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by panax 5y ago
And yet we were recently forced to change a lot of code which did use goto in a constrained way(for error handling only), because someone decided to make 15.1 required instead of advisory and take 15.1 too literally (they also made 15.5 no
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by panax 5y ago
When you are forced to follow stupid rules like having only one exit point in a function then goto can be used a lot in place of that, but what are we supposed to do if you are not allowed to both use goto or have multiple returns in a func
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by panax 5y ago
I-bonds are better, currently yielding 3.54% (limit $10k/person/year) This blog post is projecting that the rate might increase to above 7% for I-bonds next month, if that is the case then wait until November to buy them: https:&
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by panax 5y ago
I won't buy a car if it has bluetooth or cellular connectivity, but that is getting harder to find. I want that shit air-gapped. Someday I might have to just rip out the media head and telematics unit after buying it if I can't fi
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by panax 5y ago
> Their advertising sends people to dedicated landing pages where they can be tracked through the site and measured if they convert. But how much of this is selection bias and how much of it is really having an impact? This reminds m
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by panax 5y ago
An infinite number of tests yes, it is like trying to find the best possible predictor of a source. No statistical test can prove that a source has full entropy and uniformly distributed, only disprove it. These tests are too often misused
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by panax 5y ago
$3k per ton seems quite high and if so would make even current direct air capture tech at $500-$600 per ton a bargain.
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by panax 5y ago
They are probably still going to be relatively good, just be sure to avoid margin debt, options, etc, play it safe and expect lower returns.
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by panax 5y ago
This reminds me of this report from 2002: https://www.wwf.fr/sites/default/files/doc-2018-10/lpr_livin... "the world’s ecological footprint will continue to grow between 2000 and 2050 from a level 2
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by panax 5y ago
In security the forward problem isn't as useful - adding security features/crypto is easy but probably not going to be helpful on its own. We use threat modeling and the security mindset. What is the easiest way for me to break th
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by panax 5y ago
That is a great perspective and sounds like Ben Graham's concept of margin of safety in chapter 20 of the Intelligent Investor. Apply that to your investments and find businesses that have a margin of safety and have considerably more
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by panax 5y ago
I am certain they will be able to deploy that capital far more effectively than the government would and will create much more value to society.
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by panax 5y ago
Also Chevron is only a very small part of their portfolio. Another way to look at this is that Berkshire currently only owns $2.4 million of Chevron stock while BHE is investing $18 billion of their own money this year alone to build transm
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by panax 5y ago
The article misses the point here. BHE (Berkshire Energy) is actually heavily based on wind generation and investing heavily in renewables, more than most utilities in the US. They are basically leaders in this area: https://www.
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by panax 5y ago
I feel reasonably confident that we will probably continue to see decent gains over the medium term of the next few decades, barring major wars. But what is always in the back of my mind is just how long can human civilization continue this
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by panax 5y ago
It is still unknown whether or not amyloid plaques are actually a cause of Alzheimer's but... fragments clump together to form plaques, and once they reach a certain size they can become too large to be cleared from the brain and they
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by panax 6y ago
A despot may also pack the Supreme Court to change the rules, although the existing Supreme Court may prevent the court from being packed. I am curious what would happen if all the members of the existing Supreme Court were to suffer an unf
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by panax 6y ago
Yes this is known as Jevon's paradox and is not unique to these situations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox We can't simply just rely on improvements in efficiency to solve these problems.
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by panax 6y ago
Yes this has been proposed before by Bill Ackman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9XHKc22wGk
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by panax 6y ago
"since the major monetary upheavals of the late middle ages, a trend decline between 0.6–1.6 basis points per annum has prevailed" " Against their long‑term context, currently depressed sovereign real rates are in fact conver
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Global real interest rates and the ‘suprasecular’ decline, 1311–2018 (2020)(bankofengland.co.uk)
134 points by panax 6y ago|172 comments
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by panax 6y ago
I was not referring to any specific group of people. And you are right, there has been a great deal of attention and action. I think it is a healthy sign and may be a reason for cautious optimism, but this is a continuous effort and we need
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by panax 6y ago
The most chilling part is "But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the fir
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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)(press.uchicago.edu)
240 points by panax 6y ago|382 comments
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Hold the Line – A Guide to Defending Democracy(holdthelineguide.com)
2 points by panax 6y ago|0 comments
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by panax 6y ago
Here is some more criticism of the EARN IT Act supporting that https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/03/the_earn-it_a... Lindsay Graham has repeatedly sought to weaken encryption and mandate backdo
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by panax 6y ago
They're getting harassed too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mEpdfPJq6w https://mclynasforsheriff.com/pcso-corruption/
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by panax 6y ago
Try one night ultimate werewolf... except that kind of breaks the game
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by panax 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAW6VBWTiAA#t=36m ACE2 is also found in several other organs in which they are seeing multiple organ failure with this virus so it likely is can bind to them and contribute to damage in the
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by panax 7y ago
In this particular case they are using bits leaked from the nonce which changes with each execution, but they use lattice reduction after using these bits to generate hidden number problem inequalities[1-3]. They aren't exactly brute f

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