jbeam

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by jbeam 5y ago
> Conservative policies take a bit more explaining to get their point across, and are much more focused on the logical and realistic side of things. >... >Also, the time horizon for conservative viewpoints is often much longer (thi
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by jbeam 5y ago
>Actually purchasing items with your credit card is not required. Pretty sure you need to make at least a $0.01 purchase for the purpose of having a payment, otherwise you won't have a payment history.
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by jbeam 5y ago
> Sure the amount of currency in circulation is finite Not strictly true with fractional reserve banking
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by jbeam 6y ago
--Stock options are standardized contracts so it doesn't need to be the same buyer. --Call options cannot be exercised (this would be requesting the shares) until the stock price exceeds the strike price. American options can be exerci
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by jbeam 6y ago
$2,679 in cash and the fractional shares of CRM (0.76) will likely be converted to cash as well at some market rate.
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by jbeam 6y ago
>as an aside, do insurance companies significantly alter their policies when such a cat-5 hurricane is imminent? What preparations would they make in the face of that sort of event? You cannot retroactively alter a policy, for obviously
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by jbeam 6y ago
Very interesting article that cuts to the core of many of the issues with pricing insurance products. While the phrase is hardly limited to the actuarial world, "all models are wrong, but some are useful" is definitely an extensio
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Google vs. Oracle – Oral Arguments Transcript [pdf](supremecourt.gov)
5 points by jbeam 6y ago|1 comments
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by jbeam 6y ago
The overflow was the error in the first version. Not needed in other versions; Ghandi loving nukes is funny so he just loves nukes. Civ VI randomly rolls character traits for leaders and each leader has specific ones they are more likely to
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by jbeam 6y ago
Sure it is. If 5% of asymptomatic cases require care that costs $200k, you come to $10k a person. This is entirely plausible in the US, particularly if you are amortizing the cost over the lifetime of the patient.
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by jbeam 6y ago
The US is eighth on that list. That’s not middle bottom, that’s top.
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by jbeam 6y ago
In your copy of Excel it is January 2nd. In most other countries, it is February 1st. But here's Excel's trick: you type in 01/02, Excel interprets that as January 2nd and switches it to the underlying OLE date format (som
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by jbeam 6y ago
> How does this lead to making "so much money"? Purely from hardware sales? Yeah, hardware margins for gaming systems are often not great. The point is that you also have to buy games for it. Similar to how printers are priced
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by jbeam 6y ago
> It needs an informed population which has learned to think critically. How does the population get informed about the government without the press?
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by jbeam 6y ago
I once had to scroll for 30 minutes to find a critical piece of information because of this. I could find the time stamp of a related message but needed the context. So I just had to scroll. And scroll. And scroll some more. Mind boggling t
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by jbeam 6y ago
It’s not just about the specific mortality of the disease. The virus is bad enough that a significant quantity of people need hospitalization. COVID patients in the hospital take a long time to recover or die. So if you fill a hospital to t
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by jbeam 6y ago
>That way I can sub to a hatepost sub if I want and a mature tech sub if I want and get the best of both worlds. Is a hatepost sub the best of a world? >Everyone here who disagrees is just saying, "I don't want to join those
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by jbeam 6y ago
To be fair, if I had to pick a neighborhood in NYC in terms of "how expensive it is to get a two bedroom apartment" then the West Village would be at or near the top of the list. Don't get me wrong, NYC is expensive, but its
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by jbeam 6y ago
The videos are easy to access. The people who the Trump administration attacked were peaceful. The fact that someone half a mile away might have been looting a store or a random person might have thrown a Poland Spring bottle does not justi
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by jbeam 6y ago
An arrest doesn't need to be violent for it to be a bad act. At that point they were surrounded and would have had to push through the police to "disperse." They repeatedly asked police officers where they should go and were
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by jbeam 6y ago
There needs to be a distinction here between SCOTUS rulings on constitutional issues versus rulings based on statute. Many if not most of the decisions that the Supreme Court hands down could be changed by the legislature. These are based o
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by jbeam 6y ago
.NET has it’s issues mostly due to the historical mess of frameworks, but with development converging around .NET Core things have been getting a lot better. I think the environment system in python is a confusing design flaw that could hav
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by jbeam 6y ago
I like Memeorandum: https://www.memeorandum.com/m/ It gives you exposure to whatever people happen to be talking about at the time, but also other takes on the issue. Completely automated.
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by jbeam 6y ago
The point of the order is to say “publishers” do not have Section 230 immunity and that Twitters actions constitute making it a publisher. Fox News is already publisher under any reasonable definition.
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by jbeam 6y ago
>I'll use r/politics for example, I currently do not think there is productive or rich discourse being had there. If you have had a different experience please let me know. The top post on r/politics on Super Tuesday was a
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by jbeam 6y ago
The chart in the article shows a dip around the time of the Spanish flu and an over-correction a few years later. But it's probably impossible to isolate the impact of flu vs WWI. Could definitely see an increase in accidents, but I re
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by jbeam 6y ago
>I'd expect this to pick back up barring any adverse economic conditions. I expect that it won't pick back up because adverse economic conditions have already arrived.
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by jbeam 6y ago
The antitrust investigation is focused on online advertising. So Outlook, iPhones, maps, AWS doesn't really apply there. "Many people" might use Bing, but Google dwarfs it in market share. I'm not particularly familiar w
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by jbeam 6y ago
Do you have anything to support that expression trees are being sunset? I haven't seen anything of the sort, unless you are talking about a deprecated library that has been replaced. But System.Linq.Expressions is still around.
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by jbeam 6y ago
I think it’d be far more accurate to say that the left wants Trump to stop spreading misinformation on the topic than to say the left is so Machiavellian that it isn’t interested in a cure. For the most part the left seems very happy to jus

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