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by fractionalhare 6y ago
Eh...Facebook's use the word "friend" as a verb has not eroded my deep and meaningful sense of the word as a noun. It's just another use which has been added to our cultural context. It's up to you to let it change
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by fractionalhare 6y ago
> No, I don't think it is. Separately from rationalist community, there is substantial amount of work showing that Bayesian updating and reasoning is in some sense the optimal way of operating under uncertainty. With the very impo
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by fractionalhare 6y ago
I don't know if virtue signaling is the right term. The better term might be "shibboleth" for so-called rationalists. It's as if you took the kids who loved lists of logical fallacies and told them they could resolve all
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by fractionalhare 6y ago
Can you point to some specific comments like this? None of the top threads seem to show this, as of this writing it's mostly about thread versus process parallelism and which kinds of conditions require unsafe.
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by fractionalhare 6y ago
It's very tedious to debate with someone who explicitly makes assumptions about something (like code) without having read it, and puts the burden of refuting those assumptions on you...
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by fractionalhare 6y ago
Holy shit. Did you pay it? What the fuck...
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by fractionalhare 6y ago
You say this: > It does not take a deliberate will behind something for it to be pulled toward this sort of inequality, and presenting it as if that's what's happened suggests that if we could only defeat the Evil People who &
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by fractionalhare 6y ago
> Top cyclists have to wear heart rate monitors that wake them up when their heart rates get too low because their training makes their hearts so efficient that when they rest, the heart rate can get too low to be sustained. Do you hav
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by fractionalhare 6y ago
https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/numetric-series-a--...
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by fractionalhare 6y ago
It was evidently Insight Partners. They led the Series A on OP's last startup: Insight Partners. They evidently led the Series A for OP's last startup, which according to their LinkedIn is Numetric. Crunchbase tells you what you n
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by fractionalhare 6y ago
Insight Partners. They evidently led the Series A for OP's last startup, which according to their LinkedIn is Numetric. Crunchbase tells you what you need to know: https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/numetric-
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by fractionalhare 6y ago
> which means you are probably a person who enjoys somewhat adversarial situations where you need to win with your logic and you are comfortable with taking short term losses for long term gains Sure - to which my next question becomes
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by fractionalhare 6y ago
Hobbies don't have to be maximally mastered, no. But what's the point of putting something on your resume if you're not particularly good at it? In my opinion that's the only kind of thing that should be on a resume.
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by fractionalhare 6y ago
Very off topic: I had a very bizarre experience staring at the video preview photo before playing it. It looked like the body of the slug was becoming progressively darker the longer I stared, and then I couldn't unsee it back to the o
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by fractionalhare 6y ago
Good point, after re-reading I see the 0.001% does apply to sessions rather than users. That should elevate the total users affected, yeah.
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by fractionalhare 6y ago
If Wikipedia is to be believed, GitHub had 56 million users in September 2020. If we adjust that to 60 million for the time that's passed, that gives us a ballpark of 600 users who were affected. So no it's not high. But I'm
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by fractionalhare 6y ago
If your decision substantially involves or derives from making an estimate about a population based on a sample, it is statistics. "Making decisions under uncertainty" is well-studied in statistical literature, just like "qua
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by fractionalhare 6y ago
> But hey, prove me wrong. I'd love to see a counter example. Based on another commenter's suggestion that you basically want "sex in movies that aren't about sex", it only took me a few minutes of googling to
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by fractionalhare 6y ago
Europe is a very diverse continent, I kind of doubt we can generalize whether the modal European would associate a unisex shower scene with flirting and sexiness.
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by fractionalhare 6y ago
I bet there's a cottage industry of porn that specializes in serving you that kind of experience. Even if it's just packaged from existing movies and more "softcore" or something. Porn isn't gourmet or not gourmet,
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by fractionalhare 6y ago
> But for some reason our culture finds specialist sex workers more acceptable. Does it? You asked this on an online forum, not a national survey. I don't think our culture has a majority view on the nuance of prostitution. The
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by fractionalhare 6y ago
I would be wary of using someone's power to support their claims. Especially after the last four years of American politics...
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by fractionalhare 6y ago
I wrote my thesis on post-quantum public key cryptosystems, though I'm not currently a practitioner and haven't been academically active since ~2017 or so. With those provisos in mind, I'll try to give the summary as I see it
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by fractionalhare 6y ago
How does shorting destroy a company destroy it?
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by fractionalhare 6y ago
> The main difference between a conspiracy theory and a valid theory is that a conspiracy theory is non-falsifiable; any evidence to the contrary is dismissed as "fake news" or "the deep state is hiding the evidence"
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by fractionalhare 6y ago
It's possible; it's called naked short selling. The only reason people actually think it might have happened is because of widespread accusations on reddit. These accusations are financially illiterate and deluded conjecture, but
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by fractionalhare 6y ago
Which firms attempted illegal short selling, and what is your specific evidence to support that they did?
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by fractionalhare 6y ago
> Melvin capital and several other hedge funds engaged in naked short selling, and many backbone clearing houses enabled it via share counter fitting. (naked short selling is illegal) No they didn't. Naked short selling is differe
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by fractionalhare 6y ago
How many actual examples do you have of the same funds blowing up which outperformed for decades? Buffett outperformed SPY for most of his 60 year career. Do you think he doesn't know what he's doing, and it was all luck, just bec
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by fractionalhare 6y ago
Yeah, you're talking about capacity constraints.

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