jjitz

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by jjitz 4y ago
I hate to gatekeep, but I find it pretty impossible that you are "in the crypto space" in any meaningful sense but somehow have not heard of FTX. That's like being "in the crypto space" but not knowing what Ethereum
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by jjitz 4y ago
SF has a homeless population like 5x that of Denver even though the cities are of comparable sizes.
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by jjitz 4y ago
bitter about something?
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by jjitz 4y ago
well, they might also not be surjective :) but I guess we'll probably never know
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by jjitz 4y ago
> The NSA and CIA are probably more interested in feeding Wall Street insider information Citation needed. What a ridiculous thing to say.
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by jjitz 4y ago
It basically means instead of measuring "papers published" they chose to measure "papers published per year"
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by jjitz 4y ago
As someone who has gone through quite a few application processes in academia, I can say the results of this (subjective) survey: > We followed up our research with a survey of 231 academics, asking for their attitudes towards discrimina
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by jjitz 4y ago
You can do other things with the stablecoin. You own the upside and downside of the collateral, and you also own the downside of the collateral, and the upside of whatever you bought with the collateral. Stablecoins are not meant to be an i
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by jjitz 4y ago
But you do own upside---of the collateral.
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by jjitz 4y ago
There is a litany of research showing that proportional representation leads to more representative and stable democracies, both in terms of empirical outcomes and normative political theory. Saying we don't have enough data just becau
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by jjitz 4y ago
AV is great for a single winner. As you have noticed, if you elect multiple winners the "naive" way then you can get unproportional outcomes. However, there are simple ways to use approval to elect winners proportionally! One easy
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Twelve Key Findings in Deliberative Democracy Research(amacad.org)
1 points by jjitz 4y ago|0 comments
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by jjitz 4y ago
Yes. A lot of the tech is very interesting, despite all the hype and fluff.
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by jjitz 4y ago
If they get a 2/3 supermajority? yes...
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5th Circuit Court Finds SEC Enforcement Unconstitutional [pdf](ca5.uscourts.gov)
101 points by jjitz 4y ago|170 comments
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by jjitz 4y ago
Eh, there are some pretty cheap places in Allston and Brighton. Last spring I had a place for $700 (although it was a whole house rented w some of my classmates)
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by jjitz 4y ago
Or maybe just like, build more houses
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by jjitz 5y ago
As an MIT grad with many friends at other Ivies, I can tell you that it is more rigorous than pretty much all of them. Princeton is probably the closest.
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by jjitz 5y ago
How do you think approval voting will affect long-term incentives for campaign strategies?
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by jjitz 5y ago
this is untrue