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by jpmattia 5y ago
In a perverse way, the recent attacks on infrastructure are a good thing. Can you imagine if these all hit in a coordinated attack during actual hostilities? Yes it's painful and interferes with the economy, but ultimately this will h
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Exactly, you can't buy this kind of publicity... "BANNED BY THE LONDON UNDERGROUND"
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My family recently went through the search for a decent sunscreen and settled on this link for useful info about which sunscreens have nasty chemicals: https://www.ewg.org/sunscreen/ Our search was not exhaustive (and
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by jpmattia 5y ago
> Yup, this would ensure the benefits of bitcoin mining would not outweigh the costs, and it would make most of it unprofitable. How did you conclude that the price or difficulty factor would not adapt to make it profitable?
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> Wouldn't you say then that the CPI was correct not to adjust too far to account for it? My point was it missed the largest housing cost rise in multiple generations, despite housing being ~1/3 of the CPI. That it then also
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by jpmattia 5y ago
The section on owner's equivalent rent (OER) is worth finding in the long article: OER accounts for about 1/3 of the CPI. However, when you view OER in light of the housing bubble around 2006, CPI was negligibly affected. IMHO, i
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by jpmattia 5y ago
An interesting factoid about his alma mater: MIT awards no honorary doctorates. The only path to an MIT PhD is the old-fashioned way: You have to earn it.
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by jpmattia 6y ago
To amplify Paul's point: The legal standard in all criminal trials is "Beyond a reasonable doubt": > The standard that must be met by the prosecution's evidence in a criminal prosecution: that no other logical explan
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by jpmattia 6y ago
Utterly gruesome. I was expecting something linux related, not something that would further convince me to be a vegetarian. Might want to slap a NSFW tag on this title.
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> Home prices are not captured in CPI, only rents. This is literally correct, but misses the essential feature of the housing issue in CPI: A large component of the housing contribution is "owner's equivalent rent" (OER
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> in a rather tricky way. Any particularly memorable ones? From my bag: A friend's husband collared me at an all-weekend outing with some crazy contraption idea of lawnmower engines & generators & other junk. It was a fai
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by jpmattia 6y ago
Not exactly on topic, but historical context maybe: Long ago (early 90s?) when it was guessed/assumed that intelligence agencies were scanning emails, emacs was still among the best ways to read and send email. So emacs provided a han
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by jpmattia 6y ago
> Current and former top executives at SolarWinds are blaming a company intern for a critical lapse in password security that apparently went undiagnosed for years. The SolarWinds execs have provided us with keen insight for the root c
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by jpmattia 6y ago
> Apple's incentives appear aligned with their customers. ... which is really no mystery, because Apple users are customers, and Facebook users are product.
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Kudos! I find this work fascinating. There are moments that I'm tempted to go down a similar organizational road because I'm curious about the possible lessons from the data aggregation, but I usually pass because the payoff didn&
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by jpmattia 6y ago
> There is nothing special about being short more than 100% The actual value was 113% from S3, but other sources had different values so I rounded down. While there is nothing magic about 113% or 100% or any other number, it is a meas
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by jpmattia 6y ago
> The overall market is stressed, things are getting weird and I would not be surprised if this is the beginning of another stock market crash. GME short interest was still greater 100% of shares outstanding as of 1pm 1/29 (S3 Sho
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by jpmattia 6y ago
> and I think boarding order might be better -- so I never have to climb over someone to get to my seat. This used to occur, and I first saw it on Lufthansa in the 1990s. Window seats in the back of the plane boarded first, aisle seat
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by jpmattia 6y ago
Cool. I'm old enough that I've actually worked with tubes (final amps for 1970s Ham Radios needed too much power to sensibly use the solid-state transistors of the day. Also Fender guitar amps were just turning solid-state in th
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by jpmattia 6y ago
The man just incited an insurrection against Congress. This wasn't a hard decision.
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Yes, I think that was their point: To suggest that the NYAG got the financial info and has waited more than 3 years to shut down an unbacked ponzi scheme is just tinfoil-hattery.
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by jpmattia 6y ago
The twitter thread is utterly fatuous, and another post this morning on reddit laid it out pretty well: > This is just dumb but I'll lay it out anyway: The NY AG issued the first Tether subpoena in Dec 2017. The AG got the financia
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by jpmattia 6y ago
> I'm not sure the occasional bank run by people who get over zealous with their greed and desire for MORE is necessarily a bad thing. I mostly agree. I think one of the biggest problems with the bank meltdown of 2008 is that no
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by jpmattia 6y ago
> The peer-reviewed research papers allows you to “measure” productivity. How many papers in top-tier venues did research X produce? And that is why it grew so strong. If I were king, my rule would be to look at the number of citations
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> Isn't the fundamental difference here that we can't print more bitcoin to bail out bad investments? Absolutely. (Although it's "a" difference, not "the" difference.) > you can lend out bitcoin
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> In comparison, very few people distinguish paper cash money from a bank credit backed by a fractional reserve. I would add the words "in the modern era". My grandparents generation regarded those two as very different, h
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by jpmattia 6y ago
> You are correct, but unlike with banks, at least there is an escape hatch: "not your keys, not your coins", which is a lot simpler to implement than walking to your bank and withdrawing all your savings in cash. To be clear
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by jpmattia 6y ago
> When a bank lends out US dollars, they are effectively creating new money that is treated as “real” money. They don’t technically lend out the deposits. This is exactly wrong. In fact, it is the origin of the term "fractional
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> Early adopters weren't enthusiastic about bitcoin because they hoped it would end fractional reserve banking Just to amplify your point: There is a weird idea that that monetary multiplication (like fractional-reserve banking) i
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by jpmattia 6y ago
> It's a meme among bitcoin advocates to troll suckers like you. We see plenty of value in bitcoin. Enough to save the world from fiat. No need to go all ad hominem. I've been pretty avid about BTC for some years now.

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