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by bluecalm 1y ago
Sounds like a good deal for Europeans and a terrible for Qataris. Europeans get the oil, Qataris get to brand football stars and make decisions at some clubs.
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by bluecalm 1y ago
As others are pointing out here use type annotations + Mypi integrated with your IDE or CI. Imo a bigger problem with Python is that it's very slow and if that becomes a problem it's hard to solve.
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by bluecalm 1y ago
Is there anything in the proposal to stop people from VPN'ing to a free country and access their porn from there?
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by bluecalm 1y ago
Now I really want to know how you find a neighborhood of other childless atheits!
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by bluecalm 1y ago
There are many positively skewed coin flips as well which we don't take because of various biases, fears, habits or our upbringing. I like a quote from Magnus Carlsen (the chess player): "The correct mindset in chess is somewhere
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by bluecalm 1y ago
>>Do you not get police and fire protection? Health care? Rule of law? Urban and rural infrastructure? National defense? Some level of education? Courts that enforce property protection? And so forth? I got some of that although I got
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by bluecalm 1y ago
As it is I live for a few months per year in Spain for free. One of the reasons I am advocating for sane taxation instead of knee-jerk one (like wealth tax on world wide assets). I would really like to pay my fair share there but as it&#x27
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by bluecalm 1y ago
Yes, I am saying tax land/real estate instead of complaining rich people want to live in it.
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by bluecalm 1y ago
Realizing every year vs realizing at the end produces about 1% annualized return difference with those rates over 10 years. It's sure significant but not huge. In practice you are likely to be somewhere in the middle. >>And if th
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by bluecalm 1y ago
If they come and live in 10M house it's 300k/year right there if you tax properties/land (you can use progressive rate so it's higher on most valuable properties). Add consumption taxes and every rich Chinese/Arab k
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by bluecalm 1y ago
Why should that obligation be proportional (or progressively proportional) to the wealth you have and not to the resources you use (or wealth you have in that country). Why someone who made millions in Poland (and paid taxed there) should p
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by bluecalm 1y ago
>>Because physical presence incurs costs to taxpayer funded infrastructure? Why should I be able to dodge taxes by working remotely abroad? Are you saying independently wealthy people should be able to roam around and freeload without
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by bluecalm 1y ago
I lived in country A - normal apartment, I went to a really shitty school, got bullied there, didn't finish university. I had to pay out of pocket for healthcare as public option sucks and didn't want to help me. I made my money s
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by bluecalm 1y ago
>>The one thing we need to clamp down is allowing people to avoid paying for the society that makes wealth possible. Want to own property in the US? Great. Your worldwide income is now taxable. Imagine I own property in country A and
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by bluecalm 1y ago
Well for Norway specifically they have 1.1% wealth tax and humongous 37% capital gain tax (of course it's lower for real estate because Europeans like fighting stock investments). If you have say 4 million USD and invest in stocks expe
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by bluecalm 1y ago
It's not stated in the article but what US gets in return? I guess some promises of political/tax policy stability. I am curious if there is anything official though.
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by bluecalm 1y ago
Same in many EU countries. Poland and Germany are two examples. For example if someone robs you (or do worse things to you) and you call them out publicly you can be liable if you can't prove it happened. In practice the law defends th
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by bluecalm 1y ago
Don't forget "if we let people vote by some misfortune and their vote is opposite of what we wanted we will overrule it anyway".
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by bluecalm 1y ago
Because it's the biggest market. Half of my customers are American. I have never even marketed anything to them. It's the biggest, best market with the most people willing to spend the most money.
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by bluecalm 1y ago
Also about 15 million Germans were displaced from their homes. Whole regions with 95% German population were cleansed and given to Poland. I am not making judgement on this (I am Polish, part of my family lived in a German house like that,
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by bluecalm 1y ago
It's not my imagination. It's my experience with benchmarking it. The implementation I linked to is 2x (or even more on relatively short arrays) faster than standard library C++ sort. Is Rust sort as fast?
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by bluecalm 1y ago
I don't know what's ideal but it should be more direct and more local. If the goal of democracy is to implement will of the people the current system fails miserably as the loyalty of party officials is to the party not to the peo
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by bluecalm 1y ago
The trick is not about macros but about removing function calls altogether. Macros are there only to generate functions for specific types. The way the trick works is to implement the stack manually and put indexes there instead of passing
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by bluecalm 1y ago
ChatGPT or not it's still pinpoints the problem with EU and very anti-democratic system it has.
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by bluecalm 1y ago
I agree. Additionally systems where it's really vote for parties and not for people from your region results in elected officials being more loyal to the party than to the people. It would be significantly better if every region voted
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by bluecalm 1y ago
While the main conclusion of the article isn't unexpected to me I am very surprised a well optimized quicksort isn't faster than radix sort. My experience in C is that you can significantly speed-up quick sort by removing function
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by bluecalm 1y ago
Gemini is high on hallucination. When I ask it about my own software it not only changes my own name to a similar one common in my language but also makes up stuff about our team saying some stranger works with us (he works in the same nich
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by bluecalm 1y ago
It's good to have some humility and accept the market is smarter than you. The best price you're going to get is today. Every next day it's going to be more expensive by daily (risk free rate + equity risk premium) +/- v
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by bluecalm 1y ago
One problem with Kelly Criterion is that the swings are wild if you apply it. For example if your winning percentage is 55% on a double or nothing bet and you bet according to Kelly 1000 times you are practically guaranteed to have a drawdo
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by bluecalm 1y ago
Imo some social credit/reputation mechanism is needed. As it is there is very little you can do to judge trustworthiness of your business partners. Bad apples make services worse and more expensive for everyone. Honest people are in ef

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