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by cmcaleer 3y ago
A very direct, relatively reliable indicator we could look at to see if this has happened at all anywhere recently is the gold premium in China, which has gold import restrictions. Just days ago people were willing to pay ~$100/oz over
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
Re: Jobs specifically, if one has cancer it's best to accept it immediately and to get chemo and other treatments that work, as opposed to colon cleanses, acupuncture etc.. Had he done this his odds of survival. He reportedly expressed
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
Add in the damage it does to your monopoly defense though and suddenly it's not as obviously +EV.
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Brilliant. A reminder of the YouTube channel of the USCSB for those who've not watched any of the excellently produced and narrated case studies there. Even if you're not in that industry, there are a lot of parallels to be seen i
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
2021 was a particularly bad year (after a 'miracle' year in 2020), but the 3 year rolling average of 2018-2021, 2019-2022, or 2020-2023 is probably within an SD of any other rolling average since these types of stories got widely
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
A long-term break from extended stress and athleticism, followed by a return to extreme athleticism, which resulted in a single particularly bad year (2021 - 20 deaths)? Notably there are fewer deaths in 2022 (8) than 2019 (10) 2018 (9), an
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
The Pixel 5's security update end of life is in two weeks[0]. This is a phone that launched October 2020. My iPhone XS which I bought in 2018 just got the iOS 17 update and it's working pretty well. I want to be able to load whate
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
That would be an extremely uncreative implementation. Positional complexity, time taken, mouse position/movement/clicks/arrows drawn, piece 'touch' instances, and historical performance in similar positions are all
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
The reaction of top level players in many cases has been so pathetic. Mostly notably Kramnik who released this[0] baffling video wherein he tortures every single datapoint that he think might support his argument that Niemann is cheating an
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
> I once had an interviewer say "it seems like you don't have much on your Github profile". This sounds like a softball question to invite you to talk about your projects phrased in a slightly ignorant way, possibly on pur
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
I personally wouldn't bother for basically anyone. Even Jane Street isn't this arduous.
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
Probably a little ambitious. Claims trading is currently priced at ~35c on the dollar[0], which isn't great but certainly better than what claims were trading at to begin with (~10c on the dollar). [0]: https://claims-market
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
It doesn't look like SBF owns the stake, rather FTX does. Creditors seemed to have gotten lucky that that the bankruptcy handlers aborted the sale of their stake a few months ago[0]. [0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news&
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
Funny that FTX customers might end up having a non-trivial amount of cents on the dollar added to their claims by a lucky investment out of the many shotgunned by SBF and crew.
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
While generally I agree, and I do run an adblocker for safety reasons, I'll also contend that you get what you deserve if you block ads and don't pony up in some other way . It's easy to forget this when every article has a
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
To our community: I’m Marc Whitten, and I lead Unity Create which includes the Unity engine and editor teams. I want to start with simply this: I am sorry. We should have spoken with more of you and we should have incorporated more of your
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I think it might be too little too late. I do wonder if this was always the plan with classic door-in-the-face technique, but I can't imagine they would have anticipated the absolute magnitude of backlash. Their product certainly isn&#
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr-24375 The case for those wondering.
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
I've thought about this type of question a fair bit. I'd even go one step further and ask what if you're in a position where you might hear about this stuff now and then (but not in a way that's easily provable, say you
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
The baffling part here is you reading things that aren't there. Let's read the two comments you replied to: - Nothing better than a father and mother in a stable, loving relationship for a child. Yes, let’s encourage this. - Money
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
Sure, I guess that's one of the most uncharitable ways you could read it. A more charitable and common sense way to read it would be to reduce stressors on couples with children, a huge one being childcare arrangement and expenses. Esp
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Very similar issue in CS. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbcdzWQx6WM A certain player who used to get accused of cheating a lot learned this trick way before everyone else, but in recent years everyone's been doi
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
> Give me a Firefox subscription and I'll pay for it in a heartbeat. I want to do this but I can't support Mozilla until the board stops giving Baker raises at mind-boggling rates and make a commitment to never do anything like
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
If Facebook released one that was VSCode but not electron tomorrow, I'd use that if major concerns didn't exist. I just want the best tool for the job. Sometimes the best tools come from the worst companies, as I'm reminded o
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
Let's make it a bit more interesting and say the Twitter account is a paid subscription for $1MM/mo. I was following his Twitter account and knew that he seemed to have a good instinct for when things were going down, but it can&#
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
> you don't trust the results of one promt, but you trust multiple piped one into another? This is really not at all unusual. Take aircraft for instance. One system is not reliable, for a multitude of reasons. A faulty sensor could
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
Not even refusing to use these services is a silver bullet against your privacy being violated[0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_profile
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
Directory structures is the ‘skill’ I’ve been hearing a lot of complaints about students not understanding. Particularly annoying for those teaching first year undergrad SWEng, since the gap between those self starters who have some idea of
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
It really is incredible how successful Yamagami has been in his goals. Imagine telling anyone 5 years ago that a (generally - ignoring the last few months of his tensure) popular former G7 leader would (1) be assassinated in public, (2) hav
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It's not unusual to want to change certain behaviours of a project, e.g. by subclassing something within it. It's also worth at least having some idea of the code you're running before you run it, particularly if you don&#x27

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