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by maest 11mo ago
The independence assumption means there's value in allocating to the more volatile one, due to diversification.
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by maest 11mo ago
This is very much a US issue, largely because the government outsources everything to the private sector. This proliferation of random websites and shady 3rd parties is one of the consequences of this.
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Sonder co-founder left shocked(businessinsider.com)
1 points by maest 11mo ago|2 comments
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by maest 1y ago
> The problems it creates are mostly for programmers who can't be bothered to write good software Myopic and ill informed. > A 2017 study in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics estimated that "the transition int
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by maest 1y ago
The world extends beyond the US and many countries have successfully abolished DST. But maybe America is exceptional in some way, sure.
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by maest 1y ago
Equivalent protections have been dismantled by the Trump admin in the US. I believe the argument is that regulation encumbers airlines and, instead, the free market will incentivise participants to handle outages and delayed flights in a co
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by maest 1y ago
A failure like this would immediately trigger reelections in the UK. It's a strong incentive to not shut down the government. There is no serious incentive to avoid this in the US. In fact, you're incentivised to be complicit in t
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by maest 1y ago
re his prolificacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s_number
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by maest 1y ago
It reads like Linkedin slop, not AI slop.
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by maest 1y ago
You are woefully misinformed. There are protests initiated by fringe right wingers, but even those fringe right wingers would be approximately centrists in the US. Virtually nobody wants a DJT-like figure in the UK, for many reasons. I&#x27
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by maest 1y ago
That's cool, but I'm not sure why you replied to my comment
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by maest 1y ago
Doesn't mean bots aren't widespread. It just means you're better than the breakeven player.
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by maest 1y ago
> It doesn't take much effort to enable Developer Options, plug into a laptop and run "adb install whatever.apk" This is clearly a troll, confirmed by the green username.
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by maest 1y ago
Who is "we"?
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by maest 1y ago
Ryanair has the very sleazy habit if saying things like "we have just landed at X, note how we are 5 minutes ahead of schedule!" over the PA. However, they don't make a peep when the flight lands with a delay.
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by maest 1y ago
> look at the vast swaths of HN that are cheering on this. One possible explanation: the hiring market is dead for low tier devs (and mid tier ones are probably feeling the heat too). This is not caused by H1B, since this drought is rece
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by maest 1y ago
> Stanford, Harvard, MIT Those are not in the UK? Anyway, you are making some bold statements and have zero substance backing them up. Please refrain from spreading nonsense.
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by maest 1y ago
Found Thiel's alt acount.
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by maest 1y ago
A KGB spy and a CIA agent meet up in a bar for a friendly drink. "I have to admit, I'm always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up," the CIA agent says. "Thank you," the KGB
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by maest 1y ago
> The minimum salary threshold is £26k You are wrong. For the Skilled Worker route, the minimum salary threshold is 41k per year, with some special jobs at 33.4k. > "homeopaths" and "reiki healers" You are wrong. T
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by maest 1y ago
FAANG offers sub market salaries? American citizens turn their nose at FAANG jobs because of the low pay? What?
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by maest 1y ago
> There is a reason why their economy has been stagnant since 1990. There are many many reasons that go into explaining an economic outcome. Reducing everything to a perceived cultural difference is wrong and intellectually uncurious.
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by maest 1y ago
Here the other thing - sometimes I don't want extra service, I just want my food and that's it. But the waiter will try really hard to impress me with something I don't want. Then I'm the bad guy for refusing to pay for
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by maest 1y ago
Given your link, I'd say every shooting where the bad guy didn't get shot is evidence in the opposite direction? Seems to me there's more of those than your 11 examples.
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by maest 1y ago
This seems tenuous and directionally wrong based on priors. What evidence do you have for this?
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by maest 1y ago
> There's not too much to debate there; There is plenty to debate here. I don't know what the prevalent interpretation is here, but I do know it's a fact that the meaning is debated. I don't know why you're sayin
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by maest 1y ago
That makes prepending an element a special case.
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by maest 1y ago
I saw this debate a few weeks ago between two guys re what's the best way to improve the current healthcare cost.[1] I think both positions were untenable, but one interesting point that one guy made was that, while called "insura
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by maest 1y ago
Dour.
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by maest 1y ago
I think you underestimate the power of marketing and propaganda.

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