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by mizzao 1y ago
Does it really matter if court orders/judgments can't be enforced and they can just ignore them?
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by mizzao 1y ago
Apparently, he also attempted to create a fake website to try to cover his tracks, registering the domain on Jan 12 2025, potentially to try to show that Corning was the company he worked with. This drew a WIPO complaint whereby Corning com
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by mizzao 1y ago
This is a recording of a seminar on this paper the author gave via zoom: https://cassyni.com/events/MiPYGu3qzKP5MQFWNUn9Tb In retrospect, there seems to be a tell that when he's lying he won't look at the scr
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by mizzao 1y ago
While in CS multi-author papers are the norm, in econ it is quite common to have solo-authored papers, with senior PhD students solo-authoring papers without their advisor as a coauthor. And it is rare to see an econ paper with more than 3
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by mizzao 1y ago
What did a printer look like in WW2?
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by mizzao 1y ago
I think that's the opposite of Dunning-Kruger — impostor syndrome, or maybe "curse of knowledge". When skilled people either underestimate how hard it is to do something, or gauge a complex task that they have expertise in as
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by mizzao 1y ago
I forget the scientific term for this — but 95% of people think they are above average at doing X skill.
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by mizzao 1y ago
More generally, does this process work similarly if you just try to express your problem in writing instead of trying to explain it verbally?
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by mizzao 2y ago
Maybe in the past. Now, it's just the party of "whatever DJT says, goes".
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Tesla odometer uses "predictive algorithms" to void warranty, lawsuit claims(arstechnica.com)
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by mizzao 2y ago
Agree that these are extremely common but you don't hear about them when you're constantly reading TechCrunch. I've seen almost 10 breakups from startup friends in the last year and have been through one myself. It's lik
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by mizzao 2y ago
How about facilitating a monster load of insider trading?
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by mizzao 2y ago
What about the insider trading that this facilitated? A few parties made HUGE profits with last-minute option trades today.
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Musk sets the stage for Tesla to bail out Twitter/xAI at an insane valuation(electrek.co)
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by mizzao 2y ago
Yep. It's only going to get worse before it gets better, but that's necessary to change the political situation — that's the real "medicine" that we're taking here. People will only wake up when the economy rea
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by mizzao 2y ago
If they happen to look at you on social media / somewhere on the Internet and see that you've spoken out against the current administration's policies, you might be imprisoned (based on what's happened so far). It's
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by mizzao 2y ago
Totally agree! Other similar books using similar models: Connect, by David Bradford and Carole Robin (on business and personal relationships) How to Talk so Kids will Listen and Listen so Kids will Talk (on parenting) It's funny how at
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by mizzao 2y ago
Yep, I've read a lot of negotiation books and that's the one that explains all the other ones. Everything else (including this article) is a specific case of the models described in that book.
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by mizzao 2y ago
Works better when you're trying to hoard gold. Not so well when you have a fiat currency that's also the world's reserve currency...
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by mizzao 2y ago
Gotta love these two sentences in that article: (when describing the model) Let ε<0 represent the elasticity of imports with respect to import prices... (when implementing the model) The price elasticity of import demand, ε, was set at 4
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by mizzao 2y ago
Bookmark https://news.ycombinator.com/active and you won't have to wonder if you're missing flagged posts with discussion.
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by mizzao 2y ago
Gotta love these two sentences in that article: (when describing the model) Let ε<0 represent the elasticity of imports with respect to import prices... (when implementing the model) The price elasticity of import demand, ε, was set at 4
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by mizzao 2y ago
It seems the maximum likelihood model is a political one and not an economic one. Trump likes making deals and he historically has made them by applying his leverage and bullying people to go his way. Now he has the most powerful office in
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by mizzao 2y ago
Even if this were implemented, any country taxing wealth would see a flight of capital to other countries not taxing it.
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by mizzao 2y ago
I officially use https://news.ycombinator.com/active as a bookmark now, which is the same as the front page except shows all the posts hidden by the flag squads.
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by mizzao 2y ago
Is this possibly because you need to use additional force to horizontally stabilize it in one direction (perpendicular to the spine) but not the other?
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by mizzao 2y ago
It's interesting times when one finds oneself an unlikely supporter of the second amendment.
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Mac Studio M3 Ultra can run Deepseek R1 671B in memory using <200W(techradar.com)
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Elon Musk Is Unplugging the Monitors of the Earth's Vital Signs(nytimes.com)
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by mizzao 2y ago
A friend has hired an engineering leader from Ukraine, entering via the United for Ukraine program which authorizes work in the US. Their family, who moved with them, is now very stressed because of the threat of losing work authorization a

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