citadel_melon

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by citadel_melon 2y ago
I am not as worried if this data gets out or not. I think there are negative externalities if the data is sold to insurance firms — who can use the genomic information in litigation and policy rejections — or if the data is sold to some sor
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by citadel_melon 2y ago
It’s an important question. I think of a saying I once heard about picking a SWE job: “back in the day, if you went to finance you were evil and if you went to big tech you were good. Now, you are evil no matter where you go.” Previously, o
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by citadel_melon 2y ago
I think we need more competent school psychologists. The field is niche and many who work in the profession don’t fully understand the platonic idea of their job. Making the profession better paid and more well respected — both more respect
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by citadel_melon 2y ago
Taxing unrealized gains isn’t unprecedented. Property tax — ans one example — is especially common in the states.
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by citadel_melon 2y ago
Change is possible and change always feels difficult before it happens, but feels inevitable when looking back. Change would be harder in places like Texas, sure, but East coast cities and the Midwest have so many opportunities to continue
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by citadel_melon 2y ago
This is me letting you know that Keynesian economics solved deflation, making it less difficult to get out of market contractions (Note, the comment you refer to specified specifically deflation to be an issue, and did not claim that it sol
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by citadel_melon 2y ago
"Shallow geothermal for building heat works fine, but it takes a lot of drilling just to get some heat." From my understanding, this is all the original comment says about shallow geothermal. Correct me if I am misunderstanding. M
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by citadel_melon 2y ago
USD is used and is useful for transacting — especially in global markets — because of its high trading volume, stability, limited/no capital flow restrictions, federal reserve’s monetary policy to favor neither exporting or importing (
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by citadel_melon 2y ago
The original comment stated that shallow geothermal can be useful for heating, but did not say anything about shallow geothermal electricity generation.
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by citadel_melon 2y ago
Iceland has profitable geothermal, no? Maybe you meant that geothermal has not achieved profitability in non-especially favorable environments. I think we should be subsidizing geothermal to make the technology cheaper and cheaper, like we
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by citadel_melon 2y ago
I am against meme coins, but ruling them to be collectibles like a trading card makes sense to me. How is a meme coin different than a baseball card? What about a virtual baseball card or other virtual item from CSGO or World of Warcraft? T
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by citadel_melon 2y ago
The US forcing all government agencies to use open source software would save taxpayers money. Additionally — in tandem with other countries following suit — the policy would create the incentive for governments to contribute to OS developm
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by citadel_melon 2y ago
I don’t understand the sarcasm. More competition in the marketplace would create more innovation: I don’t think this should be controversial.
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by citadel_melon 2y ago
I think people read too much into IQ tests. IQ tests will test what sub skills you have and don’t have currently. They do not test your innate abilities and one can improve their sub skills within your lifetime. Moreover, people assume havi
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by citadel_melon 2y ago
What is hckernews.com
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by citadel_melon 2y ago
According to your own figures, if plane travel gets even just 200x less safe, it would become less safe than driving. I mention this not because I know how much less safe flying is going to become, but because you don’t either. 200x less sa
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by citadel_melon 2y ago
Yes. And also because their rules are lax. The state is what it is today because bussiness-friendly New Jersey raised their state taxes in 1911, so corporations fled to Delaware. Another important piece of background information is that the
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by citadel_melon 2y ago
What if they provided your child nightcare too
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by citadel_melon 2y ago
Non-experts can chime in and can often glean insights experts miss. I conjecture -- as a non-expert -- for this article, most laymen will probably come to wackier conclusions than the research really permits. There is a common (and I believ
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by citadel_melon 2y ago
What data do you collect about users, and are there any protections against taking trading ideas? Institutional traders would be wary of using the application, cautious of losing any edge by tipping their hands of what equities they are loo
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by citadel_melon 2y ago
Note that this article is written by a company selling an index-fund alternative, and thus, they carry an incentive to diminish active investing. However, this thought experiment is still enjoyable.
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by citadel_melon 2y ago
I was thinking of the same example for this article. Nature vs nurture arguments often need much more evidence than many can provide.