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by intuitionist 2y ago
Yeah this was reported at the time of the acquisition.
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by intuitionist 2y ago
It’s doubly confusing because the decision protects the weak, helpless institutional investor while leaving the ruthless sharks that are retail clients to fend for themselves.
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by intuitionist 2y ago
> It also doesn't really matter if a statement is provable in theory or not. Whether or not it's possible to prove that P?=NP, it is either true or it's false and it has always been either true or false, and one of those t
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by intuitionist 2y ago
One thing that saddens me about the perceived necessity of new authors going on Twitter, BookTok, etc. to “build an audience” is that it seems to prevent anyone who wants to separate their literary life from their private life from ever aga
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by intuitionist 2y ago
I’m not totally sure what you mean by “fully controlled”, but we make the system under test fully deterministic and then choose “save states” to randomly explore from; the upcoming SDK features are intended to give users more control over d
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by intuitionist 2y ago
Ackman’s done a lot less (public) activism over the last few years than he used to. Other than Canadian Pacific I don’t think he’s launched a proxy fight at any of his current portfolio companies, and the CP thing was over a decade ago. He’
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by intuitionist 2y ago
Author here! Happy to answer any questions people might have about Zelda 1 or the upcoming SDK features.
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by intuitionist 2y ago
(Disclosure: I’m an Antithesis employee.) It’s briefly mentioned in a footnote here, but we have a lot of debugging war stories around the hypervisor protocol, many of which could themselves be blog posts. My personal favorite: we expecte
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by intuitionist 2y ago
I don’t have a real strong view on this specific situation one way or the other but it’s relevant that the appeals courts pretty quickly threw out this suit and allowed Albertsons to pay the dividend.
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by intuitionist 2y ago
I mean, manufacturing 30-year fixed rate fully pre-payable non-recourse mortgages does not happen in a free market. It takes a lot of government subsidies to make that happen—in particular the government assumes the credit risk on somethi
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by intuitionist 3y ago
> If you are rich enough to think buying kidneys makes sense, Again: when serious people (i.e. not a bunch of stoned Silicon Valley überlibertarians at Burning Man) discuss this topic it’s generally assumed that the government is the sol
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by intuitionist 3y ago
Well, the people receiving the kidneys won’t be rich on average, although it’s possible they’ll be richer on average than the compensated donors. There’s a big shortfall of available kidneys but the number is pretty tiny compared to the num
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by intuitionist 3y ago
The linked article suggests that the federal government would be a monopsony buyer in the US kidney market. My understanding is that most serious policy proposals along these lines would have the same feature. Medicare already covers care f
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by intuitionist 3y ago
Yeah, I don’t think the metric is wrong or bad, just that it’s not telling us anything special. Or maybe it’s telling us something about Go AIs (that the “insights” they have are human-comprehensible) but it’s not at all clear that this ful
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by intuitionist 3y ago
The blog doesn’t say anything about how this “decision quality” metric is calculated… but presumably it’s using very similar Go evaluation functions to the ones used in the superhuman AI players, right? I think it’s highly unsurprising that
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by intuitionist 3y ago
No entity “got the whole 1.9 billion” because it was fictitious. The nature of the Wirecard fraud was (at least mostly) not that real profits were being siphoned off to nefarious entities, it’s that they were faking the profits.
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by intuitionist 3y ago
The money was not stolen; it never existed in the first place. The fraud at Wirecard started before Marsalek seems to have been recruited as a Russian asset; the GRU probably didn’t even know it was happening until fairly late in the game.
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by intuitionist 3y ago
Fortunately you’ve gotta work pretty hard for chronic use, since it’s only available for a couple months out of the year. This is definitely a concern if they ever do develop a pawpaw industry, though.
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by intuitionist 3y ago
(Disclosure: I’m an Antithesis employee.) The blog post is meant as a high-level introduction for a general audience. The documentation ( https://antithesis.com/docs/ ) goes into considerably more detail about what kind
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by intuitionist 3y ago
(Antithesis employee here.) We’re using Inter, which our designer assures me is pretty popular. But this isn’t the first time we’ve heard this complaint. Also, we had an issue in testing on a different part of our site where the font was ge
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by intuitionist 3y ago
(I’m an early employee of what was, on my start date, just called “Void Star.”) As I recall it, the name meant two things: 1. Our “autonomous testing” approach is the opposite, or the antithesis, of flaky and unreliable testing methodologie
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by intuitionist 4y ago
The brand may not be a hard asset but I’d say it’s likely to hold its value better than plenty of hard assets (is an office building in San Francisco really less risky than Listerine?) and than lots of other royalty-generating intangibles a
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by intuitionist 5y ago
The big issue here is that it’s not clear that you need a blockchain for any of it. Economically you’re launching a Twitter clone with the intention of spending $1B on customer and content acquisition. The rest is details of how that’s budg
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by intuitionist 5y ago
Yes! I’ve not yet seen a surviving mature American chestnut, but there’s (what I’m pretty sure is) a C. pumila specimen in a churchyard not far from where I live. Fairly cute tree; it produces nuts but I have not tried them.
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by intuitionist 5y ago
FWIW, I got the joke and thought it was good for a chuckle. But it would probably be more obvious/maybe a better joke if players had to input the numbers in binary.
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by intuitionist 5y ago
I think my favorite from the series is this one, about a high-nitrogen compound so wildly unstable that it detonated when the lab turned on the spectrometer: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t
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by intuitionist 5y ago
Stocks underperforming cash for three years is hardly a black swan event; it happens in about a fifth of 3-year periods.
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by intuitionist 5y ago
I think many people on HN may be too young to remember the early 2000s, when you’d kill someone for your stock price to be down only 60% over 3 years, but it absolutely happens to good companies too.
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by intuitionist 5y ago
Tether’s total (on-chain) liabilities sum to a bit less than two months’ worth of Federal Reserve purchases of agency mortgage-backed securities. They’re huge, if they’re a fraud they’re probably the biggest ever, but in macro terms they’re
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by intuitionist 5y ago
I believe Plato says something very similar.

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