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by huijzer 1y ago
The value investor Mohnish Pabrai once talked about his observation that most companies with a moat pretend they don’t have one and companies without pretend they do.
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> They stood clearly and simply for good moral judgment Merkel has severely underestimated Putin. She played a role in the continuous betting on Russian oil. Merkel has called the internet “neuland” and wasn’t her government also the one
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by huijzer 1y ago
Anyone here know whether there are other converters too? I like Pandoc but find it not so nice to run in production. I don’t remember why though.
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by huijzer 1y ago
Please tell that to European governments too. The Netherlands military police was using Whatsapp (e.g., https://www.defensie.nl/actueel/nieuws/2022/06/15/maatregele... ). Only Germany has the BwMesse
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by huijzer 1y ago
Yes exactly Charlie has been saying again and again to not underestimate the power of incentives. I’m a big fan of Tal Yarkoni but I think this article is probably not correct.
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by huijzer 1y ago
It’s the same now. I’ve spent arguably too much time trying to avoid Python and it has cost me a whole lot of time. You keep running into bugs and have to implement much more yourself if you go off the beaten path (see also [1]). I don’t re
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by huijzer 1y ago
> But I can't see what is what "the economy" has given to us in return. Travel, entertainment, and healthcare for example.
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by huijzer 1y ago
> If only there was a reputation based site where, idk, people with more accomplishments got more weight... Very good point. I personally find Reddit or HN fairer since it doesn’t depend so much on reputation (actually: popularity). But
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by huijzer 1y ago
> Reddit and other discussion sites: Controlled by "basement dwellers"(i.e. doomers w/ too much free time), trolls and, soon, AI bots. Dominated by groupthink and devoid of friendly discussion. I sometimes have the feeling
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by huijzer 1y ago
> Yep, Cloudflare is a great service... for the US parts of the internet. It's fine in Europe.
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> HIBP has been rendered unusable to people in 3rd world countries because of endless CF captcha loops. I don't know what the situation currently is with HIBP, but Cloudflare does allow setting the security level. Maybe at the time
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> I also dont get why whenever I bring this up I am immediately asked if I have kids and whether I would support some random fascist book being shelved. That escalated quickly
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Maybe on average, but I think it’s probably correlated to inequality. The kid of two Oxford professors will probably be smarter than a kid that grew up in poverty. The school system is aimed at mitigating these differences, but if on averag
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by huijzer 2y ago
Also slightly related, many sectors have not become more productive over the years, but farming actually has according to Dutch statistics [1, fig 4.7]. [1]: https://www.cpb.nl/de-nederlandse-economie-in-historisch-per...
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by huijzer 2y ago
> when the Democrats lost the election through a series of unforced errors that have left the country – and the world – teetering on the brink of a whole Bronze Age prophesy's worth of omnishambolic polycrises. I just like to point
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by huijzer 2y ago
> Doesn't that mean he was long volatility? Now that you say it could be that he misspoke indeed. > Taleb's point seems more to be that he saw a mispricing and traded on it one day Okay so Taleb was literally an "option
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by huijzer 2y ago
> And it's bullshit that you can reliably make money of such low probability options. Even if you do, you never put $2.5 million on something with a huge probability of ending in a complete loss, these deep out of the money options
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by huijzer 2y ago
Overall the argument by the author is very convincing and well put. One part I don’t fully agree with is > If the trades hadn’t worked out, the losses would have been swift and total. Zero-day options don’t forgive bad timing. The entire
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by huijzer 2y ago
For example, Buffett in the 1989 letter: Last summer we sold the corporate jet that we purchased for $850,000 three years ago and bought another used jet for $6.7 million. Those of you who recall the mathematics of the multiplying bacteria
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by huijzer 2y ago
> Where is the self-awareness, the doubt, even the shame that brings wisdom? There is a book Investing Between the Lines by Rittenhouse that argues that candor is a high predictor for company outperformance. Buffett for example has writt
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by huijzer 2y ago
CSV is generally the answer. Unless you need superb performance which generally is not the case.
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Yes I’ve had that too. Linked to a blog of mine and saw traffic spike in the Cloudflare dashboard. Talking about that, I have a great blog that… Just kidding
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by huijzer 2y ago
Yeah sorry very silly mistake thanks for pointing it out. It makes a big difference indeed.
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According to a Google blog post from 2016 [1], use-cases were RankBrain to improve the relevancy of search results and Street View. Also they used it for AlphaGo. And from what I remember from my MSc thesis, they also probably were starting
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by huijzer 2y ago
> The US isn't serious about it, More than 40% of Texas's energy was carbon free already in 2022 [1], and they are still installing solar. Not on public lands, but most solar wasn't installed on public lands anyway. Having
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by huijzer 2y ago
Probably a good idea to explicitly pin GitHub Actions to commit hashes as I wrote about a few days ago: https://huijzer.xyz/posts/jas/ Also put as much as possible in bash or justfile instead of inside the yaml. I
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by huijzer 2y ago
I think society hasn’t figured out the incentives for elders currently. In private settings it’s fine, but in the work context I’ve seen few incentives for >50 year olds to support younger generations. To the contrary, many of these peop
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by huijzer 2y ago
Didn’t Jess Frazelle have most of her dependencies running inside lots of Docker containers for a while? She went pretty far and also kept it up for a long time. E.g., https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/docker-containers-on
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by huijzer 2y ago
Sure and the voters who did not participate in the election would all have voted the democratic party. I think the election showed that there are real people who apparently don't agree with the democratic party and it would probably be
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by huijzer 2y ago
I found this part interesting: > González Waite said that all of the large proprietary software companies ""are big bullies"". He has been called into the US embassy and been threatened because Mexico was using techno

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