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by aeternum 3y ago
>Many New Yorks — those with the bad luck to be in South America or parts of India — will be simply unlivable. What about all the potential New Yorks that are currently too cold to live in but could be thriving cities if they were just w
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by aeternum 3y ago
This is what annoys me about people living in the US. Like why not move to Singapore or something if you want government allocated housing. It's probably the best implementation of government housing, government healthcare, etc. in t
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by aeternum 3y ago
Ah yes when those too-good-to-be-true variable rate mortgages ramp up the rate due to inflation, we can just relabel them as predatory. It's not like the risk of was ever disclosed to the purchaser. Oh wait. We continue to bail out an
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A good old-fashioned Debt Jubilee. There's definitely historical precedent.
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The goal of the SEC used to be to ensure that companies could not lie to and mislead investors. The goal wasn't to ban investment in snakeoil, it was to ensure there was some grounding in truth for the financials of businesses. Instea
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Maybe he had Wells in his personal portfolio for awhile, realized it, and then sold. If you look at the chart, it wasn't a particularly good time to sell. The trades that Congress continually make are much more suspect. I don't
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by aeternum 3y ago
Sure but the idea was that open source should be free and available to all, no longer constrained by the cost of physical atoms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source#%22Open%22_versus_... SaaS is the polar opposi
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Did open source really win in the end even with Web2? It enabled a bunch of SaaS companies to build subscription-based online services. Those are generally more opaque than even compiled closed-source software.
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Yes, he admitted multiple times that it was all just an act for public perception. Can't get much more clear than this: KP: you were really good at talking about ethics, for someone who kind of saw it all as a game with winners an
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I think that putting low value on what other's think is one of the aspects that makes him so successful. If he gave more credence to popular/public opinion, he would never have started a rocket company, car company, nor would have
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by aeternum 3y ago
Yes, things might be significantly mispriced, but the amount of mispricing is a finite quantity. This is clear in the classic pump and dump scheme. During the pumping stage, the unscrupulous actor loses money by injecting some amount of mi
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The universe can be both deterministic and mostly unpredictable. In fact it most likely is both of those things. Entropy bounds computation and prediction of chaotic systems requires extreme amounts of computation.
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I think the problem with that idea is it leads to people believing that digital monkey drawings are worth millions.
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Arguably, this has already happened at least twice in the past. One with the discovery of the Black-Scholes model, and arguably again with the advent of HFT (and the ability to basically front-run trades). The interesting thing about marke
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Yes, this is where the collusion comes in. Many seller agents will simply ignore buyers without a buying agent.
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My understanding of his 'ruliad' idea is that the rules yield stable and predictable laws like QM and relativity. His idea is basically that there is this high-dimensional graph that represents reality and if you define certain pr
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Many organisms have just a handful of neurons yet exhibit complex behavior that would be impossible given the weighted connections model. Not to mention single-celled organisms that exhibit ability to navigate. The model can be the closest
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by aeternum 3y ago
Seems like redundancy could solve this. Instead of a single huge magnet you create a constellation of smaller magnets with aligned fields that orbit the LaGrange point. We're decent at tracking large space rocks, and small space rocks
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by aeternum 3y ago
I think most people do believe we are at a historically unprecedented level of CO2. Especially due to graphs like this: https://climate.nasa.gov/internal_resources/2679/CO2_graph.j... It's pretty disingenuou
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320123470_The_Relat... The problem is climate change has become a motte and bailey ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy ). If we do come
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Well that's more evidence for it, not an attempt to falsify. If we want to falsify, we should ask questions like: Was there a time in the past when the atmosphere contained even more CO2 than it did now? What was the temp and did life
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Is climate change falsifiable?
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Generally it is quite important especially for SaaS. Old TLS will cause SOC2 cert, PCI cert failures and similar. It is the kind of thing that can derail a major deal as often the 'whale' clients are the ones that really care ab
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In my experience, the vast majority of PMs could not describe the difference between TLS 1.3 and 1.x. The problems you describe are legit but unless you have extremely technical product managers, hiring more PMs will only make the problem w
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You can have both consistent laws and highly complex emergent behavior. For example if you take the rules of quantum mechanics and simulate sufficiently many particles, you would see the rules of thermodynamics emerge and classical physics
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There are either ways to make more, or alternatives for all of those things. We've never run out of a resource despite the constant fear of it happening.
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What if everyone carried around little thankyou notes and any time someone did something nice or improved their life in some way, they give/send them a thankyou note. Would you have an issue if someone eventually collected a billion th
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by aeternum 3y ago
This is my take as well. The US/IRS could be giving awards to those that pay the most tax. It's kind of ridiculous that a 1 mil campaign contribution gets more publicity than paying the IRS 100mil in taxes.
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It's easy to have a historic rate of decline if you just had a historic rate of increase.
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by aeternum 3y ago
We generally do not send people to jail for failure to yield to an emergency vehicle. We do ticket and fine them, which you can also do to automated vehicles.

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