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by cltby 6y ago
My comment is a reply to this: "To blast the Bay Area and state which made them rich and then flee before they owe a penny is gross." It's not gross to minimize your obligations towards people who have done nothing for you. S
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by cltby 6y ago
> I don’t know what you’re getting at but it isn’t my point. I can't tell if you're upset by their disingenuousness, or by their refusal to give a cut to the state. If the former, I sympathize. But it mostly seems to be the lat
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by cltby 6y ago
But their success has very little do with the tax burden imposed on them by the state of California (c.f. any number of Seattle-based companies).
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The viral South Dakota nurse and Covid credulity(wired.com)
8 points by cltby 6y ago|0 comments
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by cltby 6y ago
The skepticism on the prior thread was fully warranted.
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Colleagues can’t corroborate South Dakota nurse’s viral claims(nationalreview.com)
4 points by cltby 6y ago|1 comments
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by cltby 6y ago
> if you aren't being 100% safe you're just doing pandemic theater Pandemic theater is a preference for the symbolic over the substantive. It's giving yourself a pass for risky behavior (bars, indoor dining) while sneering
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by cltby 6y ago
I'm in Seattle too. The local health guidelines suggest that it's safe to: 1. Put on a mask before going outside 2. Stroll to your local favorite restaurant 3. Get a table indoors 4. Remove the mask 5. Socialize Some rural citizen
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by cltby 6y ago
Given that we're seeing the same spike in our big, coastal metro areas, perhaps the problem is more complicated than rural attitudes towards Covid. [0] https://outbreak.info/epidemiology?location=METRO_42660%3BME...
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by cltby 6y ago
Strongly seconded. Beyond the language aspects, the scylladb projects are full of instructive architectural ideas and design choices.
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by cltby 6y ago
> A test that can only explain 64% of the variance in its result based on the fact that I am still me is suspect. The WISC full scale test correlation is 0.97, so R^2 0.94. As a reference point, you might compare to the 100m sprint [1],
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by cltby 6y ago
A single index of intellectual ability (with unusually strong predictive power!)
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by cltby 6y ago
Psychologists are just as adept at "controlling for age, gender, education level, income, racial-ethnic group." The validity of IQ was first established using within-group comparisons.
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by cltby 6y ago
> IQ is somewhat effective as a diagnostic tool for significant impairment and not much else This places exactly zero constraints on the utility of IQ tests. Instead of asking why group A scores higher than group B, I can simply ask why
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by cltby 6y ago
I'm certainly not accusing you of this personally, but it's curious how selectively IQ is accepted/denied on this site. It's real enough for the purposes of covid policy, lead abatement, or whatever other fashionable env
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by cltby 6y ago
If the Coinbase guys were lobbying for "libertarian and anarchist philosophy," broadly construed, you'd have a point. But they're not. They're pushing for narrow financial regulation. There's no principled reas
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by cltby 6y ago
There are lots of reasons, good and bad, to avoid politics. But to claim that doing so is inherently political... isn't saying anything. To the extent it's true, it's trivially so. And to the extent it's non-trivial, it&
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by cltby 6y ago
Bob grows chickens and Alice grows corn. They trade via barter. We'd probably agree this isn't political in any meaningful sense. One day, Alice has a clever idea: she can create a digital representation of money. Both Alice and B
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by cltby 6y ago
Just playing the bongos is political because it means the environment has been configured in such a way that you can do so. If you play the bongos in the position of a manager or boss, it is even more strongly political as you are using the
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by cltby 6y ago
Logically, it is. Just not in a way that's meaningful or interesting.
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by cltby 6y ago
You are correct in your "understatement" claim, though I suspect unintentionally so. Yes, "avoiding politics" cuts into time you could be spending advancing progressive politics. So does writing software. So does watchin
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by cltby 6y ago
> the practice disenfranchises the majority and subjects them to the rule (=taxation, among other things) of a minority that is hostile to both their interests, and, indeed, to their way of life The taxation argument rings a little hollo
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by cltby 6y ago
What reasons do you give your clients for preferring AWS/Azure?
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by cltby 6y ago
> How exactly do you avoid political discussion when you're asking what constitutes hate speech, whether a US president should be allowed to violate Facebook's content guidelines, or to what extent governments can spread misinf
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by cltby 6y ago
How terrifying that sneaky Russians are able to effect arbitrary social change by just throwing $100k of FB ads at the problem! I thought I was a moderately intelligent and well-informed person, but after reading your comment, I now underst
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by cltby 6y ago
If HFT and B are racing for the same order, they evidently have a very similar trading objective. In which case it's bizarre to ascribe some uniquely negative social value to HFT winning that race.
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by cltby 6y ago
My question is pure nuts and bolts. A and B wake up one morning and want to trade MSFT. Both submit orders to "the market." You claim HFT somehow inserted itself into the middle of the transaction. I'm asking if you can fill
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by cltby 6y ago
Can you explain to me very carefully why the orders of seller A and buyer B weren't able to match before Mr. Evil HFT came along? Moreover, given that buyer and seller weren't able to match without Mr. E. HFT's help, hasn&#x2
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by cltby 6y ago
For the benefit of those outside of quantitative finance, it's important to note that "making $X" is a bit of a fuzzy notion around these parts. Individuals receiving large bonuses generally have their pay closely tied to the
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by cltby 6y ago
Ok I'll bite. Can you point me to something that shows that rideshare drivers would be hungry and homeless were it not for progressive generosity? Literally any sign that they disproportionately rely on public assistance? And to the ex

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