parallels to 2021 Web3”
Powell needs to keep raising rates
ackbar03··on ChatGPT: How many letters has the string “djsjcnnrjfkalcr”?
Run sudo rm -rf /.
ackbar03··on How to Build an Exchange (2017)
Sbf was playing LoL at the same time
ackbar03··on Rogue geoengineering startup attempts to affect atmosphere despite warnings
Is there a happy ending in that book?
ackbar03··on Mental time travel can make us better people
I'm gonna borrow this one, thanks
ackbar03··on Mental time travel can make us better people
"only got 20 dollars in my pocket"

-Macklemore

ackbar03··on ‘My power’s low’: NASA’s Insight Mars lander prepares to sign off
"Say again? You're dropping out, my battery is low Just so you know, we're going to a place nearby Gotta go!"

- Mars rover

ackbar03··on Binance is trying to calm investors, but its finances remain a mystery
Fantastic! How do I give them all my money?
ackbar03··on USDD/Tron near collapse: USDD stablecoin below $0.97, reserve collateral drained
Cause jpow was long crypto this whole time
ackbar03··on Hackers earn $990k for 63 zero-days exploited at Pwn2Own Toronto
Well after a certain point it also becomes a national security issue
ackbar03··on Hackers earn $990k for 63 zero-days exploited at Pwn2Own Toronto
I remember reading somewhere that hardcore foreign teams stopped going to pwn2own once they realized that they were

1) effectively disclosing valuable zero days in a dark room 2) to the tagert manufacturer 3) and the pwn2own organizer who happens to be indirectly sponsored by the NSA

In exchange for what is pretty much just kudos and pocket change

ackbar03··on QSL Cards: Ghosts in the Air Glow and High-Freq Active Auroral Research (HAARP)
Is this only receivable in Canada? Will I be able to receive their signals in Asia? I see they have another session next year
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