dhork

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Exactly. My terminology might not be correct, but my point is that their books can be perfectly balanced, and they can also be losing a shit-ton of money, as long as investors keep shoveling money in.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm not an accountant, but you can certainly balance books while showing a loss. Double-entry bookkeeping simply means that every transaction has two parts, and "balancing" simply means that all the transactions cancel out properly.

I joke with my accountant friends that their entire job is counting to zero.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

That's quite easy, the books are balanced, there are just more debits than credits. "Balancing the books" doesn't mean that the net result is zero, it means that all the money going in and going out is accounted for.

OpenAI can keep bleeding money as long as there are fools willing to fund it in exchange for the illusion of future profits.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's because the problem is not whether or not he was exact in his quotation. He could have been reading those passages directly from the book and they would have still had a cow.

And the article actually nails the reason why quite well: those passages are inclusionary, and really points out how these Nationalist Christians are distorting that message. They have turned their form of American Christianity into only caring about abortion, guns, and how evil immigrants and trans people are. But the Jesus in that book loves everyone, unconditionally, and calls his followers to love everyone too.

If Jesus were alive today, the Nat-C's would have sent him to CECOT already. (It doesn't help his case that he's a brown-skinned Palestinian Jew....)

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Seems kind of tame for British PMs, at least Starmer hasn't fucked a dead pig, as far as we know

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

In German, wouldn't that all be one word?

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They didn't reject adding SpaceX, they simply said they would not change the rules to add it early, like the other indexes are. Those rules include a minimum time listed as a public company, a certain percentage of shares being floated to the public, and some profitability. I doubt SpaceX ever gets there.

Some of those other AI companies might make it through the gauntlet, though, and be listed eventually.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Note = loan in this context. OP is saying he doesn't want the burden of a monthly payment on a new car, and would rather buy a cheaper car that he doesn't need to borrow for. (Although these are becoming harder to find, at least in the US....)

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

No but that judge probably got a nice bonus for the ruling.

Sir, I am offended! There is no way this official received a bonus or bribe of any kind before the ruling. That would be unethical!

This officer received his payment after the ruling was made. That makes it a gratuity, which is acceptable, according to no less an authority than Brett Kavanaugh.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How much property? You could just register 1 sqcm of your lawn to each corp....

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 70 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

However, plaintiff has not demonstrated ⁠that this policy violates the principle of one person/entity/one vote.

Since when did we ever have a principle of "one entity/one vote"?

This is a gigantic loophole, simply live in that town and register a corporation there and you can vote twice.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 34 points 3 weeks ago

Also known as the "Kristi Noem Rule"

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