Rury

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by Rury 4y ago
Just because there are never problems that you are aware of, doesn't mean there aren't any problems all. You're just choosing to remain ignorant. BTW, this is also the reason why history tends to repeat itself: subsequent gen
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by Rury 4y ago
Not at all. You don't even need other people's passwords or accounts to fake a poll. Just admin rights to the server, or a bunch of bots.
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by Rury 4y ago
I've heard that, for the most part, small dense LDL is what is mostly found in cardiovascular disease.
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by Rury 4y ago
Nothing, except for well... many investors aren't rational, or at the very least, they operate on other rationale. And because of this, it's entirely possible the stock price doesn't actually double in your scenario. However,
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by Rury 4y ago
Don't overthink it. Mathematics is just a conceptual tool we've invented to help us think about and solve problems. Nothing more. Language is another such tool. Now, we could invent a conceptual tool to have arbitrary meaning, but
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by Rury 4y ago
IMO, methodologies are mostly just theatre to cater to stakeholders and their preferences and fears, and are otherwise BS from a development perspective. And in my experience, regardless of what methodology you use, what happens in practice
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by Rury 4y ago
Some people argue if the US were to lose its reserve currency status, this is likely how it would start. Nations doing QE, against a tightening dollar, and starting to seek doing international trade in currencies other than dollars. Russia
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by Rury 4y ago
They had much success with Bungie and Halo, even though they parted ways. But yes, this was a while ago.
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by Rury 4y ago
Not even that. There are people out there who have built hash tables, who don't even know what they've built is called a hash table by educated folks. I know this, because I formerly happened to have worked with such a guy, after
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by Rury 4y ago
As a layman, I always thought it was just simpler to just think of how conduction works in practice. By that I mean, for electricity to flow between two pieces of conducting wire, they need to be touching. If there is an air gap between two
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by Rury 4y ago
Well in the context of advertising, the matter is not so much about boosting business by sowing chaos, but more of a matter of whether does free speech allow you to promote fraud. It has already been deemed that fraud is not necessarily pro
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by Rury 4y ago
The right to free speech is not absolute (for one example, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminent_lawless_action ). I mean the government has every right to arrest and reprimand you if you happen to yell "I hav
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by Rury 4y ago
Not sure about A/B testers, but that is essentially the issue. Steve Jobs even talked about it back in the 1990s, about tech companies and markets of the 70s and 80s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VBqTViEx4
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by Rury 4y ago
What you tend to see is some MMT proponents use this argument to state that government deficits aren't a problem, since they can't default on their debt. But the debt can still be a problem, not because a government indebted in it
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by Rury 4y ago
Depends on if you mean in real terms, or nominal terms. In nominal terms, guaranteed it will tank home prices, if given enough time. This is because trade involves two items, and it's entirely possible to make dollars more scarce than
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by Rury 4y ago
Because your average person isn't an enthusiast who builds their computer themselves, who knows better, and will necessarily change their buying decisions and habits. Instead most buyers choose whatever is good enough and convenient, o
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by Rury 4y ago
Do you look at what the Fed actually spends their printed money on? Almost all of it is financial contracts which simply yield them their money back, which if defaulted on, have no repercussions on them since they own a money printer that m
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by Rury 4y ago
Yes Google is getting worse, but I'd argue it's not entirely due to ads, and not entirely Google's fault. I think people need to understand that Google was invented to solve a problem, and that particular problem, is the prob
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by Rury 4y ago
Yes it's pushed by those people, but does inflation really benefit them? I mean whether a currency deflates or inflates, it's not like it matters to the guys who have the money printer, as after all, they can at any time, make the
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by Rury 4y ago
Agreed, the problem isn't technical, it's political. Sometimes I wonder if people actually understand what "politics" actually means or ultimately entails. Politics is the result of wants. Person or group A wants things
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by Rury 4y ago
Inflation is a lagging metric. Not a forward looking metric. Hypothetically, todays inflation could be 10%, and if within the next year broad market prices drop 30% YOY, next year inflation numbers would report negative. Meaning you would h
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by Rury 4y ago
Some degree of bureaucracy is necessary and inevitable in any organization, as it's basically the glue that makes a group of people an organization. Imagine how difficult it'd be to collaborate on a project with even just one othe
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by Rury 4y ago
There's nothing obtuse here. You'd had asked: >why should I worry about nut jobs who hate jews? And I gave you several plausible reasons which may be a cause for concern depending on what it is you will.
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by Rury 4y ago
Perhaps because they live and impact the society you live in, from partaking in government, to voting, amongst other things which may potentially have an impact on your life (such as preventing you from having a sane discussion). I shouldn&
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by Rury 4y ago
I think a part of this problem is just simply a matter of scale. As more and more information gets generated and stored on the internet, finding the information you exactly need in 3-5 words typed into a search engine at some point just cea
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by Rury 4y ago
I'd think it's quite likely. This also somewhat happens at animal scale FYI. See "colonial organisms" such as zooids / siphonophores, which consist of multiple separate animals that are able to join and work in toge
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by Rury 4y ago
They don't. The options the Fed has are: - Continue printing/lending (enabling further inflation) - Cut printing/lending (economy/markets crash) - Try to perfectly balance the level of printing/lending (resulting in
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by Rury 4y ago
QE and QT aren't really anything new. They're mostly just modernish terms given to old ways of doing things. What is unprecedented is hitting 0% interest rates nearly everywhere worldwide . When things hit this point, economies a
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by Rury 4y ago
It is as old as history itself . What you're witnessing is a result of what I call the problem of knowledge. Realize that, everything that is learned, any knowledge gained, and new technology invented, will eventually be lost and forg
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by Rury 4y ago
Well, first off, you seem to be confusing the concept of survival of the fittest and evolution, which are two separate things. Evolution is nothing but the genetic mutations we get and give to our offspring. And it's happening constant

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