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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Ed Thorp's book had an entire chapter explaining that "Joe Sixpack" is poor because he spends all his money on beer and cigarettes. A similar narrative emerged in the British press during Ireland's great hunger. It'
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If we allow lies to be spoken in our presence, we are complicit. https://www.c-span.org/video/?10449-1/doublespeak
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"In a subtle and deadly way, the dictator can dirty enough people up to make them all complicit in his rule, or I suppose her rule". C. Hitchens (2005). "Why Orwell Matters"
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Read the Ebay stalking indictment. They were the B team with extremely limited operational capability. Now imagine they had any of the following, which are all for sale: * Real-time location from your cell provider * Real-time AirBnB book
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> Facebook had pretty significantly different reputation in 2014 That's not really true. Hipster antitrust wasn't a thing yet, so people weren't talking about it at your neighborhood Starbucks. But serious people were ta
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People. They will track people, not consumers.
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Intel Breach Floods Internet, Mentions Backdoors(tomshardware.com)
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If you haven't yet, read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Names
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Your hostility is a little weird. Maybe you think *.gov are worse and should be mentioned before Google. That is a legitimate position to have. On the other hand, Google drove surveillance vans all over the world, hoovered up people's
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Try to avoid generic phrases like "causing harm". "Google is the champion of circumventing long established norms, such as the prohibition on wiretapping, and evading responsibility for doing so" says a lot more than &qu
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> I actually ended up writing my own just to gurantee a stable interface. Yeah, I do the same. Just write a thin wrapper and hook torch in the __init__.py. But ragging on pandas isn't cool. Pandas is probably the most important fa
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Depends on the context. If you want direct access to the hardware, you'll typically attach IC hooks to the SPI chip itself, and read/write with flashrom. It's almost always a chunky soic-8 package. https://librebo
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Serious question. Why are we still using UEFI? From an end-user perspective, Coreboot+$PAYLOAD >> UEFI.
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Today I learned: the idea that a corporation can commit a crime is a very new one. [1] People commit crimes, not companies. [1] William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 464 (1765) (“A corporation cannot commit treason or fel
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This is another example of the US backsliding on what it has historically claimed as its competitive advantage: efficient markets, a lack of corruption, and rule of law. For the people out there claiming that this development is an exclusiv
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Every field has "the fundamentals," and mastery of the fundamentals is what separates the exceptional from the merely good. John Nash's "Non-Cooperative Games" has a grand total of 5 references in its bibliography.
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https://www.wired.com/2012/06/torvalds-nvidia-linux/
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I have this theory, supported by anecdote alone. In the US there is a "scam premium". The scammier a business, the higher the multiple. Fabbing is decidedly unscammy. So according to the theory of scam premiums, everything assoc
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TLDR: divide money salary by local price of big mac, and compare big-mac denominated salaries.
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You make a good point. NYSE fees do not represent the full cost of intermediation for cash equities. But my core point remains: the cost of intermediation in the financial sector is 1-2 orders of magnitude lower than 30%. I don't thin
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Let's say the US introduced a rule that required Uber to route an order to any "venue" with a "better" price. Litigate the details of "better" and "venue" later. Do you seriously believe that no
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Weird. That's exactly what stock exchanges said before Reg NMS forced them to route orders to each other. One way of getting drivers more money is to de-fragment these marketplaces through compulsory order routing rules.
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That is not a fair characterization of the discourse. There are a lot of people arguing that "platforms" like Uber are capturing too large a fraction of the economic surplus created by transactions on the platform. 30% for matchin
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Semi-related question. Do you think that: (a) It is self-evident that Uber and Walmart workers are reasonably compensated, because they agreed to their wages in a market transaction; or (b) There are structural forces that compel Uber and W
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> prohibit me from doing that As far as I can tell, no one is talking about prohibiting temporary contract work. What most people seem to be saying is, you shouldn't be able to pretend that people are temporary contract workers when
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Sorry that my sarcasm wasn't clear. The idea that people enjoy being marginally attached "gig workers" is absurd. Talk to an Uber driver. If they aren't scared that you are a spy from corporate, they will tell you what
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"Gig workers want both flexibility and benefits." Times have changed. People don't want stable jobs anymore. That's why the industries where workers have a modicum of power (law, medicine, finance, tech) are dominated
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> the UK starved their own people at home in Ireland Pretty sure the Irish see the British as foreign colonialists who exported all their food, causing the great hunger.
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Amazon has a research group it unironically calls the "1492 project". It turns out that the colonial frame is actually useful for predicting behavior, and should be kept for precisely that reason. Tech companies invade spaces with
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Large monopolists like Bell are basically non-governmental tax authorities. Tax-funded research can be effective, but it can also be horribly ineffective. It is worth observing that the quality of DoD acquisitions and public-funded R&D

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