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OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership

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284 points·by BoggleOhYeah·2 months ago·109 comments

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BoggleOhYeah
·9 hours ago·discuss
Yeah, that’s just scamming. Unfortunately, that’s pretty common with the camel vendors.

Since camel rides are almost exclusively bought by tourists, it attracts scammers that see the “customers” as easy marks.

The government won’t do anything about it until it starts negatively affecting the money coming into the country via tourism.
BoggleOhYeah
·12 hours ago·discuss
Eh. I concede that there are a ton of scammers in the tourist areas.

However, I think a lot of people used to the manners of the West really struggle with Egypt’s (admittedly, exhausting) haggling culture.
BoggleOhYeah
·12 hours ago·discuss
Yeah. Unfortunately, that’s true of almost any place that is overcrowded to that extent. Their stagnant economy doesn’t help.
BoggleOhYeah
·3 days ago·discuss
That’s not what the article primarily addresses though and the study itself didn’t control for obesity. They make note of it at the end to say that the obesity cause is in dispute but the bulk of the article is focused on other potential causes.

It’s like we need something more interesting than “people sit too much and eat too much”.
BoggleOhYeah
·3 days ago·discuss
I don’t understand why obesity seemingly gets tossed aside when this subject comes up.

It’s the one problem you can see in plain sight at any gathering of people.
BoggleOhYeah
·11 days ago·discuss
Direct quote from the leader of the party Daniel is propping up:

"They will also be forced to leave, even if they are born in Sweden, because they have no natural connection to Sweden. They are not Swedish."

Very empathetic indeed.
BoggleOhYeah
·11 days ago·discuss
Does that line of thinking hold when this party has also said they also want to deport people born in Sweden?

>"They will also be forced to leave, even if they are born in Sweden, because they have no natural connection to Sweden. They are not Swedish."
BoggleOhYeah
·22 days ago·discuss
These ugly ass houses are monuments to the avarice of suburban America.
BoggleOhYeah
·22 days ago·discuss
It’s pretty obvious that a lot of the user base is obsessed with wealth and status and critiquing their main status symbol hits them where it hurts.
BoggleOhYeah
·23 days ago·discuss
“Hey kids. Morality doesn't exist as long as you make enough people money.”

You people are nothing but whores. You can dress it up in some kind of utopian futurism but no one with a brain buys it.
BoggleOhYeah
·24 days ago·discuss
It’s great to finally see a possible alternative to Perforce.
BoggleOhYeah
·26 days ago·discuss
Does anyone still believe anything this guy says?
BoggleOhYeah
·last month·discuss
Some people are just all-in on the moronic MAGA nationalism and refuse to earnestly engage with critiques of the US. America is always better than Europe, even when it's not.
BoggleOhYeah
·last month·discuss
HN does this with every Zitron article.
BoggleOhYeah
·last month·discuss
According to their methodology, they will be fast tracking SpaceX (after five days).

The index is float adjusted so its initial weight in the index will be relatively low.

https://global.morningstar.com/en-ca/stocks/how-will-mega-ip...
BoggleOhYeah
·last month·discuss
CRSP has had fast track rules for quite a while.

They changed their minimum float rule for these mega IPOs with low float.
BoggleOhYeah
·last month·discuss
There is some truth to it.

401ks and pension funds have large amounts of money in index funds.

Major indexes like VTI will buy SpaceX after a waiting period as long as it satisfies other rules (and there have been some rule changes in various indexes to make something with low float like SpaceX eligible for inclusion).

However, most indexes are float-adjusted, meaning that they will adjust the amount of shares of a company in the index based on their float, not their total shares. So, they will initially pick up small amount of weight/shares around the IPO.

The NASDAQ-100 has been bending over backwards to cater to SpaceX, which makes some sense because they want it listed on their exchange. They changed their inclusion rules to include a fast-track for IPOs. This type of mechanism isn't uncommon in other large indexes (VTI has had fast-track rules for a long time) but the timing does make it appear that they changed their rules for SpaceX.

Other providers have made changes to float requirements for inclusion.

The NASDAQ-100 (QQQ being the popular ETF tracking it) is also not float adjusted and, instead, has some capping rules for low-float securities. I haven't done any projections but it seems that NASDAQ-100/QQQ will pickup more shares than the float-adjusted indexes.
BoggleOhYeah
·last month·discuss
Eh. I think it’s fair if Apple doesn’t want to publish something on their app store.

I just wish they weren’t so obstinate about people installing from other sources without signing/notarization. I understand it from a security standpoint but it’s also nakedly self-serving.

I’m glad that they’re fine with signing in this case.
BoggleOhYeah
·last month·discuss
You are correct. That’s what I intended to say but I see that worded that comment unclearly.
BoggleOhYeah
·last month·discuss
I've tried the Z13 Flow and I actually like the form factor except for the folio keyboard. I especially like that, since it's a tablet, it vents hot air out the top instead of into your lap/table. But the whole driver situation was very weird and things would randomly stop working. That may have improved since I tried one ~1 year ago.