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New comment by QuotedForTruth in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

QuotedForTruth — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:32:28 +0000

These funds don’t invest actively (picking individual stocks). Instead they invest in indexes that track larger portions of the market. So they’ll automatically buy once the company is listed on the NASDAQ.

New comment by QuotedForTruth in "My first year in sales as technical founder"

QuotedForTruth — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 23:12:38 +0000

If you play game theory optimal (GTO) then you by definition can not be exploited. For poker a GTO strategy is extremely complex where each decision you make depends on the exact situation and includes varying your decisions over time. Like bluff raising 60% of the time and folding 40% of the time you’re in some very specific situation. It’s basically putting your opponent into a situation that they can’t make a profitable decision in the long term.

It’s not really practically possible to do. But if two people did they would have 0 expected value over time against each other. If one player slightly differed from game theory optimal strategy that would give the other one positive expected value. There is no way they can change from GTO strategy to exploit you.

However, this isn’t necessarily the most profitable way to play against real people. When your opponents aren’t playing GTO, there will be some non-GTO strategy that exploits them most effectively. Like if they call too much then you should raise for value more often than against a GTO opponent and bluff less.

New comment by QuotedForTruth in "Bicycle"

QuotedForTruth — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 21:44:24 +0000

Veritasium did a great video on the opposite direction turning. They even show a bike that prevents you from turning the wheel one way to show that its essential.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cNmUNHSBac

New comment by QuotedForTruth in "Toyota owners have to pay $8/month to keep using their key fob for remote start"

QuotedForTruth — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 19:45:23 +0000

"Im in! Wait! $8/month?! Go get mom's credit card"

New comment by QuotedForTruth in "Chess Grandmaster Kasparov on Mob Mentality and Groupthink"

QuotedForTruth — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 23:08:14 +0000

> They didn’t really acknowledge that the majority of cancels are just normal people who post stupid Tweets that then lose their jobs and get radicalized.

Can you provide any examples of this? I found myself agreeing with the against side because I really don’t see this happening.

New comment by QuotedForTruth in "Western Digital confirms speed crippling SN550 SSD flash change"

QuotedForTruth — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 18:21:34 +0000

Usually its not easy to tell. There are often less ports and other obvious features, but who knows whats inside. I dont think anyone has ever done a component level breakdown like they do for storage.

>These derivative models are toned down versions of standard ones, perhaps offering a reduced number of HDMI ports or lower quality components. However, it's hard to say -- it can even be hard to tell which specific TVs are derivatives, requiring a careful scan of a model number which could total eight or nine digits.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/benzingainsights/2012/11/21/why...

New comment by QuotedForTruth in "iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more"

QuotedForTruth — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 18:49:03 +0000

The newest ipad Air has touch id in the power/lock button on the side. I know production timelines probably made it impossible to do in reaction to COVID, but can you imagine if they had put this on iphone 12 late last year? So many iphone users would have bought one just to fix face ID with masks.

New comment by QuotedForTruth in "Greg LeMond’s New 26 LB. Carbon Fiber Ebike"

QuotedForTruth — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 06:28:35 +0000

The frame weighs 3 lbs, not the whole bike. The bike weighs 16.5 lbs which is a normal lightweight bike weight. Their e-bike supposedly weighs 24 lbs.

New comment by QuotedForTruth in "M1 Macs Review"

QuotedForTruth — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 17:45:54 +0000

If you meant the older supra then that makes more sense.

The Supra wasn't produced for many years and was recently re-released with this BMW partnership. Many old school Supra fans feel its strayed pretty far from its past and don't regard it well.

The car industry is full of comparisons like this. Luxury is a different scale than performance. You can have either or both. Macs exist higher on the luxury scale than most windows laptops and they offer models across the performance scale. Quite like BMW.

New comment by QuotedForTruth in "M1 Macs Review"

QuotedForTruth — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 18:27:30 +0000

This is a funny comparison since BMW actually builds the Supra. Its basically a rebranded Z4.

https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/comparison-test/a310046...

New comment by QuotedForTruth in "Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads made within its iOS app?"

QuotedForTruth — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 22:29:00 +0000

You cant buy kindle books via the amazon app for exactly this reason. You can only download a sample. If you open the website in a browser though, you can.

New comment by QuotedForTruth in "SpaceX and ULA win billions in Pentagon rocket contracts"

QuotedForTruth — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 23:08:41 +0000

Its more about the somewhat likely probability that a single launch provider will have a failure that necessitates a lengthy investigation during which they are grounded. Its nice in that situation to have another launch provider who can pick up essential missions.

New comment by QuotedForTruth in "Nvidia will build 700-petaflop supercomputer for University of Florida"

QuotedForTruth — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 14:45:20 +0000

As a UF CS grad, I bet less than 100 students will get hands on this computer each year. Maybe way less than 100.

Although I wasn't a graduate student so maybe way more of them have access than I realize.

New comment by QuotedForTruth in "Nvidia will build 700-petaflop supercomputer for University of Florida"

QuotedForTruth — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 14:43:47 +0000

Its a $70M effort "anchored" by $25M cash donation and $25M in hardware. I've heard anchored used to indicate an initial "getting us started" donation at the beginning of a fund raising drive. Its easier to raise the final portion once you've got momentum and people think the project is likely to be successfully funded.

New comment by QuotedForTruth in "Resignation Letter"

QuotedForTruth — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 20:27:41 +0000

The vast majority of the criticism Rowling has received was not death or rape threats. Why do you ascribe that behavior to the entire "woke-left" (I'm assuming thats who you meant by "they"). Do you not think that targets of the right ever receive rape or death threats? These are not characteristic of the left. There is not some "woke-left" governing body directing people and asking some to give cover so that others can issue rape threats. Why do you choose to focus on them exclusively?

New comment by QuotedForTruth in "Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first"

QuotedForTruth — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 18:40:32 +0000

It already is. Its called theft of services. Never seen it applied to a conventional employee though, but why shouldn't it be?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft_of_services#:~:text=Thef....

New comment by QuotedForTruth in "Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first"

QuotedForTruth — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 18:33:39 +0000

Are they actually focusing on problematic areas or just areas that they previously focused on? Wherever the most police resources are spent, you will have the most crime. That then justifies spending more resources there. The algorithm may not be racist, but it is guaranteed to perpetuate our objectively racist policing of the past.

New comment by QuotedForTruth in "DIY True 4K Projector"

QuotedForTruth — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 19:11:23 +0000

My older Epson 8350 projector has a feature they call "Lens shift." When setting it up you make sure that it is perpendicular to the screen surface. Then it has two mechanical adjustments to vertically and horizontally shift the image. Page 25 of this user manual shows that it can shift the image vertically up to one image height up or down. And horizontally up to one half image width either way. It makes setup a lot more flexible. I'm not sure how common the feature is though on newer more available projectors.

https://files.support.epson.com/pdf/plhc87u/plhc87uug.pdf

New comment by QuotedForTruth in "SpaceX NASA returning human spaceflight to United States today (canceled)"

QuotedForTruth — Wed, 27 May 2020 16:31:03 +0000

They will stay for 1 to 4 months. Its apparently partially dependent on whether they are prepared to launch the first actual crew mission on Aug 30.

A crew swap would require astronauts that are on station to return on the dragon, something they may not have trained for. So to do a swap, you'd probably have to take more than just the two test pilots up since they are likely required to pilot the capsule back down. Taking additional crew on the test flight would certainly be more risky to those additional lives.

New comment by QuotedForTruth in "A small restaurant owner on Google, DoorDash, and Grubhub"

QuotedForTruth — Fri, 15 May 2020 18:41:11 +0000

That was about DoorDash (corporate) keeping tips intended for DoorDash drivers. The person you are replying to wants to tip the restaurant not DoorDash or their driver.