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by beefield 6y ago
There exists a horrible misunderstanding on the efficient market hypothesis. Markets are difficult to beat not because they reflect all available information, but because they do not, and nobody knows by how much they misreflect the informa
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by beefield 6y ago
I have always difficulties understanding these kind of statements: "appointment of civil servants or politicians to the supervisory board was unacceptable in the eyes of Lufthansa's executives." Like, how is that any of execu
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by beefield 6y ago
I know people who click on the first "result" of google search most of the time just because it is convenient. The psychological profile would be something like "Not interested in boring details like is something a paid ad or
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by beefield 6y ago
I assume these are going to be branded as completely voluntary . Like, completely voluntary until you want to have health insurance, buy a flight ticket or maybe be employed in certain/most industries. In those cases someone is going
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by beefield 6y ago
There are a couple of other groups I would like to be interviewed as well. - Economists who have bought into the crowding out theory. Are they consistent and still oppose government spending? [1] - People/corporations who have lobbied
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by beefield 6y ago
This is roughly my understanding as well. My actual peeve is here why the experts do not say this? It is not like the concept of "don't buy proper masks, just put a scarf on your face and you/we get most of the benefits&quo
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Ask HN: Why experts discourage using masks to combat Covid?
6 points by beefield 6y ago|12 comments
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by beefield 6y ago
> It is cheaper ... I sell around 90% immediately Sorry, i am unconviced. Could you show the numbers including all costs and exposure times to fx risks from your client's BTC account to your landlords bank account and compare those
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by beefield 6y ago
> As it stands a lot of organizations aren't looking for any COBOL developer, they're looking for CHEAP COBOL developers. This is one of my pet peeves. I am also thinking that it is outrageous that I am facing such lack of supp
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by beefield 7y ago
Don't quote me, it is ages since I had my economics book open last time, but if I recall correctly, there is a confusing terminology here. Zero profit means in the context of economice profits that exceed risk adjusted return . That i
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by beefield 7y ago
That was the best I had also found, but it is not of decent quality to me. sources seem to be quite out of date and often based on news articles, not actual daily data.
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by beefield 7y ago
Is there anywhere (global) data about total number of tests made? The plain number of positive cases is quite difficult to make sense of.
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by beefield 7y ago
What makes you think they are not scared? Fear is smart and necessary. Keeps you alive. As long as you control the fear and not the other way round.
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by beefield 7y ago
Sorry, but that is to me a textbook example of what I think as case 2. It is not about hard statistics. It is your job to translate all those uncertainties and sources of knowledge to (subjective) probabilities. If you do not do that, you
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by beefield 7y ago
> What are you going to do with that information? Yep. Why on earth should I be given the means to make informed decisions about my body and life? What an outrageous idea. (sarcasm included)
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by beefield 7y ago
One of my pet hates is that I have not been able to crack how to make doctors talk about probabilities quantitatively. It just seems to be impossible. So far I have three theories why this is: 1. Med school teaches people that as they are j
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by beefield 7y ago
> Programming, like spoken language, is one way to express yourself. I am not a software developer, nor have any interest becoming one. What programming has given me is a Thinking superpower. Thinking as really slow thinking by Kahnemann
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by beefield 7y ago
Should we then not be damn sure that there are shitloads of the simpler ventilators so that the complicated ones can be fully reserved for the serious cases?
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by beefield 7y ago
I am getting frustrated by the comments that miss the big picture. There are likely going to be lots of people that are going to die without ventilator. Now, who with any common sense and decency[1] cares if 30% of them are dying because th
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Open Source COVID19 Medical Supplies(facebook.com)
3 points by beefield 7y ago|0 comments
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Medical hackathon can we design and deploy an open source ventilator(hackaday.com)
3 points by beefield 7y ago|0 comments
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by beefield 7y ago
Preferably also some debt holders should be wiped out. Otherwise it becomes too cheap to leverage your company if you need to pay only risk-free rate on your debt.
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by beefield 7y ago
I have occasionally thought to time to learn proper touch typing. But I never seem to get over the idea that my bottleneck is not in the fingers, but in the brain trying to figure what to type in the first place... Can someone prove me wron
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by beefield 7y ago
> An even stronger statement I am willing to make is that no one person correctly and fully understands the financial system. This. > So, once you accept that there is no "correct" answer to how the financial system and how
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by beefield 7y ago
I understand your comment has and smiley indicating you are not completely serious, but I think I still need to point outthat your comment is blatantly untrue. For example, see fixed income and dividend paying companies.
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by beefield 7y ago
> What I don't agree with is the pay scale they use based on your location. If you have the same skills, you should be paid the same. This chain seems to have lots of excuses for not paying same salary for same value added, but I th
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by beefield 7y ago
I really do not understand the point of this. It is not like the problem needs some novel ideas to be solved, there are a handful of well known solution types[1] and it is a question of how and when they are feasible to implement. [1] Basic
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by beefield 7y ago
The article was a bit light in details, but here is my educated guess depending of the details: 1. (most likely) The interest is still paid, but the outstanding notional payments are deferred. This causes no actual losses to banks, but may
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by beefield 7y ago
That is something that I find weird in US "ratings". To me, "ok" means that it was... Ok. Definitely nothing bad, from completely satisfactory to good, but not exceptional. Which for some reason seems to translate in US
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by beefield 7y ago
There are multiple reasons. 1. Prices (especially wages) are sticky. Interest rates you can adjust overnight, but to get the adjustment of wages can easily take years. 2. Economy is not actually nicely behaving equilibrium seeking thingy, b

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