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thehumanmeat··on US Treasuries Have Become Unappetizing for Foreign Central Banks and Governments
The article couldn't be less true. Treasuries are the deepest and most liquid market by far. Foreign CBs hold them so that they can liquidate them when it becomes hard to find dollars. Why else do foreign CBs want to constantly open up swap lines to us when they are hurting?
thehumanmeat··on US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons
Rods from God https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
thehumanmeat··on Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe
There was never a petro-anything. It's always been and is the Eurodollar global reserve currency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurodollar
thehumanmeat··on Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe
Exactly. It's always been posturing.
thehumanmeat··on France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app
Same thing happened with hidden Antarctica bases in 2018.
thehumanmeat··on De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)
The Fed and largely US policy has absolutely no effect on the real reserve currency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurodollar
thehumanmeat··on US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year
My hotter take: We've been in a depression since '08 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=cMV
thehumanmeat··on SK hynix dethrones Samsung as world’s top DRAM maker
Slightly related, I've been wanting to invest in SK Hynix since early '23. Does anyone know how a US investor can get access to the stock? I haven't found any brokers that allow you to trade Korea Exchange tickers.
thehumanmeat··on From Finite Integral Domains to Finite Fields
You get "division".
thehumanmeat··on U.S. Economy Contracts at 0.3% Rate in First Quarter
There never was rampant inflation (in the sense of the term of expanding money supply). It was all driven by the increased prices supply shock driven "inflation". The solution to high prices ("inflation") is high prices, not increased interest rates.
thehumanmeat··on X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links
Yes, to clarify, I do believe that.
thehumanmeat··on WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)
The US left the gold standard well before 1971. Central banks do not create currency, they create bank reserves. There is no indication that it drives money creation. Let me know where I can spend bank reserves to buy goods and services. Money is created from banks, and mostly done so off-shore away from the purview of the central bank. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurodollar
thehumanmeat··on Quantum is unimportant to post-quantum
Because SNDL is a long planned attack for secrets that have a long life time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_now,_decrypt_later

thehumanmeat··on GameStop rockets, as 'Roaring Kitty' returns; shares halted
Short it then.
thehumanmeat··on 2023 ACM Turing Prize awarded to Avi Wigderson
None, it can actually be any constant > 1/2, because you can always run the algorithm a non-exponential number of more times to be more convinced (approaching prob 1) of the answer. 2/3 is just convention.
thehumanmeat··on Why the 2% inflation target? (2023)
There's no point in defining a "target" when the Fed has no control over the vast portion of dollar creation/destruction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurodollar
thehumanmeat··on Joe Rogan Gets New Spotify Deal Worth Up to $250M
Remember when CNN turned him yellow?
thehumanmeat··on Future is quantum: universities look to train engineers for an emerging industry
Quantum ML will be game changing. Running model training on a quantum computer can find GLOBAL minima/maxima in fractions of a second, depending on the number and quality of the qubits of course.
thehumanmeat··on GPU-Accelerated LLM on an Orange Pi
See tinybox https://tinygrad.org/
thehumanmeat··on Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
Definitely smells like some sad reddit mod got upset and is enacting "payback".
thehumanmeat··on Proposed SEC order to freeze, repatriate Binance.US assets
You know the SEC doesn't regulate the world, right?
thehumanmeat··on Bank Failures Visualized
That needs to go back to the 80s to capture the SnL crisis. It dwarfs 08 in bank failures. It better indicates the conglomeration of the many banks into the few we have today.
thehumanmeat··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2023)
Location: Scottsdale, AZ

Remote: Sure!

Willing to relocate: Sure!

Technologies: Python, Linux, AWS, Cryptography, HTML/CSS, Machine Learning, Blockchain, Math/Statistics

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tmanuszak/ | https://treymanuszak.eth.limo/ | https://github.com/tmanuszak

Email: manuszaktrey AT gmail.com

With my Master's degree in Computer Science and Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, I have maintained a 4.0 GPA through a well-balanced program of study and research, which is not only very analytical and technical by nature but also demonstrates leadership and team building qualities. Further, with my relevant coursework, hands-on experience in software development, and research experience, I believe I have the passion for solving challenging problems that you are looking for!

thehumanmeat··on Coinbase secures Bermuda licence
Just because it is a gambling den, doesn't mean there aren't truly revolutionary ideas and projects in there. Same as 2000 tech.

The argument can go both ways.

thehumanmeat··on Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs
It really is. I do often reach out and try networking on LinkedIn with no luck. I have connections to quite a few companies I'd love to work for, and no its not FANG, who recommend me often whenever a position pops up, but still no luck.
thehumanmeat··on Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs
Dec '22 Master's grad + math undergrad here. 4.0 GPA, research + internship experience. 4 months of applications and only 1 interview. Might as well apply to a shredder.
thehumanmeat··on OpenAI’s CEO says the age of giant AI models is already over
That is one AI CEO out of 10,000. Just because OpenAI may not be interested in a larger model in the short term doesn't mean nobody else won't pursue it.
thehumanmeat··on An introduction to zero-knowledge machine learning
One large use case of ML and ZKML is Verifiable Computing. You can have an IoT device be able to enforce an untrusted super computer to process it's data on a certain program in a correct manner.
thehumanmeat··on How randomness can improve algorithms
I also have two blog posts on this topic!

https://treymanuszak.eth.limo/blog/power-of-randomness https://treymanuszak.eth.limo/blog/yao-minimax

thehumanmeat··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2023)

  Location: Scottsdale, AZ
  Remote: Sure!
  Willing to relocate: Sure!
  Technologies: Python, Linux, AWS, Cryptography, HTML/CSS, Machine Learning, Blockchain, Math/Statistics
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tmanuszak/ | https://treymanuszak.eth.limo/ | https://github.com/tmanuszak
  Email: manuszaktrey AT gmail.com
With my Master's degree in Computer Science and Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, I have maintained a 4.0 GPA through a well-balanced program of study and research, which is not only very analytical and technical by nature but also demonstrates leadership and team building qualities. Further, with my relevant coursework, hands-on experience in software development, and research experience, I believe I have the passion for solving challenging problems that you are looking for!
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