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by jungturk 6y ago
Knowing with certainty that the event will happen can lead to additional profit by being willing to accept less than fair odds or to increase leverage.
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by jungturk 6y ago
It echoes the development of Putrajaya in Kuala Lumpur. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putrajaya
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by jungturk 6y ago
Unlike many great ideas, those in the paper you cite just haven't yet gathered enough acceptance. The value of the US dollar as a reserve currency is a faith-based article, and yet it works well. The confidence in the Fed to not undul
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by jungturk 6y ago
I think most of the video media inside the courses are also available on youtube - maybe you can stroll through those to see if any reach the level of detail you could use? https://www.youtube.com/c/ComplexityLearningLa
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by jungturk 6y ago
I found the material from the Systems Innovation group instructive on the presence and application of some of the aspects of complexity in the real world: https://www.systemsinnovation.io/course
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by jungturk 6y ago
ARK put out a prospectus that details where they feel Tesla's revenue may come from. Scroll down a page or two and you'll see the tables they're using. https://ark-invest.com/articles/analyst-research&#x
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by jungturk 6y ago
Isn't the asset wealth being created at the expense of interest income from cash holdings (e.g. savings accounts and the like)?
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by jungturk 6y ago
He's not wrong. The RAM is definitely more expensive to buy from Apple, to the point that I buy the iMac with the base 8GB and then replace with aftermarket RAM and save hundreds of dollars (approximately 15-20% of the price of the en
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by jungturk 6y ago
In theory, a competitive market could achieve the same goals, but in practice, it seems like marketplaces often need some regulatory nudging to get over the humps.
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by jungturk 6y ago
US mainline carriers unbundled the legroom for folks that didn't want it. The three big mainline carriers offer coach seats with extra legroom on most domestic flights (branded as Delta Comfort+, United Economy Plus, and American Main
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by jungturk 6y ago
An issue with this type of analysis is that "them" is ambiguous. Even if the candy company folds in 5 years, part of "them" is probably still ahead - the management team "them" experiences gains through short-t
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by jungturk 6y ago
But the water leaking in is a feature, not a bug! You run pumps during surplus periods and generate hydroelectric in demand periods as the tunnel floods.
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by jungturk 6y ago
> We experience one reality, not many realities. Isn't that just a claim about the sensitivity of the detector? I'm sure folks were dubious about the theory of the electromagnetic spectrum given their bias to visible light, but
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by jungturk 6y ago
It's not at the expense of human life if this person's local sacrifice improves global survivability of the species (assuming some people still decide to procreate). The parent envisions a world where the commons have been destroy
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by jungturk 6y ago
There's a difference between having a variety of opinions and having a representative set of opinions. The diversity counselor is likely there to identify opportunities rather than to celebrate present successes. I'm not sure whe
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by jungturk 6y ago
This is more a statement on the informality typical in many modern (US?) workplaces than a declaration of any hard-fought labor victory. Military, law enforcement, medical, and educational institutions still reinforce the ideas of titular a
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by jungturk 6y ago
Yeah - their complaint, albeit ambiguously stated, seemed to be that you couldn't retroactively allocate historical charges to a newly placed tag.
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by jungturk 6y ago
You are surprised that devices can be improved after their launch via software updates? Or that people will see that as valuable? Or that people have different preferences in their products than you?
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by jungturk 6y ago
Access to the Bluetooth service itself can cause some problems - both in user tracking (as your device notices and is noticed by other discoverable Bluetooth devices), fingerprinting, and through access to the bluetooth data channels (as me
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by jungturk 6y ago
The central revelation, as I see it, isn't so much about facts or content (e.g. truth, purpose, ultimate meaning) but rather about how flexible the hardware/software package is that underlies our cognition and sense of the world -
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by jungturk 6y ago
The judge is noting that there are competing concerns at play here (as is often the case) and clarifying for participants the priority of those concerns. Specifically, the statutes that authorize these policing actions are inferior to the c
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by jungturk 6y ago
>People have to realize This is how I see it as well. We, collectively, are confronted with the reality that clean information is required for a healthy civic function. Maybe like the Broad Street Pump cholera outbreak rectified unsanit
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by jungturk 6y ago
EC2 might be a glorified VPS provider, but you seem to be ignoring the vast array of managed services in modern cloud providers (or unaware of their utility beyond padding resumes). Load balancing, fault tolerance, high availability, arbitr
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by jungturk 6y ago
Maybe the platforms should just progressively revoke access to the more expressive MIME types. You or someone who used your access posts something flagged as inappropriate? Banished to text-only penalty box. Posting inappropriate ascii art
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by jungturk 6y ago
Mom leaves a hundred dollar bill on the desk and her kid spends it. Someone leaves a hundred dollar bill on the desk and his mate spends it for lolz. Are these significantly different (if no less unjust)?
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by jungturk 6y ago
These are certainly multi-factor situations, as you say, but white flight isn't the only race-related contributor to deteriorating home prices in predominantly non-white neighborhoods. For example, the impact of federal policies denyin
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by jungturk 6y ago
Right. In AWS Redshift-land, this feature is called Spectrum, and allows you to use the redshift query engine & its SQL support to access external data (say, parquet files on S3).
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by jungturk 6y ago
It's important to use inclusive language to maintain the forum where we learn and share ideas with one another, but if your shelter's erected on a tentpole of anti-intellectualism (whether a reaction to others' elitism or not
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by jungturk 6y ago
It's paraphrased from famous quotes that lament "when I had the energy/enthusiasm/optimism (of adolescence) I didn't have the wisdom/resources (of adulthood) to do anything consequential with it, and once I ove
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by jungturk 6y ago
I agree with you - it doesn't seem like we're smart enough in aggregate to actually pull it off. And the counterpoint of "but look how far we've come" isn't satisfying because we all advance due to the absurd e

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