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by intuitionist 5y ago
I think the question of fungibility comes into play here, too. If I’m a HFT and I accidentally post a too-high bid for Anacott Steel then there are well-capitalized players in a position to sell me a whole lot of Anacott until I lower the b
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by intuitionist 5y ago
Probably Aviation is retaining a lot of GE’s debt and plans to use its retained ownership interest in the others to generate cash to pay it down.
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by intuitionist 5y ago
Yes, and ‘Machine Learning’ is still being published, as is virtually every other journal of note that’s seen a mass editorial resignation. Maybe this strategy will work in the long run—if all the high-prestige journals are open access the
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by intuitionist 5y ago
The paradoxical decomposition of the free group doesn’t rely on choice though, and that’s arguably the “heart” of BT.
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by intuitionist 5y ago
The near-term collapse of technological civilization has the silver lining that wild things will have a chance to recolonize the planet. The alternative—a world of ever increasing control and declining standard of living for almost everybod
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by intuitionist 5y ago
Many of these people are very good at tax structuring — and IANAL — but it’s pretty hard to believe that what they’re doing with OpenAI is kosher.
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by intuitionist 5y ago
Maddy’s work is great and worth reading (even as an antirealist!), but it’s worth keeping in mind that debates about foundations are basically irrelevant to the working lives of the large majority of mathematicians. If you’re studying, say,
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by intuitionist 5y ago
Elon Musk certainly drives the world forward, and occasionally into and under a parked trailer
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by intuitionist 5y ago
I think my best guess is that this is actually meant to produce broken code, so that Microsoft can sell you additional services (cloud fuzzing?) to find and fix the bugs.
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by intuitionist 5y ago
To the (small) extent that it was Jeffrey Epstein’s money I think I prefer it being lit on fire to whatever else he might have done with it
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by intuitionist 5y ago
A stock is a residual claim on the assets of a business and the cash flows those assets generate. A digital token is an entry in a database that…entitles you to say you have an entry in a database. And it is typically a pretty lousy databas
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by intuitionist 5y ago
Nicotine is great, I would be incapable of functioning in society without it, and if the US Government makes it impossible for me to get a nicotine fix without giving myself cancer I will be tempted to turn to direct action.
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by intuitionist 5y ago
Just because they expect more regulatory slaps on the wrist doesn’t mean they won’t add back regulatory charges to their Adjusted EBITDA metric, lol.
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by intuitionist 5y ago
Sauce and condiment companies that establish a franchise tend to be enormously profitable in general (see also pre-KHC Heinz or Lee Kum Kee). The product is very cheap to make, and as you note a bottle of sauce is pretty inexpensive (and co
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by intuitionist 5y ago
Massive counterparty risk. Tether is likely backed mostly by loans to exchanges like Binance and FTX (and of course Bitfinex.) When and if Tether collapses the exchanges will very possibly be rendered insolvent and you’ll be in line with al
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by intuitionist 5y ago
Money classically has three use cases: a unit of account (I have X dollars in my bank account, Y dollars in my 401(k), etc.); a medium of exchange (I trade my labor for dollars and trade those dollars for rent, food, etc.); and a store of v
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by intuitionist 5y ago
Why would Epic want to build Fortnite dollars as a slow distributed ledger instead of keeping it centralized? And why would they want to let you redeem for dollars?
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by intuitionist 5y ago
I disagree. Within walking distance of my suburban (Eastern US) home, there’s a patch of woods that’s mostly oaks and maples, a larger patch that’s oak-hickory, and a large park that’s primarily beech-maple. Out West, you could walk among r
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by intuitionist 5y ago
It’s a botanical berry but a culinary vegetable (as are the other fruit we eat from the Solanaceae)
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by intuitionist 6y ago
If they said P(heads) is 60% and you get 4 tails in a row, you also might think the people running the experiment lied to you, especially if it happens near the beginning. But there’s a 13% chance in any sequence of four tosses.
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by intuitionist 6y ago
If they reinvested the dividend right back in MSFT then MSFT can give its owners a tax break and get the same economic result by buying back shares.
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by intuitionist 6y ago
My point is not that OP doesn’t deserve to work somewhere better, but that his coworkers deserve that as well.
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by intuitionist 6y ago
No, the solution to this isn’t “this guy seems cool so let’s hire him at our FAANG team.” (I mean, do what you want!) The solution to this is that OSHA or the appropriate counterpart needs to get involved.
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by intuitionist 6y ago
A share of Weyerhaeuser stock costs around 35 bucks and gets you a (modestly levered) claim on forestland, one of the most inflation-protected assets in history. A round lot costs around 3500. If you prefer hard metals, there are highly liq
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by intuitionist 6y ago
If Tesla Autopilot is going to keep putting lives at risk then they really shouldn’t be allowed to keep selling it. I’m a bit baffled as to suggestions otherwise. If some lettuce gets contaminated with E. coli, we don’t say “oh well, caveat
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by intuitionist 6y ago
The only bag of air I want inflating into my driver’s seat is the airbag, and then only if it’s reasonably likely to save me from death or dismemberment
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by intuitionist 6y ago
Wow, I knew the name sounded vaguely familiar, but I never would have made the connection!
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by intuitionist 6y ago
A friend of a friend pointed out a fun demarcation problem, which is that many (most?) proposed definitions of “roguelike” would include the best-known and most popular turn-based, grid-based, procedurally generated game with permadeath of
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by intuitionist 6y ago
I think that’s a risk on the right tail, although not a very likely one. But even the modal outcomes — 2 or 3 K of warming relative to the preindustrial baseline — will likely kill hundreds of millions of humans and lead to the extinction o
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by intuitionist 6y ago
You’ve got it exactly backwards IMO. Terraforming Mars or Venus will take millennia at least, millennia that we don’t currently have the luxury of waiting around for. We need to terraform Earth first — restore some of the damage we’ve done

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