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by Maxatar 2y ago
No one claimed it is.
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nativeit says that it doesn't apply to those who were not wrongfully convicted, then an authoritative source is presented that clearly states that it does apply to those who were not wrongfully convicted, and your counterclaim is that
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If you own a mutual fund, then you do not own shares of the 500 companies, rather you own shares of the mutual fund itself. Consequently you don't put pressure on the 500 companies, you put pressure on the mutual fund and the mutual fu
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>I dont have a dog in this hunt but that seems like a strangely aggressive response. Well I do and as someone who has seen his other posts on this subject as well, he has a tendency to try to dismiss differing points of views on the basi
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by Maxatar 2y ago
The level of discussion that HN is a good medium for has absolutely no bearing or causal relationship with whether or not the actual stock market is normally distributed. Imagine really thinking that the nature of a discussion forum can som
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This is absolutely absurd. Economists including Nobel prize winners, including even Eugene Fama who proposed the Efficient Market Hypothesis, does not think the stock market is normally distributed. At best, using a normal distribution is s
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That's right, fund managers expect their clients to take 100% of the downside risk and tax their clients 20% on the up side. Where I disagree with you is that fund managers regularly take risk. They never take risk themselves, rather t
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This is a kind of revisionism that mostly took off after Warren Buffet won his bet that hedge funds would not outperform the market over a 10 year time period. The original goal and selling point of hedge funds was to produce consistent res
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It's selection bias. This person is only considering successful startups and comparing them to big companies, not the huge number of startups that fail before they ever manage to ship anything.
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Because the type of voting system to use ends up being subject to the same problem as the voting system it's trying to replace. I live in Ontario, Canada, where there was a referendum on switching our voting system from first past the
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I think I get the jist of your post and why IIA might seem objectionable, but your example does not reflect IIA and the claim that any voting system that satisfies IIA must rank Alice and Bob equally is not true. The score voting system sat
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That is correct and I can see that being a justification for passing a const&, in fact the C++ Core Guidelines agree with you that such a scenario is the only acceptable reason for passing a shared_ptr by const&, although they encou
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On that point we certainly agree.
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As someone who does quant trading professionally and game development as a hobby, they both are performance sensitive, but they emphasize different kinds of performance. Trading is about minimizing latency while video games are about maximi
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Yeah, memory is a funny thing. At any rate, RoadRunner was launched on September 10, 1996 in Akron, Ohio: https://www.eeworldonline.com/twcs-roadrunner-celebrates-its... https://www.companieshistory.com/time
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>Half the time it goes up, half the time down. This is not true and in fact when I hire quants or developers, I have to spend a surprising amount of time even teaching people with PhD's in statistics that the random nature of the st
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by Maxatar 2y ago
> In function signatures, use const references: foo(const std::shared_ptr<bar> &p). This will prevent unnecessary bumps of the refcount. This advice doesn't seem quite right to me, and in my codebases I strictly forbid pas
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by Maxatar 2y ago
>We had cable modems back in 1994. The first residential availability of cable modems was by @Home Network in 1996 and served only the San Francisco Bay Area. By the end of 1996, @Home Network had 20,000 users. I highly doubt you were on
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by Maxatar 2y ago
Fair enough man, my original comment was mostly in jest but I understand where you're coming from.
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As an aside, it's interesting to note that there is a hypothesis that one reason why humans, and most other species, do not regrow limbs is precisely as a means of protecting against cancer. The few species that are able to regenerate
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by Maxatar 2y ago
Saying we can never cure cancer because it's not a single disease doesn't quite strike me as accurate. I'm not an expert so feel free to correct me, but my understanding is that there are plenty of other animals, such as the
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by Maxatar 2y ago
What do you mean by float? If you mean that work units can move through other units when mining minerals, that is a conscious design decision that was made for performance reasons. Having upwards of 40 worker units having to constantly calc
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by Maxatar 2y ago
Yikes! Tough day today?
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Make it out of what though? If all there is to consider is escape velocity, than light, or any object whatsoever, can absolutely escape the event horizon if it's moving at anything remotely close to the speed of light. Without propulsi
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by Maxatar 2y ago
That's the biggest problem with them. Something isn't as dangerous when it's in your face and you need to confront it on a regular basis. What's dangerous are the things that rarely need to think about, except for that v
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by Maxatar 2y ago
>"Is the style guide they use for internal projects the same as this style guide that they have published externally?" Consider that the style guide that AirBnB uses for internal projects is not the same as the style guide they
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Not being an expert, I was unaware of this and worked through it after reading the article you linked. So you have 1 bit for the min-entropy and about 11 bits for the Shannon entropy. The Shannon-entropy pretty much hides the elephant in th
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by Maxatar 2y ago
I just think you're making a very subtle mistake here by mixing up the question of whether Fermat's Last Theorem (or Goldbach's Conjecture) is true with whether there is an algorithm that tells you that that specific theorem
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by Maxatar 2y ago
Exactly, so then we agree, there is nothing useful about an algorithm that can decide whether one specific Turing machine halts. Utility only emerges from an algorithm that can decide whether entire classes of other Turing machines halt, no
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One of the two algorithms I posted tells you the correct answer for any specific Turing machine, so for any given Turing machine one of them is a decision procedure for it.

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