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by jl2718 4y ago
Dollars do not provide utility. The reason why you need dollars, as you’ve pointed out, is that people with guns might show up at your house if you do not pay them in dollars. Conveniently, you can also get people with guns to force others
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by jl2718 4y ago
What exactly is her job at the treasury? I think it was supposed to be properly funding the government with treasury note sales, but clearly that’s a non-issue with the unlimited Fed balance sheet. It seems to be what every leader of bureau
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InsurAce is on-chain insurance and they did pay out for Anchor policies.
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Okay but somebody please explain to me the reason for prefix operator column-major notation. I digress… >> linear algebra doesn’t exist simply because humanity managed to concoct a system that coincidentally finds usage in many seemin
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by jl2718 4y ago
They were pocketing 25% of the interest payments and providing near-zero additional value to customer on a single-item portfolio. They could have at least bought an InsurAce policy for 2% and they’d still have a 15% margin for doing nothing
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“Signatures will be done in a way that is fair and transparent, as well as respecting the anonymity and privacy of each individual employee.” What are some ideas for how to do this? Maybe start with the assumption that each employee has an
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by jl2718 4y ago
Comparison among vaccines: https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674%2822%2900653-5.pdf
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by jl2718 4y ago
Is there an implementation and benchmark for this? Skimming, it appears to be built upon many theoretical results, any one of which could require impractical problem sizes or machine memory. In my head, the term ‘absurdly fast’ implies a co
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by jl2718 4y ago
So basically, every election within the statute of limitations. How far back does this really go?
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My own feelings aside, Do might be a good case study. I don’t think he’s an intentional scammer; he just had an idea that he was convinced was brilliant, without the knowledge or maybe imagination to see how spectacularly dangerous it was.
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by jl2718 4y ago
GP said uncorrelated. I don’t think that’s an effective counterpoint, although GP seems to be indicating anti-correlation. Either way, this is about undergraduate students, and I also don’t think you can claim superlative undergraduate perf
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by jl2718 4y ago
I’ve known a fair number of very successful people, and the strongest theme among them is ignorance of the challenges they had committed themselves to, perhaps even a stubborn disability to heed warning that there is yet another layer of th
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Tests always get leaked somehow. The students that were hit by the curve were, like me in school, struggling honestly toward the middle. That method is probably not as good at knowledge acquisition as the various methods of cheating, but ho
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The first is not revolutionary nor a swindle. The second is on that level or more so.
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I taught two courses to undergrad CS students at Stanford. I think about half of students cheated on problem sets and tests. The answers were all way too uniform and done without correction. In the first course, there was a student who defi
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by jl2718 4y ago
It was either “Barbarians at the Gate” or “The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest” where I first saw the term “unimaginative broker”. The point is that they are not reporting on a grand vision for humanity; they are reporting on where
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by jl2718 4y ago
Assuming the regime falls and leaves a power vacuum, what do you think the best way to help the people toward that is? My greatest concern is what comes next. The current regime is a kleptocracy, which is awful for the people, but easy to p
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by jl2718 4y ago
I think fungibility might be a mistake. I would like to find a way to capture community-specific value. I see currency’s origin as a reward mechanism for pro-social behavior, and today’s socioeconomic system kind of like a tribe that has us
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by jl2718 4y ago
Regimes change. I expect soon. Then what? Are we still locked into opposition with the Russian people? Given a blank slate, what relationship do we want between NATO/EU countries and Russia?
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by jl2718 4y ago
“Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.” -Blaise Pascal Complexity is not planned, it is created though expediency. Devs use that database because they’ve done it before, they know
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by jl2718 4y ago
I’m a believer in crypto(.*), but I keep seeing the same thing happen over and over again. The idea was that open innovation meant that small experiments were easy to exploit before they grew to systemic risk levels. But this exact formula
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by jl2718 4y ago
Fiat: If you give me food and shelter that I need to survive, I’ll give you numbers in a spreadsheet that you need to give to the people with guns so that they don’t lock you up in jail or shoot you.
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I started a web/touchtone/sms carpool app called mobileride.com in 2005. It was a pretty simple app, where people would call or sms and use a numbering system to set trip from/to and then wait for a double-ended call from the
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by jl2718 4y ago
> For almost every use case, global, trustless consensus is not needed, and thus a blockchain is not needed. This is ridiculous. Try trading stocks without consensus. Play a game, any game. Even better, try exchanging public keys on an a
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by jl2718 4y ago
A specific string of bits has zero entropy . It may be a sample from a distribution which has some entropy. Unless you are selecting a random single bit from that string, in which the entropy of that selection process is -p1 log p1 - p0 l
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by jl2718 5y ago
> anarchy doesn’t scale Fair argument, but mostly a strawman against peaceful progress. Call it “nonviolence”. Define the broad goal of civilization as eliminating coercion, and these experiments seem useful.
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Basically reverse-engineering the deterministic algorithms of the index funds. Or hire someone that knows.
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I thought this was going to be about fifth degree polynomials, and now after seeing the sphere, it’s got me thinking about factorization on the toroidal number system. (Note: my swipe keyboard got “toroidal” on a mangled swipe and turned “n
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by jl2718 5y ago
Apparently we can get to 20GPa with strained silicon ( https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1501382 ). Diamond can theoretically get to 225 GPa ( https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-
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by jl2718 5y ago
Yes; through bond sales just like they do right now. This requires some explanation. “Legal tender for all debts public and private” is what gives money its value. People must use dollars if they want the legal system to enforce contracts a

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