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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Why is social media problematic? Banks are networked and all speak SWIFT. Stock exchanges are networked and all speak FIX. Tier-1 ISPs are networked and all speak IP. Why can't we make that happen for information infrastructure of a ce
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There are like 15 stock exchanges in the US alone. For a long time there was a single network monopoly: NYSE. The reason there are now 15 exchanges and not 1 is because the SEC structures the market to incentivize "on the merits"
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I was making a general statement that the ideology of "maximize profits by any lawful means" is a profoundly antisocial one. I don't think many people actually subscribe to that ideology, but enough do that it's worth ch
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> Being lawful-evil person The word you are looking for is "sociopath". Oliver Wendell Holmes' "bad man" is an analytical tool, not a recommendation. There's nothing inherently evil about the mood-detection
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Are efficient markets some kind of Nash equilibrium that naturally emerges from bellum omnium contra omnes? If true, it is strange that we need government coercion to define and enforce property rights. Stranger still that we need governmen
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I think it is really unfortunate that your ideology limits your ability to see that (1) extreme algorithmic price discrimination can and will lead to all manner of social ills; and (2) there are regulatory regimes capable of limiting the mo
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[1] maybe. How do you counter a fast follower with a knack for getting onto your development network? Misdirection and rapid development would be my guess. [1] https://warisboring.com/collision-course-china-claims-f-22-a...
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Facts I looked up to understand this comment: * Bias in a bit-stream means any deviation from IID Bernoulli trials with p=0.5 * Von Neumann whitening addresses the IID Bernoulli case for p!=0.5 by looking at bit pairs. It takes the first b
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Henry Wiencek wrote a book about it. That particular work received intense criticism from other respected Jefferson scholars. It's a debate worth reading.
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Thomas Jefferson drafted the US Declaration of Independence, and was a particularly violent "slave owner" [1]. While context is important, it doesn't mean that a document with an unsavory origin story should be ignored for t
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The diffusion of technical expertise is an unalloyed good, but the article does not spend enough time exploring the interaction between dispersed expertise and concentrated market power. There are two very problematic phenomena: (1) plagiar
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Not so sure about that, given his claim that "it’s worth emphasizing that while 1 billion Americans may be impossible and absurd, there’s actually nothing hard about it."
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I read somewhere that "butter side down" people write pieces easy for the "butter side up" crowd to dunk on. The dunks amplify the message well beyond the attention the original author could muster.
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I don't think that's a fair characterization at all. To use a network analogy... Central Planning: [1 Figure 1a] Functioning Capitalism: [1 Figure 1b] Anarchy: [1 Figure 1c] The optimal design lies somewhere between the extremes.
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+1 most important C intro since K&R
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The Stasi parallels are frightening. Pasco: “Make their lives miserable until they move or sue.” Stasi: "The security service's goal was to use Zersetzung to 'switch off' regime opponents. After months and even years of
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Remember when Saudi Arabia tried to convince Moxie to help them intercept people's Twitter traffic? [1] [1] https://moxie.org/2013/05/13/saudi-surveillance.html
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"My team and I routinely pried into workers' police records, personnel files, credit histories, medical records, and family lives in search of a weakness that we could use to discredit union activists... Once in a while, a worker
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Andy Grove was right in 2010 [1], as he often was. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2010-07-01/andy-grov...
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The full article [1]. The coolest part about the original is its detailed description of the ad market structure. And, yes, the world would be a better place if markets with a network monopoly were subject to compulsory routing rules (like
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The origin of Operation Paperclip [1] researchers is not heartening for the "repression research drag" thesis. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
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Insider Trading Is Rife with No Regulators in Sight(bloomberg.com)
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I cannot stress this enough: talk to a lawyer. Do not ask HN how to structure an organization to evade local regulations.
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Here is a fantastic, though somewhat outdated overview [1]. Section 5 is most relevant to your question. The network topology today is a little different. Think of Level3 as an NSP, which is now called a "Tier 1 network" [2].
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Also known as a "rogue actor" in corporate newspeak. Take this stuff seriously.
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"[B]ills introduced to both houses of Congress... increase the NSF’s budget by US$100 billion over five years. The bills... would... allocate the new money to technology development, rather than to basic science." Quantum computin
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It would be cool if someone ported Lineage to this board. The hardware killswitches for the baseband, mic, and camera are amazing. But the linux desktop security model is super scary, especially on a phone.
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That is their assumption for global buyout as an asset class. You can grab their allocation assumptions at [1]. There is a "Download data" button on the page with the assumptions for a variety of base currencies. You can also ba
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> The alternative assets are less risky, because they have less market exposure If you're including PE in there, you are way off base. According to the assumptions in BlackRock's Aladin platform, global buyout has an equity be
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I think you accidentally made my point. If the real returns to investment in impoverished regions are so high, why are those investments not being made? The fact that your advice "changed [a] life forever" is strongly suggestive

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