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by kolbe 6y ago
I was talking about the action of walking though a door when the guards opened the doors and allowed them in. If you want to strawman things I say to feel better about yourself, have fun. 2/3 have no relevance to the situation, and 1 r
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by kolbe 6y ago
When they let you walk in quietly, yeah. You can stretch language all you want until it has no meaning, but "storming" has a definition, and it isn't "people I don't like went somewhere I didn't want them to go
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by kolbe 6y ago
So what you observe is that people take a quote out of context, and try to use that to misinform people. Then put the quote in-context to support your position. Don't give different obfuscating garbage.
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by kolbe 6y ago
I don't think it's cowardly for them to do exactly the most logical thing for a corporation to do. If you're looking to LLCs to provide inspiration for good/moral/brave actions, I hate to break this to you, but they
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by kolbe 6y ago
"Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th." If that's an incision of violence, then I'm sure you will ap
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by kolbe 6y ago
That only true when it serves to augment the plain English truth. When that's omitted, it's what I dare say is a "Trumpian" method of obscuring reality.
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by kolbe 6y ago
Can you explain? I don't think it's constructive to hide behind analogy and cliche when you could come out and tell us the causes and effects that you think are happening here.
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by kolbe 6y ago
The problem is that it’s “rare” and not “impossible.” Compilers have to be logically sound, not probabilistic when it comes to defined behaviors.
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by kolbe 6y ago
Honestly, if you don't know what terms like "social contract" mean, you should go read what it is, not just antagonize the person who's sharing an educated opinion with you.
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by kolbe 6y ago
This is a great question, and one that SCOTUS ruled on [1] earlier this year. I had hoped that the decision would result in the people who were wronged getting their money back, but it would seem not. [1] https://www.scotusblog.c
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by kolbe 6y ago
That is the standard little speech that I hear often repeated by McK employees. Like, "LOL, we don't do much, but we honestly try, but bureaucracy gets in the way." It's cute and funny on the surface, but I think it stop
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by kolbe 6y ago
> Among the issues that plagued the project: McKinsey, which had never before advised a jail or prison system, made data errors that further undercut the results it reported from Restart units. This makes no sense, right? Who would ever
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by kolbe 6y ago
I work with probably as it relates to financial markets, and my gripe with probably is at an even lower level. Even with dice, the fact of the matter is that you will roll dice with almost entirely Newtonian forces acting on it, and it wil
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Hawaii’s Last Outlaw Hippies (2018)(hakaimagazine.com)
2 points by kolbe 6y ago|0 comments
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by kolbe 6y ago
Jane Street doesn’t tell you where their features come from. Some can be from data sources that cost millions per year. And you would still need to figure out what transformations they did to generate the features in the first place.
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by kolbe 6y ago
This competition doesn’t predict markets. It’s a manufactured game to resemble things JS does. And even if it were an accurate representation, the competition is run on 128 unknown features that you would have to discover for yourself. And
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Why don’t buildings from the Roman Empire need rebar, when modern buildings do?(quora.com)
2 points by kolbe 6y ago|0 comments
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by kolbe 6y ago
While reading this article, I thought “I don’t think Romans used rebar, and yet this still stands 2000 years later?” Turns out, someone on Quora had the same question, and the answer lies in the fact that Romans did not use the same recipe
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by kolbe 6y ago
Engineers are R&D
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by kolbe 6y ago
It all depends on what your goal is. Unions take money from R&D and shareholders, and put it in their own pockets. That's totally fine, but it is a tradeoff. The negative side is it creates opportunities for other companies that a
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by kolbe 6y ago
Yep. And it’s possible that being bedridden with illness and under lockdown could contribute further to Vitamin D deficiency.
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by kolbe 6y ago
This was written in 2015. What's worse logic: his code or HN thinking that shit talking him five years later in a forum we don't even know if he sees is constructive?
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by kolbe 6y ago
It's erroring out when I try to change it. Feature or bug?
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by kolbe 6y ago
I know nothing about the discussion of whoever this dude is, but I am very impressed that HN hasn’t rate limited your comments with all the grey I’m seeing.
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by kolbe 6y ago
Careful. If you think about this too much, you might end up realizing how absurd “justice” systems everywhere are. Maybe say everything has one cause: the initial conditions on the differential equation that governs all existence.
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by kolbe 6y ago
> Surely GM has done their due diligence before throwing a couple of billions in? I'm not sure there's any signal embedded in the knowledge that a company as incompetent as GM has done due diligence.
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by kolbe 6y ago
Retail buys that much total, not net. And retail mostly buys puts as a hedge to their existing position. SoftBank introduced $4b of premium directed in the same direction for new deltas.
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by kolbe 6y ago
I would like to point out that most exchanges do not operate this way, and that even in equities, dealers have eschewed rules by not technically being an exchange, but functionally doing so. All banks have trading desks, and the vast majori
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by kolbe 6y ago
"Unsurprisingly, this decision lead to exactly what the Bennett Hypothesis predicted in 1987, that “colleges will raise tuition when financial aid is increased” in order to capture as much of that government money as possible. In essen
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by kolbe 6y ago
Maybe. So what? No one is an individual. “He” is also a product of his parents’ DNA mixing to produce an intellectually healthy and superior brain. His parents also stuffed copious amounts of useful information into that brain. As did peopl

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