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by oli5679 4y ago
He linked to an earlier version of the article, but I couldn't see the actual code.
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by oli5679 4y ago
They should post a link to the code. I’d love to explore further.
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The Mystery of Richard Posner(lawliberty.org)
110 points by oli5679 4y ago|44 comments
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by oli5679 4y ago
Your article is really interesting. I was wondering what you think about the type of maths Krugman does here [1]? “ This willingness of foreigners to hold American cash means, in effect, that the world has lent the U.S. a substantial amount
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by oli5679 4y ago
The first video game I played was Pokémon blue, created by a Japanese game studio, and the most recent was Elden Ring, created by another. Sony and Nintendo are two of the world’s biggest companies, and a key part of their business model is
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by oli5679 4y ago
One thing that's not intuitive is the drag of management fees in the long run. If I have 5% average stock market returns over 60 years and pay 0.5% fees, then $100k invested grows by $13M. If I pay 1.5% fees, it nearly halves. This is
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Lichess End of Year Update 2022(lichess.org)
1 points by oli5679 4y ago|0 comments
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2022 Letter(zhengdongwang.com)
143 points by oli5679 4y ago|66 comments
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Pele Dies(news.sky.com)
5 points by oli5679 4y ago|1 comments
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by oli5679 4y ago
The current quality of human-generated online content is not uniformly high. I rely heavily on search engines and recommendation systems, but these are gamed by SEO spam, and flame-war political content. I want the quality of the content I
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by oli5679 4y ago
Yes, this is a great extension idea. If you make a model like this, for different parameters of speculation vs. value creation you can then test what the most socially beneficial rates of tax are. More tax will lead to smaller but more equa
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by oli5679 4y ago
The model is zero-sum, there are no gains from trade, the people just speculate. In this context, trading is harmful and this type of activity should be banned, or at least heavily taxed. If economic activity is valuable, but leads to inequ
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Lichess and Scala 3(lichess.org)
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by oli5679 4y ago
Xi’s daughter went to Harvard https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Mingze
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by oli5679 4y ago
This actually goes the other way, inflation adds an arbitrary friction incouraging people to take too many 'trips to the bank' to deposit cash in savings assets to avoid the costs of inflation and so is welfare reducing. https:&#
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by oli5679 4y ago
There isn't really a strong theoretical reason. A few I've seen: (1) it seems to be difficult for central banks to implement negative nominal interest rates (cash can go under the matrress), and so a positive inflation target will
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by oli5679 4y ago
"If you owned all of the Bitcoin in the world and you offered it to me for $25, I wouldn’t take it. Because what would I do with it? I’ll have to sell it back to you one way or another. It isn’t going to do anything." Warren Buff
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by oli5679 4y ago
The first NPC interaction in Pokémon Blue/Red can remember being a source of amusement for me and my primary school friends. Professor Oak: "This is my grandson. He's been your rival since you were both babies. Erm... what wa
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by oli5679 4y ago
This article is excellent. In general I would strongly recommend following Matt Levine (you can sign up to newsletter for free). It seems completely insane to use FTT token as collateral in the way FTX did. https://www.bloomberg.
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by oli5679 4y ago
What do people on HN use for Authentication? I've gotten quite used to Firebase + Firebase authentication for some side-projects. Now I'm interested in some other cloud hosting providers (Supabase + Render) and one of the key thin
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by oli5679 4y ago
If the traced genealogy line is average birth age 25 and 50% female, then there are 40 females. This would mean that a 2% infidelity rate would have a more than 50% chance of breaking this chain, although there would likely be other undocum
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by oli5679 4y ago
Growth of digital wallets could make payment products more homogeneous. If Apple/Google control the UX and fraud verification, people should go with the cheapest option. I'd love to buy a cheaper Stripe alternative, and if it has
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What I've Learned from Users(paulgraham.com)
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Petrov Day(marginalrevolution.com)
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by oli5679 4y ago
I find using this library really confusing because of the two different APIs -matlplotlib.pyplot and the figures and axes of created plots. Documentation and other peoples' code seems to jump between the two. It's a really good ex
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by oli5679 4y ago
I'd be really interested in seeing a breakdown of the salary expense by role and project. $67m is a lot of people!
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by oli5679 4y ago
There is a concept in microeconomics called the Lerner equation. A monopolist maximises profits at the price where gross margin % is equal to -1/ price elasticity of demand. The intuition behind this is their uplift in sales from a sma
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by oli5679 4y ago
Gdp in your case is $2000, and so is aggregate net income if you account for the person who put the ice-cream in the truck.
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by oli5679 4y ago
There is an accounting identity linking income and GDP http://www.library.snls.org.sz/boundless/boundless/economics...
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by oli5679 4y ago
This article makes me a bit worried about 'cobra effects' https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive "The British government, concerned about the number of venomous cobras in Delhi, offered a bou

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