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by rmrfstar 6y ago
They should actually regress senator returns against Ken French's research factors [1] and measure the statistical/economic significance of the intercept and the volatility of the residuals. If I return 2% per year, but do so at 1
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
There is a lot to unpack, but here is one example. He holds out AIG as a world-leader to be emulated. In the same year he gave that talk, he attacked CFTC chair Brooksley Born when she proposed margin rules for OTC swaps. She made this pro
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
There's also his 1998 attack on Brooksley Born and her proposal to regulate swaps. This proposal would have likely avoided or mitigated the 2008 crisis [1,2]. If I made an error that big, it would take some huge new insight for my re
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Larry Summers is simply not credible. This is an "oh fuck things are about to get out of hand, let's try to insert ourselves into the debate so we don't get locked out" paper. Here is Larry Summers from his 1998 speech
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Don't build, operate, or maintain the infrastructure of the surveillance state. That's a big one. For what it's worth, here is a story from WW2. A B-17 came back from a run over Germany with a dud shell lodged in its fuel ta
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
This [1] from a group that usually investigates Russia's security services. [1] https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2020/05/31/us-law-e...
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
EMH is a mental-model of equilibrium, and is useful when used that way. Financial systems have multiple equilibria [1], so EMH "violations" come in two flavors: 1. Small deviation from equilibrium. This is where Renaissance Techn
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
If you just want to blend in with the crowd, you can use the tor browser without the tor proxy. They have invested a lot of effort crafting its fingerprint. Now that they have moved away from Firefox ESR, it shouldn't come with much o
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
> practitioners with strong theoretical backgrounds tend to dismiss this kind of paper as "merely" engineering This paper implements an architecture that will be out of reach for me for about 5 years. So, I ask myself "wh
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It seems that EDA tooling is one of the the major holdups [1]. [1] https://chinatalk.substack.com/p/huawei-banned-so-lets-invad...
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
> If your average line of code is wider than 80 characters, it's likely you have some other, bigger coding style problems In math-heavy stuff, lines tend to be longer. You are usually trying to convert one line of math into one lin
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
The US has the highest per-capita incarceration rate in the world [1]. US: 655/100k UK: 135/100K China: 121/100K Germany: 77/100K Iceland: 37/100K It feels like we are consuming just a little too much of the &quot
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Is your point that the New Yorker missed risks you do find meaningful, or that everything they pointed out is not meaningful to you and therefore 5G must be loved by all? Either way, it misses the point of my comment.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
In fairness, there are reasons [1] to be skeptical of 5G other than "it's a witch" or whatever the new theory is. I think these people have a vague anxiety that new technologies do not further their interests, because every t
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
I thought this was going to be a small 5G jammer. In 2013 someone was jamming GPS signals near the London Stock Exchange's data center [1]. The Economist's expert believes it was a truck driver evading employer tracking. My best
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> Criticism and scrutiny are always welcome Genuine question here. We have entered an era in which non-state actors like Facebook have power that was once the exclusive domain of governments [1]. Facebook understands this, and justifiab
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Moxie gave a nice talk about American action movies [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOMiAeRwpPA
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There's a monopoly angle here too [1]. I remember doing a face-palm when I watched "Gravity." The whole conflict centers around a cascade of space-junk caused by Russia shooting it's own spy satellite. In the movie, th
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
[1] is a good resource. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Private-Equity-Transformati...
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I know this is weak medicine, but Wiki is CC licensed. That means it can be forked if it turns out they are doing more than protecting people from harassment. For now let's give them the benefit of the doubt. It also has public change
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
> property rights are a human right I broadly agree with that statement, but it demands a definition of terms. Which property rights are human rights? Certainly, the right to a limited liability corporate form is not a human right. I t
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This is a reasonable jumping off point for someone newly interested in hardening a bare-metal Debian deployment. [1,2] are also quite good. [1] https://github.com/Whonix/security-misc [2] https://forums.whon
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Does Xen have an option like this? In this arena, advice for the "paranoid" has a habit of becoming conventional wisdom. [1] [1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/20/openbsd_disables_in...
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
I'm with you, but FAAMG sets the tone for the industry. There is a corporate Overton window, and Facebook is an important "thought leader".
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Great sentiment, but it's just not a workable position. These guys have massive resources at their disposal, and they will crush a handful of 10x'ers if that's what it takes to get what they want. For goodness sake, Facebook
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I can run an ssh server and serve rdp from localhost. It's free and reasonably secure. Why would I use Barrier instead? People use Dropbox instead of sshfs, so I bet there is a reason. I just don't see it.
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As with all questions constitutional law, it is not possible to make such a broad statement [1]. We are going to end up with some really weird law if we leave all of this up to the supreme court. At this point the dynamic is: congress gi
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Coin-Flip Capitalism(americancompass.org)
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Article just quotes 9 paragraphs from an Arizona opinion. Key Facts: 1. Plaintiff CDK sells a "Dealer Management System" which is some data portal for car dealers. Historically, CDK prohibited dealers from allowing third parties
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Instead of arguing about the semantics of "monopoly," it could be fun to ask "does YouTube have power that we as a self-governing people should regulate?" I think it does. Others disagree. Sometimes it's an intere

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