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by piker 7y ago
It will be interesting to see how elastic the supply of healthcare services is in the US versus the social systems if a pandemic does break out. History has shown that when mobilized for a common cause, the US is a force even when compared
902.
by piker 7y ago
Might be a product of the generous bankruptcy system in the US. I.e., investors are rational in their willingness to take big risks because of the asymmetric payoff associated with highly-leveraged investing. It's a great system, but n
903.
by piker 7y ago
Note this is "Bitcoin Gold", not Bitcoin.
904.
by piker 7y ago
Listen to a few of Lex's podcasts (his own and his appearance on Joe Rogan) before you dismiss his interviewing style and/or tone. You may very well learn to appreciate it and his breadth of technical knowledge as much as the qual
905.
by piker 7y ago
It's obvious how much thought you've put into your first powerful question with each guest, and at least this listener greatly appreciates your tone and the philosophical elements of your podcast. Please keep it up. You've go
906.
by piker 7y ago
> the fastest fibre Hard to argue with that conclusion when there's only one option.
907.
by piker 7y ago
That's what "struck off" generally means in jurisdictions that have lawyers who are not barristers (i.e., members of the bar), such as the UK.
908.
by piker 7y ago
> arguably misleading Argue it then. Many readers will have never heard this name.
909.
by piker 7y ago
Evaporative coolers in low country South Carolina? Is there a more humid place on Earth?
910.
by piker 7y ago
> prices are usually excluding sales tax Which, if charged, is usually a fraction of VAT.
911.
by piker 7y ago
> a community dedicated to low-cost investing primarily via indexing Right or wrong, that must be one boring place. [Re: downvotes, The post was just intended to convey that the thesis of "put your money in the lowest cost index fun
912.
by piker 7y ago
> "You will never be hungry in China" Quite a bold statement, given China's recent history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
913.
by piker 7y ago
Is Intel a tech company? Your i7 this week is the same i7 you bought last week.
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by piker 7y ago
Perhaps the GP means fusion within the star and upon its collapse caused by gravity creates new heavier elements that wouldn't exist otherwise.
915.
by piker 7y ago
> But all this came to an end on June 7, 1954, when Turing suddenly died. (My own guess is that it was not suicide, but that’s a different story.) Interesting tidbit there.
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by piker 7y ago
No, that's generally incorrect. If your property is surrounded by others' private property in the US, an "easement by necessity" will generally be automatically granted which allows you access to your property through th
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by piker 7y ago
A false dichotomy. One third option: there are network effects at play in America that aren't at play in Europe. Consider the relative market shares of the iPhone. US: ~58%, e.g., Spain: 25%. [1] Thus, when one boots an iPhone in the U
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by piker 7y ago
> But the kids want to discriminate Nah it's just easier to have it baked-in as native functionality.
919.
by piker 7y ago
That strategy seems silly at first glance. All of these are so fact-specific and infrequent that the victim will not have committed them to memory and would be better served with a 116 + dispatcher to triage?
920.
by piker 7y ago
Before becoming too concerned with the fact that the author of this report is compensated based on the performance of the sponsoring fund's short position, one should note that it has been argued that allowing Enron insiders who knew o
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by piker 7y ago
> "It turns out if the seller publishes some list of probabilities and lies about them, the seller can make significantly more money," Elmachtoub said. Perhaps contrary to the author's point, the ability to reap rewards by
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by piker 7y ago
Monopoly rent-seeking plays a part. To compete for many/most of these matters, one generally has to have completed an expensive three-year stent at a US law school, passed a bar exam and be in good standing in the bar of the relevant j
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by piker 7y ago
> What people (seemingly) fail to realise is that neither Cloudflare is the Internet nor Voxility is a public infrastructure. Everyone realizes that. We're past relying on the First Amendment argument.
924.
by piker 7y ago
Reducing the subjective evaluation of the content of private citizens' speech. [Edit: Why would you down-vote? That's the legitimate interest on the other side of the balance. It's not an opinion on the merit of shutting down
925.
by piker 7y ago
> and we had Quantitative Easing where the Fed bought treasuries for a few years after 2008. And, in fact, the current Fed chair just lowered interest rates on recession fears. Not to necessarily disagree with your first points, but thes
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by piker 7y ago
Sort of like how the food service industry can work. Good cash but easy to get trapped. (EDIT: Fiverr is somewhat distinguishable because the skills gained are potentially transferable.)
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by piker 7y ago
A lot of the content here seems to be justifying breaching a law firm's security and disclosing sensitive attorney-client privileged information. Unlike some of the prior disclosures, there doesn't seem to be any allegation that t
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by piker 7y ago
What? Where did this theory come from? Haven't we learned recently that periodic fasting is better for you? And if you use skipping breakfast as a method of caloric restriction?
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by piker 7y ago
But the example is only performing vector operations. You could perhaps normalize the distances of a number of vectors with a softmax or something to produce a probability across a set, but what's being presented in the paper is the &q
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by piker 7y ago
Try C++!

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