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by kgwgk 9mo ago
> The controversial DNA researcher What a gratuitous attack!
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by kgwgk 9mo ago
"05:30 is not particularly early [to go to a flea market]"
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by kgwgk 9mo ago
99.99% but then you will want Opus 42 or whatever.
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by kgwgk 9mo ago
> I think if one of my black friends told me he was offended that I had those books, I'd get rid of them. Don't be so hard on your friends, let them be offended if they want.
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by kgwgk 10mo ago
From the creators of “I met your mother” and “Green was my valley”.
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by kgwgk 10mo ago
> it limits the supply of available homes to buy It also lowers the demand (it increases the supply of an alternative).
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by kgwgk 10mo ago
> Institutional investors own ~3% of single-family rentals nationally. But per CoreLogic they're 29% of purchases in the starter home tier. Not true. That 29% is “investors”. Only one fifth of those transactions are from “institutio
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by kgwgk 10mo ago
Agreed. Note that the question was directed to someone who “would encourage people doing their own accounts to think of it like this”.
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by kgwgk 10mo ago
True or false? « If you intend to hold a bond to maturity you could totally book all the future coupons and capital gains as an asset up front, it's the same thing at the end of the day. »
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by kgwgk 10mo ago
> much like utility companies providing electricity/water A capital intensive, low margin business. The dream of every company.
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by kgwgk 10mo ago
Are you also happy running Windows XP or Mac OS X 10.1 (Puma) which seem to be the last versions officially supported? (I guess on Windows it may have worked in some form or another longer than that but surely it doesn't work anymore o
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by kgwgk 10mo ago
The reasonable price was $600 in 2000 which is over $1000 adjusted for inflation. That's four years of subscription, the useful life of a perpetual license may not be much more than that.
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by kgwgk 10mo ago
I.e. making it a viable option.
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by kgwgk 10mo ago
“You are absolutely right, and I apologize for the confusion.”
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by kgwgk 11mo ago
The funny thing is that they were indeed funding “trans” mice research: > To understand the effects of feminizing sex hormone therapy on vaccination, we propose to develop a mouse model of gender-affirming hormone therapy, assess its rel
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by kgwgk 11mo ago
> Vinyl is nowhere near as inconvenient as tapes Bringing your own mixtape to a party or a bar or a friend’s car was a thing. Bringing a stack of records seems much less convenient.
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by kgwgk 11mo ago
I don’t know what do you mean by “most of the rest of the world” but it’s widely available in the American continent and Europe coverage will be almost complete in the next month(s): https://press.wbd.com/us/media-relea
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by kgwgk 11mo ago
> electronic propulsion is pretty simple So simple that it’s usually called electric propulsion.
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by kgwgk 11mo ago
Everyone who runs out of time does actually need extra time!
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by kgwgk 11mo ago
“Adjacent” as in “also available in R”?
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by kgwgk 11mo ago
Airlines also unfairly punish families because they need to buy more tickets - and so does McDonalds when they buy multiple Big Macs, etc.
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by kgwgk 11mo ago
Nothing conveys better the idea of a solid foundation to build upon than the word ‘slop’.
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by kgwgk 11mo ago
Maybe not having it but being really close to that and knowing how to build it. "We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it. We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents “join the w
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by kgwgk 11mo ago
I doubt anyone would say that given that they got into ads years before giving people the option to pay.
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by kgwgk 11mo ago
> Sure, it's unintuitive that I shouldn't go all in on the smallest variance choice. Is it? You have ten estimates of some distance with similar accuracy of the order of 10m : you take the average (and reduce the error by more
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by kgwgk 11mo ago
> This is why Markowitz isn't used much in the industry This may be one reason but the return part is much more problematic than the risk part.
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by kgwgk 11mo ago
Unless I’m missing something that’s exactly what is proposed: t_i Var [X_i]] = t_j Var [X_j]
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by kgwgk 11mo ago
> Yeah let's not save ~$12,000 a year since it'll never help. It's true that it may not help a lot if you're "missing $40,000 a year, every year, forever" which apparently is the article's definition of
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by kgwgk 11mo ago
> You can't just buy coffee, you can only afford a sachet of coffee. Imagine if they tried to do without coffee until they saved a few dollars for a can. It could take years!
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by kgwgk 11mo ago
> The high(er) paying jobs What about low paying jobs? I’m sure some people on minimum wage have netflix - which automatically makes them non-poor according to TFA.

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