smabie

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1. 721.▲
   by smabie 6y ago

   Hi I work in the space email me if you want to understand my motivations
2. 722.▲
   by smabie 6y ago

   A company is just a group of people right? Like people talk about the plight of the Syrian people or whatever. What's the difference?
3. 723.▲
   by smabie 6y ago

   plight: "a dangerous, difficult, or otherwise unfortunate situation." Pretty sure a business can have plight.
4. 724.▲
   by smabie 6y ago

   No one is giving them money. They will just pay less in taxes. That 10bn is not lost money, assuming a fab would not have been built (which may or may not be a fair assumption) without the subsidies.
5. 725.▲
   by smabie 6y ago

   While not representative, I would imagine that for most millennial HN users, 2020 was their best year in terms of financial gain: roaring stock market, wfh and CoL savings, insane crypto boom, record level bonuses, etc. I do understand that
6. 726.▲
   by smabie 6y ago

   I mean that feels pretty simplistic. Like most things, it depends. There are many things that I could know or believe that affect the calculus. For example I might get promoted next year and make more money or whatever.
7. 727.▲
   by smabie 6y ago

   You can destroy the original meats pace version
8. 728.▲
   by smabie 6y ago

   You think Amazon would not be profitable if there were no counterfeits?
9. 729.▲
   by smabie 6y ago

   https://github.com/ynniv/vagrant-opengenera
10. 730.▲
    by smabie 6y ago

    I used to live in Tanzania and while none of the produce or fruit looks very good, it tastes maybe 10x better than anything in America. When I first moved there I was absolutely shocked by how good the fruits/vegetables and even corn t
11. 731.▲
    by smabie 6y ago

    I don't know anything about micro dosing, but how do we know this?
12. 732.▲
    by smabie 6y ago

    I believe those instructions do not work anymore. There's a project on github that will build an appropriately old ubuntu vm that runs open genera pretty well provided you have the source. You can also find the source tarball without t
13. 733.▲
    by smabie 6y ago

    well you could make the same argument for $14.99 vs $15. Regardless, have not been able to replicate this.
14. 734.▲
    by smabie 6y ago

    Heh, you have some fair points and probably some good stories. Hit me up, would love to hear more.
15. 735.▲
    by smabie 6y ago

    Exactly! Being a market maker means constantly interacting with counterparties that have more information than you. In order to be successful you must utilize the core information they do not have: you are in the center of the order flow. E
16. 736.▲
    by smabie 6y ago

    Job applicants for junior trading (market making) roles are often given similar questions. An example question might be: "Make me a market on the height of the empire state building." By this the interviewer means: what price woul
17. 737.▲
    by smabie 6y ago

    Also C-space sets the mark on Emacs.
18. 738.▲
    by smabie 6y ago

    Reviewing 10 lines is likely easier than reviewing 500 lines that do the same thing. Also something that is beautiful is not necessarily esoteric (though esoteric isn't really meaningful anyways. Chinese sounds esoteric to me just like
19. 739.▲
    by smabie 6y ago

    I don't think it's bad.
20. 740.▲
    by smabie 6y ago

    You have almost 0 context and you want to incite some internet mob to get some guy who you don't know fired? Why?
21. 741.▲
    by smabie 6y ago

    I mean, salaried jobs do pay you for 24 hours a day.
22. 742.▲
    by smabie 6y ago

    I feel like the experience should make you extremely cautious of using stupid tools to analyze your codebase, not the introduction of external code.
23. 743.▲
    by smabie 6y ago

    What sites do you enjoy that don't have a cookie warning? I feel like almost every site does, except HN ofc
24. 744.▲
    by smabie 6y ago

    I mean, not everyone uses the same things at the same amount.
25. 745.▲
    by smabie 6y ago

    The author of the article called one of the commentors a "duckling." so.. that's interesting.
26. 746.▲
    by smabie 6y ago

    Seems like you answered the question yourself. If you don't think it's a problem then it's not.
27. 747.▲
    by smabie 6y ago

    I mean it's pretty logical for a person to care more about themselves and their property than anything else.
28. 748.▲
    by smabie 6y ago

    Yes it can. Kelly can be applied to determine optimal leverage ratios. Assuming a risk free rate of zero, that formula is expected return divided by expected variance. so 10% expected return and 10% expected volatility, optimal Kelly is 10x
29. 749.▲
    by smabie 6y ago

    I have an old blog post about the subject: https://cryptm.org/posts/2019/10/04/vol.html Optimal over my time period was 2.99x, but the expense ratio was not accounted for.
30. 750.▲
    by smabie 6y ago

    I find both mean variance and Kelly to be very poor in practice due to the dependence on the expected return term. Like, if I knew that, I wouldn't be wasting my time with all this math! (half joking)