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by kolbe 8y ago
> With every big data breach coming to light, more and more people get sensitized about the issues of privacy and needless data collection. Citation needed? That's not my experience at all. I find people getting more comfortable wit
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by kolbe 8y ago
That's an edgy way of looking at the justice system, but not quite how it really works. Discovery explains away most of your hypothetical. Why is your account only 30 minutes old? You're clearly an old user. Why the throwaway acco
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by kolbe 8y ago
The United States does not maximize revenue in the slightest. We routinely use the justice system to unnecessarily prosecute and incarcerate the poor at a huge expense.
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by kolbe 8y ago
This is going to happen sooner or later. The efficiency gains and extra data to help the justice system come to accurate judgments is far too large. People will ultimately want it. Or cities that do it will ultimately become so well run tha
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by kolbe 8y ago
I hope government doesn’t turn into that. The legal system is supposed to maximize justice, not revenue.
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by kolbe 8y ago
Why send enforcement? Get a neural net to determine who is illegally parked, and automatically send a ticket.
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by kolbe 8y ago
I'm not sure about that logic. It's just a consequence of the order of operations. If the process went Sentate->President->House for approval, the House would be the only one to not approve a bill that included wall funding.
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by kolbe 8y ago
Reminder: the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund is the majorly of money in SoftBank’s Vision Fund. And SoftBank is by far the largest investor in WeWork. I have to admire Neumann’s balls in trying to play Mohammed bin Salman for a chump. But I do
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by kolbe 8y ago
Statements like these should be contractually binding. It's far more effective communication than their actual contracts. And given that the only point of a contract is to solidify an agreement that two parties are knowledgeable of, it
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by kolbe 8y ago
I'm in total agreement. It's especially confusing that the author would go through the bother of invoking Wittgenstein when it seems like he meant the exact opposite.
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by kolbe 8y ago
I am really struggling to find where Wittgenstein fits into any of this at all. >And it’s now quite clear where the Wittgenstein’s theories jump in: context is crucial to learn the embeddings as it’s crucial in his theories to attach mea
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by kolbe 8y ago
This isn't a long term health effect per se, but it is a health issue. >A study by the Highway Loss Data Institute in June of last year finds that states that legalized marijuana saw insurance claims for auto accidents increase abou
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by kolbe 8y ago
It's reasonable to embed motive into these suspicions. My confidence in iPhone not listening to me is linked to the fact that Apple's ad network is a fraction of the size of Amazon's and Google's, and that to the best of
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by kolbe 8y ago
I think the sales are worse, too. I used to be able to scan the meat and produce sales, and create meals around those options. Today that's virtually impossible. Recently Amazon realized how badly they fucked up cheese sales, and rever
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by kolbe 8y ago
Heroin is valuable, however.
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by kolbe 8y ago
Logically, no. But most of humanity would not treat them equivalently. I'm sure Tversky or Kahneman have done something on this topic.
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by kolbe 8y ago
I don't remember any innovation around real estate that changed our lives within the past few decades (or millennia even).
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by kolbe 8y ago
I disagree. The pretense makes it worse. I think there's something far more comforting about the honesty of a government just stealing my money and owning up to it. Don't waste time and distort my perception of the world with that
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by kolbe 8y ago
2018 morality applied to 1800's people.
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by kolbe 8y ago
re: (1) I don't know why people try to use these crazy discount factors on such long time horizons. I feel like it should be pretty easy. The currency of the time was in precious metals. So, we can just revalue the gold and silver in k
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by kolbe 8y ago
Most tax dollars in most countries are not spent on goods and services for the benefit of the people who paid them.
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by kolbe 8y ago
For those who don't know, that's not an asterisk.
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by kolbe 8y ago
https://outline.com/CwVvyu
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by kolbe 8y ago
It'd guess the vocabulary of an average college graduate at the time they graduated from high school is considerably higher than 10,000 words.
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The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop (2014)(pudding.cool)
97 points by kolbe 8y ago|64 comments
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by kolbe 8y ago
I'm not saying that crypto is a scam, but the most common sales pitch for pump and dump salespeople is to liken their investment to the early dot com era. "Company X looks exactly like Amazon when they only sold books." &quot
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by kolbe 8y ago
His main justification: "Just about everyone I talk to in the capital markets, including erstwhile bulls, acknowledges that things are slowing down." And "everyone knows it is coming." And "everyone knows that inver
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by kolbe 8y ago
How would you handle the fractional share ownership concept? A person with $10,000 of SPY shares probably doesn't even own a full share of most components[1]. And even ones that she does own more than a share of like AAPL, it won'
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by kolbe 8y ago
>index funds beat active fund management constantly over longer periods This was only the case because 'long periods' include the periods in which free riders (indexes) were small relative to the active and activist shareholder
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by kolbe 8y ago
>that insider dealing is defined and covered by securities laws and regulations Correct. Now, if these employees had purchased mortgage backed securities, then it would be a different story.

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