kyrieeschaton

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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
Wait, so if I know someone's name and email address or username I can probably cause arbitrary companies to delete their account?
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
"for no other reason than their plumbing" is exactly what you just excluded in the prior sentence.
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
I dare you to claim Goldman is using gender as an input variable for credit underwriting. Since no one is actually doing this, we're back to something like "maybe (altho there's no evidence for this either) people indistingui
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
It is absolutely not a strawman. It is incredibly easy to find people granted authority by the state that will claim that, eg, mathematics per se is an instance of exclusionist masculine thinking. It's even easier to find instances w
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
"Good financial decisions" are only at a very specific margin associated with credit score. If you have an underwater car loan you can't really afford comfortably that you nonetheless make the minimums on whilst eating rice
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
Except for 1) according to him, the bureau they were using for underwriting data indicated she had higher credit score 2) "conditioning on credit score which is correlated with gender" is not conditioning on gender. The algor
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
Implying they don't.
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
I guess it worked for him to throw a hissy fit, but there's absolutely no reason to actually believe they're conditioning on gender. It could be "it's a new product, we randomly assign credit limits to see how it affects
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
This is what happens when you have a couple products that make approximately one hundred percent of your revenue on auto-pilot, and everything else is just hazy synergy plays. People find ways to entertain themselves.
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
Australia has plentiful uranium reserves, relatively dry climate, a well-educated population, and huge amounts of empty space. Seems tailor made for nuclear powered desalinization.
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
There's lots about what they attempt to optimize for, and approximately zero about "how it works".
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
The contract then binds the acquirer. The more problematic aspect is committing them to buy out the rental on sale of their house.
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
That rejection would be more credible if it came with an alternate explanation (none as of right now), or if it hadn't come while the building was literally still on fire.
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
The article keeps saying their advantage is their ability to "find solutions other banks can't". I don't know what that means. Exotic loan terms? Collateralizing difficult-to-value assets?
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
"Secret patents" are a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_Secrecy_Act
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
I'm glad Marc Benioff is guaranteed to only ever target products (or customers) that aren't essential to your business model.
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
Salesforce has begun retroactively restricting the products you can sell if you're using their platform, which makes moving to Salesforce a very risky proposition. https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/30/18645
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
Speaking of bootleg uses of xrays - apparently they are made of ultra high molecular weight polyethylene, which when sandwiched in many layers works as impromptu body armor (proper laminates are used when lightweight or positive buoyancy ar
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
Every state "reserves the right" to do whatever they want, including things they have previously claimed they will not do. That is literally the definition of sovereignty.
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
Single use plastics (eg diapers, syringes, many dressings, nitrile gloves, surgical tubing, surgical sutures, saline bags, and so on) are a primary medical supply.
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
This is a straightforward dispute about to what extent the backtested performance claims were accurate, and whether the fund was following the strategy as declared to its client. The fact that it's a "robot" is irrelevant to
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
That claim is solely based on survey data, and there has been a undeniable trend towards false responses as people become more discreet. It goes hand-in-hand with the move towards home manufacturing.
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
Yeah, but a full 30 gun safe only has about 10 guns in it.
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
Remington's product quality went way south soon after the acquisition and hasn't really recovered. When you have a very traditional market for your products (many firearms designs are decades old), those products are expensive, a
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
SWAT raids are a terrible way to get the drop on anyone who is actually intending on armed resistance. They are on the other hand an excellent way to make sure that "accidents" happen, as they routinely do. They are an obvious t
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
When you're approaching someone who is armed, it's generally considered unsafe to surprise them in such a way it's impossible for them to know who you are and threaten their life.
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
The FBI and most US law enforcement is notorious for ridiculous overkill and roughing up subjects of search warrants.
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
Capital losses, correcting of cost basis for employee stock purchase program shares, handling multi-state income...
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
They make a huge difference. Depreciation in a low land-value area gives you an extra (tax bracket * house value / 27.5) per year. For a 200K house that's easily 2900/y extra return, more if you split out internal compone
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by kyrieeschaton 7y ago
It's a nice app and all, but the rigorous calculation for these kinds of things really needs to consider tax implications (both depreciation deduction & property taxes), liquidity value, and expected outside returns. It's not

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