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by kilotaras 4y ago
What you see here is not price-fixing, but expedited price-discovery. What is problematic (to society generally and renters specifically) is the fact that this price-discovery is done in the market with artificially constrained supply. Pric
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by kilotaras 4y ago
> If White Castle goes out of business and thousands of people lose their jobs, how is that good for society? Why would they lose their job? White Castle would declare bankruptcy, someone else will buy physical properties and equipment,
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by kilotaras 4y ago
> good example in the book explaining why a tick size is needed. > Say that the current bid in the market is $20. If you want to buy at that price, you will be placed last in the list of orders. But since the sorting order is first by
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by kilotaras 4y ago
Making building more homes easier addresses this. Price-fixing that is not done via consolidation is ultimately unstable from game theory point of view. There's very strong incentive to defect from "optimal vacancy rate" and
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by kilotaras 4y ago
Interesting. Probably won't work for harder queries, but would be a good tool to make simpler queries, or parts of harder ones.
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by kilotaras 4y ago
> Trust me, we would not want to live in a world where you can't kick someone out of your business To the best of my knowledge - this is the case in big chunk Europe, with a "for no reason" added on the end. You can't
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by kilotaras 4y ago
I think it that particular case they just didn't do error analysis. The task was to output answer with `10^-6` precision, which they solution didn't achieve. Funnily enough the number of other teams went the "correct" ro
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by kilotaras 4y ago
Story time. Back in university I was taking part in programming competition. I don't remember the exact details of a problem, but it was expected to be solved as a dynamic problem with dp[n][n] as an answer, n < 1000. But, wrangling
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by kilotaras 4y ago
It's a different tradeoff. Systems that fails and *executes recovery path* from time to time tend to be more resilient to catastrophic failures. Ideally you would want the combination of both: system doesn't usually crash/fai
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by kilotaras 4y ago
> that place was 38°C in my living room with all windows and doors open in the summer. If your window is open you will have the same air temperature as outside, potentially higher. I saw a lot of that in my apartment block this summer. P
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by kilotaras 4y ago
I parse "N% faster" as "N% more fast" as in "delta is positive and N% of base". I parse "N times (or Nx) faster" as "ratio of after/before is equal to N". So "50% faster" is e
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by kilotaras 4y ago
> What is 1 times faster? If your interpretation is correct, that's not faster at all. I'm no OP, but I would stand by this, yes. In <= 1 case "as fast" instead of "faster" would probably be preferable, b
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by kilotaras 4y ago
> But then you will probably get an even worst bill with a gas boiler Quick google shows that electicity in France[0] costs roughly 1.6x more than natgas. For Washington State this ratio is around 2.45x. Eyeballing this graph[2] that cor
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by kilotaras 4y ago
Per TFA: *Vacancy rate is lower* than in other region. At least for MANGA I work at SV office is way emptier than London one. Which is not surprising if you take commute time difference into account.
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by kilotaras 4y ago
Universal approximation theorem stays that neural nets can approximate any function[0] (size of that network may need to be arbitrarily big though). I'm not aware of any restrictions/limits on that. [0] https://en.wikip
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by kilotaras 4y ago
I remember seeing cubes that have solid inside that has melting point around (good temperature to drink coffee). You put them in a cup and it 1. Quickly cools coffee to that temperature (by increasing temperature and melting). 2. Keeps coff
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by kilotaras 4y ago
> Of course, this list may well just be other companies that are overseas and you can't drill down into their owners.. ;-) And this is a crucial difference. UBOs (Ultimate Beneficial Owner) registries list, well, the ultimate benefi
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by kilotaras 4y ago
Progress in the space is at breakneck speed. Check out this comparison of 5 months (!) of midjourney progress [0]. [0] https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1595846677591904257
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by kilotaras 4y ago
"Modern principles of economics" start with great anecdote how British Government changing payment from £/prisoner boarded to £/prisoner delivered reduced death rate on Australia convict ships from ~30% to less than 1%.
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by kilotaras 4y ago
It's actually pretty good. Better than chat for fostering async-style communication. Better than email at discoverability.
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by kilotaras 4y ago
Designing Data Intensive Applications is one of the most useful books if you work with big systems. Doubly so if you're actually working on a system like that. Nicely threads a line between too dense and too watery.
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by kilotaras 4y ago
> where the scientific papers are coming from and what companies are doing research of value. Genuinely curious: what are the companies that are doing research of value?
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by kilotaras 4y ago
> Why should a random citizen get paid more just because in their country there's heavily polluting industries? It makes no sense. I'm not following. Random citizen also pays more in tax.
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by kilotaras 4y ago
> landscapers would be paid more Landscapers with leafblowers would outcompete landscapers with rakes.
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by kilotaras 4y ago
> Even in the successful vote, there were still a lot of "no" votes. I'm gonna steelman those no votes. BigCos don't like unions to the point they can and sometimes do close the place/warehouse alltogether. This
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by kilotaras 4y ago
1. Key is 256 bits K 2. Half of K is a random 256 bit X 3. Other half is (K xor X), still 256 bit Having half of key is still 256 bit bruteforcing.
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DIY AI-Powered Speed Camera(jamesthom.as)
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by kilotaras 4y ago
rot13 is text cipher (for a-z). XOR 0x50 is a number operation.
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by kilotaras 4y ago
Most of egregious stands are caused by principal agent problem. You have 1. Person designing stand. 2. Person approving/ordering stand (usually business or city). 3. Person locking their bike. If you're lucky (1) or (2) is also (3
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by kilotaras 4y ago
> Would Ukrainians really want it Yes.

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