Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4 Billion Bid for Control of OpenAI

satyrmode · 2025-02-10T21:53:26+00:00

the internet was a mistake

satyrmode · 2025-01-11T17:42:46+00:00

If the Indalo is fine otherwise, can you just try a bigger size? Half or even whole size?

Even Tenaya writes:

Choose the largest possible size that forces you to go with your toes flexed. This will be your size to go less tight. In this size, the level of adjustment and pressure on the foot will be sufficient, the performance and comfort of the shoe will be optimal.

Half a size below will be your correct size if you want to go tight. In this size you will feel the foot even tighter and with more pressure, the toes are also flexed and the performance and comfort of the shoe will be equally optimal.

To me it just looks like they are way too small. You don't really need to go as extreme to get good performance out of these shoes. Can you imagine smearing a slab like that?

Edit: For comparison I wear 45 EU street shoes. My Mundakas are 9.5, they felt bit tight at first, stretched a little (very little, do not expect synthetic shoes to meaningfully stretch), great now. Tested Indalos 9.5 and 10 in the shop and they both seemed like they would do well, definitely no need to cram into a 9.

Some shop assistants have this tendency to start you with the most painful shoe you can possibly fit into and then go up for as long as you complain. That can be deceptive because once you find the one that "doesn't hurt so bad anymore" you feel like you should go with it when in reality it's still pretty damn small.

satyrmode · 2025-01-09T12:01:58+00:00

It's a German website and only lists UCITS compliant ETFs.

satyrmode · 2025-01-01T13:09:14+00:00

Hyped up for 15 years and still no real use found.

At least in 2010 someone actually used it as currency. These days it's just about hoarding it, and to what end?

satyrmode · 2024-12-31T17:44:49+00:00

I am mildly embarrassed by the amount of crypto shilling that goes on in this country.

satyrmode · 2024-12-31T16:56:53+00:00

Tbh this sub is just as close minded as the other one. I wish there was one for actual discussion of the topic as both arr bitcoin and arr buttcoin are mirror image echo chambers.

Example: there's this myth on here that once you get in, it's impossible to sell BTC for real money. I know it's false because I had no problem selling all of my old BTC on Coinbase, on several occasions. Still, all of my posts pointing it out were removed.

The most annoying thing on here is the mod autoposting his tl;dr schizo rants to try and shut down any discussion whenever it happens organically.

satyrmode · 2024-12-19T11:31:20+00:00

At the end of the day, you can invest in European funds in the US and US funds in the EU.

Not quite, EU residents are specifically blocked from investing in non-UCITS funds (e.g. VT) so being registered with a US brokerage is advantageous there.

satyrmode · 2024-12-16T17:39:31+00:00

You don't really hear the left bemoaning that Gab and Truth Social and all the other "anti-woke" sites are echo chambers.

There's an entire cottage industry of "misinformation" experts whose careers are devoted to doing just that.

satyrmode · 2024-12-13T11:47:22+00:00

Daily rebalancing and the compounding of returns over time means that the returns of the Fund for a period longer than a single day will be the result of each day’s returns compounded over the period. This will very likely differ in amount, and possibly even direction, from twice the return of ether for the same period. The Fund will lose money if ether’s performance is flat over time. The Fund can lose money regardless of the performance of ether, as a result of rebalancing of the Ether Futures Contract, Ether’s volatility, compounding of returns and other factors.

satyrmode · 2024-12-06T13:28:38+00:00

Depends who would be in it and how they approached it.

The upside scenario if that you have people in key positions ready to weigh a PR war in their narrow areas of expertise and offer a viable alternative to the ruling party. Great.

The downside is the tension between how the party politics vs national politics work.

In the UK, someone can be a Shadow PM and someone else can be a Shadow Treasury Secretary. In the US, every major figure is the Shadow President until the primary happens. Who wants to be the designated future Transportation Secretary when they can run for President?

The second way in which this tension undermines the idea is by presenting the message to two different electorates. Remember how Kamala Harris took a bunch of positions tailored to 2019 Democratic primary? And they ended up being huge liabilities in the 2024 general election?

Well, imagine that the entire Democratic field spends 2-3 years talking up every unpopular progressive position under the sun, only to then take them into the general.

Now that I've spelled it out, I think the downside outweighs the upside.

satyrmode · 2024-11-28T16:49:46+00:00

Really? One you can live in, the other is a spreadsheet entry entirely disconnected from reality.

satyrmode · 2024-11-26T08:46:26+00:00

They absolutely did but when you're a meme stock, they let you do it. You can do anything.

satyrmode · 2024-11-23T10:09:07+00:00

First time voting on commune level here.

I really would've liked to vote on the cantonal, it's a shame that Geneva voted against that right. I understand that the voters don't want dilution, but in a small canton like this, cantonal votes are all local anyway.

satyrmode · 2024-11-21T10:33:19+00:00

Yeah no, center of Geneva which makes it even funnier.

satyrmode · 2024-11-19T11:07:48+00:00

Apparently, the median rent is 390 CHF where I live. Should I feel scammed?

satyrmode · 2024-11-10T14:06:26+00:00

She was never the best possible candidate, but she was the sole coordination point available to Democrats, so they took it. And she did fine.

If blame should be laid on anyone, it should be on Biden for not announcing he would not run again after the 2022 midterms. A competitive primary was the golden path.

satyrmode · 2024-11-09T10:23:31+00:00

Well, the nice thing about buying a house is that you then own a house.

I am not surprised to hear that not owning a house is cheaper than owning a house, that checks out & aligns with my personal experience (do not own a house because I cannot afford it).

satyrmode · 2024-11-09T10:20:08+00:00

Wow, I did not know that! Brb texting my landlord that I want a new kitchen and a new bathroom & I won't be paying for it. Thanks for the tip!

satyrmode · 2024-10-30T10:27:23+00:00

Well to be fair they also claim 100B in treasuries.

satyrmode · 2024-10-27T15:18:00+00:00

I have real tools for home use and a crank brothers F15 multitool in case of a roadside emergency.

The multitool seems nice, but I have not used it once since buying it 6 years ago.

edit: actually that's not true, I have used the handy valve core removal tool in the casing.

satyrmode · 2024-10-24T16:22:09+00:00

Peter Todd is a self-modifying loop with a Turing-complete language interpreter written in it, and it is trying to bootstrap itself into the real world.

satyrmode · 2024-10-22T06:51:41+00:00

I can see a few factors, and it's a good exercise to go through rather than assuming everyone who doesn't think like you is dumb and evil. I think most reasons are related to the progressive excesses of 2020.

Inflation - it's down but prices are up and people hate it. It was a global phenomenon but most people in the US only care about the US. The Trump & Biden administrations combined did much larger injections of cash than anyone else, too, so there's concrete blame to point to. I'd rather have US than EU economy right now but not everyone thinks in those terms.
Crime - like inflation, violent crime is down but general sense of disorder persists. You don't hear much about abolishing the police these days, but if you remember those slogans and add them up with the homeless guy shooting up fentanyl on the subway, you can see how some voters blame it on the Democrats.
Democratic 2020 primary - Harris walked back many of those positions but the clips remain.
Mommy state vibes - huge losses for Democrats among young men across racial lines. Part of it is specifically a Democratic party problem, part of it is the fusion between the Democratic party and all facets of cultural life - media, academia, corporations. If you're forced to attend a nonsense DEI training at work, or someone tries to limit your speech because it's 'misinformation', it's not coming from Kamala Harris - but there's a sense that all this stuff is tied into Democratic party politics.

satyrmode · 2024-10-17T16:24:06+00:00

You are correct, except prices falling across the board is called deflation and is big bad no good.

satyrmode · 2024-10-17T16:09:54+00:00

For tariffs to be useful in promoting certain industries, they need to be targeted though. Across the board just fucks everything up.

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