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by pushrax 6y ago
Long term investors in stocks hope those companies generate value for others, producing profit, and that fundamental reasoning is why the stock should either go up or dividends be paid. Proxy capitalism. Money goes from everyone to the owne
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by pushrax 6y ago
You buy based on maximum expected value for your risk tolerance and then hope you don't end up on the low end of the distribution of outcomes. Example tail outcomes: - Anti-capitalist uprising destroys all records of ownership. - Massi
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by pushrax 6y ago
Indeed. The comments section shows the history; the author mindlessly corrected a non-error into an error. This looked like a decent summary at a glance but that issue is definitely distracting.
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by pushrax 6y ago
Implicitly they are arguing the value to people is low compared to energy consumption. They are sickened by the allocation of our limited sustainable energy production to this inefficient endeavour. Presumably a proof of stake system with e
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by pushrax 6y ago
> other fields where such principles aren't really applicable Statistics and reasoning are almost always applicable, and that's the extent science is applied to most fields. If you want people to act in an evidence-based way wi
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by pushrax 6y ago
What they're saying here: Some tech can be directionally utopian and some not. Various technologies lead us in various paths along the gradient of utility. Some tech is actively dystopian, when put in the context of social psychology.
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by pushrax 6y ago
The risk depends on your net worth and earning power, as you allude to. Your net worth might have low variance if the ratio between it and your car's cost is high. This is the most precise way to phrase the original recommendation. Don
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by pushrax 6y ago
Gas-fired humidifiers exist, though I'm not sure if you can get small ones easily.
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by pushrax 6y ago
Cold outdoor temperatures cause indoor humidity to get extremely low, because cold air can't hold humidity well. Today where I live, the relative humidity outside is around 50%, and temperature -5c. That puts the absolute humidity arou
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by pushrax 6y ago
That's a good point. So more precisely, at any instant your current risk is capped. I think that's more important, since it defines your worst case outcome. You could keep buying new cars, and after the 20th one is stolen go bankr
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by pushrax 6y ago
All of my non-mechanical car damage has been either from someone else's driving or while the car was parked. The last one involved a guy who had a seizure at the wheel and barrelled through a red light in a truck. There wasn't any
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by pushrax 6y ago
Though if you have any financial assets to use as collateral, you can get cheaper leverage elsewhere. Then you don't need to buy an insurance contract with negative expected value, for a capped risk that you can tolerate out of pocket.
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The part about driving skill is definitely just wrong, there are many reasons why cars get damaged. Though I agree that it's way better to drive cars that are cheap enough to repair or replace out of pocket. Insurance companies make mo
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As far as anyone knows, catnip is completely nontoxic to cats, but ethanol certainly is toxic. Cats also simply don't like the smell of alcohol. Eating very large quantities of catnip can give them gastrointestinal discomfort though.
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by pushrax 6y ago
The post above is explicitly not advocating attempting to cut costs to $0, but to consider survival time when evaluating expenses. The extreme example is just useful for projecting an intuition of the relationship between spending and survi
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by pushrax 6y ago
There's another useful way to look at this mathematically and practically: survival time. If you cut costs to nearly zero, you can survive nearly infinitely. There are plenty of small companies that serve a small market and last for de
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by pushrax 6y ago
Apple's 3.5mm audio dongles are honestly very well engineered and they're selling them at an uncharacteristically reasonable markup. Great DAC implementation. I use mine all the time. I just don't believe most people think th
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by pushrax 6y ago
Wireless headphones are an e-waste nightmare (in particular Airpods, designed to never be disassembled). When used with a mobile phone, their convenience is incredibly minor, and for me is more than offset by the need to keep them charged.
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by pushrax 6y ago
In other words, the helium is used to move heat around, and isn’t lost. It’s like the refrigerant in your air conditioner, except that it needs several stages of pre-cooling. Initial cost is high but running it should mostly just incur ener
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by pushrax 6y ago
BMW charged $80/yr for a feature that used to cost $300 total. They since reversed it and now offer the feature for free (i.e. back into the initial cost) due to backlash.
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by pushrax 6y ago
We have had passively cooled high performance devices for a while. M1 Macs are a great step, but it's more useful to compare them with previous gen mobile devices (iPad Pro 2018 ran faster than the 13" MBP at the time). Bringing A
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by pushrax 6y ago
Carmack famously also has declared "I would rather have magic software over magic hardware" - the context being that we're using current hardware to a small fraction of its potential. Still, I feel there's a lot of softw
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They probably see that most people don’t want to deal with setting up their own build, and want to make adoption as easy as possible. Though they should definitely make it optional.
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The parallel there would be giving away @mozilla.org addresses. @firefox.com to me feels somewhere closer to @gmail.com, both being products, not companies.
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Sounds very plausible from the outside. Also implies a widely varying experience with the program; levels of promotion politics must vary across the company, and levels of recognition for anyone's particular project must also vary.
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The major barriers to competing with Google/Amazon/Facebook etc are not regulatory hassles, by far. Even in highly regulated industries, like space launch vehicles, the additional cost of compliance over your own due diligence isn
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by pushrax 6y ago
The whole point was that it was free. I’m not aware of anyone choosing CentOS over RHEL because of the governance structure. The feature set of CentOS directly depended on decisions by Red Hat anyway.
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in /etc/lynx.lss or wherever lynx.lss is installed on your system.
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I think it's also worth noting that this is specific to (common) CPU architecture where cache is sufficiently big and orders of magnitude faster than main memory, and where main memory reads and writes have similar cost. The tradeoff i
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Right - I suppose any large associated data that does not need to be searched can be malloc()'d (via standard or fancy allocator) and you just store a pointer. Or if the other data is relatively small, just in another array. One case w

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