John Levine (parody @[email protected])

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[John Levine (parody @[email protected]) @spamvikktim]

@benedictevans After Wirecard, how could anyone claim the FT isn't serious about this kind of reporting?

[John Levine (parody @[email protected]) @spamvikktim]

@DougHenwood @PenguinBooks Email is free. Send your mail to all of their imprints and let them sort it out.

[John Levine (parody @[email protected]) @spamvikktim]

Can large language models use the contents of your web site? https://t.co/qLHMhhNBJF

[John Levine (parody @[email protected]) @spamvikktim]

@moxfyre @GrkStav @paulkrugman The debt limit was a short term gimmick during WW I to let the Treasury issue war bonds without Congress having to pass laws for each issue. Nobody anticipated what it would turn into a century later.

[John Levine (parody @[email protected]) @spamvikktim]

Top Links 200 "Bank walk", the first CBAM, credit allocation & a dirge for John Coltrane , by @adam_tooze https://t.co/lSvxDLWT7D

[John Levine (parody @[email protected]) @spamvikktim]

@PlainSimpleBen I think the 90/90 rule applies here. The first 90% of the work takes the first 90% of the time. Then the other 90% of the work takes the next 90% of the time. Repeat until done.

[John Levine (parody @[email protected]) @spamvikktim]

@felixsalmon I once asked the local community bank's manager why their deposit rates were so low: they pay what they need to. Until they see significant deposits going out the door, why pay more?
I have an online account that pays 4.25% but sloshing the money back and forth is a pain.

[John Levine (parody @[email protected]) @spamvikktim]

@EmilyRPeck @MarkVinPaul You don't have to do that -- each quarter you annualize your income to date and pay estimates based on that. If your income goes up late in the year, that's OK, no penalty if you attach a form 2210 showing that's what happened. BTDT.

[John Levine (parody @[email protected]) @spamvikktim]

Is there any hope for Controlled Digital Lending, and should there be?
https://t.co/uDHyjrzwLj

[John Levine (parody @[email protected]) @spamvikktim]

Is there any hope for Controlled Digital Lending, and should there be? https://t.co/uDHyjrzwLj

[John Levine (parody @[email protected]) @spamvikktim]

@sfmnemonic We need to talk about chickens.

[John Levine (parody @[email protected]) @spamvikktim]

Spam filtering and social media moderation are the same thing https://t.co/1ECezz4Ibe

[John Levine (parody @[email protected]) @spamvikktim]

@felixsalmon It was pretty stupid for the VC bros to blow up their bank and then whine about what happened. If they're so brilliant, how about a smart contract to keep everyone's money there with only slow outflows?

[John Levine (parody @[email protected]) @spamvikktim]

@kaitlancollins The last time we invaded Canada, it was a fabulous success. Oh, wait.

[John Levine (parody @[email protected]) @spamvikktim]

@chrisbodger @benedictevans @a16z @pmarca GPT3 is very good at writing biographies. But it's not very good at writing factual biographies. It wrote one for me that got everything wrong except where I was born.

[John Levine (parody @[email protected]) @spamvikktim]

@MattZeitlin But SVB shouldn't cost the FDIC anything. They surely have plenty of assets to cover the 3% of insured deposits, and losses on the rest are not the FDIC's problem.

[John Levine (parody @[email protected]) @spamvikktim]

@benedictevans Who knew that you could do a snarky joke and a Rorschach test in a single sentence? I'm in awe.

[John Levine (parody @[email protected]) @spamvikktim]

@DavidSacks That's called Vollgeld aka narrow banking. If anyone thinks it's a new or innovative idea, nope.

[John Levine (parody @[email protected]) @spamvikktim]

@chrmanning REAL linguists use complicated models like we did in the 1950s and 1960s. The resentment at being bypassed by big data oozes from every paragraph. (ChatGPT is indeed a very sophisticated parlor trick, but this isn't why.)

[John Levine (parody @[email protected]) @spamvikktim]

@paulkrugman Banks gave risk management over to machines a long time ago. I switched banks when one said they could not raise my bill pay limit above $1000, and nobody in the bank could fix it because it was run by their outsourced back end provider.