They are though. It's that people tend to forget over time. I barely remember details of the last administration. A NYTimes article recently observed the same.
I agree as someone who was previously excited about the idea. Although to be honest, I think people overstate the changes. They did not last. Lots of salesmen in this industry like any other.
Reprogramming? Not at all, at least not with intense mushroom experience alone and laying with closed eyes, never did ayahuasca. But understanding way way more about myself, overall brain structure, and ie where religions come from? And by far the most intense and out-of-reality/body/senses experience I could ever go through?
Definitely, those few experiences will be with me till my last breath.
You can't pop a trip, go to a music festival and except a new mindset. You can however use these tools to deeply connect with yourself and this is where life altering experiences happen.
I get the strong sense of the latter. It’s not actually the SEC that decides what’s illegal or not - these charges they speak of are for the judicial branch to decide on. I don’t follow crypto much, but it sounds to me like there isn’t a legal ruling precedent yet for crypto securities (hence Coinbase’s broadcast lack of certainty), so how could the SEC even give a guidance as to what’s illegal or not when they don’t know yet? But it’s definitely their duty to find out and establish that legal precedent. Given Coinbase is thinking about moving out of the country, I suspect they actually do think it’s not going to go in their favor, and might be trying to publicly blame it on the SEC versus admit they could have an illegal business model. Even in that case, I don’t understand the complaint because they got a good run - if the SEC had been faster and clearer up front, that party may never have happened.
Sleep well. Sleep is critical for structural learning (insight, generalization, etc.). Your hippocampus is theorized to randomly walk through memories to build these structural connections in your cortex during slow wave sleep.
It wouldn’t be hard to stop. Chip fabrication is a concentrated industry with a high barrier to entry (indeed there are only a few companies in the world producing high performance silicon using technology made by probably even fewer companies). Restrict AI chip making and the materials needed, and you’ll restrict AI. I can see global treaties between large nations effectively controlling production in the same way that we have nuclear treaties that prevent proliferation or enrichment.
AI chip making? I can train an AI on my intel laptop if I whish. If I need more CPU power, i can rent some.
The genie is out of the bottle and the only way is forward. The latest worldwide race.
This isn't accurate. The bottleneck in very-large-scale-training BY FAR is communication between devices. If you have a million CPUs, the communication cost will be significantly higher than a thousand A100s (perhaps in the order of 100x or even more). So this is only possible to replicate with very dense and high compute chips with extremely fast interconnect.
Yeah this is bizarre. Imagine if a cop came up to you and told you to stop committing a crime. Being difficult and dismissing the assertion is going to land you in court. It’s your responsibility to know the law, and it’s certainly not the cop’s responsibility to spell out the public law for you before they can do their job. I don’t know what coinbase expected - actually I think they knew they had no case and are just delaying and trying to take the SEC down with them, given the attacks.
Your scenario is slightly off. It would be more like the cop stopping you and saying "you're breaking the law" and you asking "which law", and them saying "the law", and you asking "can you be more specific? Which law", and them saying "I'm taking you to court for breaking the law", and you're still asking "WHICH LAW?!?!?"
The SEC is saying "you might have securities, and your various businesses might violate our laws", and Coinbase asking "which ones and how?", and SEC basically twiddling their thumbs and saying, "fuck it, you're breaking the law", and Coinbase still asking "BUT WHICH ONES?!?!?"
Fun fact: If the cop told you "don't worry, you're not breaking the law, let me help you" it still wouldn't be entrapment or unusual if they subsequently went after you.
Title should have (2021), since the date of the press release is January 27, 2021, i.e. two months after the 2020 election. But it is weird that the alleged crime occurred in the 2016 election. It almost makes you wonder if prosecutors were waiting for the next administration so they could take the case to trial.
I'm not sure why this was posted now, but I think the case is ongoing. I've seen GatewayPundit rant about it a few times but haven't personally followed it. Honestly it seems disproportionate - the government is trying to criminalize shitposting memes.
Yep. I find it funny - though I feel bad for the small businesses that may have been oblivious - that a VC CEO is complaining when he effortlessly could have hired a financial consultant for a day to look into the first bank he encouraged his customers to use. A regional bank that had an obvious and alarming reputation of being the only place in town that would make high-risk loans to high-risk ventures. If anyone outside SVB was in the responsible position to avoid this situation, it was this CEO, and I’d suggest - if he truly believes in maintaining innovation and having those responsible suffering the consequences - that he personally go first in making his companies whole, rather than the taxpayer.
> Are you suggesting tens of thousands of small business customers need to do due dilligence on the investment practices of their banks?
Honestly yes. All it takes is one financial analyst's time. I do it with my retirement plan for example, and I'm only a "small business" of one family. If there was demand for such info, I'm sure there would be a small community/industry for evaluating bank books like there is for financial planners (if that might not even be something a financial planner could already do).
And particularly with Y Combinator advising so many companies, I think it's on the side of negligence that they didn't evaluate the bank they were steering their companies towards. They were steering them there because they knew that tended to be the only bank that would deal with their high-risk companies - and it's too hard to believe that professional VCs didn't recognize that such a bank could have a lot of risk in some dark corner to compensate.
