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by hhmc 5y ago
> It's not useless even if it is volatile. On longer time scales, it is not volatile but consistently appreciating in value, which makes it a great savings vehicle. Either it's good as a currency, or it's good as a savings
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by hhmc 5y ago
https://outline.com/rsHPec
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by hhmc 5y ago
> Volatility is not an inherent property of a currency or an asset Volatility is an an inherent property of an asset/currency/whatever(stddev of (log)returns), as long as you have a fixed and distinct numeraire. Sure, you can a
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by hhmc 5y ago
Bitcoin has an annualized volatility of around 100% In what sense can it be a useful currency?
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by hhmc 5y ago
>The "local Chinese restaurant" is a much more franchised thing than most people are aware of This is interesting (but also makes sense) -- do you happen to have an article?
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by hhmc 5y ago
Where did I say that? All I said is that a game used in an educational setting invites additional scrutiny. I didn't bring race into this.
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by hhmc 5y ago
1 sentence in 2000. It's very revealing that you feel so threatened and have such an outsized response to it.
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by hhmc 5y ago
> next SimCity that has 'racial tension' mechanics, even less about trying to come up with such mechanics. You've completely invented a position to argue against.
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by hhmc 5y ago
> IMHO much better article would touch on the mechanics next SimsCity game could implement and how it would be beneficial to player experience. So write it then. Surely that would be a more productive use of your time.
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by hhmc 5y ago
> a game. That people play. For fun. A pretty key part of the article is that SimCity isn't just a game. Given it's being used as an educational tool, it invites additional scrutiny.
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by hhmc 6y ago
> Why isn't Deliveroo innovating so much on the technical side that the gas/delivery time savings aren't making everyone satisfied? I'm not convinced it's tractable to satisfy everybody. 1. Customers (broadly spe
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by hhmc 6y ago
Another approach is VCT/EIS, where private investment is incentivized via aggressive tax breaks.
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by hhmc 6y ago
How? Valve are a private company, you can’t force them to sell. If they wanted to be public, they surely would be already.
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by hhmc 6y ago
How much does that speed (of copying the buffer) really matter though?
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by hhmc 6y ago
> I'm alone on a motorway in the early hours who am i hurting or endangering? - your loved ones - the emergency services that have to clean your body off the road - subsequent road users -- when the road is closed -- to clean your b
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by hhmc 6y ago
> Free speech is an ideal. We would like google to preserve free speech Is this self evident? Specifically google, or all and any private platforms? It's not obvious to me that every private entity should hold the ideal of free spee
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by hhmc 6y ago
Why bother interviewing them at all?
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by hhmc 6y ago
If you're going to [sic] someone, you should probably be certain you've used it correctly -- it belongs after the incorrect word.
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by hhmc 6y ago
It’s also strange to advocate for using a stdlib provided sort. It’s hard to imagine a stdlib worth it’s salt that provides ‘sort’ but not some kind of ‘linear search’ (and the stdlib implementation would likely use SIMD).
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by hhmc 6y ago
_Obviously_ he was writing from the perspective of a straight man. I was pointing out that it was unfortunately that he structured his argument and tone in such a way that it was the reason he goes to bars, it was _the reason_. It's no
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by hhmc 6y ago
He literally said: > if that's not why you go to bars, i have to ask -you'd enjoy going to bars with mostly men? Which is a pretty dismissive normative claim (it excludes women too for what it's worth).
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by hhmc 6y ago
Gay men certainly enjoy bars full of guys, which your wildly heteronormative claim seemed to forget.
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by hhmc 6y ago
> they accessible, easy to use, and "just work." ..unless you happen to not be on Windows.
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by hhmc 6y ago
Even is this case, would it not be better to cast via `int()` and deal with the failure as appropriate?
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by hhmc 6y ago
> I find that imdb ratings have a high (but not 1.0) correlation with me liking the movie You could track your own personal rating of the movies, then regress these ratings against a variety of external rating sources (IMDB, ebert, etc)
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by hhmc 6y ago
> I want to invest money into games You can. There are several publicly traded publishers and developers. > Other people want to get paid to play games, but they can't. They can. Just look at twitch or the pro-gaming scene.
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by hhmc 6y ago
> If something goes wrong while using them, you can easily jump right into the code that implements them and nail down issues using basic debugger skills. I feel like we have very different conceptions of what 'easily' fixing a
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by hhmc 6y ago
> I had to look up what memoization is- guess I’m getting rusty? But it turns out it’s just a new word for an old concept (caching). The term memoization was coined in 1968 and quite possibly predates the term cache (with respect to comp
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by hhmc 6y ago
I would argue that mutexs or other concurrency primitives are the quintessential example, but caching is the other big one.
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by hhmc 6y ago
Does anyone know the interpretation/etymology of 'lottery factor'? I assume it's the risk of the Key Person winning the lottery and abandoning the project? I guess it makes more sense in the context of rank-and-file empl

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