Coopr8
@Coopr8@kbin.earth
- Comment on Richest American to FAFO? 2 hours ago:
Bernie Madoff had the largest fall from $65 billion estimated at peak to $17 billion at time of arrest then dying in prison.
Changpeng Zhao of Binance will be the richest person in the US, and probably ever, to do time in prison after conviction, but his wealth won't be impacted and it is only a few months, so hardly much Finding Out involved.
Sam Bankman-Fried is potentially an even bigger Find Out than Madoff, because unlike Madoff who maintained a large estate even after going to jail, SBF has gone from around $24 billion to $15.5 Billion at time of arrest, to now close to zero on paper as almost all his wealth was tied up in FTX and crypto and it was "all" siezed as part of his conviction and the FTX winddown. Now that said, he probably has a lot of crypto stashed in cold wallets somewhere that have appreciated substantially since his arrest, so it is hard to know how much he would be worth if he ever got access to them, but as I understand it he is basically banned from using computers and facing over 100 years on his sentence, so he better be putting in a lot of good behavior of he ever hopes to see any of that secret stash again.
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 4 days ago:
I haven't actually issued it over to my ereader yet, but I have a Boox so I will probably just use the Kiwix android app
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 5 days ago:
Have you actually smelted and alloyed useable steel from ores before?
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 5 days ago:
This is a good reminder, I need to upload my Kiwix backup to my eReader. I keep a Wikipedia essentials download, survival and medical encyclopedias, and a bunch of "from the ground up" engineering resources backed up offline.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 1 week ago:
If the owners primarily want to make money by taking out a portion of revinue as dividends or distributions, like a family business typically does, then stable revenue is more important in some ways than reinvesting in growth.
If the ownership wants to make money by eventually selling their stake (shares or equity) in the company then growth is fundamental to the strategy.
- Comment on In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena? 1 week ago:
The biggest difference is that the Dot Com bubble was strongly focused on tech companies going public and pumping small cap stock prices up.
The AI bubble on the other hand is almost entirely being built by private equity, with the largest players all privately held but with large cap stock companies holding substantial stakes. Rather than a bunch of small companies getting pumped up stock prices of many multiples of their debut price then falling to zero, instead we have large cap stock companies bumping up their value substantially, but not by major multiples, while the actual value of the biggest players in AI are all speculative and can't be invested in by retail investors.
This is all by design, the financiers of the AI boom are well aware that a public stock oriented rush into AI for retail investors would lead to massive speculation and an inevitable crash, instead with all the retail money going into large cap stocks they hope to capture that value and funnel the money into buying long term gains by making sure that those big companies have some stake in the "winning" private companies. When the first big AI companies go bust, they will be consolidated into their investor groups and harvested for innovation to transfer over to the winners.
Overall this strategy seems sound to avoid a major retail stock bust, but isn't wothout its own risks, for example if open source AI ends up winning out and the biggest private players fall flat they could become toxic assets and drag down the large cap stocks, and thereby the Indexes and Index funds in favor of leaner players. In the current landscape, that would mean Microsoft going down with OpenAI while Apple goes up, Apple is waiting on the sidelines with a huge cash warchest, ready to buy.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 2 weeks ago:
OuterTune is nice, thanks for the tip. I thought for a second it was going to have my number one desired feature for a YouTube front end: playlist folders, but alas it's all just a list once again.
Is the local view missing sort by artist and album or am I missing something?
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 2 weeks ago:
What? I pay $23 for YouTube Premium Family Plan, which includes ad free video and YouTube Music for 4 people. Still pretty reasonable IMO, never going back to Spotify that's for sure, I have thought about trying Qobuz for higher quality, but the price increase across my family plus the fact that I never ever want to war h ads on YouTube makes it a difficult value prop, I'd probably rather buy one album a month from BandCamp.
- Comment on how come Lemmy show more upvoted posts further down the thread instead of at the top? 2 weeks ago:
Just a note that comment sort is currently broken on Interstellar app, but they are working on fixing it. You can change the default in settings and that will work, but not the menu in posts.
- Comment on oh cool 3 weeks ago:
Wow, and doesnt he look just like you might imagine one.
- Comment on what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace? 3 weeks ago:
I think in a Healthcare setting this has a lot to do with these types of rules.
Regardless of the fact that most communications in other languages will not be this, there will almost certainly be cases where a second language is used to talk about a patient or coworker in their presence. This builds an outgroup/ingroup dynamic that can undermine confidence in healthcare outcomes and cause patient distress.
Essentially, if some people hear another language being spoken in their presence, and especially if they are in a vulnerable state, they will assume they are being talked about disparagingly or conspired against. Avoiding causing undue distress to patients is a standard of care concern.
- Comment on Are There Any Pastebin Alternatives that Allow Editing and Long-Term Storage? 4 weeks ago:
a couple more open source options with actual pastebin type interfaces, but which have not been updated in some time and have official instances which have been blacklisted on uBlock are:
hastebin https://github.com/kevr/hastebin
and DPaste https://github.com/DarrenOfficial/dpaste
- Comment on Are There Any Pastebin Alternatives that Allow Editing and Long-Term Storage? 4 weeks ago:
https://hedgedoc.org/ for self-hosted option.
cryptpad.fr for a private free cloud hosted option that doesnt require an email to sign up.
- Comment on Are There Any Pastebin Alternatives that Allow Editing and Long-Term Storage? 4 weeks ago:
PrivateBin is an open source Client side encrypted alternative to PasteBin that has everything you want, with the caviat that jusy like Fediverse you have to pick an instance you trust to stick around, or self-host of course.
- Comment on what can I do at my workplace during downtime? 4 weeks ago:
Well, there are ways to jailbreak kindles and use third party software like this: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Installation-on-Kindle-devices
- Comment on what can I do at my workplace during downtime? 4 weeks ago:
As a side note, check out the app Mihon if you like to read comics, the seas are open for sailing if you're that sort, or its just a great reader. Works great on Boox.
- Comment on what can I do at my workplace during downtime? 4 weeks ago:
Boox is best because it runs full android, dont lock yourself in to Amazon. Some folks prefer Supernote if writing us your focus, but if reading is your jam get Boox as you can read any format, download off of any site or app, sideboard and run f-droid, read the web, even use the fediverse. The screens are as good as you can get, and the software stays updated.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
This is stalking. She could get a restraining order which includes interacting with her online content, so if he continued to repost it would be a violation of the order.
- Comment on The Woofstream 5 weeks ago:
Resisting them big plateau winds!
- Comment on What goes here? 5 weeks ago:
Meet my cousin Allonautilus scrobiculatus and his slimy shell.
altr - Comment on What goes here? 5 weeks ago:
Hello Fellow Kids
altr - Comment on The Bog 1 month ago:
Its a big
fieldbog, and the people in charge of harvest have to move around in it. Also they drag the boom across the bog surface to harvest, so poles in the ground aren't really an option.The better question is... why not float rafts on the bog with the berries to let the spiders flee into those first then let the people wade in. Arachnid employees deserve safe evacuation! Probably wouldn't fully solve the problem, but might make it a bit better.
- Comment on The Bog 1 month ago:
I love this.
- Comment on 🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡 1 month ago:
A lesson every child should be taught in school before they are 18: if you want to do something talk to someone who has done it or tried to before you start. All it would have taken was one conversation with an Adjunct Professor to avoid this, or really any professor.
- Comment on Summoning Circle 1 month ago:
Deep Magic by Diane Duane anyone?
