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by ctchocula 4y ago
Not fans exactly, but the Bernoulli principle, which is sufficient to keep the car sucked to the track if the floor is designed in a specific way [0][1] [0] https://motorsport-magazine.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-co... [1
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by ctchocula 4y ago
They actually brought back ground effect this year with the newest regulation change. The argument was that if cars relied on ground effect for downforce and less on front and rear wings, cars could have an easier time following the car ahe
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by ctchocula 4y ago
If it is a basic trait as you point out, I would suggest OP should look into a financial advisor. I don't recommend advisors to everyone, because it is more expensive than DIY portfolios, but having a financial advisor sounds like a go
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by ctchocula 4y ago
I was down this rabbit hole the other day. For more reading: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
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by ctchocula 4y ago
One explanation could be a difference between China and the West. Historically the West relies on primogeniture where the eldest son inherits a vast majority of the fortune and other sons need to move out and build a career for themselves.
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by ctchocula 5y ago
I suspect the reason people claim that is they are training ML models, which may take O(hours ~ days) to run anyways. In this usecase, C++ calling C++ is faster than Python calling C++ slightly in O(seconds) is outweighed by the fact that P
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by ctchocula 5y ago
Thank you for the write-up! One correction I would make is that per [1] VTSAX does have a $3,000 investment minimum. Before, VTSMX used to have the $3,000 minimum and VTSAX $10,000. However, it looks like recently they've gotten rid of
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by ctchocula 5y ago
The last bit is very reminiscent of Schopenhauer: "Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills." Thank you for translating :)
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by ctchocula 5y ago
A link on HN yesterday that talks about critical points and phase transitions: * A mathematician explains what Foundation gets right about predicting the future (spoiler: critical points!): https://www.sciof.fi/a-mathematici
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by ctchocula 5y ago
Out of curiosity by "Futurama Series Finale" do you mean Season 4 or Season 7?
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by ctchocula 5y ago
I'm guessing the theory goes something like: When I pay for Netflix, I expect high production value. There's no way I would pay for crowdsourced videos made by amateurs when I could watch it for free on Youtube.
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by ctchocula 5y ago
Vanguard's trademark total bond ETF BND, which is a part of the classic 3-fund portfolio [1], a cornerstone of passive investing, has 2.2% commercial and 20% government-backed mortgage backed securities [2]. So a lot of everyday folks
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by ctchocula 5y ago
It'd be cool to get a number for a one-man operation in the 21st century. You'd be measuring all the productivity gains from CNC technology, which would be neat! I wonder how it compares to the 4800x number.
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by ctchocula 5y ago
The emphasis on nails is interesting, because of the similarity to pins from the famous anecdote about the incredible power of division of labour from "The Wealth of Nations" and how it can give someone a 4800x productivity boost
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by ctchocula 5y ago
Many countries have extradition treaties with the US. It's likely that due to how much more high-profile Theranos case has been, that the US would have expended more resources tracking her down compared to the yoga guru. Plus she would
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by ctchocula 5y ago
Matt Levine has a good article [1] about Theranos that goes into the irony of why she got caught on defrauding investors and not the pafients. His hypothesis is that in court of law, it's easier to make the case for damages when it&#x2
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by ctchocula 5y ago
Not GP, but I think by "fast food production/consumption chain that has conditioned audiences" they are taking a potshot at the swathe of superhero movies being very formulaic rather than any West vs. Soviet Russia argument a
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by ctchocula 5y ago
"Out of this World" (1964) by Alfred Bester. Here's a stackoverflow post: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/251779/phone-calls...
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by ctchocula 5y ago
A wild guess but "The Man in the High Castle"? I could be wrong, because the phone call doesn't happen in the novel by Philip K. Dick that the Netflix show is based on and I haven't watched the show. However, the premise
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by ctchocula 5y ago
Gold has a usecase for jewelry, manufacturing electronics, dentistry and glassmaking. Yet not even the sum of these applications can justify its market cap of $11.73T, so the difference must come from speculation. I suspect the same is tr
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by ctchocula 5y ago
Not GP, but two blogs I like are https://noahpinion.substack.com and https://braddelong.substack.com Both authors are quite witty, so their blogs are eminently readable. They're also trained in economics (have P
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by ctchocula 5y ago
Small nitpick. "Late" in this context refers to the fact that she died shortly after Richard sent the letter (definition 2a in [1]) as opposed to a wife he married "late" in his life. [1] https://www.merriam-w
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by ctchocula 5y ago
Looks like 2021 and earlier, there's a cap of $20,000 before you need to report to IRS using Form 1099-K. Assuming the author is from the US, they may have stayed below this limit and not needed to report. However, beginning in January
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by ctchocula 5y ago
Do you have a name of the nvidia director? Tried googling but web looks like it's been scrubbed clean.
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by ctchocula 5y ago
Even if your current employer doesn't match your contributions, deferring your taxes from now to the future (when you might not need to pay as much due to lower tax bracket) is considered good practice from a tax perspective. Of course
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by ctchocula 5y ago
You should try one of these P-38 can openers they use in the army [1]. A bit challenging to get the hang of, but they'll last the rest of your life and inexpensive to boot. [1] https://burnsarmysurplus.com/product/
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by ctchocula 5y ago
I agree with your analysis that inequality is a big problem facing the world. However, I also don't see wokeness as an unalloyed good. I'm a pretty liberal guy, but I'm seeing a rash of articles talking about some real harm w
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by ctchocula 5y ago
Agree with most of your analysis. However, one place I take issue with is your claim that "the weird conspiracy theory thrown out about how attempts at more egalitarian college admissions are simply a backhanded dig at Jews and Asians&
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by ctchocula 5y ago
Some sibling comments mentioned replacing the rubber seal fixes the issue of burnt taste. I took a look at my rubber seals and they did have a burnt smell, so I'm gonna give that a shot. Thanks for sharing and good luck with your frien
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by ctchocula 5y ago
> The sad thing about moka pots is that they never break or wear out I have a slightly different experience. I have 2 Moka pots, but both no longer seem useable after leaving it on the stove too long. Now anything I brew using them taste

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