FabHK

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by FabHK 1y ago
Many wrinkles here. First, one should probably look at GNP (or even GNI) rather than GDP to reduce the distortionary impact of foreign direct investment, company headquarters for tax reasons, etc. Next, need to distinguish between market ra
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by FabHK 1y ago
> Are we sure more time butt in office equates to more productivity? Typically more output, but less productivity (= output/time).
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by FabHK 1y ago
First, assuming that vaccination would indeed prevent transmission was a good guess based on prior vaccinations. That it didn't work out in this case became apparent over time. There were no lies. Second, vaccination did reduce both se
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by FabHK 1y ago
If you haven't heard of the topic of the article before, why do you impugn the article then? From your comment it seems like you can't distinguish what the QF proposal is assuming (and the author is criticizing as unrealistic) fro
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by FabHK 1y ago
> absence of sybil attacks It's funny that a cooky proposal originating from crypto, which is incredibly inefficient precisely because it has to defend against sybil attacks (unlike permissioned systems), assumes the absence of sybi
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by FabHK 1y ago
> Especially here on HN I see “what’s the difference?” arguments all the time. It looks like it to me so it must be it. QED. To be fair, the Turing Test (a human observer interacting with two terminals, one with a human at the other end,
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by FabHK 1y ago
> my code accounted for almost two thirds of the original Macintosh ROM Respect. RIP.
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by FabHK 1y ago
Not OP, but FWIW, I don't watch video tutorials, I want to read how to do something.
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by FabHK 1y ago
As usual with these lists, they would much benefit from more in-depth explanation. This list at least deigns to link to examples for many of the claims (like a flight that leaves on time but arrives 40 hours late [1]), but doesn't expl
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by FabHK 1y ago
Ah, that makes sense. Getting complicated again. I like Volocopter, but nothing seems to be going into production there.
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by FabHK 1y ago
Fixed wing flight is more efficient and faster than rotor wing flight. As such, having VTOL capability but also being able to do good old fixed wing flight seems like a good idea. What's unclear to me is whether they can transition fro
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by FabHK 1y ago
Some of the more upmarket shopping malls in Bangkok have Totos.
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by FabHK 1y ago
Good point. On the "exist" interpretation, we've "had" flying cars for several decades.
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by FabHK 1y ago
> progress slowed down significantly for many reasons I think progress (in the sense of economic growth) was roughly in line with what Keynes expected. What he didn't expect is that people, instead of getting 10x the living standard
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by FabHK 1y ago
Well, if you do a million per second, it'll take you less than a million years. So, now is as good a time to get started as any.
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by FabHK 1y ago
Sorry to hear. Heartbreaking. I truly don't understand why we as a society give these scammers (a $500bn a year industry, according to The Economist) better tools for their trade, crypto, with virtually no other use cases.
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by FabHK 1y ago
Disagree. These unprincipled scammers often exploit character flaws, sure, but also exploit positive traits - trust, a desire to help, the desire for love and belonging, or (in the case of cyber trafficking victims that are then forced to s
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by FabHK 1y ago
100%. That's why I'm so mad when influential people repeat the "crypto is the future of finance" nonsense. It is this uncritical hype that makes so many people vulnerable to crypto scams. Trump is doing it, Blackrock is
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by FabHK 1y ago
The problem is that crypto is designed to evade regulation. You can put lipstick on a pig and regulate the centralized intermediaries (which, remember, crypto aimed to disintermediate): exchanges, custodians, ETF providers, ... The dilemma
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by FabHK 1y ago
Just in terms of simple economics: Without price discrimination, there is one price, and then there are two triangles "left" of the price: What consumers would have paid, but don't need to, that's the consumer surplus (b
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by FabHK 1y ago
Fun fact: After some $330m of BTC were stolen last month, Monero spiked 40%+, presumably because the proceeds of that theft were laundered. https://x.com/zachxbt/status/1916756932763046273
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by FabHK 1y ago
If you think that Hong Kong doesn't have complex and large scale building projects (complete with bamboo scaffolding), then you're mistaken.
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by FabHK 1y ago
I have a bamboo "balcony" outside my 22nd floor living room window until tomorrow Monday, as they've just installed a new air con unit. It really is quite amazing. And, frankly, not a job for me...
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by FabHK 1y ago
The author worked at Nvidia and explains some of the engineering decisions made at the time. Why shouldn’t the brand be in the title?
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by FabHK 1y ago
The solution to the least squares problem Ax ≈ b is given by x = (A'A)^-1 A'b, but modern solvers never form the matrix product A'A explicitly. Even for the SVD it isn't formed.
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by FabHK 1y ago
“King - queen = male” strikes me as logical, if we take king = (+human, +male, +royal), and queen = (+human, -male, +royal), then the difference is (0human, 2male, 0royal).
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by FabHK 1y ago
The IT Crowd, S02E04. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8n9xraFoNI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSJ8XPnJK1o
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USA only?
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by FabHK 1y ago
Better test suites are PractRand and TestU01.
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by FabHK 1y ago
There's the xoroshiro family, and there's the PCG family: https://www.pcg-random.org

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