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by leto_ii 6y ago
> The only messages being given are that if you've made it to the top you can go to your death bed having done anything without seeing a prison cell In the case of Christine Lagarde this was actually made explicit. She was found gui
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by leto_ii 6y ago
I've always had mixed feelings regarding the Myres-Briggs test. On the one hand I was surprised by its consistency - in my case, every time I take it (regardless of the implementation), I get the same result. This probably comes down t
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> The article is massively misleading. It should say "95% of bitcoin is controlled by a small number of entities, most of which are exchanges". Yeah, that's exactly what I felt as well. Thanks for clarifying.
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by leto_ii 6y ago
I'm not sure about this, but does every person using an exchange get their own address? My impression was that they don't and that a lot of transactions are actually settled within the exchange using good ol' relational datab
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by leto_ii 6y ago
thanks!
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> This would explain why autism seems to “cluster” in upper class homes, where the parents work nonstop. This is an unexpected observation for me. Do you have any references you can point to? I would be interested in knowing more about t
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by leto_ii 6y ago
I don't think attitudes to infant care translate in any way to how older kids or teenagers are treated in different cultures. I'm not a parent, but I was a child and teenager at some point, so I can say from personal experience th
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by leto_ii 6y ago
Thanks for the answer. Indeed, the fact that he was working only off of his own data felt like a red flag to me. An interesting thing to follow would be if there are other people who went into the field to work with the Pirahã; and if not,
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by leto_ii 6y ago
As a layman with a slight interest in linguistics, I keep coming accross the Pirahã language as an example that refutes the Chomskyan idea of universal grammar. As far as I understand it, this is not actually true and the professional commu
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by leto_ii 6y ago
It seems the requirement differs based on your nationality. For me they asked for either passport number or ID card number.
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by leto_ii 6y ago
HN is no place for this kind of comments. Either be civilized or go away. You're polluting this forum.
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by leto_ii 6y ago
Nope. My opinion on short-selling is, let's say, nuanced, but in this case I was making strictly a technical analogy. It feels to me like this type of corruption is a temporal play in which you "lend" your influence in the pr
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> Would we expect her to a) not speak at Citadel if asked or b) request less than market rates for doing so? Pretty much. I think there should be a significant cool down period (let's say 5 years or so) after leaving a top public s
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> Perhaps I'm being too conspiratorial or cynical No need to doubt yourself on this one :D In a sense I feel like this kind of corruption is a bit like short selling. You perform a corrupt act in the present with a tacit understand
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by leto_ii 6y ago
I would like to add one of my finds (if it's already mentioned in the original post, sorry for the double) - the National Atlas of Japan (1977) [1]. Take a look at the railway traffic statistics [2]. The visualization there must have b
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by leto_ii 6y ago
Your comment reminds me of a series of concepts that I've discovered while going down a Wikipedia rabbit hole of protestant theology: [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_theology [1] https://en.w
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> Consider a chessboard that's in the middle of a game. The moves up to that point don't matter. Only the current state of the board matters and you make the best move given the current position. Since when is reality like a g
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> "But what already happened doesn’t really matter. You don’t need to know that history to build on what they made. In technology, all that matters is tomorrow." To me this is a mind-numbing display of ignorance. Once you under
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by leto_ii 6y ago
My impression is that in Europe software development tends more often to be considered a cost center, rather than a profit center. At its core I suspect this difference comes from the fact that after WW2 Europe lost its place at the cutting
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by leto_ii 6y ago
Great passage! You may be closer to the source of inspiration, although I feel that Feynman may have been part of it too. Maybe it was a combination of the two :) I like that Jaynes' alegory highlights really how difficult it may be IR
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by leto_ii 6y ago
I fully agree with your points. I think I may have been sloppy in expressing my criticism of the original article. At a certain level I think my comment was 'sociological' - the aliens, as intelligent creatures, should have a stro
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> a rather simple, outdated and largely superseded philosophical notion of what science is To me the idea of treating the chess game as a random process somehow felt like an anti-realist position [1]. I'm not sure how this kind of
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by leto_ii 6y ago
That's precisely the opposite of what I was saying. I tend to agree with what (I understood as) the larger point of the article, I just see the chess analogy as muddled and inaccurate.
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by leto_ii 6y ago
I suspect the metaphor is inspired by Feynman's one about gods playing chess [1]. As it's almost always the case, Feynman manages to immediately inspire and illuminate. On the other hand, the present article seems to me to get som
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> Under libertarianism, your rights are inalienable, and supersede contractual rights. Hence, you cannot sell yourself into slavery This seems to be debated both in popular libertarian forums [1] and among academics [2]. I haven't
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by leto_ii 6y ago
I don't really agree with the main idea of the article. Based on what I've seen lately, Bitcoin seems to be perceived as a sort of exotic asset that is however becoming more palatable to 'serious' institutional investors
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> That's how free markets work. Why should work relations be based on the "free market"? Why should we consider the market the core institution of a society, the concept underlying any form of relationship? "Free&quot
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> 2.1% of workers work for minimum wage. I'm pretty sure that's the federal minimum wage. Many states have a higher bar [1]. Many people working for 10 bucks an hour will still be earning minimum wage in their respective state.
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by leto_ii 6y ago
With the risk of nitpicking, I think red-flag means a warning sign, not a deal breaker [1]. > Unfortunately, it's just not possible to tell what a job will be like by reading a job description. While I agree completely, isn't t
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by leto_ii 6y ago
What people think they're looking for and what they're actually selecting for can be two different things. Often the interview process is based on an expectation that, for example, you will exaggerate your previous achievements. E

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