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One of the things that surprised me in Silicon Valley is that my colleagues who were making $500K-$1M a year levered up their lives and saved surprisingly little. Multiple houses, $200K cars, nannies, very expensive vacations, you name it.

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Wow, this is awesome.

I'm running a pirated version of Word 2010 and Excel 2010 because I think everything newer is just too bloated. But you can't buy these anymore and there's no way to legally buy a license.

My problem is now solved.

In 1993, a friend of mine was working at Apple. I wanted to send him a funny message with a spoofed sender. I just typed "telnet apple.com 25" and then typed in the required commands. Apple.com accepted it and delivered it to my friend with a fake sender.

Those were the days, lol!

One of the problems I can see here is the problem that running a Tor exit node has: badly behaved users are going to be using it to hide their location.

Imaging having the police show up at your door because they've figured out that you're trafficking child porn, when the actual culprit is someone that is using your TV as a proxy to trade child porn.

I'm in the UAE right now.

The site www.alqst.org is blocked here. I had to turn on a VPN to read the article.

Here, it's not even allowed to read about what's not allowed!

The obvious answer is that XOR is faster. To do a subtract, you have to propagate the carry bit from the least-significant bit to the most-significant bit. In XOR you don't have to do that because the output of every bit is independent of the other adjacent bits.

Probably, there are ALU pipeline designs where you don't pay an explicit penalty. But not all, and so XOR is faster.

Surely, someone as awesome as Raymond Chen knows that. The answer is so obvious and basic I must be missing something myself?

I've lived abroad for 15 years.

Banks know which addresses are residential and which ones are commercial. Sometimes you can get away with using a mail forwarding service until you get a KYC review. But if you can't provide a real residential address when that happens you'll run into problems (freezes, account closures). I've had it happen.

My X account was banned about a week ago. I use X in an unusual way: I open up fifty tabs a day of people I want to read and see what they've posted in the past day. But I don't use the default feed at all. I often 'like' posts, but I very rarely post anything myself. I don't think I violated any X rules. But I can see why an algorithm think I look a little bit bot-ish.

I appealed the ban but AI declined my appeal. I couldn't circumvent the ban by using a VPN plus a different browser. I thought that would change my fingerprint enough to not be detectable, but perhaps I'm still detectable or perhaps my fingerprint through the VPN just looks suspicious.

Now I'm using something called "Gologin" that gives me a browser with a less unique footprint plus a residential IP in the USA. I have to pay for it. But at least I can use X still.

People deeply understand the physics of tinfoil hats. A properly constructed tinfoil hat needs two layers, with the shiny sides facing in opposite directions. Only the shiny side reflects brain waves. You need to reflect in both directions: one direction keeps the government from using waves to put ideas in your head; the other is to keep the government from reading your mind.

He doesn't really address his own question.

He's answering the question "How should options be priced?"

Sure, it's possible for a big crash in Nvidia just due to volatility. But in that case, the market as a whole would likely be affected.

Whether Nvidia specifically takes a big dive depends much more on whether they continue to meet growth estimates than general volatility. If they miss earnings estimates in a meaningful way the market is going to take the stock behind the shed and shoot it. If they continue to exceed estimates the stock will probably go up or at least keep its present valuation.

How would you like your censorship wrapped? Anti-terrorism or protecting children?

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