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by sacado2 3y ago
> When is the right time to "re-balance" to more cash? When you look at your balance at the end of the year and your cash proportion happens to be below 20% instead of 25%. Rebalancing is pretty much standard practice nowadays,
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by sacado2 3y ago
Cash is there to be used when everything else goes to hell. The point is to always have enough money at hand to buy low (and to reduce the overall volatility of the portfolio). Browne's portfolio doesn't make sense until you start
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by sacado2 3y ago
These "rules" are for individuals, not for businesses or "wealth empires". I could be rephrased as "don't buy stocks on a margin to finance your retirement." (Not that I necessarily agree with him)
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by sacado2 3y ago
Different countries go by different laws I guess. Here in France the rule is "no plagiarism", and even if there is no legal definition of "plagiarism", the usual definition is "you must submit your own work and, whe
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by sacado2 3y ago
That's not what the recent justice decisions said. If I'm using my calculator to compute 12 55 and write "the result of 12 55 is 660", I own the copyright on that sentence. I'm the author. If I submit that sentence
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by sacado2 3y ago
> If the augmented-student pair performs at the required level, what's the problem? There is one legal problem with the AI-student pair: the student doesn't own the copyright on what was produced with the AI. Meaning, any work
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by sacado2 3y ago
> well-written C++ with all warnings and linters on and using smart pointers. But my hypothesis is that they do not stay very far apart in safety. Can C++ compilers + linters reliably detect all misuses of unique_ptr? Because that sounds
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by sacado2 3y ago
Back then (in 2004) the most popular programming languages were PHP, Perl, C++ and Java. Java was pretty focused (and even then, there was the distinction between int and Integer, between []int and ArrayList, etc.) but C++ and (especially)
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by sacado2 3y ago
Passive voice makes sense when the topic of interest isn't the subject. Look at those headlines about Kennedy's death: https://www.manisteenews.com/news/slideshow/10-front-pages-f... Most of these headli
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by sacado2 3y ago
Rules that apply to non-fiction (what I guess Hamilton is after) usually doesn't really apply to fiction. Those rules make sense (kinda) for non-fiction, but I would certainly not apply them blindly to write fiction.
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by sacado2 3y ago
Checks are still a big thing in France nowadays.
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by sacado2 3y ago
> Take your card, phone or watch and hold it to the terminal for one second and you're done. I'm not sure I'd feel safe if anyone could pay an amount above € 3000 after stealing my watch / phone / card and puttin
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by sacado2 3y ago
You seem to be conflating AI (in general) and strong AI. They are not the same thing at all. There have been industrial uses of AI techniques (I'm going by the definition from the 1956 Dartmouth workshop) for decades. And what's s
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by sacado2 3y ago
AI is not only a branch of statistics. Symbolic AI has nothing to do with stats.
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by sacado2 3y ago
Because they don't own it? AFAIK, ChatGPT's model isn't open source, so they seem to know data has some value.
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by sacado2 3y ago
Let's pretend you can. What would be the point? I'll crop it slightly differently, and copyright it too.
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by sacado2 3y ago
Editors do not own the copyright on the work they edited (unless the author explicitely licensed it, of course.)
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by sacado2 3y ago
Yet religions have a vision of the workings of planets (and the solar system in general) that is much further removed from reality than astrology. Yes, you could say it's a metaphor, a symbolic vision or something else rather than some
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by sacado2 3y ago
In theory NULL (or any such sentinel value, such as the infamous NaN is floatin-point arithmetic) makes sense because there are partially defined functions. Division being the most famous example, but most basic operations on lists share th
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by sacado2 3y ago
It's also the only widespread format that can deal with both rich text documents (à la HTML) and complex, structured data (what JSON is good for). It's golden when you need to add tons of complex annotations to a text document.
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by sacado2 3y ago
I think JSON and Markdown are very different, in fact. JSON is very strict. It won't let you have a comma after the last element of a list, for instance (which is very annoying in many cases). It won't let you add comments in any
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by sacado2 3y ago
"Preventing births within a group" is one of the definitions of a genocide.
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by sacado2 3y ago
Yes, one of XML's killer feature is that it can model rich text documents as much as ASTs. There's a reason why HTML never ever became JSON-ML, or why LibreOffice uses XML rather than JSON to save files. In a way, XML can be seen
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by sacado2 3y ago
XML schemas aren't part of the XML definition either, although, granted, they're an official recommendation too.
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by sacado2 3y ago
And the public upvote / downvote system make it even worse. Soon, you're reduced to a small subset of opinion because any slightly dissenting opinion will be downvoted to hell and hidden at the very bottom of the page. Not necessa
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by sacado2 3y ago
You're talking about late 90's-early 00's tech there (basically, LAMP architecture). It wouldn't be that hard to develop an open source, generic hierarchical forum engine that would be easier to deploy than an Apache+PHP
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by sacado2 3y ago
The AI aspect is interesting, it could solve the funding issue. AI scooping requires a (paying) licence. Or, the paying licence would be restricted to closed-source AI models, and it would be free for open-sourcec models, thus making them m
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by sacado2 3y ago
Reddit worked for years without hosting its own videos and even images. For many years, it was hosting nothing but structured text and links to external resources (which was its original raison d'être , in fact; discussion about exter
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by sacado2 3y ago
It's a great sysadmin tool, and great to write servers. It can be used for many other things obviously, but that's clearly its niche. And there's nothing wrong in being a niche language, after all, if the niche is big enough
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by sacado2 3y ago
What kind of things do you use it for?

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