bhalperin

4 ms·

1.
Newcomb’s problem is just a standard time consistency problem(basilhalperin.com)
1 points by bhalperin 5y ago|0 comments
2.
by bhalperin 8y ago
*she :)
3.
by bhalperin 8y ago
Call it a “cryptocurrency” if that makes it sound sexy, but this is still centralized — it’s effectively the same as the (already existing) Messenger Payments.
4.
by bhalperin 9y ago
"The division of labor is limited by the extent of the market"
5.
by bhalperin 9y ago
Revenue != valuation (but you might still be correct!)
6.
by bhalperin 9y ago
Does "verbal approval" mean... anything , in the context of local construction regulation? Best of luck to Musk, but there must be a misunderstanding going on here, or he is being somewhat misleading in use of the term "appr
7.
by bhalperin 9y ago
How'd you get rid of the acne?
8.
by bhalperin 9y ago
> private RSS feed for Overcast I for one would be interested in reading more about how you set this up!
9.
by bhalperin 9y ago
> To my delight Audible managed to get the same narrator. Stefan Rudnicki (the narrator) is an absurdly good narrator. He regularly narrates the Lightspeed Magazine podcast, a sci-fi short story podcast, if that perchance interests you.
10.
by bhalperin 9y ago
Wow, this gave me the realization I needed about why I've been procrastinating on a project. Thanks.
11.
by bhalperin 9y ago
Scott Alexander [1] has some useful (critical) comments: "significant safety issue" is not necessarily what it sounds like. [1] https://slatestarscratchpad.tumblr.com/post/160559317596/kit...
12.
by bhalperin 9y ago
Where is Uber available on the secondary market? It's not available through either EquityZen or SharesPost.
13.
by bhalperin 9y ago
This is going to vary massively city to city, just as it does for Uber/Lyft/Grab in other countries.
14.
by bhalperin 10y ago
Know any good longreads on this?
15.
by bhalperin 10y ago
Best of luck :)
16.
by bhalperin 10y ago
Matt Levine explains this well https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-11-25/appeals-c...
17.
by bhalperin 10y ago
Do you know any good overviews of Mendelian randomization?
18.
by bhalperin 10y ago
These kinds of efforts seem to be having great success not just in Australia but at least in the United States[1] as well. What I don't understand is -- why isn't a similar education, advertising, and taxation effort being made wi
19.
by bhalperin 10y ago
Hm, I wonder if coincap just takes generic cryptocurrency prices and converts them at going exchange rates. I.e., the prices aren't 100% tradeable.
20.
by bhalperin 10y ago
This is cool, but I wish coincap.io was more transparent about their data sourcing. Which exchange(s) is/are they sourcing from? This data can't be coming from ShapeShift (the owners of coincap.io), since prices on coincap.io are
21.
by bhalperin 10y ago
Dropbox does not cooperate well with symlinks. For instance, if you create a symlink in your Dropbox folder to My Documents on Windows, the Dropbox folder will duplicate the My Documents files. Takes up twice the space.