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by mhuffman 6y ago
> Those are not consequences of modern society or government. In fact, the fear of those are the reason for government!
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by mhuffman 6y ago
You "puff" it, not smoke it. It is akin to taking some water into your mouth through a straw and then spitting it out without swallowing. A lot of cigars have heavy amounts of nicotine to make up for the fact that most cigar smoke
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by mhuffman 6y ago
>There is also the significant risk that you are wrong. I haven't seen this mentioned; maybe it's obvious and you've considered that aspect too. Yes! This is maybe the most likely outcome! However, to date I have not heard
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by mhuffman 6y ago
Yes it would, but I am very, very nervous that the actions of the government and the capricious actions of retail investors would go against me, so I have no stomach to do it. As an example, image that you shorted bitcoin half-way up its ri
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by mhuffman 6y ago
AMZN is the most obvious one, considering the general view that Covid-19 isn't going anywhere any time soon.
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by mhuffman 6y ago
I built a valuation model of TSLA and came up with a fair intrinsic price of less than $200. Of course it is hard to value anything right now because coming up with a discount rate is fraught and you have government manipulation of the asse
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by mhuffman 6y ago
> Maybe, but it'll make them way way more expensive. Higher prices are how you attract MORE talent!
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by mhuffman 6y ago
> "There is no place in this world for blatantly false allegations or denying historical evidence" ... I mean, historical evidence changes routinely with the discovery and release of new evidence. And "blatantly false alle
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by mhuffman 7y ago
There is no tech company that is going to sponsor a browser that makes it harder for them to track customers.
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by mhuffman 7y ago
> A properly functioning stock market This is not a properly functioning stock market. People are reacting to massive money injection by the government and the government picking upcoming winners and losers. > by weighing the prior ~1
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by mhuffman 7y ago
> The hope is that these steps accumulate into something meaningful. A virtuous upward spiral. Or, if let's say the other side isn't working in good faith, they could then hold it up as "proof" they have done their pa
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by mhuffman 7y ago
Housing prices are driven by the people paying the price (or rent) not by the people selling or renting (the Ricardian Theory of Rent). With the caveat that in the short-term, government laws and ordinances can affect that.
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by mhuffman 7y ago
> When will it finally crash? Housing prices has reached a level of nonsense again. Well, it is obvious when it will crash. It will crash when it becomes less worth it for people to pay those prices. When other cities become hot-spots of
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by mhuffman 7y ago
> Excel is slow? No shit! This would be news to the entire finance industry!
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by mhuffman 7y ago
> Perhaps the progressive movement should dig a little deeper for "proof" that a mere difference in rates of participation. This is the basis of "critical X theory", the new non-scientific, default theory for all of s
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by mhuffman 7y ago
I used GIMP just today ... for paid work! ... on a Mac. Granted it isn't a full-fledged replacement for Photoshop, and I do have an Adobe CC subscription, but some things are simply faster and easier (for me) with GIMP.
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by mhuffman 7y ago
I mean offering a worthless* degree to people is also not helping, right? * I am using worthless here, to denote that someone that does not even have the capacity deal with a single term of high-school level algebra, can otherwise do very w
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by mhuffman 7y ago
I did actually take the SAT! Granted it was a long time ago, but I thought that it was challenging. I did very well on it and it helped me move forward in my academic career because I was from a very, very poor family where going to college
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by mhuffman 7y ago
> The tests have been gamed by a test prep industry that extracts money from wealthy families. No matter what you do, it will be gamed by money from wealthy families, because successfully graduating from one of these schools opens doors!
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by mhuffman 7y ago
... well, this is the real reason, but I don't think any professional would word it that way! Here[0] is a story about a group arguing (a bit successfully, I might add!) that "forcing" students to have the ability to at least
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by mhuffman 7y ago
> Next: no grades needed to get BS, MA, PhD. and no attendance necessary. "Soft-science" degrees from diploma-mill universities are already waaay ahead of you!
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by mhuffman 7y ago
> Common sense should tell us that standardized tests like this are not fair assessments of actual student academic potential. Common sense should tell you no such thing! Why wouldn't a test that measures a list of aptitudes (writin
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by mhuffman 7y ago
If we take your thought experiment to the extreme, it could look like this: The wealth divide continues widening. After generations, and the "snowball effect", Jeff Bezos' great-grandchildren end up paying all the taxes becau
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by mhuffman 7y ago
I don't have a list of tags at the ready, but it has happened enough to piss me off as a pattern. I can say that I am usually on there looking for help on "advanced" programming or hardware issues. So think long-tail type que
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by mhuffman 7y ago
> Overzealous duplicate This one is really killing me lately. In almost all cases it points to something only tangentially related and is of no help. SO used to be a place that smart people could go to get other smart people to help them
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by mhuffman 7y ago
It really is absurd! Bullying anyone for anything will already get you kicked off of those sites. It is such an odd hill for them to want to die on.
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by mhuffman 7y ago
This all sounds perfectly reasonable. I am guessing that people lost their shit at these "bigots". Did that happen, or was this accepted as reasonable debate points?
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by mhuffman 7y ago
> We plan to launch a Kickstarter to get funding so we can turn this into a real product to enhance Chess for people playing in the real world. I expect it is not available!
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by mhuffman 7y ago
Which word? "manned"?
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by mhuffman 7y ago
There is a similar word-embedding test that definitely rustles people's jimmies: Doctor - Man + Woman = ? What normally comes out is Nurse. What "they" think should come out is Doctor! By "they" I mean people that g

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