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by dmurray 3y ago
Not many investors would assume a long term return of 10% over inflation. If they target 7% instead, it would almost exactly fund that enrolment level.
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by dmurray 3y ago
Source for this? The ABA [0] gives a much more believable figure of 1.3 million "active lawyers", which is almost exactly 400 per 100k. So I suspect you are off by an order of magnitude, but perhaps you have a different way of cou
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by dmurray 3y ago
> Maybe it's because there is an assumption priced in that interest rates will go down again? Yes, exactly this. The 1-year treasury pays 5%, so it's appropriate to look at that instead. Normally the 10-year pays more than the
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by dmurray 3y ago
And similarly, the Children's Python is a snake that's considered suitable as a pet, named after John George Children. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_python
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by dmurray 3y ago
I've long decided that this is basically the only skill in poker. OK, that's too trite, but it dominates all other skills. If you can play even a little bit - eg you know some hand rankings and don't get too drunk - you'
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by dmurray 3y ago
This isn't a new business idea. There are law firms that specialize in consumer class action suits, and part of their skillset is finding lots of wronged consumers to represent. Signing up homeless people by the hundred isn't exac
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by dmurray 3y ago
> In the US there are thousands of overlapping and independent sales tax authorities. Each tax authority has their own complex sales tax rules with respect to what products they apply to and the rates. Each authority can change these on
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by dmurray 3y ago
I don't know why this got downvoted; it's at the very least an interesting proposal. Would love to hear a critique arguing that it's a terrible idea. Existing package managers could even implement it in a completely backwards
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by dmurray 3y ago
That accounts for 2.7 billion pesos - a good start but hardly a dent in the 200 billion figure.
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by dmurray 3y ago
This is nonsense. Can you imagine the chaos of a world where what you said is even close to true? I'm a cashier at Walmart. One day I sell to you for $100 - not just everything in the store, but the building, the local distribution cen
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by dmurray 3y ago
The guy who bought the Chevy Tahoe for $1 [0] isn't going to get it, though. And that's also perfectly sensible. But at some point we're going to see more cases in the grey area in between. What's the important differenc
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by dmurray 3y ago
Or if there was literally anything else he'd prefer to buy up front than wait until he'd saved up enough to replace the cost of the phone.
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by dmurray 3y ago
> Weirdly the news item doesn't tell what sort of energy storage capacity these battery installation have, only the peak power output of 14.3 GW for this year's addition. As a rule of thumb, the capacity will be a few hours wor
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by dmurray 3y ago
Pretty sure Ludum Dare is still around; a friend competed in a recent one. The website looks a bit behind, with a YouTube video and calls for signups for a 2022 event. But the competition still seems to be running and got "an avalanche
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by dmurray 3y ago
We did run into that issue with monkeys and copyright, and we ran into it again with AI and patents. The Copyright Office ruled one way on monkeys and copyright, and an appeals court held that they were largely correct. The Patent and Trad
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by dmurray 3y ago
Probably for the best. If there was a moderately complicated bureaucratic process to be assured of getting one, it wouldn't be Redis or the next SSH that got assigned ports. It would be Oracle or HP or someone else incapable of pretend
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by dmurray 3y ago
> We mostly failed to create that world and those circumstances. If tou want to know what a solution looks like look at western democracies with high birth rates. E.g. France, Ireland, New Zealand, Denmark. Those countries all have a fer
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by dmurray 3y ago
The Dutch Prime Minister gets paid €186k annually [0]. He has 13 years of tenure in this role and 22 years total in the politics industry [1]. I'd hope a high performing, vastly experienced engineer in NL could aspire to that, though t
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by dmurray 3y ago
> Wrapping a tree-like interface round incremental parsing that doesn't require eager parsing or retaining arbitrary amounts of data, and doesn't leak implementation details, sounds astoundingly hard, perhaps even impossible. I
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by dmurray 3y ago
When I get a system design question I always tell the interviewer "I'd just run it on a single server with an SQLite backend, that will be plenty for the median software service and you haven't told me any numbers that sugges
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by dmurray 3y ago
It's quite clear from the article that the 99% is the model's predicted win rate for a position, not its evaluation by Stockfish (which doesn't return evaluations in those terms). It's true that this is a relatively larg
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by dmurray 3y ago
We used Jython very extensively at a former employer, a high frequency trading firm. Originally it was to be used as a configuration language, to allow traders to easily write scripts that configured trading strategies written in Java. The
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by dmurray 3y ago
I suspect whether it's a majority or not depends on how you count caffeine.
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by dmurray 3y ago
And energy! Maybe you can even recover some of the energy from your new warm seawater.
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by dmurray 3y ago
I'm not putting anything against anything. That paper [0] completely agrees with the blog - they threw out all but 38 of the 2936 studies they considered, for crying out loud - and neither makes any call on sperm count in animals other
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by dmurray 3y ago
An example of the same thing at a macro level: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-reb...
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by dmurray 3y ago
Even the evidence for humans is a bit patchy - a third of studies come to the opposite conclusion, and plenty of those that agree have massive methodological flaws. So I doubt we can say that with any real confidence for other mammals. htt
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by dmurray 3y ago
That sounds intuitive, but that's just not how revenue is defined for a business like a casino. The casino had $0.25 revenue, and its profit is whatever is left from the $0.25 after paying for heat, light, maintenance, cashiers, securi
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by dmurray 3y ago
Agreed. For a comparison, the BBC obituary on Bin Laden, whom a lot of people would happily condemn without reservation as a terrorist, shows the same kind of detached neutrality. The second mention is "Saudi-born dissident". [0]
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by dmurray 3y ago
I'm a fan of the SMBC take on this one: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/springtime

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