Tycho

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by Tycho 6y ago
“MTG” is the exception that proves the rule.
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by Tycho 6y ago
But the headphones business that Beats had built up wasn’t somehow irrelevant. It was the main attraction, although not for any technological edge certainly.
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by Tycho 6y ago
Totally agree. One side constantly levels wild accusations of racism, supremacism, insurrection, attempted murder, etc, while for the most part the other side just rolls its eyes and cracks jokes to “own the libs.” One side thinks the other
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by Tycho 6y ago
I'd expect them to be close. In a two party system, the parties will coalesce around similar policies. The electorate will always have variance along the first principal component (which probably corresponds to community prosperity vs
515.
by Tycho 6y ago
I don't think so. Beats headphones were the first thing since the iPod that was approaching Apple's cachet with young music fans. They were fashionable. That is Apple's turf.
516.
by Tycho 6y ago
If a company with say $1bn market cap has more than 100% of shares on loan for shorts, how much money does it take to trigger a short squeeze? Isn’t it trivial for any investor who has enough capital?
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by Tycho 6y ago
I think the problem here is pretty obvious: we have laws and norms about hate speech , but why do we have nothing to prevent hate reading ?. Why do we allow people to seek out and absorb hateful ideas and opinions? It's the intellect
518.
by Tycho 6y ago
I assume the collective capital of the Robinhood/WSB crowd is not particularly massive compared to what many large fund managers have at their disposal (not to mention the leverage they have access to). If a bunch of Redditors can sque
519.
by Tycho 6y ago
I got a degree in literature (from a top 100 university) and I'd say it was possible to pass without applying yourself too much, but getting top marks for essays was very difficult. Now that I've ended up working in software engin
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by Tycho 6y ago
I'm not worried especially about this vaccine, I'm worried about the future state where we get too clever by half.
521.
by Tycho 6y ago
Because failure to consider worst case scenarios leads to extinction. The impulse to do so is why we survive.
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by Tycho 6y ago
On one hand it's incredible that we can make effective vaccines in such short order. But I'm worried about the iatrogenic risk of rapid, global vaccine roll-outs. Let's say in a few years someone identifies a virus with a sim
523.
by Tycho 6y ago
There may be thousands of counties but you’d only need corrupt activity in a few of them to flip some swing states and change the election outcome.
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by Tycho 6y ago
“song stuck in my head” seems universal
525.
by Tycho 6y ago
Go to church. The people there will talk to you and welcome you to join activities. During the service all you have to do is stand up, sit down, and sing along. Listening is optional. Even if you are not religious, you can treat it as some
526.
by Tycho 6y ago
I misread the link you posted. Still, “affect the outcome” is very broad - the White House winner? some EC votes? a House seat? So is “voter fraud” - presence of fake ballots? demoralisation/suppression caused by the likelihood of frau
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by Tycho 6y ago
A clear lie? For a start, the poll question is extremely broad, I doubt anyone believes there was “zero” fraud. Secondly, this is a complex issue, with many possible definitions and magnitudes of fraud, you can’t neatly square it away as “a
528.
by Tycho 6y ago
We don’t need reporters to adjudicate truth for us. Saying “___ claimed ___” is objective, and can be easily followed up with “this appears to conflict with ____” or “____ (an expert, authority or opponent) denies this.” When reporters sta
529.
by Tycho 6y ago
Your attitude is a deep part of the problem. Reporting should be objective and even handed. The media immolated their credibility by constant editorialising and selective reporting, and now (absurdly) try to blame the resulting crisis of co
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by Tycho 6y ago
Biden does appear to be the rightful victor, but it was a highly unusual and uniquely sketchy election, and, given the recent pattern of protests and riots cheered on by politicians (blm/antifa trashing cities, mobs outside the White H
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by Tycho 6y ago
The news media reliably produces these “something must be done” stories that the powerful can then use as cover for actions they normally wouldn’t dare to take. And all at the same time - no coordination necessary, no central agenda, just a
532.
by Tycho 6y ago
Recently heard a resident machine learning expert describe GPT-3 as 'not revolutionary in the slightest' or something like that.
533.
by Tycho 6y ago
I drink lots of tea. The few times I stopped for a few days I remember feeling a bit off, but could be a coincidence. However I rarely drink coffee and when I do, I notice it's much more powerful and makes me a bit jumpy. So I'm w
534.
by Tycho 6y ago
On the plus side, if China innovates new technologies, it will make everyone else's life better too, as US innovation has done for the last century or so.
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by Tycho 6y ago
But cheap labour is a sustainable advantage that the west can never rival. Everything else, we can compete on, in theory.
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by Tycho 6y ago
But without the need for cheap labour, it becomes much easier for governments to impose tariffs on imports (or provide subsidiaries, etc), to even the scales, no?
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by Tycho 6y ago
Well if cheap labour is not an input then there's no reason that the manufacturing has to be done somewhere with cheap labour costs.
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by Tycho 6y ago
Might not mean more jobs in the west, but I suppose it will mean less jobs for the east.
539.
by Tycho 6y ago
At a certain point, does automation/robotics swing the manufacturing base back towards the west?
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by Tycho 6y ago
Maybe someone will come up with an app that you use before you go to sleep and it trains/primes your mind to work on pieces of work (ones that require creativity or insight) while you sleep. And then corporations will adopt it and offe

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