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by javert 7y ago
Probably also a good idea, although I don't think patio11 said IB is better than other platforms for options.
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by javert 7y ago
Not patio11, but I interpreted that comment of his as referring to this particular part of his blog post: > A better reason for a technologist to be long a stock a lot of people want to short is because they have earned it through servic
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by javert 7y ago
patio11, if you're reading this, I'd also like to know the answer to that question, and I don't already know.
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by javert 7y ago
Cool!
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by javert 7y ago
> There are some "secondary market" services. But (IIRC) they all take a hefty cut from both parties, have zero transparency, act as an intermediary, have high minimum transactions, etc. Does anyone know of any such services th
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by javert 7y ago
They have not demonstrated that.
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by javert 7y ago
If there is such a thing, I would absolutely love to find out about it. Even if only open to accredited investors.
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by javert 7y ago
The "good" universities in the US are very much postmodern left institutions. The Koch money barely moves the needle at all.
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by javert 7y ago
Why is trying the interests of retirees to shareholders "kind of dumb and fucked up"? I'm not even sure there is a valid distinction between the two groups. The retirees are shareholders.
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by javert 7y ago
It's wrong if it contradicts the evidence of raw sense data or knowledge derived logically from the evidence of raw sense data. You can choose to reject even that, but there is no reason to make such a choice, and it would be supremely
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by javert 7y ago
In fact, if the suburbs were going to be sustainable without extra government funding in the long run, they would have been developed without the government's helping hand in the first place. This is exactly the problem that finance ex
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by javert 7y ago
I don't think that people should gain rights when they ban together into a corporation. So perhaps some adjustment is necessary. In some cases, this adjustment would necessitate increasing the rights of individuals.
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by javert 7y ago
You're just arguing that a "model" based on make believe is still a type of model. I don't find that compelling. It's like saying a scientific theory not based on empirical information is still a scientific theory.
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by javert 7y ago
"All models are wrong" is the same as saying "All knowledge is wrong." That's technically incorrect and philosophically disastrous. Ideas like this have a huge impact on people in myriad ways. > The "all mod
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by javert 7y ago
> If you reread the comment you are responding to, it says raw sensory input is the only thing that is not wrong, not that it is wrong. My view is that raw sensory input is just information, so it's not wrong, and so we are in agree
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by javert 7y ago
> The opposite of wrong is correct. I agree. > Newton's Laws are not correct, therefore they are wrong. They are correct as long as they are stated with the caveat that they are only known to apply to Netwon's observations
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by javert 7y ago
The last line is a reference to Kant, who made an argument roughly along the same lines as dragonwriter, and said he wanted to deny knowledge to make room for faith. He wanted to preserve religion in the face of the Enlightenment. So far, h
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by javert 7y ago
This is the wrong way to think about models. Newton's laws captured part of what he observed at the time. And that's all a model is supposed to do. That doesn't make it wrong . It makes it limited. You could say it's
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by javert 7y ago
The fact that sensory information is limited, does not make it wrong. It's a certain perspective on reality, and we can easily accommodate for that. For instance, we know that a stick isn't actually bent when it goes into water, e
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by javert 7y ago
Stablecoin providers like Gemini and Tether can't really tell what's going on with their coins except at the edges of the network (i.e. people they directly sell to or redeem coins from). In that sense it's like a regular ban
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by javert 7y ago
Interesting and surprising. I still don't see much point given that there are now stablecoins pegged exactly to the USD with audited bank reserves.
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by javert 7y ago
I don't think I agree. > Tether and Gemini can freeze/suspend anybody's account at any time for any reason with practically no effort if they wanted to. But only liquidity providers at the edge of the payment network even
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by javert 7y ago
> It uses collateral, lending and a careful incentive setup to maintain close to 1:1 parity with USD. I'm highly skeptical that this actually works.
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by javert 7y ago
> All stablecoins are Venmo calling themselves decentralized cryptocurrencies. Not really. Consider an archetypal stablecoin, like Tether or Gemini Dollars. Only liquidity providers at the edge of the payment network need to actually hav
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by javert 7y ago
Plan 9 is so cool. I'm going to guess that it's not actually a practical solution to this problem right now.
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by javert 7y ago
I was thinking that. I wonder if it would work well in practice.
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by javert 7y ago
I want to find a way to run each application I use on its own machine so that memory attacks (like spectre/meltdown, etc.) are theoretically impossible. I still want to have a reasonable computing experience (e.g. copy + paste works an
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by javert 7y ago
> But whatever, obviously Amazon is getting into the slave credit business This is the age-old "moneylending is evil" trope. Are you sure it is evil, though? I don't think so.
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by javert 7y ago
Why should there be a distinction? People shouldn't magically lose rights because they ban together as a corporation instead of acting as individuals.
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by javert 7y ago
The comment he replied to had two separate complaints. One about disclosure and one about high interest. He is commenting on the high interest issue. So your criticism is misplaced and unfair. As has been covered elsewhere in the thread, th

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