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by intuitionist 1y ago
(To be clear, Berkshire could buy any of the bottom 476 companies in the index, not all of them. Also it’s probably closer to 400, because Berkshire has to keep some cash around to pay insurance claims and so on.)
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by intuitionist 1y ago
They’re so much a thing that they came back the other way and overran politics itself in the North Carolina governor’s race last year
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by intuitionist 2y ago
I was walking along in the desert when I noticed a tortoise crawling in the sand. I reached down and flipped the tortoise on its back. It laid on its back, belly baking in the hot sun, legs beating, trying to turn itself right side up, but
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by intuitionist 2y ago
The outside investors in X made a profit on paper; Twitter was bought for $44B but the deal was financed with like $31B in equity and $13B in debt. It’s not a big profit (in fact it’s worse than you would have done in T-bills), and of cours
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by intuitionist 2y ago
Yeah, since t(N) < N, you can use the decomposition for N! and one extra factor (N+1) to get a decomposition for (N+1)! with a smallest part equal to t(N).
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by intuitionist 2y ago
Sub-Saharan Africans are extremely genetically diverse but a sample of ~100 Black Americans is unlikely to have any Khoekhoe or Twa representation. Anyway it’s possible that the model can pick up on other cues as well; if you had some X-ray
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by intuitionist 2y ago
you know you could probably put them into some kind of language model to tally promotion vs complaints you could probably even knock together a script to do that in fact you might be able to get a language model to knock together such a scr
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by intuitionist 2y ago
So would maintaining this map make one a Torii Hunter?
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by intuitionist 2y ago
I was really excited to see how a 19th-century landscape painter was connected with one of the best NBA players of the 1980s and an Ancient Greek mathematician. Not what I got, but the actual subject is still pretty interesting.
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by intuitionist 2y ago
There are a lot of wealthy retirees in South Florida who make great marks. Beyond that it’s probably to some extent driven by talent agglomeration effects; if you’re someone who makes their money promoting scammy penny stocks, you might wan
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by intuitionist 2y ago
To misquote Don Draper, that’s what the lawyers and money are for!
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by intuitionist 2y ago
Funny that the word abugida is itself taken from the Amharic word for the Northern Semitic letter ordering—as you say, the traditional order for ፊደል goes ሀለሐመ…
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by intuitionist 2y ago
If you’re trading US large-cap stocks at low frequency these are not really material costs for even a wealthy retail investor. Certainly not next to taxes.
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by intuitionist 2y ago
It’s racist to break out statistics along what was literally the single most determinative factor for life outcomes in antebellum America?
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by intuitionist 2y ago
> if it puts you out of work and automates away all other alternatives, then you’ll be witnessing the greatest economic shift in human history. This would mean the final victory of capital over labor. The 0.01% of people who own the mach
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by intuitionist 2y ago
I’m pretty sure these emails are public for exactly that reason.
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by intuitionist 2y ago
It’s in an email from January 2018, between Silicon Valley tech bros, next to discussion of fundraising. Of course they’re talking about an initial coin offering.
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by intuitionist 2y ago
Of course for this to make sense you have to have a notion of 0, which is traditionally taken to be the point at infinity (so negation is negating the y-coordinate). It’s been a while since my algebraic geometry classes but IIRC this is jus
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by intuitionist 2y ago
Here’s a blog post from CockroachDB that discusses their use of Antithesis, including some of the challenges and “rough edges”: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/demonic-nondeterminism/
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by intuitionist 2y ago
It’s not really plausible that the NYT tech guild would have controlled for factors that would make the pay gap appear smaller, because their incentive isn’t to be truth-seeking, but to attain a superior negotiating position.
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by intuitionist 2y ago
Yeah, but I think this misses the point a bit. The fact that your true edge isn’t knowable wouldn’t be so bad except that if you’re betting full-Kelly and overestimate your edge even a little bit , your probability of ruin in the long run
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by intuitionist 2y ago
Nitpick: big prime numbers are of course trivial to factor. Big composite numbers are much harder. Checking whether an unknown number is prime or composite is nontrivial but fairly fast.
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by intuitionist 2y ago
I think that would be an uphill battle. The money that flowed to Caroline looked like: a base salary of $200,000 a year, semiannual bonuses of up to $20 million, a de minimis equity stake in FTX, and no equity in Alameda. I don’t know wha
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by intuitionist 2y ago
For whatever reason, the current US administration seems to have decided it’s better to keep Binance and Tether around than to bring down the full force of the law. The next administration is going to be more crypto-friendly. I don’t think
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by intuitionist 2y ago
Yeah, if you can find one where there’s a more senior exec with more culpability who you can flip on. And once you’ve found that, you might as well become a whistleblower instead, which has considerable upside and much lower downside.
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by intuitionist 2y ago
So collecting all those extra taxes would cover somewhere south of 25% of the budget deficit for 2021. You aren’t wrong, but the parent isn’t wrong either.
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by intuitionist 2y ago
You don’t need to reverse time if you can deterministically reproduce everything that led up to the point of interest. (In practice we save a snapshot of your system at some intermediate point and replay from there.)
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by intuitionist 2y ago
From the abstract, the paper’s argument looks to be entirely different and reaches different conclusions than a Marxian TRPF argument. This paper claims that net profit margins have increased over the past few decades (which is certainly
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by intuitionist 2y ago
Maybe so, but I think the actual problem was too much of a black swan. There were certainly executives who voiced concerns about the asset side of Capital’s balance sheet and were vindicated in the crisis; Jack might have listened to them b
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by intuitionist 2y ago
I think Jack Welch deserves a share of the blame as well—if you had to attribute GE’s fall to one thing (which you shouldn’t), it would probably be the funding crisis at GE Capital when they couldn’t roll their commercial paper at the heigh

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