kyrieeschaton

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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
The Fed has flooded the financial sector with cash. That cash has to go somewhere. Every security with a CUSIP and a price tag is getting inflated as a result.
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
Because in the education sector, the dominant ideology is some vague form of antiracism, and rhetorical appeals to the interests of blacks etc are the only way (or at least a prerequisite) to get anything done.
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
Anyone can look up her tweets and her interactions with, eg, Yann Lecun, and make a pretty good inference.
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
They express it as "racial minorities", but then talk about lower effectiveness on eg "asians", who last time I checked outnumber whites 3:1 or so. I'm guessing the contention isn't that it magically becomes i
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
"Skin diversity", ie racial groups, form political constituencies. In America, income categories generally do not except for at the extreme ends.
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
Explanations that are explanatory tend to be used to explain things.
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
Finland has a major advantage of being full of Finns, as opposed to American demography. In broad swathes of the country there are not enough "good students" to go around.
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
A lot of them are not maintainable - eg, there's no economical way to "fix" reinforced concrete with an incorrect blend or incorrect reinforcement.
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
"French" actually refers to the (American) popularizer, Henry French.
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
There are multiple groups working on reimplementations of GPT-3. It's not that difficult, just requires a certain level of compute resources which a lot of BigCos and large organizations have on tap already.
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
Redlining ended over fifty years ago. Pick a different bugaboo.
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
"I don't see how SAT scores would indicate the level of engineering talent at a school in any way" Inability to figure out why IQ might be correlative with engineering ability (as it is with practically any performance measur
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
NC A&T has an average SAT score on par with any random flyover college. Yet I don't see any tech recruiters making the trip out to Bemidji State. The fact is that students at HBCUs are significantly advantaged in recruiting compa
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
It was a joint request to dismiss with no further comment, ie, almost certainly a settlement & a nondisclosure agreement.
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
Tons of nominally asset-rich people find themselves with negative cashflow and in a personal debt crunch, even with positive net worth (or plausibly positive, depending on what assumptions you make about values in an illiquid market). You&
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
There's no problem finding "cobol programmers"; "cobol programming ability" isn't their bottleneck. Finding someone competent to do professional software archaeology & borderline forensics for 40K/y i
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
This sequence on Ex Urbe is one of the more interesting exegeses of Machiavelli I have read. https://www.exurbe.com/machiavelli-s-p-q-f/
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
The core Wisconsin Democratic constituencies (blacks, public employees, and college students) are very concentrated geographically. Any reasonably compact districting is going to produce the same results.
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
That's true to a point, but neither of those pieces of legislation actually define "insider trading" (although they do establish penalties for it). The power is more or less delegated to the SEC. There have been recent atte
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
They do though; they have incredibly wide discretion and things like insider trading effectively exist only via SEC regulation.
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
To have a duplicable traversal order.
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
Other ethnoreligious groups do this at vastly larger scale with surprisingly little publicity. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB894240270899870000 https://www.jta.org/2009/10/27/united-stat
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
Of course they didn't restrict themselves to "deepfakes"; they made sure to encompass anything "deceptive", "manipulated" media, "tropes", and "unwanted attention" - which, given every
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
What? In the case of the hypothesis, he gets more delegates. He also gets to take them from the person he is screwing (likely Sanders). Both of those immediate rewards have their own payoffs down the line (eg, in Buttigieg receiving an ap
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
We have copious experience with this exact business model going back decades over several economic sectors and it's not hard to see where the structural cost advantages come from. If you are, eg, properly accounting for below-market
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
The actual secret is low cost of capital and low labor costs, probably both in violation of various labor / tax / finance laws and regulations. This supposedly gave him free cash flow to invest in capital improvements. "in
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
It gutted "domestic manufacturing", it lavished largesse on the military-industrial sector specifically (and even there, the post Cold War consolidation that Warren Christopher specifically promoted is one of the reasons the aeros
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
Most index funds are in some matter market weighted. So when the price crashes, they buy less, and vice versa. You can see how this could have some odd effects, but the thesis is that heavily leveraged smart money washes it out.
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
"Probably" some hazy business process will intervene is not a reassuring guarantee! (And those manual processes are expensive and likely to be automated away to some hackable business logic at some point.)
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
Most extant relational databases were originally designed pre-internet as a way to store and batch-process business records, rather than optimizing for things like single-record latency. For the batch processing use case, you usually want t

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