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by pheug 7y ago
Nikkei is a price index. Total return with dividends reinvested probably surpassed the 1989 peak a while ago, but it's hard to find that data on it.
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by pheug 7y ago
The bulk of that profit came from volatility spike, rather than simple directional price difference between strike and underlying ("delta"). VIX ( https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EVIX ) was at 14-15 just a mo
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by pheug 7y ago
> Who is the counterparty to these trades? Typically large trading firms, market makers. > When the market sentiment is negative, the number of these counterparties are narrow and dwindling That's why his $2600 initial investment
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by pheug 7y ago
When market crashes, volatility shoots up through the roof and significantly increases value even for such deep out-of-the-money options, by far more than the difference between strike and underlying price. Essentially he made most of that
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by pheug 7y ago
AQR disagrees with you: https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Research/White-Papers/Pathetic-...
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by pheug 7y ago
It's the latest HR innovation from Googleplex: doing your job is no longer enough, every employee is required to show off some "citizenship contributions" at the threat of getting their performance review docked one rating lo
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by pheug 7y ago
> My (limited) understanding of LambdaRank is that their model empirically minimizes NDCG, but does not have a strong theoretical backing for why it should work. That's akin to saying that minimizing cross entropy empirically maximi
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by pheug 7y ago
They could be using some third-party code/services with closed source or under proprietary/non-AGPL-compatible license, and thus they can't open-source those parts under AGPL, as AGPL demands, even if they wanted to.
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by pheug 7y ago
I needed to constantly move and tilt my head so much it hurt. My specimen also had some problems with blurriness, I couldn't quite put a finger on what it was exactly, just it was definitely harder reading things on it compared to my p
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by pheug 7y ago
Because Google pays them to do it and essentially to a large extent sponsors Firefox's development. Would you rather have Firefox die due to lack of funding?
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by pheug 7y ago
DDG doesn't track what you click on, so unfortunately you are not contributing much to improving its and Bing's search quality by using it instead of Bing.
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by pheug 7y ago
It's just you pretending search engines are simpler then they are. Noone's just ranking most clicked sites first - that's too naive and encourages clickbait. Clicks are an ingredient in the overall ranking system, which is ge
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by pheug 7y ago
Clicks are noisy and have their problems (especially clickbait), but as far as ranking goes they still blow out of water everything else you can use. Analemma_ is right on the money. We need more Lemon Pledge^W^W clicks! Speaking as someone
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by pheug 7y ago
They could, but if the court says the guy did nothing wrong after all, it would look rather bad on Uber to retaliate by banning him at that point against court's opinion and potentially opens them up for another lawsuit. Personally I d
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by pheug 7y ago
Social credit scores as seen on black mirror
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by pheug 7y ago
Uber would just ban his account for life if he pulls this, most likely automatically without any effort to investigate and definitely not going to any courts.
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by pheug 7y ago
A google engineer in search PA? Actually $157k salary sounds plausible, it's in the range of base salary for L4 band which is the most common level at google AFAIK. Of course, there should be like an extra $100k in stocks and bonuses o
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by pheug 7y ago
Yeah, these micro pcs are really nice, thinking of getting one like that myself. But rpi4 costs an order of magnitude less ($35), it's in a different price class I'd say.
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by pheug 7y ago
With Wireguard you set DNS server IP directly in the config file, it is not negotiable over the connection. So you can edit the config to set it to your pihole's ip. Or remove the DNS line altogether and then it won't touch your D
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by pheug 7y ago
With OpenVPN, yes, you'd get around 200 mbit tops - the thing is OpenVPN is single-threaded and a 1.5 GHz ARM core just isn't enough to cut it. I have an 1.8Ghz ARMv8 in a router and it peaks at ~240mbit, pegging a single core at
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by pheug 7y ago
The bad ones don't outperform and need marketing to find suckers. The good ones won't take your money even if you beg, don't need to advertise themselves and are rarely if ever in the news.
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by pheug 7y ago
Correct. It's even more complicated than just trusting a "no logs" policy. You have to also trust that noone with hardware access (rogue VPN company employees, datacenter people, law enforcement and intelligence services) int
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by pheug 7y ago
But don't you have to provide to them a cc card "just in case"? That's pretty strong link to your identity. Also the bandwidth rates all big cloud providers are charging are just extortionate
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by pheug 7y ago
But then you get no privacy benefits of VPNs: pretty much all cloud providers will be to tell to law enforcement, given an IP address, who and when rented it from them. And since you're not, I suppose, reselling your traffic to other u
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by pheug 7y ago
There's vidir in debian's moreutils package which does pretty much exactly that. Check all also all the other tools from that package: https://manpages.debian.org/buster/moreutils/index.html The package&
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by pheug 7y ago
But why go through so much trouble instead of just using Tor, which AFAIK gives you 3 hops right out of the box?
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by pheug 7y ago
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22my+user+agent%22 - check what the snippets say.
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by pheug 7y ago
>They're looking at how users use Google Search because the data's there This. Having worked in past life for one of their competitors, can confirm - what users click on (in SERP) is one of the most powerful signals for ranking
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by pheug 7y ago
Paid "Plus" plan and connecting to their dedicated P2P servers in Switzerland and Sweden. Definitely getting throttled by them to ~20Mbps while torrenting. Tried a competitor VPN - no throttling, torrenting at full speed. Glad I o
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by pheug 7y ago
Google pretty much knows (or can accurately estimate) exactly when a new document appears on the web and how many people are visiting it, they don't even need to rely on second hand social signals for this. They control the web's

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