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by cinquemb 6y ago
Similar situation (sub $1k/month) to the setup im doing for a start up in indonesia (top 7k in alexa, top 150 in indonesia), except we have to pay extra for media because we need to process the logs (long tail pdf/data/docx h
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by cinquemb 6y ago
Heaven forbid the useds have to wait a little bit for someone else for someone to do something for them! Must be placated, must be pleased, must be coddled at all costs!
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by cinquemb 6y ago
I know this might sound blasphemous (useds uber alles seems to be today's accepted philosophy)… but one can have all the addons one wants, one just has to run `./mach build`… Only grim for those who chose not to (for whatever reas
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How to Pick a Quack: Data(overcomingbias.com)
18 points by cinquemb 6y ago|2 comments
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by cinquemb 6y ago
I'm starting to see something like this happen with devs that pursue many contract work (non community projects) and pool effort/work and split the spoils (its a group of two, one usually does db stufff, one usually does applicati
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by cinquemb 6y ago
Yeah i get that, but i don't really care about that promise. I'm curious, today, to see what could be done now with this _existing system_ if pushed even further and what kind of error bars will be seen compared to existing calcs.
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by cinquemb 6y ago
When will the B3LYP paper come out?
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by cinquemb 6y ago
> The conclusion I'm left with is that the balance sheet is largely irrelevant until the demand for US Dollar decreases. I agree if I change this to: the conclusion I'm left with is that the balance sheet is largely irrelevant
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by cinquemb 6y ago
Nothing but a debt trap. Exchanging long term debt that yields for reserves that yield IOER and stay on bank balance sheets and enter the economy slower and slower the more they do it. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series&#x2F
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by cinquemb 6y ago
> Under the efficient market hypothesis… (assuming all buyers are perfectly rational) textbook vs reality… having a rational for buying something is not the same as an objectively rational choice.
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by cinquemb 6y ago
No worries, before i worked in finance (wrote code/developed models to trade futures on daily tf for a firm in RI for about a year), I was only vaguely aware of some of these things > long tail risk: assets that have problems that t
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by cinquemb 6y ago
I've been working remote for 5 years, and I live in ~90m2 apt in jakarta paying what i had to pay to live in a 3 bdr apt in boston with 2 other grown men… made enough long tail risk on HY trash, going into the "pandemic", and
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by cinquemb 6y ago
This is true, I'm waiting to buy (cash, no mortgage) still, not enough owner bankruptcies yet for me. I can wait until things can no longer operate under "extend and pretend".
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Monetary Policy Gone Wild: A Lost Generation of US Growth?(blogs.cfainstitute.org)
2 points by cinquemb 6y ago|0 comments
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Lognormal Priorities(overcomingbias.com)
1 points by cinquemb 6y ago|0 comments
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by cinquemb 6y ago
I don't deny that "good" (people may have varying definitions of good, acceptable costs of obtaining sufficient good-ness, whether those costs are assumed to be burdened upon a individual or society unquestioningly, on whethe
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by cinquemb 6y ago
Yeah, but it comes with all the gate keeping, prestige laundering and grant hamster wheel dynamics. Works for some, but not all.
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by cinquemb 6y ago
Luckily not everyone feels this way, and may be willing to mail an author if they found some mistake in their open archived paper/data/document they read because they think it could be useful/interesting and the author may be
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by cinquemb 6y ago
Some of us didn't care because we were already running our own forks and could deal with the old way and the new way.
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by cinquemb 6y ago
> there is also a technical barrier that works both ways. most don't have the capability to have a regularly updated website with content that otherwise would have been put in the file drawer. and the other side of that coin is what
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by cinquemb 6y ago
> Some are worried that the paradigm has changed, and that bonds are no longer uncorrelated." I argue that this is what has changed: "Treasuries have also benefitted from the wider adoption of non-cash collateral since the cris
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by cinquemb 6y ago
Well if one tried to put a munition on target in real time (on the order of few seconds) with classical gravity calculations from 7.6km high (and while moving at a higher rate speed compared to said target), one might be surprised where it
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by cinquemb 6y ago
So mass (or a relatively consistent distribution of energy) in motion that follows through space as a function of time, does not involve any time?
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by cinquemb 6y ago
Yeah… The sensitivities people have with the those mentioning rot and rampant prestige laundering in these institutions to the point its frowned on talking about it in association with the topic… banality of evil… lol
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by cinquemb 6y ago
Spoofing browser data sampled from existing browsers and past versions that is usually sent in http headers for every request in the nsHttpHandler, removing the home page stuff, compiling out telemetry stuff, disableing stuff in CanvasRende
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by cinquemb 6y ago
As someone who has been running my own personal fork off ff for the past half decade because no way the things i want in (and left out) would get adopted due to the conflict of interests at Mozilla, I see these times a great opportunity for
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by cinquemb 6y ago
I don't think hes the type of person to offer the next religion that people should crowd into… maybe less focus on working for companies that filter on "formal college education" above all else, even if they are "his&quo
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by cinquemb 6y ago
Never adopted it, too much resource consumption (ram/cpu) quickly adds to the cost for these systems in prod esp if you are trying to scale on a low budget. System now is usually deploying to a workbench, automated installing the servi
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by cinquemb 6y ago
Well, I have to make a living catering to people (on mostly my terms and my time frame) complaining about things they have no intention of trying to do anything else about… seeing the complaints and lack of solutions adopted is a good sign
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by cinquemb 6y ago
And for those of us who still compile ff from source and remove/add things as we please, we'll have to see people moan about something they always had and will continue to have control over, but long ago rationalized away seeking

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