ThrustVectoring

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by ThrustVectoring 3y ago
This, uhhh, this seems like a good argument against using an absolute ranking system. Suppose you want to eat and have money. If you rank eating first, you'd be willing to pay a million dollars for a can of tuna. If you rank money firs
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by ThrustVectoring 3y ago
How do you resolve a choice between poorly fulfilling a higher-ranked want and perfectly fulfilling a lower-ranked one?
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by ThrustVectoring 3y ago
Not talking about the physical book, that's old news. LLMs drive the price and time requirements of "writing" the book down below what one consumer would require. So you could theoretically generate a listing, wait until some
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by ThrustVectoring 3y ago
You don't even have to generate the book until after it's sold.
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by ThrustVectoring 3y ago
Part of the issue is print-on-demand and drop shipping. In the old days, you had to stock and distribute inventory as well as do large-batch printing runs in order to get books out at a price and delay acceptable to consumers. This is in sh
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by ThrustVectoring 3y ago
Of course the government is going to enforce only a fraction of the offenses it creates. This is nearly always the case, and is mostly irrelevant to a law's actual effectiveness. That is derived from a combination of targeting the high
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by ThrustVectoring 3y ago
It's installed by default on OSX, Ubuntu, and most non-windows operating systems.
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by ThrustVectoring 3y ago
This is a textbook use case for a Vim macro.
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by ThrustVectoring 3y ago
The country also had to pay the $1t in your example. The actual proper analysis is to measure the difference in consumer surplus between the different points on the supply-and-demand curve hit with versus without the additional production
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by ThrustVectoring 3y ago
"Not enforceable at trial" isn't the same thing as "they aren't going to send your new employer a nastygram that leads to getting fired after legal does a risk/reward analysis and decides to fill your role with
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by ThrustVectoring 3y ago
More generally, large unaccountable bureaucracies are fundamentally against the intent of the Founders, the spirit of the Bill of Rights, and the principles of government by the consent of the governed. That these bureaucracies are powerf
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by ThrustVectoring 3y ago
All other productivity increases from back-office type jobs have historically been eaten up by expanding bureaucratic requirements. These jobs tend to not get replaced by technological improvements, but rather the requirements demanded of
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by ThrustVectoring 3y ago
> I wonder if it still works to contract for PLEX with a unit of measure missing. (Getting one for 10000000 instead of 100000000) Still extremely common to get attempted, although due to the current UI it's usually listing something
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by ThrustVectoring 4y ago
> Why is there seemingly no accountability going on? Warrants are petitioned for by district attorneys, who are elected officials. In principle, the means of redress for inappropriately pushing for warrants and improperly using prosecuto
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by ThrustVectoring 4y ago
You only get paid to take on risk. If SVB hedged away the interest-rate risk that they take on by buying long-term bonds, they would no longer be taking on as much risk and thus no longer potentially earning as much profit.
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by ThrustVectoring 4y ago
The mortgage is one of the assets seized by the FDIC and sold off to meet bank liabilities. On your end little should change in the short term, and you may have a different owner for the mortgage at some point (and as I understand it, your
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by ThrustVectoring 4y ago
Nice stories, and I don't doubt that some money can be productively invested. But does the marginal dollar saved wind up in a productive investment, or does it wind up malinvested? In other words, is money the bottleneck for incr
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by ThrustVectoring 4y ago
Savings don't grow, not in real terms and on a societal scale. A miniscule fraction of real goods and services in the economy can get buried in the basement and saved for thirty years.
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by ThrustVectoring 4y ago
Web dev still has tons of weird bugs, tend to be in the interactions between multiple frameworks and edge cases in the assumptions they make. Like, I had one issue with intermittent test failures in Ruby on Rails, not reproducible with any
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by ThrustVectoring 4y ago
>Some other index fund sees that the price is attractive Index funds do not have opinions on the attractiveness of prices. What happens in this hypothetical when one index fund has a cash inflow is that it bids on all the assets it is &q
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by ThrustVectoring 4y ago
I'm not awake/invested enough to make up numbers and do the math here, but shouldn't the cost for provisioning workers and value provided at various latencies matter? Like, each worker you provision costs a certain amount and
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by ThrustVectoring 4y ago
>What am I getting wrong? You are correct when taking the view of the financial sector as a whole - every asset purchase merely swaps who has the cash and who has the asset. You're not getting much of anything wrong, merely missing
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by ThrustVectoring 4y ago
It's not that complicated, legally speaking. The rightful owner gets to get their stuff back, and the new "owner" has a claim against the purveyor of stolen goods for the purchase price.
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by ThrustVectoring 4y ago
401k accounts are generally exempt from bankruptcy proceedings and other debt-collection activities.
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by ThrustVectoring 4y ago
Not to say that it isn't a problem or that the community shouldn't do better, but this seems like the sort of stuff you could dredge up about pretty much any group of comparable size. I'm intensely curious about the decis
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by ThrustVectoring 4y ago
Fair use as a legal doctrine has significant practical problems - specifically, it's an open legal question with mind-bogglingly large sums of money at stake until and unless you get sued and spend six-figure sums in court to find ou
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by ThrustVectoring 4y ago
The points in the sphere are uncountably many - you can't give each one a room number.
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by ThrustVectoring 4y ago
Even without a single-subject rule, there's zero enforcement mechanism to prevent other interest groups from reneging on the packaging agreement and defeating one or more parts in detail. There's no stable point you can get via re
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by ThrustVectoring 4y ago
> Additionally, another possible explanator of our findings is that women earn utility from pursuing the work of doctors above the utility that they would earn from their work as PAs and that this counteracts the small financial disadvan
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by ThrustVectoring 4y ago
> If 20% of the population wants something, 10% opposes it, and 70% doesnt care if it passes That isn't the hypothetical I'm using to make my point. Obviously if you change the hypothetical you come up with different results, b

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