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Situational Awareness Kindle ebook epub
I wanted to read Situational Awareness on my Kindle so I worked with ChatGPT and generated an epub file you can download.
Pythonic coding
I learned a few pythonic tricks and shortcuts I want to share with you while solving a programming puzzle called Alien Dictionary (leetcode 🔒, tutorial cup).
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I moved my substack here
Today’s post is more blog business. I moved my substack posts to this blog. Now I will have only one blog, this one.
The CFTC complaint against Binance
I made a youtube video about the CFTC civil complaint filed against Binance and CZ.
An Interview with The Air Current’s Jon Ostrower about Southwest’s Meltdown and Independent Publishing
Ben Thompson: We never really knew how low the [flight] price could get, because there was no competition. Jon Ostrower: Exactly. Yeah, exactly. So, if you want to justify the business case, what ends up happening is you have to have airlines on the same route. If you put two Sonic Cruisers on the same route, what ends up happening is they end up competing against each other to get the premium…
There Will Be No Lessons Learned From FTX
So, we’re now in a less than ideal situation. Bad actors are undeterred by the lack of regulation, but good actors are. The result: Bad actors face far less competition. It’s not, thankfully, zero competition. There are quite a lot of good actors in this space, but due to absent regulatory clarity and standards even those players are having a hard time differentiating themselves from the bad guys.…
Three tourists died of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning in an Airbnb
Three American tourists died in October while staying in an Airbnb in Mexico City, apparently of carbon monoxide poisoning. —By Chevel Johnson Rodrigue with Associated Press euronews
Crypto firms Genesis and Gemini charged by SEC with selling unregistered securities
According to the SEC, Genesis loaned Gemini users’ crypto and sent a portion of the profits back to Gemini, which then deducted an agent fee, sometimes over 4%, and returned the remaining profit to its users. Genesis should have registered that product as a securities offering, SEC officials said in a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court. —By Rohan Goswami cnbc