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by murbard2 5y ago
Yes, I've been getting a bunch for the past week or so.
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by murbard2 5y ago
Headline: "Mailchimp founders promised to never sell" Content: "It was part of the company lore that they would never sell" Maybe such promises were made, but the article is pretty scant on evidence.
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by murbard2 5y ago
> The only things really stopping average people from using Linux are ignorance of the issues and laziness. Or, y'a know, they upgraded their system but the new version of the kernel isn't compatible with the bluetooth device u
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by murbard2 5y ago
This is missing an interesting argument regarding "Buffon's noodle". A straight needle crosses a gridline with probability (4 / pi) (l / t) where l is its length. Surprisingly, a flexible noodle of length l also cr
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by murbard2 5y ago
They are indeed not a government regulator but, in practice, Federal law does require membership in FINRA for broker-dealers. See for instance: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/17/240.15b7-1 FINRA is the
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by murbard2 5y ago
The best solution — pandemic or no pandemic — is a tablet at the table that you can use to order directly and also works as POS. Unfortunately, it's seen as low status so unlikely to be widely adopted. The fact that waitering uses a pu
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by murbard2 5y ago
US ranks first among 46 countries in distrust in media. FTFY.
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by murbard2 5y ago
In its relationship to Ethereum it's not fundamentally different from that of Tron. It uses the EVM, it has a bridge for Ethereum assets... The difference is that one is marketed as a replacement for Ethereum while the other is markete
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by murbard2 5y ago
At no point in time does Kelly give you more wealth with probability 1, and there is no reason to care about "more wealth with high probability", that's not even a transitive comparison function.
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by murbard2 5y ago
If it's a mistake, it's a charitable one. Picking log utility is at least somewhat principled, trying to lead almost surely to higher wealth is way more arbitrary.
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by murbard2 5y ago
Yes, any utility function will give you a Kelly-like criterion. Kelly is log utility.
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by murbard2 5y ago
The Kelly criterion is to financial math as the Fibonacci sequence is to mathematics. Yes it's neat, no it's not special, please stop bringing it up all the time.
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by murbard2 5y ago
This was an idea pushed by Buckminster Fuller, at the global scale. There seems to be a non profit focused on promoting this [1]. I have no idea if they are credible, and it seems they haven't updated their website [2] in a decade, bu
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by murbard2 5y ago
Thought experiment: what if we were all aware during general anasthesia and felt all the pain and these cases differed only in that they retained a long term memory of it? I know there are ways to measure pain, brain activity etc that most
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by murbard2 5y ago
There's a long list of simple features that calend.ly users have been asking for a long time. There is a good opportunity to capture by offering them. Top of my list: limit the total number of hours that can be booked per day.
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by murbard2 6y ago
The main difference is that those huge companies can potentially be kept at bay with defensive patents. They have at least some skin in the game in playing stupid games with stupid patents because they could find themselves on the receiving
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by murbard2 6y ago
> Hong Kong has historically always been a part of "China", you could say it was "invaded" by the British Making them miss the whole cultural revolution and great leap forward, how tragic.
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by murbard2 6y ago
I have fond memories of torturing this level editor. I made a spiral staircase between two levels, and a building with a rooftop swimming pool with glass walls that let you see through to the top floor. I have less fond memory that the edit
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by murbard2 6y ago
There are certainly a lot of factor at play, and business friendliness is probably near the top. Nonetheless, an interesting potential factor is that one of the main US export has been dollars. Global demand for dollars shores up the US liv
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by murbard2 6y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with anything you said. To continue your analogy about games, if your games requires constantly coming up with new rules and the rule book ends up being thousands of pages long, it's a poorly designed
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by murbard2 6y ago
Section 230 is a great thing and the consequences of repealing it or adding extra requirements to qualify for its protection would be unequivocally bad. From a pure logic standpoint, there is something that bugs me with the argument that mo
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by murbard2 6y ago
It is, but like all of these legislations, it pretends to be about catching money launderers.
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by murbard2 6y ago
Cool idea but it seems a tad more practical to use conventions electronics in a well isolated and temperature controlled bubble. In steampunk spirit, why my a low flying airship? Wind speed is apparently very low near the surface.
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by murbard2 6y ago
It matters only up to the amount of transaction costs involved in negotiating the clause which is not 0 but not something to get in a tizzy about either. VCs need companies to fund just as much as the companies need capital. This is the mai
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by murbard2 6y ago
Which part?
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by murbard2 6y ago
Not everyone who consumes drugs, "hard" or otherwise has an addiction issue or needs to seek help, though of course imprisonment is especially cruel when it targets those who do.
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by murbard2 6y ago
The way in which they use each cushion as a separate cell to create structure is reminiscent of plants which get their rigidity from the osmotic pressure that pushes against the cell wall, also known as "turgescence".
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by murbard2 6y ago
When someone says a consideration is orthogonal to another one, they are not literally embedded in an Euclidean space. In this context, first order is used loosely to mean that the deviations come from effects which are only secondary in ma
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by murbard2 6y ago
Humans eat tons of shark every year but you bite one leg and suddenly you're the "man-eater". Tsk.
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by murbard2 6y ago
It's not even needed to introduce weird derivatives, a publicly traded company can announce $1,000,000 dollar prizes for factoring a RSA keys. In fact, you can embed more powerful oracles like this, e.g. publicly traded company announc

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