smabie

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by smabie 7y ago
I’m not talking about legality, I’m talking about morality. What moral framework can we use to classify the moral status of unsolicited robo-calls?
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by smabie 7y ago
That’s nor a good moral justification. Most people using Tor are probably doing something illegal, but it wouldn’t follow that Tor should be illegal, would it?
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by smabie 7y ago
Well as far as a know there’s no commercial neural implant that will autocomplete forgotten words when speaking. When programming, it’s really not necessary to remember much of anything. It doesn’t hurt of course, but it’s not exactly what
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by smabie 7y ago
While Anki is great, I don’t see much value in using it for programming. I personally use it for equations and find it works very well. While remembering an equation is super useful, remembering APIs and stuff just isn’t. Intellisense solve
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by smabie 7y ago
While robocalls are annoying, what's the moral justification for making this illegal? If a person is allowed to call you, why can't a computer? Also the line is getting blurred recently, so it seems like a problematic distinction
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by smabie 7y ago
I really enjoyed mtg as a kid but played a few games recently and discovered I don’t really like it. I feel the use of mana makes the game slow and clunky. Moreover, a deck of 60 cards is a lot . My favorite card game nowadays is Gwent. Wi
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by smabie 7y ago
Are you like talking about failing to put a semicolon after an empty loop in C? Do you have an example of some C code in which the code compiled but is semantically incorrect that doesn’t involve empty loops?
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by smabie 7y ago
No, I mean, not being able to figure out that you're missing a semicolon is some first week programming type stuff. A professional shouldn't be missing semicolons in the first place (or ideally not using a language that requires t
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by smabie 7y ago
Well if you're missing a semi-colon in a Lisp program and can't figure it out then you really have some problems.
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by smabie 7y ago
If an interviewer asked you what you're hardest bug is and you mention a missing semicolon, he should probably just stop the interview right there.
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by smabie 7y ago
I mean, if no one was surprised the stock price wouldn't have moved a lot when the lockup ended. Clearly most everyone was surprised (including you), otherwise you and everyone else would have shorted Uber or bought some puts before th
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by smabie 7y ago
A good discretionary strategy for these sort of things is to do a long volatility options trade on the day lockups end. Either the market has overestimated the number of shares being sold or has underestimated it. Either way, you make money
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by smabie 7y ago
Why would you want to make it harder to buy currency?
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by smabie 7y ago
First of all, the market has not been exactly “up-up-up.” There has been massive volatility and drawdowns in the last year. Second, my analysis was from the beginning of 2018 to present. Using that data, the ideal leverage ratio is 2.99x. T
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by smabie 7y ago
Due to volatility tax [1], there’s an upper limit on how much leverage you can assume. This amount is a function of forecasted returns and variance: r/var(r). The larger this ratio is, the more leverage you can take on. In general, jus
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by smabie 7y ago
The problem is that gold is not a hedge against market risk, it’s simply (mostly) uncorrelated to equities. If you’re specifically trying to mitigate the possibility of a large market downturn, gold isn’t necessarily going to help you at al
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by smabie 7y ago
Yes. RH is lending these people real money to execute real trades. RH should be ashamed of themselves, this has the potential to be a existential fuckup.
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by smabie 7y ago
The expected value of such a trade is 19.2k. That sounds pretty fucking good to me. Of course, there’s some externalities not accounted for in that math.
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by smabie 7y ago
This isn’t true. Market returns are almost always going to be higher than the borrowing cost. In fact, I can’t think of a single hedge fund that doesn’t use leverage either through: shorting, borrowing, options, or futures. Leverage is almo
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by smabie 7y ago
It really depends, see my blog post on the matter (part 1): https://smabie.github.io/posts/2019/10/04/vol.html In short, assuming a normal distribution, your max leverage ratio should be the future expec
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Ask HN: Effects of lamictal on programming/problem solving
1 points by smabie 12y ago|1 comments