I have a Kindle scribe I bought a few months ago. Prime day had a 40% sale. Pretty good value at that price. I take notes all the time with it. And occasionally send lengthy blog articles to it because it is easier to read on an e-ink device than LCD. One drawback of the current Kindle scribe is that you cannot search the handwritten notes. That is a big drawback for me. The new AI version appears to address that shortcoming.

I think I will wait for a 40% sale on the new Scribe and then upgrade.

> Which victims?
> The ones you can't really identify, because of the pseudonymity of bitcoin?

The victims were scammed the old fashioned way. The ill-gotten gains were then converted to Bitcoin.

> They should transfer the coins to their own wallet.. And delete the keys. Coins gone forever.

Who is they and why should they do this?

It is possible and likely that people are slowly migrating away and it will take some time.

you must tell us what we and our conspiracy-minded constituents want to hear. If you insist on telling us the truth, you are likely to get fired.

> If I follow the PDF link, is that another $3,000 ?

It may be possible to read the copyright message at the beginning of the PDF and then decide not to train on that document.

I am sympathetic to the copyright holder's argument. But at the same time, I do feel that if the LLMs got a little dumber after having lost access to good books, we'd all be worse off.

US model has to pay $1.5bn and also can no longer use the books. Chinese models have to pay $0 and can use the knowledge from all the books. This seems lopsided.

> Netanyahu is a bad guy, but so are the Hamas.

Everybody is a bad guy/gal. George Bush killed innocent civilians with his actions. So did Stalin and Hitler. Scale matters.

> and how many people got auto rejected?

We get a lot of applicants and thoroughly vetting each applicant is not possible with the resources we have. So we have the applicants work on a small take-home project. We pay for their time if they agree to do it. This filters out the non-serious candidates. All those who turn in a good result are setup for a technical interview.

> are you looking for very people experienced with rare skills?

Our application is very data intensive. So, we are looking for people who have worked on applications that deal with hundreds of gigabytes of customer data and understand the somewhat unique requirements of such an application. I would not classify this is a rare skill but is perhaps not the most common of the skills.

We use fairly common and modern tech stack. It is not the most common stack, but nothing here is exotic. SQL databases like PostgreSQL and MS SQL Server. asp.net Core for the backend, React for frontend, GraphQL for data transfer.

We do get a lot of junior people, who understand bits and pieces here and there. However the gaps in their knowledge are so wide that we think they will not be able to contribute meaningfully even after a couple of months on the job.

It should be noted that we have tried hiring junior people in the past with the hopes of being able to train them on 3 different occasions. None succeeded. So now we are only looking for people who already understand the technology landscape we are working with.

> The Democrats send plenty of spam...

Scale matters. When it comes to being shameless spammers, I suspect one party wins handily.

> just block ALL emails from political parties

This is a game of cat and mouse. Political parties are not going to clearly identify themselves. I suspect Google's spam bots are blocking emails where the sender is being shameless in asking for money.

1. Send us money now or your kids' future is in jeopardy.
2. Gays are coming for all of us, send money now to save the country.
3. Buy shitcoins that are backed by president's family.

My small 10-person company has been trying to hire an experienced software dev/architect for about 6 months. We are offering about $200K + benefits for the position and it can be remote as long as it is within the US. At first we tried hiring directly, when that did not produce results, we signed on with a recruiter. And there the results were even less compelling. We interviewed plenty of people, but did not find anybody who we considered qualified. I am not sure why this is. Maybe we are too small or not offering enough money to attract the correct candidates.

I can totally see why some of the candidates we rejected might think that we are advertising a ghost position.

We have a very thin skinned president and by extension a very think skinned Republican party. They are going after anybody and everybody that says anything they do not like. Examples include:

1. Revocation of Security Clearances
2. Legal Actions Against Media
3. Going after comedians for making fun of them
4. FBI raid of John Bolton
5. Trying to find some dirt on Obama. It does not have to be Epstein level, but anything better than the tan suit controversy will do.
6. High tariffs for countries that refuse to bend the knee to Trump. e.g. India refused to nominate him for the peace prize and is now suffering the consequences. Russia is the only country immune to any punitive actions from this govt.

The Republicans are doing serious and lasting damage to this country.

I am failing to understand how these middlemen companies, and there are many of them, are able to convince investors to buy their stocks. If you are a crypto bro, why wouldn't you just buy the crypto itself rather than buying stock in a company that buys crypto? The valuations of companies like MicroStrategy, who gave up on building and selling software, simply do not make any logical sense.

> No savior will dare step foot in the political arena. They'd have to become that which they hate to ever get enough power to affect change...

Are you suggesting that opponents of the current regime not fire with fire, but instead roll over?