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by hnracer 6y ago
It's because BBG is a journalism outlet trying to get views. These article doesn't contain relevant information for sophisticated investors (which the large majority of BBG readers are not)
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by hnracer 6y ago
They recommend the VIX all the time mostly sarcastically, or do you mean the recommendations went to even higher levels than normal
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by hnracer 6y ago
It's not so absurd. How do we know solipsism isn't true? Because of two reasons, (1) the physiology of others is similar to our physiology, and (2) we can see evidence of inner state reflected in behaviour. For dogs we can make a
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by hnracer 6y ago
Yes, during the Pearl Harbor attack. This was 75-80 years ago, on the time scale of civilizations, quite a short time. Not to mention that the US is within range of the ICBMs of various authoritarian regimes.
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by hnracer 6y ago
No, it is ethical to have weapons because it's a bulwark and disincentive against countries with even more tyrannical objectives. This is not to defend the extent to which weapons systems are being invested in. But they need to be inve
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by hnracer 6y ago
My guess is that some people view defense contractors as being responsible for lobbying/corruption that encourages more wars in order to earn profit (they're the corrupting part of the military-industrial complex). I don't kn
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If everyone that is good had this mindset then the world would be ruled by the most vicious and authoritarian. The axis powers would've won WW2. Clearly some people need to work on weapons and history has shown that it can deliver net
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by hnracer 6y ago
I think it's a pretty universal phenomenon. You want to be either outstandingly good (best outcome) or extremely offensive (second best outcome). Just don't be another drone that is indistinguishable from the million of other dron
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by hnracer 6y ago
How did you arrive at this opinion? Are there studies that compare a polyphasic sleep schedule to a fixed sleep shield that you've come across? I am mostly polyphasic because of insomnia and have been for many years so I'm interes
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by hnracer 6y ago
Most OTC doses are 2000IU or less
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by hnracer 6y ago
Wait... I replied to the wrong comment by accident and can't delete now. Ignore please.
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by hnracer 6y ago
There's a phenomenon I've noticed in job interviews where the interviewer will in a sense torture the interviewee if it's a domain that the interviewer has expertise in, asking needlessly complex questions as if to grandstand
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by hnracer 6y ago
In the hedge fund world there is a mindset that if you're going to fail, you must fail BIG (without breaking the law). Then you get a sort of undeserved glamor associated with the failure that can actually lead to new opportunities. Fo
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by hnracer 6y ago
It's fallacious to put God one step before everything we don't know (radium, etc), while forgetting the numerous times this was done in the past (rainbows, etc) only to be demonstrated false once science advances. That's quit
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by hnracer 6y ago
Being merely flawed is not the concern. If mistakes were made with roughly equal frequency in both directions on the political axis, that is an example of being flawed but is not a serious concern. It's potential political bias that f
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I think my main concern is the potential for politically biased vetting, which could lead to an election being swayed. It's a large amount of power over a democratic outcome by a small group of individuals who are not accountable to t
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by hnracer 6y ago
You can see the effects in China where state control of the narrative, achieved in large part by oversight of companies, has made their population completely unaware of the Uighur situation. Granted, FB is a private company so the extent to
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by hnracer 6y ago
This sounds like the God Of The Gaps line of fallacious reasoning. Once we figure out where radium came from then God will be inserted just before that new discovery, ad infinitum, turtles all the way down
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by hnracer 6y ago
One problem is that the power to vet/censor particular things may be beneficial in a certain pair of hands but disastrous in another, especially when you're dealing with a platform that has extremely powerful network effects and c
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by hnracer 6y ago
Maybe they did conceive of it and they don't care. This type of action satisfies the objective of enforcing the orthodoxy by chilling any speech or action that could be remotely construed as being antagonistic, which is perhaps the tru
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by hnracer 6y ago
Regarding bias training that you mentioned, the Heterodox Academy did a literature review and concluded that there isn't adequate evidence to conclude efficacy and if anything the effects are deleterious on workplace cohesion.
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by hnracer 6y ago
You are right, I was not in the best state of mind.
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It was largely a fashion trend among executives as well as a fear of being singled out as being not onboard with BLM. It's better to be with the crowd, at least you are immune to specific criticism. We saw a similar fashion trend in co
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by hnracer 6y ago
Having an apolitical workplace is not the same as that workplace saying that all things are fine. It just means that you keep discussion of political topics that are orthogonal to the mission of the company out of the workplace. A company i
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by hnracer 6y ago
Standing for dismantling racism is always correct, but that's distinct from explicitly stating support for the Black Lives Matter political organization. If you don't agree with some of their stated objectives, tactics, leadership
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Intel is toast
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Historians are politically biased, with about 90 percent of them leaning left. See Jonathan Haidt for more information on political bias in the humanities. On such a politically charged issue they are not to be trusted and are a corrupted g
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by hnracer 6y ago
He didn't even know who the Proud Boys were during the debate. It's even disputable that they're white supremacists, their leader is Hispanic and they proclaim the superiority of western culture not the white race. The next d
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by hnracer 6y ago
I do believe that support for antifa (the violent political extremist group according to the FBI director) and support for communism (prevalent among self-described antifa) is as evil as support for fascism, yes. I am more concerned about
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by hnracer 6y ago
I would also expect somebody to not march alongside neo-marxists and self-professed communists (antifa) with a history of violent extremism (according to the FBI director Wray) but there you go. > Support for the Lee statue has never bee

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