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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Do you have any familiarity with those countries and where people live? Do you really think that metrics on quality of life in Krasnoyarsk Krai or Northwest Territories are drastically better than Wyoming? I wont even get started on what
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Again, 1m rising sea level != 1 meter higher storm surges (don't even get me started on the oceans being a bigger heat well and causing larger storms). Don't forget Sandy was a Category 1 hurricane whose eye made landfall in So
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Amazing the contradictory thinking people have about “it’s impossible to know a child’s age” vs. “it’s totally fine and reasonable that Google knows you’re pregnant before you do”.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
People seem to forget that the entire point of shell structures is accounting tricks. Sure FTX (the audited entity) really did have a piece of paper saying “magic beans company owes FTX $1bn in bitcoin” and all a GAAP audit would do is look
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
If your argument is that a few years of irrational market pricing is meaningful, then boy do I have some Enron shares to sell you in 2001.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Have you heard of “storm surges”? I didn’t say NYC would be flooded, I said it would have significantly more sandy-like events (where the storm surge was already 3-4m in battery park city).[1] And I don’t know how much you know about tides
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
We have built an insane amount of infrastructure within 10 meters of sea level (cities, ports, nuclear power plants, homes) and any model that doesn’t take into account the destruction of that infrastructure is a broken model (it’s probab
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Casino poker is zero sum. The house makes money on a take rate, but the alleged cheaters winnings came directly from other players. There’s no “be chill, I’m trying to get money from the house” aspect here.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
You’re on hacker news. Either the poster went to MIT and has a grudge because it’s not everything they expected it to be, or they wanted to go to MIT but couldn’t. It’s a constant punching bag here. For example, there was recently a long th
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>"Don't publish someone's location in realtime (24 hour delay is required)" seems like a simple rule that can be enforced even-handedly against both sides. He posted a real-time photo of X at twitter HQ like two weeks
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
He also posted a real time photo of X (at twitter HQ) two weeks ago so he can’t be that worried.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Honestly, returning half the winnings on the spot is the thing that makes me believe no cheating took place. If you did actually have a strategy that you put months of effort into, you’d deny deny deny. If they’re asking, they’ll already ch
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
What's your response to the fact that Tesla's data is actually very bad? [1] [1] https://twitter.com/TaylorOgan/status/1602774335244177408?re...
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>Consensus from the two AV articles today Consensus from informed industry observers who are sounding the alarm bells about how dangerous Tesla's approach is from a first-principles standpoint The "data" Tesla released i
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
> There is no “limited liability” for criminal sanction to which the term applies. There are criminal immunities, Huh? My dude, she didn’t work for FTX . If you’re saying that she in fact did (and was therefore a co-conspirator), then w
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Sigh. Why is HN always like this? (don’t answer, I know) Piercing the veil broadly refers to removing limited liability protections because the individuals behaved in such a way (criminally) that they have forfeited their protections. The m
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Listen, people want their opinions validated. Mix that with a weak understanding of libel laws and certain people with potentially libelous opinions will feel like their voice isn’t heard in mainstream media. It’s kind of how we got one of
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Buddy replace “building airplanes and flying them” with “growing food and eating it” and you’re describing agriculture until the 20th century. We’re humans. We fuck shit up. Our goal is to do it only when necessary.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
> Maybe the Alameda execs are trying to say they just made irresponsible gambles (like a shitty Wall St investor) but SBF is the one who secretly covered the massive losses with FTX customer assets without telling the public and was resp
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Guess all that drinking water we have is just a waste then. Highways too. Airlines are unique in that they're essentially a public good that we've allowed to be a private market (look at how often the government intervenes in the
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
GP is making the argument Reddit receives free labor that twitter has to pay for
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Japan got the opportunity to go on an international asset-buying spree (which is always less impactful to real GDP than it seems cough Belt and Road cough ) [0] [1] [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics&
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
No, not even close. In 1985, Soros bet that the Plaza Accord (a market manipulation among a cartel of leading economies to weaken the dollar for political reasons) [1] would work and he was right. That has nothing to do with shorts or squee
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Very invulnerable. This whole “Squeeze” thing is a function of liquidity. The reason that stocks like GME and AMC can experience the effects of a short squeeze is because of how relatively illiquid they are (i.e. point $1bn of consumer capi
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>Are you suggesting that the WSJ is totally off base by drawing the conclusion that pressure from TCI, via this letter, is not the cause of the restructuring? What a masterclass in logical fallacies. The implication of the article is tha
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>as an extreme example
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
It’s a matter of different incentives. The Fed is trying to reduce prices in asset markets. Asset prices growing faster than our ability to make things is a sure-fire cause of inflation (more stock-based billionaires chasing the same amou
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
It's a weird game theory thing. In a market with any amount of stickiness (arguable most tech markets), losing share is a permanent problem. Every customer your competitor acquires is theirs for as long as the stickiness holds, and
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>Bringing immediate charges against him on the low hanging fruit does not preclude later charging him with anything that may require further work. The US judicial system is always "one chance to convict (Double Jeopardy), many chanc

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