Ntrails

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by Ntrails 5y ago
So, here's my thinking. The goal of the exams is not to find the children who are middle of the pack. The goal of the exams is to find the outliers. The unusually bright. What I think actually happens is you capture the top 0.1% bec
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by Ntrails 5y ago
Dear submitter, I have now died on Zot 5, after what I suspect to be order 20hrs of gameplay since Sunday. I hope you are pleased with yourself...
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by Ntrails 5y ago
Actively not enjoying single life is a reasonable state of being. Not desirable, but not a mental health issue. Being measurably happier with a partner in your life is a positive outcome, indeed is one we should all strive for (or why both
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by Ntrails 5y ago
> The Quran and Hadiths are preserved so that we're easily able to consult them to determine who is and isn't a Muslim. And yet those poor benighted souls believe they follow those very same texts that you say would reject them
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by Ntrails 5y ago
> A person is either a Muslim or a non-Muslim. As long as you accept it is their right to define that, and not you! One might use "identifies as" to avoid the classic response of "ah but x was not really a y because z&quot
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by Ntrails 5y ago
My other half never thought she would be able to date me, because she wanted someone to share a bottle of wine with. Turns out, she can have a lovely time drinking wine and having a designated driver to get her home :) But I will say that
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by Ntrails 5y ago
> I look forward to the factory in Texas coming out to solve that because Fremont is not going to cut it. How does a factory being in Texas change build quality in a Tesla run environment? (Legitimate question, I know very little about
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by Ntrails 6y ago
Football (soccer) is by far the best game for just playing in my opinion. Two jumpers on the ground for goalposts and an open space is all you really need. It is easy to learn, fun to play, and very cheap. It is just that the professiona
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by Ntrails 6y ago
There is a concept, on forums, of shitposting. There are common expressions such as "chatting shit" for unverified speculation or "shooting the shit" to mean talking about nothing and everything. I suspect most of the co
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by Ntrails 6y ago
If you could give me a world in which ads were always static images with a link behind them and nothing more. Where they never move, never pop, never animate, never play sounds or video, never run scripts etc etc... Yeah, in that world, ad
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by Ntrails 6y ago
Looking at Folklore on wikipedia Antonof or Dessner are on most of the tracks. Do I think she took a couple of Indie music people to help her write/produce etc songs in a new style? Clearly. Does that actually mean she just added a
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by Ntrails 6y ago
A few years back the team that do "Business analysis" came to our team asking for help setting up some machine learning. What for, we asked. Well, we'd like to predict hardware expenditures over the next n years. Ok. Well
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by Ntrails 6y ago
Active investing is a negative sum game. Even if your broker is not directly charging you comms, they exist. So, the average trade is a loss. However, I don't even think that is the main insight here. No single trade is really profita
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by Ntrails 6y ago
No, it isn't. Not clear if you don't understand or you are being glib. Passive investing logic is simple. You want to invest in stocks. Say you want to invest in the US market. You want a portfolio that represents, to some ext
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by Ntrails 6y ago
I popped on at the height of the turn to see multiple posts about a "short ladder attack", a concept that exists nowhere except in the echo chamber of WSB. The groupthink levels are enormous and frankly terrifying
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by Ntrails 6y ago
To be clear, that is active investment 101. You start by taking a portfolio matching your benchmark, then you apply an "overlay" which expresses your view. If you have no views, you match the benchmark (a good start- that's
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by Ntrails 6y ago
Rebranding stock picking as "index construction" is really quite disingenuous. I guess you're encouraging somewhat diversified stock picking, but honestly I'm dubious this is a 'good' idea for expected outcom
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by Ntrails 6y ago
I always wondered what the hell canola was (not enough to look it up, but, still)
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by Ntrails 6y ago
Owning a controlling share, and owning company are not the same thing - even from a simple net worth point of view.
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by Ntrails 6y ago
But that's only if you can resolve the "which day" issue?
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by Ntrails 6y ago
> Not wearing a seatbelt isn't perfect, and yet we all still do it :) Provably false.
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by Ntrails 6y ago
> Anyhow, if your image shows recognizable landmarks with shadows, then it will be feasible to recover the exact point of view and the time of acquisition. With what level of accuracy? Are you claiming you can confidently assert 2020-12
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by Ntrails 6y ago
British, for contrast. I attribute most of my success to luck. I was born with aptitudes, in a stable family, white male. I'm definitely not worth what I'm paid from a societal point of view. I find the idea of being multiple
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by Ntrails 6y ago
> Personally, I wish we’d take more influence from their diet (fish! fish! more fish!) I mean, the furthest you can get from fresh fish in Norway is pretty different to what is seen in most the US. I'm not sure that Fish is the ans
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by Ntrails 6y ago
NoScript is my starting point, and I'd need to really need a site to enable it globally.
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by Ntrails 6y ago
If you assume that R is currently 2 with 0% of the population able to be infected, is it reasonable to assume R would drop below 1 with 100% of the population having 60% probability of being immune?
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by Ntrails 6y ago
Thoughts: You've missed some obvious issues around balancing range, special moves etc. All of which are hard to price and balance. Also, some things will not scale linearly, I expect. A particularly strong mob might only be attacka
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by Ntrails 6y ago
> This is clearly a tough time for a lot of people, and many families will be spending Christmas apart and will find this very hard for all sorts of reasons. Honestly, I think people are being incredibly relaxed about the fact that lockd
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by Ntrails 6y ago
I would 100% consider email under the highly important banner, but I'd not considered at all the "Log In With Facebook" angle.
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by Ntrails 6y ago
> use a horcrux only for the most important logins - your social media, bank accounts etc. Am I the only person who does a huge double take on this? If someone hacks a facebook or a twitter - what precisely am I scared of? My bank acco

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