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by lbarrow 4y ago
This is exactly right. You have to disclose risks to your business and if a really big part of your growth is coming from a new, volatile customer base, that's a big risk and you should disclose it. It has nothing to do with a specific
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by lbarrow 5y ago
Kipnis was also subject to several rounds of retaliatory Title IX investigations simply for publicly objecting to Ludlow's treatment, all of which eventually exonerated her. It's hard to think of someone more qualified to critique
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by lbarrow 5y ago
Kipnis clearly doesn't think much of the Ewell paper, but I don't think her point centers on its contents; it's more that someone collected and published scholarly responses to the paper, and the social media pushback against
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by lbarrow 5y ago
The exchange being able to roll back trades in extraordinary circumstances is also part of the game. The exchange obviously has a strong incentive not to abuse this power or the traders will find another exchange.
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by lbarrow 5y ago
That logic runs both ways, you could just as easily say: Well, the short squeeze traders knew the risks - they knew that LME had the legal authority to cancel trades in extraordinary circumstances, they made the trade anyway and boom that&#
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by lbarrow 5y ago
I think it's basically just replacing having a circuit-breaker -- if they had a circuit breaker like a lot of other exchanges, the crazy price jump never would have gotten going.
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by lbarrow 5y ago
I agree with you on the limitations of the article, and I can see the rise in nickel prices due to the war as "real macroeconomic phenomena", but the short squeezes on nickel produces clearly created a positive feedback loop that
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by lbarrow 5y ago
The quoted section says that _SoftBank_ will retain the fee, not ARM?
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by lbarrow 5y ago
Why did you leave off Netflix?
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by lbarrow 5y ago
Yes, lack of housing is a huge part of the problem. The entire article is about how housing has gotten so expensive in these areas that few of the locals can afford to live there anymore, which leads to crippling worker shortages and many o
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by lbarrow 5y ago
The "free market" didn't give those activists the right to veto development, the political processes and rules of their communities did. It's silly to treat that veto as a natural result, it's just as contingent as
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by lbarrow 5y ago
I think the real "market" solution here would be to remove the ability of both out-of-town owners and locals to block new housing development. The article cites an example of a 200+ unit development in Brush Creek that was effecti
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Adventures in Looping(blog.drewolson.org)
17 points by lbarrow 5y ago|7 comments
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by lbarrow 5y ago
Her full tweet ( https://twitter.com/math_rachel/status/1441569388289609728 ) says: Medicine, like all of science, is political: - which questions get asked - which projects get funded - how debates get fr
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by lbarrow 5y ago
Why would they try to hide this? It seems perfectly reasonable to do.
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by lbarrow 5y ago
The behavior of the people with multiple bank accounts in the article is both legal and perfectly ethical. Are you saying we have an ethical responsibility to pay as high bank fees as possible?
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by lbarrow 5y ago
55% is one of the lowest home ownership rates in the country. If high levels of home ownership drive policies that prohibit new construction and drive up prices, how is it that places like Minnesota, with a home ownership rate in the mid-70
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by lbarrow 5y ago
Because he was wrong two times? How many times did he make correct predictions?
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by lbarrow 5y ago
Remember, though, social media giants are monopolists and it's impossible to compete against them.
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by lbarrow 5y ago
I don't think you read the summary. The mechanism is pretty clear: 1. Compared with a flat tax, a progressive tax regime expands the economy because poor people spend more of their money than rich people. 2. This expansionary effect ge
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by lbarrow 5y ago
I meant the cookie law. I'll update my comment to clarify.
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by lbarrow 5y ago
Ah, that makes more sense then.
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by lbarrow 5y ago
I love how even gdpr.eu has a cookie acceptance banner. Man, they really screwed the cookie law up.
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by lbarrow 5y ago
That's fair, in that situation there's probably a valid case for disallowing use of a search engine. Whether or not that's an effective interview is another story :)
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by lbarrow 5y ago
I'm referring to a programming interview, where you are writing code with the candidate -- not a brain teaser.
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by lbarrow 5y ago
I see posts like this all the time on HN and I really wonder if there's an alternate world of really stupid interview practices out there that I've just been lucky enough to avoid. In this case: I've never heard of, participa
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by lbarrow 5y ago
What is there to be afraid of? I really don't know what you mean.
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by lbarrow 5y ago
Yea this Plato thing seems pretty bizarre and I completely agree that it's silly for the mentors to use it. Maybe there's a small value of just meeting people through it, but I think existing meetup groups can solve that problem p
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by lbarrow 5y ago
The "I hate all men, but..." and "men are trash" jokes only seem jarring because that sort of joke isn't acceptable about other groups (well, other than white people). Rather than ban these jokes as well, I'd r
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by lbarrow 5y ago
The response makes the researchers seem clueless, arrogant, or both - are they really surprised that kernel maintainers would get pissed off at someone deliberately wasting their time? From the post: * Does this project waste certain ef

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