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The Somali Shilling: a proof-of-work fiat currency(jpkoning.blogspot.com)
2 points by pliny 10y ago|0 comments
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by pliny 10y ago
To the extent that a human is otherwise deterministic, a coin toss is too. You have plenty of noise in the inputs that determine your actions by way of brain, even without coins, but it's still the state of your brain + those inputs th
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by pliny 10y ago
Criticism against governments by former governors should and is taken more seriously than criticism by some joe who's never had to wrangle a bureaucracy.
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by pliny 10y ago
>This is obviously a talent acquisition in more ways than one (the Kaggle team
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by pliny 10y ago
Where did all the washing machines go? Did they destroy them? If all those places sold their washing machines when they went out of business then the capacity for doing laundry was conserved.
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by pliny 10y ago
TickData[1] are cheap and good for US data, I have had bad experience with them for EU data. They have a minimum of (IIRC) $1K but you can get a ton for that. Some exchanges offer free historical data, for instance BM&F BOVESPA[2], trad
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Book of Bad Arguments(bookofbadarguments.com)
3 points by pliny 10y ago|0 comments
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by pliny 10y ago
>It does not require a great deal of imagination to understand that a large corporation and single prospective employee are not equal parties. If you fail to get a job, you will starve. If Comcast fails to hire you, they most clearly wil
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Killing Animals at the Zoo(newyorker.com)
1 points by pliny 10y ago|0 comments
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by pliny 10y ago
When you put it like that, it does sound very unpleasant.
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by pliny 10y ago
>If he chooses not to participate in the program, Abrams must pay an extra $50 per month toward his premium. Is he paying $50 more for not participating, or getting a $50 discount for participating? If it's the latter (Anthem insura
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by pliny 10y ago
Yes? Obviously. It's an analogy.
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by pliny 10y ago
>Ethically, this is a really frightening argument. Same argument with different words: We have to have people hungering to death to provide a disincentive for population growth. Not to endorse GP's point, but people move to places w
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by pliny 10y ago
Honesty is a function of intent (being honest means acting in good faith), so "unintentionally dishonest" is an oxymoron. Perhaps GP meant "misleading", but he said "dishonest" which implies intent to deceive.
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by pliny 10y ago
>If you think of it that way you can pretty much equivocate capital and income tax They are equivalent. Income is only good for consumption and investment (which is just deferred consumption), so if you tax income and you also tax everyt
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by pliny 10y ago
>The idea that you work hard and pay your income taxes, while I live off your enforced kindness, doing nothing by choice, is untenable. If a universal basic income is to be legitimate, it cannot be financed by taxing Jill to pay Jack. Th
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by pliny 10y ago
If you know the password in allcaps, then you know it in lowercase, so why would that matter?
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by pliny 10y ago
Cathy's use of 'problematic' seems to paper over any need to actually go into an analysis of cost and benefits of using statistics and statistical learning in sentencing, personal banking etc. In the business of making credit
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by pliny 10y ago
Many orders of magnitude in Base 1.01
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by pliny 10y ago
>In my mind, college exists to prepare a pupil for a given field and if said pupil for any number of reasons cannot do that upon exiting that institution, why should they pay for it? Because that was the agreement they made with the inst
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by pliny 10y ago
I don't see the hypocrisy here, they're not taking a principled stand in favour of immigration by threatening to boycott the UK if they stop allowing immigrants, they're warning the UK that their business there may be unprofi
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by pliny 10y ago
Not GP but: >How do you tax companies which rent their office/production space? You don't, you tax whoever owns the land they rent and the landowner will charge rent commensurate with the expenses he incurs (including tax) by o
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by pliny 10y ago
They are the same. If energy is the only input to making a solar cell (the worst case) and the cell costs x Wh then the market price can't go below x * ($/Wh), so it pays back when you produced x Wh (thus not buying x Wh from the
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by pliny 10y ago
>The risk is the business uses capital to acquire stock and defend against these attacks which is the right tactical thing to do. The right tactical thing to do is for the company to manipulate it's own share price, so that after ne
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Smugglers Secretly Repairing Russian Roads(themoscowtimes.com)
3 points by pliny 10y ago|0 comments
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by pliny 10y ago
>shouldn't it be roughly 50% gaining and 50% losing 1) They aren't trading against each other (they're trading against professional investors) 2) When you trade randomly you should expect to lose money (paying fees, paying
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by pliny 10y ago
If they have (A,B,C,D) = (0,1,0,1): A sees 1+0+1 -> guesses (2+0)%4 = 2 (wrong) B sees 0+0+1 -> guesses (1+1)%4 = 2 (wrong) C sees 1+0+1 -> guesses (2+2)%4 = 0 (wrong) C sees 0+1+0 -> guesses (1+3)%4 = 0 (wrong) EDIT: This is tw
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Interview with Charles Koch(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by pliny 10y ago|0 comments
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by pliny 10y ago
It's viable because it allows you to sell electricity that other people are paying for, in return for money that you get to keep. This is harder for the company itself to do, because if they just hire people to go into libraries, unive
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by pliny 10y ago
Lots of people have access to other people's electricity, often in conjunction with access to other people's hardware.

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