FabHK

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by FabHK 2y ago
The fact that you call taxes theft is enough to disqualify your opinion.
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by FabHK 2y ago
Those unearned traits might make you more money, and you might also bequeath these traits to your kids. It would compound the injustice if you could furthermore bequeath all the money to your kids, while it would ameliorate the injustice if
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Why Are Credit Card Rates So High?(libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org)
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by FabHK 2y ago
A small note on Bourbaki: Alan Sokal's famous and brilliant hoax Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity had a hilarious footnote that read (my highlighting): > Miller (1977/78, e
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by FabHK 2y ago
? When debt is worth near par that only means that equity is very likely positive (not null). Doesn't tell you anything about how positive.
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by FabHK 2y ago
Thanks for that factoid, interesting piece of history.
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by FabHK 2y ago
Amazing how they managed to make a whimsical, yet reasonably legible font with these few pixels.
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by FabHK 2y ago
FWIW, "forks" is "tenedores" in Spanish... not that that illuminates the mystery.
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by FabHK 2y ago
> what's wrong with allowing another app to post messages to my messages? That's exactly what spammers would use to send spam.
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by FabHK 2y ago
The finance sector contributes only 7% of GDP, correct. One of the sources I had in mind [0] cites 31%, but that was revenue as a proportion of GDP, which doesn't really make sense. However, the financial sector takes about 30% of US
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by FabHK 2y ago
You can levy plenty of criticism at finance. But they certainly take smart kids from wherever they can get them (for certain jobs; for others you need certain polish).
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Sure, some derivatives have some utility. But, ok, Spread Networks spent $300m around 2010 to build a somewhat straighter glass fibre data connection between NY and Chicago. Other companies spent more to build a micro wave connection, since
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by FabHK 2y ago
I think the liquidity argument is overrated. The market has two functions: 1. Incentivizing convergence of the price towards fundamental value, to support proper asset allocation decisions. 2. Supporting buying and selling (ie "liquidi
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by FabHK 2y ago
> One striking feature of mathematical culture that came up was the norm of alphabetical authorship. […] There are some exceptions, like Adleman insisting on being last in the RSA paper. lol, took me a second to get the plausible reason
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by FabHK 2y ago
I had a similar discussion here with someone who thought that "dynamic programming" was the act of programming in some sort of dynamic manner. Not sure I managed to disabuse them of that notion.
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Thanks, good idea. I went to my home router (a Fritzbox) and just blocked the printer from accessing the internet (it's under Internet -> Filter, and the printer is named BRW90....). Fairly straightforward - that should be a good en
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by FabHK 2y ago
FWIW, I've had the expiry month of credit cards stored in Safari increment on occasion (leading to failed online payments, trouble getting a flight, etc.) several times, to the extent that I now always include the expiry month in the c
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by FabHK 2y ago
> wrote down what I dreamt and realize it was just garbage :) There's this (possibly apocryphal) story about George Orwell in Burma, where he served in the civil service. He had a friend that took Opium occasionally and felt like he
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by FabHK 2y ago
Do you think people expected Ronald Reagan to "stay away from big politics"?
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To be fair, the authors of the books also contribute quite a bit.
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by FabHK 2y ago
It will reduce supply, but it will also make it easier to prosecute those that have these devices. I frankly don't understand the sentiment. Should we not outlaw murder because "ha, surely criminals won't murder anymore now&q
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The FT View: Encryption 'back doors' are a bad idea(ft.com)
7 points by FabHK 2y ago|1 comments
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https://archive.is/V3rGc
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by FabHK 2y ago
Wonder whether that's an instance of Berkson's paradox. Basically nobody bothering to report about Kebab shops that are neither good nor conveniently located. Probably not, but "one quadrant empty" is a handy red flag th
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Typo. -> and Itô calculus are a notable
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There is the fact that the variance of the entire population is defined [0] as sum i=1..N (x_i - mu)^2 / N while, given a sample of n iid [1] samples from a distribution, the best [2] estimate of the distribution variance is
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by FabHK 2y ago
Certain simple stochastic differential equations can be solved explicitly analytically (like some integrals and simple ordinary differential equations can be solved explicitly), for example the classic Black Scholes equation. More complicat
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by FabHK 2y ago
In case it's your own project, I believe the convention is to prefix the title with "Show HN:".
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by FabHK 2y ago
Sure. The thing is, sometimes social sentiment changes. Fiat tends to remain stable and valuable, because it is carefully managed to that end, and is the legally sanctioned method to extinguish debt and pay taxes. Crypto is nothing but ma
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by FabHK 2y ago
The people running Bitcoin came together to fix things they didn't like, rolling back some 20+ blocks in the process, at least twice. The people running Ethereum have no problem with scams and child porn and drugs and money laundering,

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