Tycho

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by Tycho 7y ago
Can I ask you, when Lee’s personality began to change drastically, did he maintain the same level of technical proficiency (in coding or gaming)? It is a wonderful piece on a very sad story, and after reading it that’s one of the things t
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by Tycho 7y ago
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by René Girard.
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by Tycho 7y ago
I’m hearing that in the current economic situation banks are asking for 40% deposits to get a mortgage. I remember my landlord in 2008 saying it had been hiked to 20%. In good times people can get a mortgage with 5-10% down.
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by Tycho 7y ago
He's probably my favorite living author (although to be honest I mostly read books by long dead authors). I've read a few. I think Libra was the best one. I also read Falling Man , Cosmopolis , and The Body Artist. He has a
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by Tycho 7y ago
Maybe Uber could sell credits to their customers and pass the money through to the drivers. I mean I won’t be using Uber much at the moment but eventually I will. Buying ride credits at a discount would make sense.
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by Tycho 7y ago
Sounds incredibly risky to me. I suppose if all countries end up crippled anyway then it would be good to be the first to recover.
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by Tycho 7y ago
But the overpayment is optional, you can stop it at any time if it becomes inconvenient. Whereas as long as your mortgage balance is outstanding you are legally required to make the monthly payments.
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by Tycho 7y ago
Yes there is the psychological utility consideration of not having debt hanging over you. But in a less subjective sense aren't there also considerations of risk of ruin and optionality? If you have no mortgage to pay off, you are free
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by Tycho 7y ago
Here's a simple personal finance question that seems very hard to answer: should you overpay your mortgage, or put more money towards retirement? The well informed answers you tend to see on sites like MoneySavingExpert seem to converg
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by Tycho 7y ago
I think this is almost universally true. When the next step isn’t obvious because there are too many different strands of the project to integrate, progress grinds to a halt. Same underlying phenomenon of what novelists call “writer’s block
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A Climate Blacklist That Works: “It Should Make Her Unhirable in Academia”(forbes.com)
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by Tycho 7y ago
If the value and momentum and size factors are legitimate, then it stands to reason that there could be other more obscure, less intuitive and more profitable anomalies. Are those limited to very small magnitudes? Maybe, but I don't se
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by Tycho 7y ago
But I don't see why that would be true if we're talking about arcane patterns in data. Who's to say anyone's even looking at the same data, let alone the same pattern? If we were talking about intuitive patterns that map
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by Tycho 7y ago
Seems to me there's an obvious flaw in the efficient market hypothesis. It states that, essentially, you can find no sustainable edge because the market rapidly reacts to information. Meaning, if there is some information relevant to e
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by Tycho 7y ago
Wait, hold on a minute here, I was assured that the one thing Assange should have done years ago was turn himself over to the authorities and let justice take his course. Can someone explain to me how things could have diverged so badly fro
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by Tycho 7y ago
Which they conspicuously are suddenly no longer interested in pursuing, now that he has lost his asylum. You would almost think the whole case had been a ruse from the start.
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by Tycho 7y ago
The sell side provides liquidity to the market, by engaging in market making and other activities, while the buy side consumes market liquidity (transacting so they can construct/manage a portfolio). So as others have said, sell side t
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by Tycho 7y ago
How?
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by Tycho 7y ago
What about Venmo for beggars. Cities in the UK have foreign beggars camped outside every grocery store near the city centres. Locals do not know what to make of this. Are they desperately poor, or part of a scam to exploit people’s generosi
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by Tycho 7y ago
I just assume most scientific research is worthless these days.
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by Tycho 7y ago
Any similarities to BayesDB?
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by Tycho 7y ago
I think the key thing is that the virtue signalling usually comes with zero personal risk or cost. There’s no skin in the game. So it feels like a mockery of genuine virtue. And often at odds with revealed preferences when you examine their
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by Tycho 7y ago
Regex SQL Excel HTML I think those things are very practically useful and good starting points to introduce deeper topics.
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by Tycho 7y ago
Any examples of high profile climate scientists who have moved on to make a lot of money doing research unrelated to global warming?
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by Tycho 7y ago
Do you have figures on the size of government funding for climate research relative to the size of private funding for climate research?
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by Tycho 7y ago
Who audits their returns? They have not had any outside investors for over a decade. I had not seen an update on their yearly performance for quite some time, and was surprised to see an updated table published in this book. So I'm cur
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by Tycho 7y ago
The great public works of the 21st century, the Hoover Dams of our time, will be privacy-preserving digital infrastructure.
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by Tycho 7y ago
I heard one person say that reading a novel is the only time most people would engage with something that has a complex logical/abstract structure. Must people in their daily lives would not do anything like research or engineering wor
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by Tycho 7y ago
The guy is so obviously an attention seeker, I can't believe people take anything he says at face value.
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by Tycho 7y ago
I recommend reading the official docs. I think they improved the plotting interface recently, and I learned a lot from reading through the guide: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/user_guide/visu...

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