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by scottmsul 7y ago
This is incorrect. You agree to trade because you value the food (and eating the food) more than the money. The store agrees to trade because they value the money more than the food. Each side is more satisfied after the trade than before.
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by scottmsul 7y ago
Real life wealth distributions have a very interesting property not shown here. The "random give/take" always ends up with an exponential distribution, which models real life for about the bottom 99% and doesn't have any
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by scottmsul 7y ago
I read through much of this book as a fun hobby/side project. I felt at times this was a book written by a genius for geniuses... For example, there's a chapter on numerics. Simple, right? PG's "example" was a full
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by scottmsul 7y ago
I've lived in Boulder for six years now, favorite hike is Long's Peak but it's ridiculously long and strenuous. Some good gems that are not as crazy and out of the national park are the Brainard lake area and the Arapahoe gla
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by scottmsul 7y ago
While not a unicorn, this could potentially succeed as an indie-hacker sized project. One potential business strategy could be a high-level information hub - a weekly blog + podcast for example. Each week look at a different drug or illness
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by scottmsul 7y ago
This list is hopelessly optimistic but that's part of the fun. If only one of these happen I'll consider this list a success. I remember in 2010 I was sure we'd have full self-driving in all new cars by now since Google had t
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by scottmsul 7y ago
It wouldn't be the government but the CCP. The CCP pretty much has ultimate authority on everything, so there's probably some close ties between people in Bitmain and people in the CCP that don't exist with MicroBT. Also a lo
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by scottmsul 7y ago
Still seems a bit far from replacing jet engines? This article was going on about fuel emissions in the entire aviation industry, this is just an electric propeller. Anyone know how far we are from electric jets? Is such a thing even possib
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by scottmsul 7y ago
I can't help but wonder if the "Golden Years" is just selection bias. CEOs who are under-performing years 6-10 will get fired or step down, and only the really good ones will make it to 11+ years.
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by scottmsul 7y ago
Everyone here's talking about Uber, I would guess most of the unintended consequences will be less visible. Smaller companies, freelancers, independent contractors, consultants, that whole ecosystem might undergo a chilling effect.
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by scottmsul 7y ago
Radar spoofing, it's mentioned in the second link. But the author admits it's only a guess.
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by scottmsul 7y ago
I think there's probably something to the UFO phenomenon. However I'm convinced Bob Lazar is a fraud. It's a tricky case because certain parts of his story are verifiable, like that he worked at Los Alamos and that his friend
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by scottmsul 7y ago
> The central banks normally determine only the short term interest rates (up to 3-6 months). But if the short-term rates are manually set by central banks to be artificially low, wouldn't that be the primary driver behind negative
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by scottmsul 7y ago
My understanding is that interest rates were cut originally in order to provide a "safe landing" instead of a "sharp drop" after the last economic crisis (and that they were left low since then). If interest rates are im
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by scottmsul 7y ago
I was physics/CS undergrad and did very well academically. I didn't really take notes much though. The strategy that worked for me was to read the book ahead of time, then the lectures were more to help digest material I was alrea
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by scottmsul 7y ago
I thought only income could be taxed? If you have valuables just sitting there, how can they be taxed? Obviously if you sell them there might be capital gains, but not before?
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Should I Fire an Employee Who Lied to Me?(reddit.com)
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by scottmsul 7y ago
I taught myself Dvorak my first year in undergrad. It definitely felt easier to type, but as soon as I went to physics lab I realized I couldn't use the lab computer! I have stuck to Qwerty since then. When your children go to school,
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by scottmsul 7y ago
Reading it I can't really sympathize with the author too much. Having affairs doesn't speak much to her character. Neither does staying home and pretending to be on Skype. Because of that I'm somewhat skeptical of some of her
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by scottmsul 7y ago
I'd be much more afraid of a government cracking down on gossip than a little gossip...
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by scottmsul 8y ago
If you put a negative mass and positive mass side by side and release from rest, they will accelerate indefinitely and break conservation of energy. Of course science should be open to any possibility, no matter how strange. But I feel the
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by scottmsul 8y ago
> SpaceX can take far more cargo to space, but Rocket Lab is pitching its nimbleness and low-cost as ways to give new customers access to space and to do so on a more convenient schedule. Weren't small low-cost launches the original
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by scottmsul 8y ago
In cosmology, there's a parameter called "curvature". If the curvature were slightly less than 1, the topology would be "closed", meaning it would be finite, and traveling in a straight line ends back where you star
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by scottmsul 8y ago
> Why are certain things getting so much more expensive? I too would like to know the answer to this question. I suspect it may have to do with low interest rates and easily available credit. For example, if buyers are willing to get a 5
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by scottmsul 8y ago
A cool idea would be to split the class into groups where they pass around a piece of paper and can add their group's block and pass to the next group.
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by scottmsul 8y ago
This is my all-time favorite Haskell resource: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell Just jump to the bottom and go through as many pages as possible. Going through Functors, Applicatives, and only then Monads puts eve
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by scottmsul 8y ago
Exactly. Why replace one government mandate with another? Let the company decide its own objectives, instead of "must maximize returns for shareholders" or "must give employees a voice of x%". If it worked in the 80s, wh
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by scottmsul 8y ago
I was a physics TA in grad school. I was very good at explaining solutions to problems, so of course during exam reviews I would get big crowds to watch the explanations. I was also somewhat aware of this principle, so during a review I was
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by scottmsul 8y ago
Scores are defined such that 100 is always the current average. But you can compare results to the actual questions today from a decade ago, and see what IQ people today would have gotten back then. This tells you how much IQ has drifted. I
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by scottmsul 9y ago
> Out of the 10,000 news stories you may have read in the last 12 months, did even one allow you to make a better decision about a serious matter in your life, Yes, there was an article on HN a couple weeks ago. Pork treated with nitrat

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