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by dsacco 9y ago
> The Ayn Rand brigade is just getting slower with age and untreated mental conditions. Please don't say things like this. It doesn't help.
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by dsacco 9y ago
That's rather lazy. I don't think you know what the word "serfdom" means if you're using it to describe a modern country such as the United States. If you want to take your labor off the farm, so to speak, then go a
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by dsacco 9y ago
I'll entertain this. Let's start off with this: can you provide any specific examples of these civilizations? To give you some prep, the next question I'm going to ask is what the quality of life was like for the average indi
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Because so many of them were the same age, the pilots voted long ago to screw over the younger pilots. What did they do?
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by dsacco 9y ago
> What's particularly cool / safe (and interesting if you're a finance nut) about futures vs. actual trading of Bitcoins is that there is zero crypto involved. Everything is cash settled in dollars. I certainly find this
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by dsacco 9y ago
You are long USD if you believe USD will remain relatively stable while many other securities actually diminish in value for various reasons. Even if the investor is not ultimately correct, this qualifies as investing. Investing involves
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by dsacco 9y ago
It means they prefer an investment which is relatively stable. I’m not talking about forex arb, I’m talking about investing in treasury bonds or USD ETFs. Consider that it is very possible to invest in a financial security to reduce risk an
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by dsacco 9y ago
> I will happily invest in Bitcoin when its history as a store of value and a medium of exchange is measured in millennia. So is USD out for you too, then? It's not even 300 years old yet. If you mean fiat currency in general, tha
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by dsacco 9y ago
> The reason banks and big financial companies are interested in it is not for its speculative value. They are interested in the fact that it is both decentralized and immutable. None of the blockchain projects or proposals being worke
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by dsacco 9y ago
I agree with the thrust of your comment, but to nitpick: > Books have been written around timing markets and it's generally accepted that it cannot be done reliably. To get out before a crash then buy cheap would require you to pre
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by dsacco 9y ago
> And no, this is not conspiracy, it's pure economics. If everything you’re postulating here is “pure economics”, would you mind placing it in the context of an economic framework for the sake of precision? Something rudimentary l
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by dsacco 9y ago
I agree that partial observation and imperfect information present computational difficulties to generalization. Do you know of any interesting research offhand for reading about optimizations for this problem?
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by dsacco 9y ago
I gave a brief overview of that in a parallel comment on this thread :)
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by dsacco 9y ago
Ah, just like mathematics. Once proved, a result is trivial, but before it’s proved, a conjecture is a hard problem.
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by dsacco 9y ago
Can you define what you mean by “theoretical insight”? It’s true that AlphaGo was built using previously existing techniques (supervised learning, large dataset for training, reinforcement learning and monte carlo tree search). But if you c
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by dsacco 9y ago
> It happens every time there is a biology topic as well. Let’s add cryptography and quantum complexity theory while we’re at it :)
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by dsacco 9y ago
It must be quite fun for you to read so many armchair financiers here reconstructing modern economics from first principles on the one hand, while throwing in gems like “economics is not a science” because “not all participants are rational
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by dsacco 9y ago
But I suppose they have the time to make disparaging remarks about everyone else’s understanding, without any overtures at correcting it? Edit: This seems to be an unpopular comment already, so let me sidestep potential criticism with the
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by dsacco 9y ago
While I understand your cynicism in the practical applicability of a chess or go-playing AI, I think you are significantly underestimating the theoretical innovations contributed to the field every time these models are substantially improv
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by dsacco 9y ago
> This is pretty unusual for Cure53, who have a reputation for being a bit effusive about the products they're paid to review. I'm not sure I've ever seen them throw shade before. Yes, and it's getting really old.
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by dsacco 9y ago
> where unions realize that competitiveness trumps wages. It seems like you’re sneaking an assertion in there. Can you clarify your point a bit? What is the relationship between competition and wages, and why is one better than the oth
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by dsacco 9y ago
The point is that the trade-offs usually come down in favor of using GitHub Enterprise (or whatever other well-regarded, trusted enterprise system). The availabilty and uptime are your own, because it’s self-hosted, like git. The data integ
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by dsacco 9y ago
Sure, but I think you’re missing the forest for the trees here.
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by dsacco 9y ago
> laundered trillions of dollars > 400m dollar fine > isnt even .01% of what they made ...why even use numbers, a concept literally defined to quantify things, if you're just going to use utterly incorrect ones? HSBC d
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by dsacco 9y ago
Regardless of your feelings towards patio11 and his views on Bitcoin, this is not appropriate. Speculating about his emotions like this is a misdirection that dances around de-legitimizing his views without a real rebuttal to his point. Mor
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by dsacco 9y ago
On a related note, I'm fond of this Mathoverflow answer, "Which math paper maximizes the ratio (importance)/(length)?"[1] Highlights include: 1. A one-sentence proof published in American Mathematical Monthly that cost
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Apple's iBooks has about everything you'll find on Amazon. Absolutely not. Look for technical ebooks and compare the results between iBooks and Kindle. iBooks only matches Kindle for popular "what's everyone readi
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by dsacco 9y ago
This is going to sound very harsh, but I think you need to hear it. What you’re saying here comes across as extremely immature (even for someone who is 22). I don’t believe your perspective is beneficial for your own personal development, h
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by dsacco 9y ago
Actually I agree with you. That’s a good point. To clarify, the reason I like my approach is not because it’s comprehensive, but because it’s better than the traditional exposition for letting students build initial intuition. In my experie

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