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by hntrader 6y ago
How to effectively align private incentives with the public good (e.g preserving biodiversity, reducing carbon output) is a question for economists, not ecologists. How big is the negative externality relative to other things we care abou
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by hntrader 6y ago
"should apply" It depends on whether the simulation itself is conscious, which is an open question in the philosophy of mind (is our wetware the only feasible substrate?) with much debate. If the answer is no, it's therefore
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by hntrader 6y ago
It's not just the direct market impact from the size of the trade, but the signal to the market of yet another big company getting involved which causes others to initiate a trade.
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by hntrader 6y ago
Isn't it a conflict of interest for Dorsey to make such a market moving purchase, as an agent of Square, in an asset that he is personally invested in? I guess we'll have to wait and see the rationale of the purchase. If it's
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by hntrader 6y ago
Are you presenting real samples and GPT2 samples to users with equal probabilities? EDIT another poster guessed GPT2 each time and found the frequency was 80 percent
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by hntrader 6y ago
USDT has a market cap of $35bn, let's say that 30 percent is unbacked and the corresponding USD was used to buy BTC. That's a position of at least $11bn. It's probably worth more than that now, since the price went up after t
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by hntrader 6y ago
"You have one qualification that shows they worked quite hard" "It's a Bayesian problem" This we agree on. But we have to factor in adverse selection. If you're a prestigious employer, adverse selection is goin
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by hntrader 6y ago
It's an authoritarian personality type which exists on both the left and the right. It's remarkable that when we look at the many personality subtraits of authoritarian types on the left and the right, they align extremely closely
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by hntrader 6y ago
"As a hiring strategy it works ok" From an employer's perspective, I think an elite college-only hiring strategy can work fine if the employer itself is prestigious or there's a clear unique value proposition there. For
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by hntrader 6y ago
Another dumb question: If they've been buying assets like BTC using the USD that they were supposedly keeping as reserves, shouldn't they have made massive amounts of profits since 2018, and be in a position to now return the USD
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by hntrader 6y ago
I think it's also a good proxy for quality as well. The average IQ of people in Ivies is over 130, compared to about 110 in regular colleges. I just think that a 140 IQ graduate from a regular college should self-select out of areas th
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by hntrader 6y ago
Good explanation. Why do they do step (3)? Aren't they just opening themselves up to massive legal liability?
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Right, but a lack of pedigree is more of a handicap at McKinsey than it is at Facebook, and it's more of a handicap at Facebook than your own startup. It's possible to earn your way in to McKinsey after going to a tier-3 college,
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by hntrader 6y ago
This is why it's a good idea for people from non-top tier colleges to run away from prestige. You'll never be able to compete on merit at a place like McKinsey, a top law firm or an IB. You'll be undervalued due to lack of pe
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by hntrader 6y ago
Which BTC holders and how? What's the path from onboarding on an exchange website, to eventually getting unbacked USDT? If I put USD onto an exchange, why would the exchange give me more USDT than what I deposited (and if this never
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by hntrader 6y ago
If the total amount of USDT exceeds their USD cash reserves, who became the beneficiary of the extra USDT?
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by hntrader 6y ago
I agree but we're talking about a pretty quick and dirty personal project here where quality, maintainability etc aren't important, and I vaguely knew that the Selenium package could do what I wanted in this language. If I was hir
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by hntrader 6y ago
Possibly, but they're only asking for $60, and I figured it would take me a while to learn the package + parse all the data from the various tables and sections (it was rather heterogeneous data across the site) + if this site happened
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by hntrader 6y ago
I find trauma to be quite interesting. I believe it's real and significant, but what I'm trying to figure out is why , evolutionarily speaking. People were routinely exposed to very traumatic, violent things in our ancestral hist
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by hntrader 6y ago
So instead of the customer finding the dev (as on Fiverr), here it's the other way around. Interesting. Lines up conceptually with the StackOverflow model of Q and A. Also, understood about the different use case.
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by hntrader 6y ago
Because I know python and if I needed to make a small adjustment to the script (which I usually do, usually minor tweaks), then it's within my capabilities to do so. Takes me thirty seconds to adjust a small thing in a language I know
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by hntrader 6y ago
Ad hoc scraping tool for something experimental that I didn't want to do myself. Would've taken me 2x as long as the dev I hired since I haven't done that before. Quality wasn't so important, I just wanted the output of
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by hntrader 6y ago
This, and also hospitalizations are a less exploitable metric. Self-selection bias isn't much of a problem, and the number of tests being done doesn't influence the results. I would look at either hospitalizations or deaths once v
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by hntrader 6y ago
Interesting idea. When I use Fiverr to hire a dev, I often have to contact multiple prospective devs to figure out that their skills are a match for the problem I'm trying to solve. I'll chat to 5 (all who advertise python) and gi
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by hntrader 6y ago
These are some concepts that I believe in for research code. Research code shouldn't be a monolith. Each hypothesis should be a script that follows a data pipeline pattern. If you have a big research question, think about what the most
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by hntrader 6y ago
I agree with everything you've said, but the policy for this needs to be thought out very carefully. Because of suicide contagion, it's not exactly analogous to discussion of limb amputations. Even though discussion of assisted dy
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by hntrader 6y ago
Good point, the appeal may have been the first time a human reviewed the case, I was assuming otherwise.
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It is suicide, though, and therefore seems to be against the rules as they're stated
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That's plausible, but he was also turned down on appeal, which was probably by a different pair of eyes.
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by hntrader 6y ago
Thanks. Any ideas how storage impacts the total cost of using only solar+wind?

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