fighterpilot

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by fighterpilot 5y ago
Gameability is distinct to whether there is an advantage to low latency. A random batch auction will be gameable but not so much via speed. Not sure how a math proof would work for that though.
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
Correct. I believe you need to randomize the auction time. This massively reduces the speed advantage. Without that speed is as important as ever. How does a priority queue work?
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
A HFT that's trading bond futures may only have a handful of trades per day and hold for a long time because it's hard to liquidate effectively. Sometimes they just range all day. Anyway my point is that it's wrong to think t
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
I don't know why you're bringing this up because it's not relevant, and nor is it accurate. You can have high turnover rates in batch auction strategy as well as a continuous trading strategy, this market structure change won
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
Nonsense. Trade can be positive sum in utility to both parties. One party making profits doesn't imply anything about how utility is changing on the other side of the trade. If you buy an iPhone, Apple have gotten richer but you have a
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
What I'd be afraid of is fake review brigading causing lasting damage to brand.
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
The data I was referring to is already normalized in that way: https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy I don't believe an honest person can look at that chart and think nuclear safety is a a real problem, e
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
You say the Chernobyl failure mode is "huge", but I would argue the opposite. If you compare the number of deaths across types of energy, nuclear is only slightly higher than solar/wind (about 2x) but when compared to deaths
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
Backup natural gas plants? Just throwing it out there, don't know if that would actually be sensible.
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
Thought: They should give some cash and instruct the participants to buy a specific OTC brand that is known to be placebo themselves so they have confidence that it is a placebo.
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
Most of the pay gap between the top and bottom performers isn't much to do with direct negotiation, it's the cumulative effect of star performers being in high demand and therefore getting faster promotions, more and better offers
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
https://archive.is/jeen8
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Instagram may not be harming girls(nytimes.com)
4 points by fighterpilot 5y ago|1 comments
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Walgreens closing in SF due to crime(nbcbayarea.com)
7 points by fighterpilot 5y ago|1 comments
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
Sceptical of grains and wine recommendation and sceptical that red meat is discouraged. Wine/meat results seem likely to be confounder related. Wealthy and educated people self-selecting into red wine because they read somewhere it&#x2
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
It's been standard in the last fifty years because of contraceptives and education about how to use contraceptives. But before contraceptives, I don't see why a skew would emerge. I read that in the Jewish community a long time ag
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
It's a widely held view only on the left. An interesting thing will be the consequences on demographics. Conservatives have lots of kids and if the liberal birth rate keeps dropping, what will things look like in 50 years?
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
If it's this hard to get political consensus on carbon neutrality, degrowth will be quite the tall order. The reactive pushback against it could do more harm than good. If the political left starts going against the "jobs"
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
As an Asian minority I am not happy that it is now taboo to protest racial discrimination being perpetrated against me.
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
If someone isn't of MIT-calibre merit (ie competence), then it's no good to them to pop them into an electrical engineering course that they can't handle, and it's especially no good for the ultra smart Asian American wh
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
Vietnamese Americans, the descendants of refugees from a war-torn country, make more than White Americans.
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
I agree with you if we're talking about analogies, but not if we're talking about actual historical precedent.
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
I regret making such a sweeping statement. I do think there are many decent people that get caught up in the cancel mob who are primarily motivated by genuine egalitarianism, and these people can surely be reasoned with. However, at the sam
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
That could be part of it. According to surveys the administrators are very left-wing, even more than the professors who are already almost completely left-wing themselves.
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
It's not that simple. We have a collective action problem. The first mover sticks out like a sore thumb (or tall poppy) and takes all the heat from the mob. If everyone simultaneously became sensible and simultaneously refused to bend
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
Availability bias. If you actually look at the data on nuclear safety relative to other power sources, you'll see that what you're doing is the same thing as quibbling over the safety differences of AstraZeneca versus Moderna. I a
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
"they'd just need significantly more innate intelligence, which is a very tall order." I dispute this. Ramanujan is by all accounts on Von Neumann's level and so his example seems to disprove this statement. Or m
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
If you think that a very poor person can rise to a Von Neumann calibre genius, then we have no disagreement. I agree with you that having successful parents can only help the situation. "As for your edit, extreme intelligence is no

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