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by joosters 7y ago
Show me where the certainty is, then! In all cases (being unhedged, hedging against rising, falling, stationary or volatile prices), the airline can still be adversely affected by the future oil price. Either directly, or through becoming
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by joosters 7y ago
You are free to lose money by keeping the prices competitive, or lose money by raising your prices and losing business. Either way, it's the same result.
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by joosters 7y ago
There's still no certainty. For an airline, your prices have to be competitive. If you've locked in an oil price, and it turns out to be a high one, then your fares will be more expensive than your competitors (assuming that they
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by joosters 7y ago
Hedging is extremely odd in that while it is thought of as a way to lock in 'certainty' on the price of something, it really is just another way of gambling on a price. In the case of airlines, they are effectively 'short&#x2
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by joosters 7y ago
Isn't the main problem causing the shortage of helium that it doesn't struggle to be lifted off the Earth, in fact it floats away quite effectively on its own?
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by joosters 7y ago
Which root domain? If they own has-a.name then that is good enough, right?
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by joosters 7y ago
Presumably they could just get a wildcard certificate for *.has-a.name perfectly legitimately and then they can mimic every IPv6 has-a.name site they want.
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by joosters 7y ago
"Team of underpaid workers" also falls under the AI umbrella in many, many companies who over-play their 'AI' secret sauce.
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by joosters 7y ago
How would they obtain this information? The car insurance company (presumably) didn't have it, so the researchers would have to get in touch with each individual in their dataset and have an awkward conversation along the lines of &quo
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by joosters 7y ago
I can easily imagine health insurance companies refusing coverage or charging exorbitant rates to people because they know about your DNA and what diseases you might be susceptible to...
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by joosters 7y ago
Yes, although it is mathematically the ‘best’ way of increasing your bank, it is more aggressive than most people would be comfortable. IIRC, at any point in time, you have a 50% chance of losing half of your wealth at some point in the fut
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by joosters 7y ago
Oops, sorry, I misread your comment and thought that you were saying the opposite!
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by joosters 7y ago
It's simply not true that if EV is positive, you should bet all of your money. There's a classic formula called the 'Kelly criterion' to calculate how much of your money should be bet given your expected edge. The origin
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by joosters 7y ago
It's not just whether or not vote-trading schemes are a good thing or not, but the unfortunate issue that if voter secrecy is weakened to allow for vote trading, then abuses such as forced voting, blackmail or coercion also become viab
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by joosters 7y ago
Fortunately, there are technological means that can help, combining together zero-knowledge proofs, encryption and other cryptographic technologies to achieve the precise desired set of privacy and verifiability properties. This is placin
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by joosters 7y ago
In Europe, you could theoretically ask Google for this information. But would this only be for EU-hosted data? You could always buy an ad and then click on it with your own account, I suppose.
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by joosters 7y ago
Changing the odds is the only way to increase your edge... but admittedly, that 'half the income' will become a very large fee, such that the odds you need to offset this would make it unlikely that someone would take the other si
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by joosters 7y ago
Without variable odds, there is no information here to be discovered, since there will always be as much money for & against the bets. The liquidity doesn't come into it.
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by joosters 7y ago
It seems a bit limiting that they only deal with equal stakes/odds, i.e. we both bet $1000 for/against an event. Allowing for variable odds would make the deal better for events which you had less confidence in, solving the proble
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by joosters 7y ago
Keynes? He did lose his first fortune, but went on to make another. Also possibly Jesse Livermore, who made many fortunes but also kept on losing them.
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by joosters 7y ago
A build process of ‘make 2>/dev/null’ is an ominous sign for any project...
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by joosters 7y ago
How much of that time is really spent in the system call interface? You've got 4.968s of system time there (i.e. broadly the time spent in kernel code) and 2.123s of user time. Given that the user-space program is effectively a tight l
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by joosters 7y ago
That's too lazy, we need unicode symbols for escaped start-blob and escaped end-blob /s
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by joosters 7y ago
I guess the power socket might prove contentious, since they look very different across countries... power plugs, although variable, can be identified more easily since they look more alike and have a power cord attached. The traffic cone w
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by joosters 7y ago
Self-driving cars is a terrible comparison, especially since the state of the art right now is that the best human drivers far outpace the best AI driving, in both skills and flexibility. Plus, you only have to outsmart the car AI once to &
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by joosters 7y ago
I bet you that their smart contract, like most other significant ones, has been designed to be upgradable. That means the authors can modify the smart contract whenever they want, which means it implicitly has a centralised trust mechanism
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by joosters 7y ago
If you have to trust an oracle, you have essentially thrown away all of the plusses of decentralisation/trustlessness. At that point, the blockchain becomes pointless busywork, useful only for duping mug investors.
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by joosters 7y ago
Much of the discussion is about having fewer keys, resulting in more multiple key presses to type certain symbols. That’s not improving ergonomics.
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by joosters 7y ago
Would programmers actually benefit? Realistically, how often are you limited by your typing speed when coding? I can type fast but there’s no way I could ever keep writing code at my typing speed, I’m always pausing to think about what I’m
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by joosters 7y ago
Uber is succeeding? Its finances don't think so.

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