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by clarkm 13y ago
I really hate submission titles like this. Can you please provide some information about what you're actually linking to? This title is just a dressed up version of "Click Here! Act now!" I understand you're going for li
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by clarkm 13y ago
They're not actually arbitrage opportunities because there's no liquidity. All these exchange hang-ups are why the spreads look so unbalanced, and it's not like traders aren't racing incessantly to correct it. Unless you
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by clarkm 13y ago
Ok, what's your point? I don't think "well-actually" comments are bad. Wikipedia says to avoid weasel words and "expressions that lack precision" [1], and I think well-actually statements often help clear up su
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by clarkm 13y ago
At a similar event on Efficient Charity at the Berkeley Faculty Club, Robin Hanson made some interesting (and unsettling) points about how most charities operate. [1] For example, he claims that most charitable contributions are actually ab
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by clarkm 13y ago
You don't follow state politics much, do you? Quoting a US Senator on a bill that was supported by both national parties isn't very relevant here.
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by clarkm 13y ago
To be fair, this post is just rehashing the point that the blogger (Lion of the Blogosphere, formerly known as HalfSigma) has been making for 5+ years now. He's a Manhattan-based lawyer who really doesn't like software developers, and is co
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by clarkm 13y ago
If I ever get into a situation where I can't figure out the address, I just pick one of my guesses and bcc all the rest. Sure, they might think it's a little weird if they notice they're in the bcc field, but it sure is a lot easier than se
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by clarkm 13y ago
Whenever I hear people try to argue that certain jokes "aren't funny" and therefore shouldn't be permitted, I get the urge to ask them what they think of postmodern art. I've learned from asking that most people don't hold consistent positi
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by clarkm 13y ago
I'm just wondering how you come across such a picture on Facebook in the first place. I imagine you have to go looking for it, considering it's in the group "Offensive Humor at Its Best," which I doubt anyone would share with their friends
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by clarkm 13y ago
My favo[u]rite tell is this answer from Part 1: > A: Erm, depends.
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by clarkm 13y ago
My understanding was that many of the claims of threshold effects at least partially stemmed from the imprecision of many tests, even at the 1.5-2 sigma levels. Would you be able to send me some more info? Email's in my profile.
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by clarkm 13y ago
Yes, but the standard supply and demand model makes assumptions about the nature of money markets that I don't think apply in this case, which is why I'm confused. Bitcoin has some unique features (e.g. non-repudiable "teleporting") that ar
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by clarkm 13y ago
If you haven't seen the Dove commercial, you should watch it while reading this article from The Last Psychiatrist: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/05/dove.html
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by clarkm 13y ago
> If your currency is worth X today and more than X tomorrow you will see less economic activity than otherwise. This is something that's confused me for a while. If the value of your currency is going up, doesn't that mean your purchas
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by clarkm 13y ago
I don't disagree -- I think of markets as generally anti-inductive, so over-thinking things is a definite risk. And some quants have the habit of developing models so complex that when conditions change, they can't figure out how to adjust
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by clarkm 13y ago
Not true - there are tons of studies that show otherwise, so I have no idea how this myth still exists. An IQ of 120 is the top ~10%. Here's a 25 year longitudinal study [1] of over 1,500 students that were all in the top 1% and it shows
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by clarkm 13y ago
I agree with what he's getting at, but I'm not sure why he phrased it this way. It's not like he did a study and this was the result (that I know of). He has no way of knowing if IQs of 125+ actually correlate with success in investing or
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by clarkm 13y ago
I've heard good things about https://bitpay.com
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by clarkm 13y ago
It's so people can guess what time zone he's in! Casual analysis points to "not Japan".
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by clarkm 13y ago
Yes, good point! Satoshi was definitely familiar with discussions of smart contracts and smart property. You can see this in the design of Bitcoin transaction scripts. While most of the opcodes were disabled in late 2012 due to security con
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by clarkm 13y ago
This is also almost certainly wrong. Those patent applications don't really have anything to do with Bitcoin. But I guess if you're a journalist, anything crypto related looks like it has to do with Bitcoin. And if I remember correctly, the
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by clarkm 13y ago
This is almost certainly wrong. If you spend any time at all reading about history of Bitcoin and other related currencies, it's clear that Satoshi was a cypherpunk. And at least an active lurker, if not a well-known participant, in the cyp
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by clarkm 13y ago
Doesn't the oil boom down there mean that everyone is hiring? Surely EOG, Baker Hughes, etc. have jobs that pays better than $12/hour, even if they're in something tangentially related to software development, like IT.
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by clarkm 13y ago
He must've stalked his comment history. At one point he says: > South Texas (Rio Grande Valley) Yes, wondering how he knew that confused me enough to pull up his comment history. But to be fair, I don't think everyone reacts as negative
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by clarkm 13y ago
I refreshed the page, loaded the new design, and felt like the information density instantly dropped in half. I'm not sure if they think I'm going blind or forgetting how to read. Text went away. Pictures and icons appeared. The thumbnail p
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by clarkm 13y ago
Ironically, after all this new fragmentation, a few friends and I have decided to move back to IRC. It has all the features we need, we know how to use it, it's not going anywhere, and it's not gonna start changing privacy settings on us.
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by clarkm 13y ago
> That's just not the reality I experienced, and I never saw the ecosystem through that prism. shrugs I agree. Did you go to a small high school? I suspect most of this labeling happens in large high schools. When a grade has more tha
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by clarkm 13y ago
Ok, so it's 2.9% fee for credit / debit card payments. And I'm assuming the "connect directly to your bank account" is just using ACH transfers, which take a couple days. Anyways, a while ago I heard a rumor that they had a team working on
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by clarkm 13y ago
I only had 1 result for people who use Bang with Friends, but pages and pages of friends who use Tinder: https://www.facebook.com/search/me/friends/464891386855067/a... And you can even search by category, so here's all the dating apps yo
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by clarkm 13y ago
Did you not read the rest of the paragraph? > Do you not adapt because you cannot conceptualize faster than the enemy’s adaptation? (Darwin has a pretty good theory about the outcome for those who cannot adapt to changing circumstance —

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