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by bluecalm 5y ago
Some studies suggest a lot of competitive high level runners heel strike. I am not sure if any elite runners do, I've checked quite a few and I am yet to see one. I think it's about foot under your body not in front. You may land
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by bluecalm 5y ago
More likely than what? The article says they block sex-ed websites as well even if they are not LGBTQIA+. It just seems they block content related to sex no matter if it's straight, gay or queer.
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by bluecalm 5y ago
Even the most blatant scams, literal pyramids called MLMs often have some useful product to muddy the waters. I mean you can after all but that toothpaste and shampoo from Amway and use it!
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by bluecalm 5y ago
There is just way more business now. Those businesses choose to host their website, information and communication with customers on FB/Instagram. They think it's profitable for them. It's a very arrogant view to think they ar
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by bluecalm 5y ago
A lot of businesses rely on Facebook/Instagram for marketing, keeping in touch with customers etc. Those disappearing would kill them pretty quickly. Even if they start making their own self hosted websites no one will find them (and i
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by bluecalm 5y ago
Why do you think so? I think it's the opposite. With little capital you have way more opportunities in medium/small/micro caps while someone like Warren Buffet has limited pool of possible investments as you can't pour b
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by bluecalm 5y ago
Thank you but I think we are beyond that point. I see people in my local squash club trading crypto. I see 18 years old "investing" in ICOs. I see people earning or losing hundreds of thousands and getting addicted to gambling. It
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by bluecalm 5y ago
The system doesn't work because crypto currencies (and thus energy they use) is used directly to bypass laws of regulations we have. It's like saying that we perfectly good system called economy and thus drug cartels are the natur
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by bluecalm 5y ago
It sounds like just a nitpick to me. The networks exists to process transactions. It's only fair to count its total energy consumptions to see how efficient it is. That it does a lot empty work without processing anything is a by produ
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by bluecalm 5y ago
It's good to see more people coming out against crypto currencies. While it's clear to competent people the tech is just bad and the crypto space is worse we are far beyond "the fad will go away by itself without incurring mu
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by bluecalm 5y ago
GDPR has an exception for things that are necessary for the service the customer asked for. If you ordered something to be shipped to your home then the provider can share your address with the shipping company - that's required to ful
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by bluecalm 5y ago
Homemaker role doesn't mean spending your days travelling, hiking or going to the beach.
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by bluecalm 5y ago
It's nice that it maximizes "growth" but it's just a curiosity. It's useful because it maximizes a utility function which might for many situations be similar to log. There is little reason to ever try to maximize g
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by bluecalm 5y ago
Yeah but why would anyone care about that in real life? We don't have unlimited bets and even if we had them getting quicker to (for example) 10 billion is more important than eventually, maybe in 100 years catching up at 200b level.
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by bluecalm 5y ago
It's strange to me how you overcomplicate it all by thinking about growth instead of utility of money. Once you switch everything becomes easier and more intuitive. You will also see why Kelly is not a good guideline for most cases as
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by bluecalm 5y ago
You can think of an insurer as someone who provides a service of pooling resources together to help those who got unlucky. That service is worth something and is not necessarily predatory.
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by bluecalm 5y ago
How do you define maximized growth and why is it important for anything if utility is not log? Shapes of utility function have everything to do with determining your bet sizes. Can you provide one reason to use Kelly that is not connected t
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by bluecalm 5y ago
Kelly criterion is the solution for optimal bet size with the assumption that utility is a log function. While it's often modelled as such we know it's not perfect (utility of money is bounded or even goes downwards after certain
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by bluecalm 5y ago
Definitely not for me. Amazon was the first corporation that let me buy books from around the world cheaply. They were shipping from US back then and it was way faster and cheaper to get books in English from them than from any other retail
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by bluecalm 5y ago
What if you write code that doesn't wrap but you don't want the exception or any kind of check either? That's the whole point of UB. Let the compiler optimize by assuming your integers are in range. I get that it doesn't
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by bluecalm 5y ago
The imperfect play is in the mixing. Imagine you play like optimal but every time you have a mixed action of bluff or check you bluff. You won't be exploited by an optimal strategy but you will be very vulnerable vs someone who bluff c
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by bluecalm 5y ago
I meant that you can't rely on platform/implementation specific behavior to save you. It's the worst of both worlds: you don't get performance benefits of UB and you introduce a disaster waiting to happen once your code
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by bluecalm 5y ago
Well, I prefer to have standard tools to check or a way to compile so it traps on the overflow. Majors compilers provide that if you value security over performance and are not sure about correctness of your logic.
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by bluecalm 5y ago
I don't expect C to be portable assembler. I expect it to be a simple fast language with clear rules. I am not sure what you mean by an idiom here. I suppose you mean assembler idiom as in C it was always a simple bug in logic. Obvious
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by bluecalm 5y ago
I don't think making it defined would help much. Overflowing a signed integer is a bug in logic. It would be ideal to have a crash on that. Continuing is going to be bad one way or another unless you luck out with your buggy code so th
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by bluecalm 5y ago
I am not ignoring it. I just don't see how counting calories can cause any of that. If you want to lose weight in obsessive way you will do so with or without counting. Knowing how much you actually it is just a useful piece of informa
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by bluecalm 5y ago
One big problem with one time payment model is that you at some point after shipping and fixing bugs need to start doing other things (next paid version or another product). In this period you will accumulate a lot of new features/func
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by bluecalm 5y ago
Thank you for your post. I've often wondered how it is to deal with a mental problem that makes you perceive yourself one way (too fat) even though your conscious mind knows you're not that. Do you feel some kind of internal strug
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by bluecalm 5y ago
Why would it? Most people eat too much or way too much. Eating disorders resulting in eating too little are rare in comparison and they stem from well known mental issues. Like, I don't even know how you could come up with a hypothesis
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by bluecalm 5y ago
This is almost correct but not quite. Optimal strategy wins against many other strategies and breaks even against others. The ones it breaks even against are not necessarily optimal themselves, they just don't make mistakes vs the opti

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