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Comment Re:SVB wasn't an bank for individuals (Score 3, Insightful) 227

The SVB president, Greg Becker, lobbied Congress in 2015 to raise the size threshold for banks that would require "stress testing".

SVB, like our mid-sized bank peers, does not present systemic risks.

https://www.govinfo.gov/conten... - page 115

And in 2018, Trump relaxed the Dodd-Frank regulations, so here we are.

Comment Re:Dear summary writter (Score 3, Informative) 127

tl;dr

One of my former colleagues spoke with the person who took over from him as the support specialist for OS/2 for Mach 20. According to that person's memory (which given the amount time that has elapsed, means that we should basically be saying "according to legend" at this point), a total of eleven copies of "OS/2 for Mach 20" were ever sold, and eight of them were returned.

That leaves three customers who purchased a copy and didn't return it. And the support specialist had personally spoken with two of them.

Comment Re:BlockFI made fatal mistake trusting Bankman-Fri (Score 1) 42

Prince definitely did not come across as a YOLO-ing frat-fucking crypto-bro.

They were catering to the market sector of suckers that wear suits and think that somehow they can get double the going interest rate by investing magic beans instead of real money. Still suckers, though.

Comment Re:That's fine by me (Score 1) 371

Here's some data. It's basically saying the same thing as all the other data: vaccination leads to far fewer severe complications when you get the disease.

From January to April 2022, when the Omicron variant was predominant, hospitalization rates were 10.5 times higher in unvaccinated persons and 2.5 times higher in vaccinated persons with no booster dose, respectively, compared with those who had received a booster dose. Among sampled cases, vaccinated hospitalized patients with COVID-19 were older than those who were unvaccinated (median [IQR] age, 70 [58-80] years vs 58 [46-70] years, respectively) and more likely to have 3 or more underlying medical conditions (1926 [77.8%] vs 4124 [51.6%], respectively).

https://jamanetwork.com/journa...

Comment Re:Nah - just enjoy the final output (Score 1) 77

The category he entered was for "Artistic practice that uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentation process", and includes digitally-altered photography (i.e. photoshop tweaks like saturation and filters). So do you have to make your own camera and computer from raw materials to qualify? Or is it enough to just write the software? And does the software have to be written in assembly code, or are high-level-languages enough? How high is too high-level?

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