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by rvern 9y ago
It is really true. The money does come from somewhere, but instead of being the people he's selling to it's the people who would have reacted to the news of the vulnerability months later. These people are not being deceived or de
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by rvern 9y ago
He did not profit from it at their expense, though. The people he sold stock to were already going to buy stock at the same or worse price, just from someone else. There may be a good case to be made that he should have been required to dis
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by rvern 9y ago
Laws against insider trading should be abolished. The statutory prohibitions cause real economic harm by making markets less efficient, while there isn't actually anything immoral about insider trading. It's not fraud, it's a
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by rvern 9y ago
Who ultimately pays a tax burden does not depend on who sends the check to the government; it depends on the relative elasticities of supply and demand. The tax paid by people, wealthy or not, comes either out of consumption or investment.
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by rvern 9y ago
The measure to look at is consumption inequality, not wealth inequality. It has also increased (though it is harder to measure than income inequality, but see https://www.nber.org/papers/w17982.pdf ), but the progressiv
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by rvern 9y ago
Wealth and income inequality are only bad insofar as they have an effect on consumption inequality and leisure. (Another issue is that wealthy people may use their money to get politicians to pass laws that are harmful.) When people who are
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by rvern 9y ago
Taxes on capital gains are harmful and don't make sense. It would be more efficient to tax consumption and have no capital, estate, income, or corporate taxes. Scott Sumner has written many excellent articles about taxes on capital gai
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by rvern 9y ago
Why blame the W3C for developing XHTML 2 instead of blaming the browsers for not implementing it? XHTML 2 was the way to the Semantic Web. The point was to get rid of JavaScript, extend HTML and CSS and eventually replace them by XSLT and s
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by rvern 9y ago
Oops. I was wrong.
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by rvern 9y ago
> For example, you can't create a rule in uBO to allow only image requests from google.com to googleusercontent.com. Sure you can: google.com googleusercontent.com image block See https://github.com/gorhill&#x
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by rvern 9y ago
Gotta love unregulated markets indeed! Insider trading makes markets more efficient by moving the market price closer to the postdisclosure price. That is good ; contrary to Chesterton's fence, most market regulations with plausible-s
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by rvern 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)#Job_p...
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by rvern 9y ago
Likelihood functions, p-values, and the replication crisis : https://arbital.com/p/likelihoods_not_pvalues/?l=4xx .
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by rvern 9y ago
Mike Gerwitz on signing commits: https://mikegerwitz.com/papers/git-horror-story .
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Blind Empiricism(equilibriabook.com)
3 points by rvern 9y ago|0 comments
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Linux sandboxing improvements in Firefox 57(morbo.org)
276 points by rvern 9y ago|102 comments
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Living in an Inadequate World(equilibriabook.com)
1 points by rvern 9y ago|0 comments
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Brutalism and Antidesign(nngroup.com)
2 points by rvern 9y ago|0 comments
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Moloch’s Toolbox(equilibriabook.com)
3 points by rvern 9y ago|0 comments
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by rvern 9y ago
GNOME Builder uses gspell: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gspell .
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An Equilibrium of No Free Energy(equilibriabook.com)
3 points by rvern 9y ago|0 comments
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by rvern 9y ago
Yes, and use the correct units when setting max-width and line-height. This is good: line-height: 1.4; max-width: 30em; This is not: line-height: 120%; max-width: 700px; https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US&
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by rvern 9y ago
No: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3482 .
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by rvern 9y ago
A free market is a “market in which trade is unregulated by government; an economic system free from government intervention.”[1] Copyright is a monopoly enforced by the government on the use and distribution of an original work.[2] The too
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by rvern 9y ago
Specification: https://github.com/nextcloud/end_to_end_encryption_rfc/blob/... . Whitepaper: https://nextcloud.com/wp-content/themes/next/assets/files/Db... . Client-si
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Nextcloud Introducing Native Integrated End-To-end Encryption(nextcloud.com)
4 points by rvern 9y ago|1 comments
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Recessions often begin before the thing that caused them occurs (2015)(econlog.econlib.org)
2 points by rvern 9y ago|0 comments
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by rvern 9y ago
Long Bets is a good site to make a public statement but PredictionBook[1] or Metaculus[2] may be better to track predictions about things we argue about. Both sites calculate your Brier score, which is how you can know how well calibrated y
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by rvern 9y ago
Scott Sumner: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2017/09/how_do_we_evalu.... .
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Who Is Harmed by Insider Trading?(econlib.org)
3 points by rvern 9y ago|0 comments

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