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by dsacco 9y ago
> Also wtf are complex numbers really about? Complex numbers have an intuitive way of thinking about them, they’re just not frequently given sufficient exposition for clarity. The fundamental concept to internalize for complex numbers
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In which case, there is a credible argument that a PhD is integral to income maximization.
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by dsacco 9y ago
> There are a few hedge funds (Millennium, Two Sigma) where devs are nearly treated as well as traders - would be interested to hear of any place else. Software engineers are treated very well, if not as well as research scientists, at
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by dsacco 9y ago
I still disagree, for several reasons: 1) "virtue-signaling" is an idiom that doesn't directly map to the economic concept in contract theory, so you are specifying a definition the original commenter was probably not using (
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by dsacco 9y ago
> An anonymous action cannot possibly be signaling of any kind. Words mean things. What meaning are you ascribing to "signal"? According to a few common ones[1]: 1) two anonymous parties can exchange meaningful signals about
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by dsacco 9y ago
I've done this professionally in an infrastructure processing several terabytes per day. A robust, scalable scraping system comprises several distinct parts: 1. A crawler, for retrieving resources over HTTP, HTTPS and sometimes other p
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Regardless, if they're doing multiple episodes per week, each receiving 50k downloads at minimum, and each with multiple sponsors, I'd guess they're making a much more comfortable living than their Patreon numbers sugge
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by dsacco 9y ago
I’m not sure if you mean to be disagreeing here or simply adding color, but what you’re saying is the same as the parent comment. Grover’s algorithm allows symmetric key recovery for n bits in 2^( n /2) steps; as the parent commenter
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by dsacco 9y ago
There is a very fine line between authorized data, technically public but implicitly unauthorized data, and illegally obtained, unauthorized data. Here’s an example of each in the financial sector, from my personal experience: 1. Financial
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And then Facebook tried again last year and succeeded with Instagram Stories, passing SnapChat in users as of August: https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/02/instagram-stories-annivers...
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This is cool. It reminds me of another three person team I’m familiar with that works on Amazon Prime arbitrage full time. They have a warehouse and an employee responsible for overseeing shipments in and shipments out. The entire business
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Providing liquidity across markets.
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by dsacco 9y ago
I think the parent commenter was trying to say that rights only exist as a productive concept when other people agree with them. You can argue that certain rights are fundamental, but it doesn’t mean anything if most people disagree with
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by dsacco 9y ago
That does not strike me as a quality of remote work. That seems to me to be more a cultural issue with the team in question. I have seen plenty of teams have a “heads down” mode where they are effectively on Do Not Disturb despite being in
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by dsacco 9y ago
> - a lack of cargo cult work organisation and office politics Speaking as someone who has worked in three different remote companies of varying sizes, I have not found any evidence that remote teams achieve this any more frequently th
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Faster speed to market. Basically, front running No, this is not basically front running. Front running has a very specific meaning. High frequency trading is not front running.
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by dsacco 9y ago
That doesn’t seem to be a neutrally presented analogy in good faith to the discussion. You can mount a cogent argument that various financial institutions in our culture are suboptimal for a given metric, and you can further posit that tho
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by dsacco 9y ago
It appears you took my praise of Eliezer’s writing for some endorsement of laissez faire capitalism; allow me to sidestep that argument by reiterating my point more concisely for you. Of the pitches you can make for a career in finance , E
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by dsacco 9y ago
I guess I should rephrase: my point is that Eliezer made what I would consider one of the most compelling pitches I’ve seen for entering finance if you’re looking for high stakes, intellectually gratifying work.
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by dsacco 9y ago
Wow. The section beginning from ”If I had to name the single epistemic feat...” and ending at ”...on modern-day Earth.” might be the most riveting description of finance I’ve read in recent memory. If that series of bullet points doesn’
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by dsacco 9y ago
Interesting, I have the opposite reaction; it seems virtually utopian to me (especially if you define "sick" broadly).
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by dsacco 9y ago
I agree that whiteboard coding interviews that assess mastery of algorithms and data structures with low applicability to the role are not optimal for hiring. However, I don't really agree that this is a "diversity" problem,
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by dsacco 9y ago
Is it an issue of open source software being inadequate, or is it the lack of sufficient training data and compute power local to your home? I’m under the impression that Google is mostly dogfooding its open source tooling for machine learn
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by dsacco 9y ago
> They're for people like you and me to reclaim a semblance of privacy, and they work even with "Uncle Sam" as the threat model in a limited, dragnet surveillance sense. They don't work, because the US government&#x
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by dsacco 9y ago
This is not a good heuristic, for several reasons. First and foremost, despite widespread fetishization of things like end-to-end encryption, real world software rarely differentiates its security based on superior cryptography. Most securi
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by dsacco 9y ago
My point in this line of questioning is purely dialectic; in essense, I am indirectly targeting the question, “Why is something undesirable, if it is not bad?” So we have a few possibilities: - Is demanding attribution in philanthropy bad?
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by dsacco 9y ago
Of course they do. Axioms are inherent to all positive statements, even if they’re implicit. And you can’t construct (coherent) normative statements without positive ones.
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by dsacco 9y ago
> You seem to be implying that philanthropists who don't do naming rights only give smaller donations. No, I’m not. I constructed extreme upper and lower bounds as a baseline for comparing axioms. That was the purpose of my refere
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by dsacco 9y ago
I’m more of a consequentialist; I consider a larger philanthropist who cares about public attribution to be more admirable than someone who is a smaller philanthropist but doesn’t care about public attribution. Personally, I would absolutel
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Wait, they invented internet messaging? That existed since forever...Nothing strategically new. WhatsApp enabled low-cost internet messaging on a global scale by taking the existing messaging technology, perfecting the user interface

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