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by maest 6y ago
I think "wildly" is an overstatement - decentralised systems have a place in the world, but it's IMO more niche than what current supporters are expecting. OTOH, in the long tail case where we see a revolution in monetary pol
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by maest 6y ago
I'm curious, what did the poster do to cause 4chan/trols to focus on her? I know she pointed out some stuff in her article (she's a woman, mixed asian background, lists her pronouns on her page), but, usually, there's so
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by maest 6y ago
I mostly agree, with one caveat: The Mega Rich Light-Bending Guy is partially an easter egg and, iirc, doesn't really affect the world in any way. At most, it's a commentary on wealth inequality. The Phasmid and the Pale are fairl
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by maest 6y ago
You're basing your assumptions on very little information. In particular, my position was with a buy-side fund set up in the last 5-10 years. It was definitely not "old wallstreet".
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by maest 6y ago
I cannot speak for Jane Street, in particular, but I have spent many years working at a very similar firm, and Investment is not Technology. There are engineers working in Investment, yes, but the risk profiles, the payout profiles and the
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by maest 6y ago
It's rarely the case that Technology sees those kinds of bonuses; that's most common on the Investment side. And yes, even places like Jane Street separate between Investement and Tech.
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by maest 6y ago
The parent most likely means "More for less if you ignore externalities".
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by maest 6y ago
This does not sit nicely with the fact that there are many large and successful insurance companies.
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by maest 6y ago
Yeah, taking feedback isn't easy, and feedback received from strangers online can be particularly brutal.
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by maest 6y ago
Related question: At universe-scale, does it makes sense to talk about a general "now"? I thought that, when large enough distances are involved, "now" becomes a local concept.
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by maest 6y ago
> Oof now we are saying that my work is not of publishable quality? You can think of all the feedback here as equivalent to the feedback submitters get from their peer reviewers. IIUC, that's the point of the website?
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by maest 6y ago
How does a billboard know which phones are passing it? Do smartphones just randomly connect with nearby devices? Even if wifi and Bluetooth are off?
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by maest 6y ago
Even ignoring the several flaws in this toy model (which other comments have discussed), it strikes me that this model doesn't show that a wealth tax is "bad" in some sense. The main takeaway is that the overall impact on wea
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by maest 6y ago
One big difference here is that inflation affects everyone equally (not exactly right, but let's ignore that for now). A wealth tax would act as an extra tax on ultra wealthy individuals.
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by maest 6y ago
Nobody is claiming the following ridiculous statements: > every single one of the 100k engineers that work there do nothing but dream up ways to trick people into using AMP for some secret illuminati end goal. > every single UX change
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by maest 6y ago
I'm all for balanced debate, but strawmanning doesn't help anyone.
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by maest 6y ago
If I had a solid business, why would I want to sell?
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by maest 6y ago
I would expect there to be money lenders willing to extend collateralised loans to finance the tax. Generally, it's not extremely difficult to obtain liquidity if you are reasonably paper-rich.
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by maest 6y ago
> Is AirBNB a valuable idea? That is a meaningless question. What matters is value vs price and the IPO price isn't known yet.
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by maest 6y ago
Maybe the solution then is to train more people to use kdb, not to build new languages/frameworks.
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by maest 6y ago
I think your argument is _almost_ right. You should be applying that logic to the total "market cap" of the asset, not to the unit price. In particular, the huge bull run in crypto happened because mass retail and institutional mo
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by maest 6y ago
> That would be true if the market didn't consistently outperform inflation over the long run. It should be pointed out that this is true mostly of the _US_ _stock_ market. Empirically, this isn't true of non-stock markets and
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by maest 6y ago
> if you do this, we will make things painful for you To be fair, that's generally how law enforcement and regulation enforcement usually works.
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by maest 6y ago
The GP was suggesting that, due to having children at home, many people will slip on their deadlines. It's natural to ask what happens to people who do not have children. > You are likely hinting that it is a choice to have kids. I
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by maest 6y ago
Will childless employees receive raises or be rewarded in some other way?
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by maest 6y ago
The move to no-jack phones really only exacerbates this problem. It's difficult for manufacturers to justify an app for wired headphones, but, now that bluetooth is becoming the new norm, there's suddenly a justification for instr
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by maest 6y ago
Making a big deal out of this on Twitter may have something to do with it. I loathe the day when I'll have a similar problem but, as I am not a Twitter user, I won't have the luxury of getting my problems fixed.
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by maest 6y ago
Sounds like you don't have enough information to make a decision when developing the function so thw logging behaviour should be configurable by the user.
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by maest 6y ago
Is this GPT-3 output?
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by maest 6y ago
"God of the gaps"? The original usage is in theology, but the idea is the same.

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