ethbro

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by ethbro 7y ago
"When do we want it?" "Now!" "How much will we pay?" "Nothing!"
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by ethbro 7y ago
So, is your contention that Twitter would be better if it changed faster, or worse?
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by ethbro 7y ago
That was coined for investment capital that comes with a cost. E.g. (in its simplest) borrowing money to trade with, and then having to make regular payments to maintain your positions. Assuming you have no pressing needs for your invested
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by ethbro 7y ago
NASA risk aversion seems directly related to their patrons' priorities. What's the cost of NASA not going to the moon yet? Zero. What's the cost of NASA failing at going to the moon? Large. Consequently: the organization opti
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by ethbro 7y ago
The way I was looking at it... technically by owning a stock you're exposed to the risk of the entire corporate legal structure (e.g. board, bylaws) as well as operational structure. Compared to a bond, even one with esoteric clauses
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by ethbro 7y ago
Ultimately, correlation in free markets is just frequency of similar participant behavior, no? So if everyone is using robo advisor allocation, and the allocation algorithms all feature a similar bond shift, then that becomes the correlatio
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by ethbro 7y ago
Is it fair to say that one reason the bond market is so large is because of capacity and simplicity? The impression I get is that when you start talking in terms of $x0M+ US regular investment (e.g. on Monday, then again on Tuesday) stocks
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by ethbro 7y ago
More testing != useful testing. The fact that Georgia and Oregon are testing at virtually equivalent rates is what's wrong. I feel like ~50/day is an appropriate number for GA. I feel like ~50/day is not an appropriate number
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by ethbro 7y ago
For purposes of this thread, "emotionally inflammatory."
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by ethbro 7y ago
On the other hand, I am filled with positive associations at the name. Reliability, redundancy, disaster recovery, cost cutting, and absolute focus on execution!
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by ethbro 7y ago
Georgia ran 50 tests yesterday. And that's after only 3 positive results so far. All states not equally dysfunctional.
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by ethbro 7y ago
I'd chalk this one up to folks with enough time to endlessly post on Reddit not spending those hours building and maintaining software. Professionals have time for the internet as a hobby. Hobbyists have time for the internet as a job.
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by ethbro 7y ago
> settled science That seems like an odd turn of phrase.
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by ethbro 7y ago
This feels like a relatively rare scenario masquerading as a common occurrence, which is part of the point. Of people with wrenches, how many use them on engines or high-end bicycles? And so it's relatively easy for tool companies to c
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by ethbro 7y ago
> capable of being passed down to kids Thank god 60s avocado green is coming back into fashion...
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by ethbro 7y ago
People say this, but do the economics support it in most categories? My gut says the depreciation between new and used + your time spent finding a buyer and selling torpedo the actual benefits.
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by ethbro 7y ago
> When the buy-it-for-life premium is nontrivial, I try to first buy something basic and use it until it falls apart, simply to confirm that this is something I will use Believe it was popularized by Adam Savage, re: tool purchases. Es
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by ethbro 7y ago
And this is why folks still run DB2.
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by ethbro 7y ago
> some users will go, a lot more are coming This works in the acquisition phase, which I suspect Robinhood is nearing the end of. Once their userbase turns into the retention or conversion (competitors have $0 trades now, too) phases,
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by ethbro 7y ago
Not if a substantial number of them now have antibodies against it. More realistically, even if enough of them have antibodies to create herd immunity. (Via making it impractical for the virus to transmit to a vulnerable host)
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by ethbro 7y ago
It's Google. Valid versions are in the 0 < x < 1.0 range.
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by ethbro 7y ago
Calling out, in my book, requires an intelligent, thoughtful treatment of the behavior and subject. GP took a cheap quip at a dead man, for laughs and karma. And just because he was (by all accounts) an asshole, that flies? And doesn't
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by ethbro 7y ago
Public figures are still human, with families...
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by ethbro 7y ago
That's selective quoting from your article. If we're talking about accuracy in reporting, then be objective. The gist boiled down to (1) the patient in the documented case was not asymptomatic, (2) the symptoms they experienced we
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by ethbro 7y ago
Per that, the correct terminology appears to be nonspecific rather than asymptomatic. E.g. "According to people familiar with the call, [the index patient] felt tired, suffered from muscle pain, and took paracetamol, a fever-lowering m
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by ethbro 7y ago
Edit: Please see additional context in reply below. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2001468
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by ethbro 7y ago
Indeed, the veritable microcosm of non-human life all of us carry around on and inside of us. Also different levels of susceptibility. Breaching the skin alone (aka surgery) introduces risks most of us don't have to worry about in our
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by ethbro 7y ago
So you're saying Google Maps wasn't a huge success until Android? ... but totally in a non-monopolistic way, of course.
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by ethbro 7y ago
Out of morbid curiosity, how'd they get it off? Slip a super-hard, super-thin backer underneath it, then cut? (Aluminum probably being the best scenario, as far as industrial metals go)
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by ethbro 7y ago
The public generally has mask effectiveness confused (possibly deliberately so, to incentivize). Masks aren't to protect you from other people. They're to protect other people from you . In that sense, yes, even a non-filtering

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