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by curuinor 9y ago
Yeah, but can you diversify by location better by yourself than a REIT? Lots of cases of individual cities and neighborhoods going to pot while the rest of the nation and world prosper
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by curuinor 9y ago
But the article does note that there's a gigantic subsidy on the leverage for stupid reasons, and the huge amount of leverage is obviously and empirically dangerous.
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by curuinor 9y ago
I mean, in the past 7 or so years, all the boats have been rising. What would your returns have been if you put them in stocks? How great was and is the risk you take by taking tenants versus the risk you take by buying stocks?
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by curuinor 9y ago
You can card count on apps already. The repeated linear operator + nonlinearity of the ESN (the reservoir) could implement a card-counting memory but, you know, so could a card counting memory in a normal program.
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by curuinor 9y ago
You shouldn't go to a bar to ask people how to reverse alcohol addiction, and you shouldn't come to HN to ask people how to reverse internet addiction.
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by curuinor 9y ago
That's the normative thing to do in HN, so it's their fault, basically
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by curuinor 9y ago
Not an obituary, note this (I was very sad before clicking in)
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by curuinor 9y ago
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by curuinor 9y ago
I have actually done fine with a cronjob and emails for the last 7 years or so. Releasing the cronjob whenever I'm finished making it a chrome extension. I suppose this business is a pretty good inducement towards getting done a bit fa
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by curuinor 9y ago
I like how 18x P/E is low nowadays!
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by curuinor 9y ago
The fact that Ioannidis stakes his claim to fame as attacks on medical research is no evidence that he is a crank: it's evidence that medical research is a target-rich environment.
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by curuinor 9y ago
In turn, I was born in a hospital next to a Seoul apartment complex that was part of a 3-apartment complex thing that had more people than your hometown. That's density.
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by curuinor 9y ago
back when something awful and metafilter were comparatively big, much of the impetus for the paywalls they put on registrations was to structurally prevent the possibility of this sort of thing. worked fine, although those two communities t
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by curuinor 9y ago
In 1941, the Communists were our allies against Fascism.
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Physics has had a lot of predictive power: economics hasn't. "Asteroids are incredibly powerful" is a physical statement, and a physical statement of causation that you can only make because physics is better-understood. With
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by curuinor 9y ago
I'm sorry to be seeming to make a straw man, but do you actually in sober thought think that economics is as well-understood as physics?
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by curuinor 9y ago
Causal statements. No experiment means you shouldn't make causal statements. You can have natural experiments, but I don't see any. Did they try kidnapping Congress and forcing them to do a total embargo on China? Seems a no.
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by curuinor 9y ago
PoW turns an O(log n) transaction into an O(n) one, where n is the number of transaction-handling entities. Nowhere else is this kind of thing celebrated.
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by curuinor 9y ago
Centralization was finished a half-decade ago.
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by curuinor 9y ago
There have now been about a half-dozen various suggestions to get the network to carry more transactions, all of which are mostly failures, except for Lightning Network, which is now in the process of becoming a failure.
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by curuinor 9y ago
It's common everywhere software is made that the people who make it don't necessarily have a higher ed degree in computer science. I do, and I was forced to dedicate a course to it, yes
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by curuinor 9y ago
Well, why don't you?
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by curuinor 9y ago
High touch SaaS sees much... much.... much... less benefit from marketing. So many don't market themselves as often, or market in specialty places. Salesforce isn't even that much of a household name.
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by curuinor 9y ago
MLE, then vuong's test against alternatives. The linked paper is just vuong's test against alternatives.
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by curuinor 9y ago
what the hell kind of mathematicians have you been talking to, if they look down on intuition?
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by curuinor 9y ago
he's going from the most politically correct place in america to the fourth most politically correct place in america?
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by curuinor 9y ago
it is extremely easy to tell a bank from a tech company: tell if they hash their damn passwords. i'm not even talking salt here, just hashing
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by curuinor 9y ago
"Attack of the Fifty Foot Blockchain" and the associated blog is worth a read
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by curuinor 9y ago
Steele report hinges on a few things, among them some women's precious bodily fluids...
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by curuinor 9y ago
I think the summary of Seth Abramson's contributions is: 1. He's insane 2. 2016-2018 has been insane 3. They've often been materially insane in the same way. But sometimes not. Russians are, in fact, under our collective beds

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