echion

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by echion 3y ago
> Syntax rigour has almost nothing to do with correctness. I see your point: has almost nothing correctness with rigour do to Syntax. Syntax rigor has to do with correctness to the extent that "correctness" exists outside the m
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by echion 3y ago
This is very cool. Any idea about the threat surface change? Do you only deny with the poll?
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by echion 3y ago
I don't doubt Ray's mostly right, but remember he has huge incentives to make the problem seem as bad as possible: payment justification, reputation-burnishing, self-importance, etc.
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by echion 3y ago
Where can we buy?
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by echion 4y ago
Would love to know who your clients are so we could patronise them :)
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by echion 4y ago
Definitely. And SVB's financial reporting / balance sheet showed this problem beforehand, AIUI.
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by echion 4y ago
> > relevant > not mathematically Agreed. I don't think the GP was asking a mathematical question, so "relevant" meant "to explain why MTM accounting is not the only way".
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by echion 4y ago
> the term to search for is "net present value" I understand NPV. I'd edit my post to put "$100m equivalent [NPV] today" to makes it clearer what was meant by "equivalent", but it's too late, and
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by echion 4y ago
> > > > I am very frustrated by political arguments about desert > > > What does "desert" mean here > A deserving [...] merit Thanks. As a native speaker aware of "desert"'s multiple meanin
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by echion 4y ago
> why is it that we allow a bank to not mark-to-market a security for which there is a liquid market? Because at maturity, the bank gets back its money. So it is perfectly valid to say "in ten years, this $100m bond is worth $100m.
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by echion 4y ago
> > The losses banks have taken on their assets are real. They already happened. They are survivable if banks remain liquid. > But… they aren’t real yet? [...] So I don’t understand this point. If people withdraw their deposits, th
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by echion 4y ago
First, the article is a great explanation of what's going on. "Maturity Transformation" explains the cause. "Trying to forestall a banking crisis" is a great discussion of the important next stage of the non-headl
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by echion 4y ago
> Are you saying if I deposit [...] I should just accept the impact [...] due to events unrelated to my actions and choices? You chose that bank and you chose to deposit more than $250,000. Are you saying the limit should be higher?
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by echion 4y ago
I live in NYC and showed a visitor the NYPL in July. The public was not allowed into the Rose Reading Room...only "researchers".
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by echion 4y ago
> if a Linux could give me reliable power management I would switch in a heartbeat More than `powertop --auto-tune`?
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by echion 5y ago
The flip side is also true: technology enables abuses of power to exist faster than the laws can be enforced.
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by echion 5y ago
Would love to know some of the answers to the questions you posed
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by echion 5y ago
> Syndrome being the villain [is a bit of] trying to defend social hierarchies He's a villain because he's trying to replace the hereditary caste by violence, and by consuming them. The tension is there outside of him -- and
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by echion 5y ago
> What entitles business owners to all the benefits of highly productive workers? This is exactly why many of those workers go on to start their own businesses, to redirect those benefits to themselves.
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by echion 5y ago
> Man was made for Joy & Woe > And when this we rightly know > Thro the World we safely go > Joy & Woe are woven fine > A Clothing for the soul divine > Under every grief & pine > Runs a joy with silken twin
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by echion 5y ago
It's much clearer now, with your clarification. Thanks to you for the update, and to OP for the question.
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by echion 7y ago
Appreciated. Is there a tldr for hacker news front page submissions? Because someone should make that, if not.
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by echion 7y ago
99% of the people who don't care about the content are more important than the 1% who do? What if it were 51%? How is it supposed to move, if the standards-setters don't move the passive consumers?
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by echion 7y ago
Would love to see a .procmail rule + scripts to do this without the significant zapier integration.
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by echion 7y ago
Correct
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by echion 8y ago
> fantastic walk through of special relativity Do you have a link? It's not obvious which treatment you mean (have done a simple search).
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by echion 8y ago
tl;dr: the ends kind of justify the means.
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by echion 8y ago
Can you provide referrals and / or known good facilities? Direct email welcome.
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by echion 8y ago
"High school" is the universally-accepted term in the US, and means four years before university. "Junior" high school is not a universal term, though exists in some areas. "Senior high school" is a term I&#x
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by echion 8y ago
Why are there not more upvotes than downvotes? It's not like the quoted sentence wasn't a terrible counter-example to the resistance against the fight against layering negatives and the lack of the active voice.

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