Can you hedge against it with interest rate swaps? It seems interest rate risk is probably one of the more manageable risks of a small business that is fundamentally dependent on other people's money - how do you know it's going to succeed in the first place even if rates don't increase?
Engineer married a doctor who owns the clinic, no finance people in the family. The company is already doing great, we are just expanding. We have the past performance of the company, so we have an idea if we can afford a set monthly cost.
Rent some finance people. Get someone you can consult with on this stuff. There's almost certainly more pitfalls than we engineer types can logic out from what we know.
The problem is for every good article on the tech, there are dozens and dozens of submissions from crypto-grifter-turned-AI-expert or yet another "platform play" instead of something actually practical. Let's see more of the gold and fewer of the shovels, please.
LLMs not existing isn't the reason we don't have UBI or free healthcare, or stipends to pursue passions. I think most people are understandably concerned that the benefits of these new tools will primarily accrue to the tiny elite who can afford to control the compute resources and therefor mediate access to the models.
If LLM replaces a bunch of $DAYJOB you won't have people learning violin, you'll have widespread unemployment and the civil unrest that accompanies it.
> If LLM replaces a bunch of $DAYJOB you won't have people learning violin, you'll have people arming themselves and raiding stores of food and medical supplies.
Thus the need to start talking about how we will all benefit from this and demand those kind of outcomes...
This isn’t how anything works dude. Automation doesn’t mean less work it means each individual can be more productive. We’ve been automating jobs for centuries, your dream of doing nothing is just an infantile dream that we all have to get over at some point.
Automation means less work for any given value produced, which means greater quality of life across the board unless this increased productivity is offset in its broad effects by increased capture of value by narrowly concentrated capital.
Which makes it kind of suck if you have an economic system that is so centered around maximizing the concentration of capital and the extraction of value by that class that it is named for it, but the problem there isn’t automation.
You won't pull yourself up by your bootstraps with that attitude! You can learn to play the violin and be homeless( Typical slacker complaining instead of just being willing to multitask).
Weird, does he say what the item was anywhere? I wonder if there are some things that are technically allowed but trigger fraud flags when newly created accounts buy them with certain payment providers. Either way, terrible customer service...
Yeah this reads like when SaaS companies complain about getting banned from AWS and leave out the part where people were using the software to run massage parlors or whatever.
These "OMG I was banned for no reason" posts are ALWAYS very low on specific details because if the specific details were included it would be obvious why they were banned.
He does not and that's generally a huge red flag. So many times over the years I've dug into stories like this, and it turned out the person was trying to trade something very much not permitted by the ToS, and they knew it.
People who are challenging the ToS themselves are generally up front about what they are trying to trade, arguing that it ought to be allowed.
That said, this corporate approach of 'you are permabanned and we are not going to explain why because security' is just bullshit, essentially corporate dictatorship. Would you accept living in a country where you could be arrested, but all legal details would be withheld to prevent future crime? Of course not (I hope...though some would). The fact that this behavior has become standardized among tech companies is a major negative strike for the securocrat mindset and the prioritization of profit over anything resembling ethics. If you work for a company that has a policy like this, or uphold such policies, you are part of the problem.
This is the most important question for me to try and understand this as well. It's a confusing piece of information to leave out, because if it's innocuous then not saying what it is is unnecessarily distracting, it it's plutonium, that might shed a different light on things
Would you make a Twitter thread about it if you had been trying something obviously illegal though? Wouldn't you just silently make a fist and say "damnit, they've crossed my plans again"?
I think it's more of a sovereign citizen "hail Mary" type move to get her out of jail. Even in states that don't have a constitutional notion of "fetal personhood", a pregnant inmate is still entitled to adequate prenatal care, and that's the relief they should be seeking, not habeas corpus for the unborn child.
> I think it's more of a sovereign citizen "hail Mary" type move to get her out of jail.
It would only delay the inevitable by a few months at most, right? Trials regularly get delayed for years anyway, so they may as well delay her sentence for a few months.
Even if that worked, it would still only get her something like a 6-12 month reprieve. She's been convicted of murder, none of these ploys will get her out of going to prison eventually.
If it can be legally proved that the jail is incapable of providing adequate care (seems pretty likely, considering how terrible American prisons are generally), then they’re within their rights to enjoin the court for other remedies.
Time to see if the courts actually care about unborn personhood, as much as they’ve been crowing about abortion.
I mean, sunlight exposure, nutrients, prison violence... The fœtus is exposed to all of this, and more.
Tbh I don't care, except if she wants to carry the future baby to term.
Then you'll have a carrenced baby without mother contact during his first three months, probably fed with powdered milk that does not contain any antibodies. Nice start in the world.
Exactly. This feels similar to the type of "hail Mary" when a woman tried to argue that she should be allowed to drive in the carpool lane alone because she was pregnant and thus her fetus should count as an extra passenger. In that case, though, a judge agreed with her and her ticket was dismissed, and a bill was even filed in the TX House to explicitly allow pregnant women to use the carpool lane.
If you have to sue to get adequate prenatal care, then only pregnant inmates who know that will get said prenatal care.
If precedent is set that demands the fetus' legal innocence must be accounted for, this basically forces the legal system/corrections into a position where they have to make a move to really telegraph what is more important. That an innocent not be subjected to the penal system, or that the incarcerated are afforded the dignity of reasonable medical care, which then has to be factored into cost of incarceration. It'll also test the will around really upholding fetal rights once it starts manifesting in the form of $$$ required on the Government's part to pay for it's own externalities w.r.t. incarceration. This is actually a neat little wedge that'll get driven in between the social/fiscal conservatives in that the last thing the fiscal's want is more needs for entitlement funding, especially if it involves the incarcerated; all of which could be elided by ignoring the thorny issue of a fetus claim to personhood. Without that, the social conservatives lose a leg of their anti-abortion stool.
Either way, I can see the headlines/arguments now:
>Shit, 3 square meals a day, work, and government funded medical care, sign me up!
>Inmates get better care than law abiding citizens...
...Might even force everyone to realize this whole "no one can compete against a Medicare that can negotiate" is a sign of the retarded levels of inefficiency in the healthcare space so we can actually get some scrutiny on why the hell things are so janked in that department.
