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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Very fine people at YouGenics. They sponsor our karting team, the Race Scientists.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I missed the AI bit, but I wasn't surprised.

Do YC, A16z and their ilk ever fund anything good, even by accident?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Cool. Do Oxford comma next!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Breaking: Reply Guy Baffled By Headlinese Complains About Punctuation, Tortures Comma, Semicolon

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Do you expect me to walk?

No, Mr. Bond! I expect you to buy!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Perfect timing, "self", if that really is your name. I was just getting tired of the dirty talk 😇

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Me dropping a radioactive gold bar on my foot: "Au!"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Oh dear, please give Mr. Gerard my apologies for assuming first name basis, how impolite of me.

I think calling gold "most stable currency in human history" is pretty buggish, but maybe by the time I'm intellectually ready to go back to college I'll figure out why it isn't.

Sure, investment in gold is reasonable. Particularly compared to most of whatever the hell Trump administration is doing. You said goldbugs are unreasonable yourself, so your initial hostile tone seems misplaced. Most likely you either misunderstood what was said or felt that the remark about goldbugs was meant to include people as reasonable as yourself, even though no one said investing in gold is unreasonable per se.

As for your later hostile tone, that is perfectly understandable because I'm being almost as much of a condescending dick as you are.

Come to think of it, dragon types are know to be big on hoarding gold so I guess it's natural for you to take the issue so personally.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Hey, there's a new government program to provide care for dementia patients. I should found a company to make myself a middleman for all those sweet Medicare bucks. All I need is a nice, friendly but smart sounding name. Oh, that's it! I'll call it Frenology!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Okay ~~dadd~~professor. Most of us were agreeing that Trump admin trading gold reserves for cryptocoins is a stupid idea. This seems to have attracted people who agreed for the incorrect reason, namely that they think inert yellow metal is the fundamental source and measure of wealth, which David called out. After that it could be one of three things:

a) You misunderstood what David wrote and rudely insinuated he is unfamiliar with the concept of speculative investment.

b) You correctly understood what David wrote and — being a goldbug yourself — took issue with it and proceeded to make the aforementioned rude insinuation.

c) You're flirting with me a bit too aggressively and it's activating my brat instincts, professor~

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I wrote down some theorems and looked at them through a microscope and actually discovered the objectively correct solution to ethics. I won't tell you what it is because science should be kept secret (and I could prove it but shouldn't and won't).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The headline is a bit of a crash blossom, but if you read the article, the comments in this thread, or even the title itself carefully enough, you should be able to parse it. If not, I'll help:

A startup company named "11x", whose business model is AI sales, claims to have customers for its software (which incidentally doesn't work), who in fact are not their customers.

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