Tycho

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by Tycho 11y ago
I think the simplest thing would be sell Euros and buy Dollars.
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by Tycho 11y ago
This was pretty normal 50 years ago in the UK.
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by Tycho 11y ago
I agree, except the bit about string theory. I don't understand why science journalists think 'additional dimensions which are rolled up into a tiny space' means anything to the lay reader.
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by Tycho 11y ago
The whole explicit point of capitalism is to rely on the selfish actions of others to generate greater wealth for all. Or put another way, to never rely on selfless action.
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by Tycho 11y ago
By creating large maps/worlds and building an interesting universe, they were always in a position to abandon the narrative that the writers layered on top, to write new stuff or change the pace of content delivery (push some stuff out
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by Tycho 11y ago
Lots of people say that but I can't relate except on a very superficial level. I mean yes you have to look away from your screen to read the card on your phone or your laptop, but I look away from the screen for all sorts of non game r
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by Tycho 11y ago
I went through this recently. I don't think it's hard to get started. Pandas is a great library for getting your data into the necessary format. And the from there you can pretty much just pick different machine learning models of
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by Tycho 11y ago
People like to paint a picture of last minute changes made in panic, but it could also just be the leadership exercising the optionality they had built into the project. Marathon has my favourite video game storyline ever. Told mostly throu
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by Tycho 11y ago
But you can run the calculations anywhere, like a solar powered data centre in the desert, so it's not really a inescapable problem.
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by Tycho 11y ago
There's always the CTMU.
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by Tycho 11y ago
You could have a five minute commute on foot, in which case it's more just much needed fresh air and daylight.
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by Tycho 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virtue_of_Selfishness
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by Tycho 11y ago
You can't use a treasury ETF as a proxy for the whole bond market.
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by Tycho 11y ago
A wealth effect might be a hard sell to a population who just came out of a catastrophic housing bubble.
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by Tycho 11y ago
I used to have a book of Paris Review interviews from the 60s or earlier. Hemingway, Faulkner, TS Elliot, Graeme Green... Really great stuff.
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by Tycho 11y ago
Has there been any sort of Marxist analysis about the middle class using the higher education system to entrench their advantage over the poor and therefore willingly going along with ridiculous tuition fees?
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by Tycho 11y ago
When it is able to offer search suggestions or corrections to your search, I think some of that was based on machine learning on a massive corpus of text.
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by Tycho 11y ago
Terrible victim blaming from the poetry community here.
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by Tycho 11y ago
Yeah, throughout history all research breakthroughs have come from academia...
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by Tycho 11y ago
One thing I find a bit weird, and I suspect it started in America (but I'm not sure), is when colleagues pass each other and they say 'how are you?' and keep walking , making it entirely obvious that they're not really
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by Tycho 11y ago
I don't know about the rest of Europe but in Scotland the taxis are definitely in the hands of gangsters. The drivers will tell you as much. I'm not sure what the reason is but I'm guessing it's because it's a cash-
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by Tycho 11y ago
Wierd how the article states that Über doesn't solve "real" problems.
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by Tycho 11y ago
In 2000 this best trade was not to short stocks (too hard to time) but to go long safe haven assets (treasury bonds) for a much smoother ride. However this time around that might not work with the Fed wanting to raise rates(which would hurt
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by Tycho 11y ago
Would this be a fat tailed process though? In which case 140 years of data would not be enough to draw conclusions from the change in mean, in terms of a long term trend.
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by Tycho 11y ago
It's not courage, it's stupidity.
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by Tycho 11y ago
I've often wondered what would happen if someone developed a neural network system (or similar) that could reliably produce great melodies. It would have quite a profound impact on the history of music.
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by Tycho 11y ago
I think a well selected Twitter feed preserves all the cool aspects of the internet.
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by Tycho 11y ago
I think the argument is that 'status quo farming' engages in localised tinkering in a way which is similar to what occurs in nature, whereas GMOs are examples of top-down engineering which will be imposed across the whole planet.
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by Tycho 11y ago
Because patents are just legal constructs which can be repealed or ignored, unlike catastrophic damage to the ecosphere...
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by Tycho 11y ago
Seemed coherent to me. Which part didn't you understand?

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