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Comment Hedge fail (Score 2) 10

A hedge fund is named such because they (traditionally) hedge against risk. Thus, whether the stock goes up or down, the hedge fund can make money (and lose money if it stays flat).

This fund clearly failed on the hedging. No point in using a hedge fund at that point, might as well have just bought the stock (or options if you're crazy).

Comment Re:They are asking the wrong question.... (Score 1) 38

It's impossible to keep up these spending levels in the long term, and I am yet to see AI profits outpacing the spending.

The expensive part is the training, once the NNs are trained, they are significantly cheaper to run (and there are a lot of optimizations you can do to make them a LOT more efficient).

Comment Re:Sanctions working as expected (Score 1) 28

I'm not sure they do work, though.

There are two ways sanctions work:

1: They are a negative economic factor. Over the long term, growth will be slower, meaning their army will grow relatively weaker and weaker. Biden tried to use this method of sanctions. The obvious example is North Korea.

2: An outright blockade. This can severely damage the economy, which is what happened in Gaza and Trump is trying to do in Iran (with apparent success, although it's hard to untangle the various factors there).

All they seem to do is cement an unfriendly regime's power and make us out to be enemies in the eyes of their people.

When the dictator controls the press, there is no way to avoid that.

Comment Re:As opposed to human slop (Score 1) 77

You have to offend more than one person to get (and stay) modded down in /. , even if you believe you're posting the truth

That's not quite true. You only need to offend one person to get modded down. However, if you also provide value, then you will probably not stay modded down. My karma has only been anywhere other than right up against the kap a couple of times in the last... uh, long time.

Agree. Sometimes my notifications are a war zone, with up and down mods. back and forth.

Comment Re: As opposed to human slop (Score 1) 77

I mean have you seen the shit they didn't ban people for?

I mean have you seen the thing where Zuckerfuck called people who trusted him enough to give him their personal info for facebook "dumb fucks"? You should expect Facebook to intentionally not ban the worst people, if you are familiar with what a piece of shit Mark Fuckerberg is.

Yes, I've seen downright seditious and threatening ov violent harm in a few groups, and the person suffers no consequence. Someone might have reported you for just having a different opinion. When spring outside of an echo chamber, people in the echo chamber go Reeee!

Especially if you answer certain groups who appear to enjoy "punishing" those who disagree with them. Some even enjoy the experience.

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