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by stouset 4mo ago
The stock market isn't perfect and not everyone participates in it, and the data is extraordinarily clear that essentially nobody is capable of extracting a durable edge. Of the people who do beat the market in a given year, those who
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by stouset 4mo ago
I didn’t miss the point at all. Once you’re in, unless you want to sell your stake, you’re in. But the entire point is that at the time of your bet, you’re taking a position that’s inherently disadvantaged. If there was any more EV to be ga
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by stouset 4mo ago
Yep. And the refrain is always about “dangerous” behavior by cyclists, despite the fact that deaths and injuries to others from those on bikes are essentially a rounding error. The vast majority of what danger there is is borne by the rider
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by stouset 4mo ago
How exactly do you think the price is set at 65 cents, if not by the other market participants? When you win, who do you think is paying you out from the other side of the bet? When you lose, who do you think your money goes to?
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by stouset 4mo ago
To me the issue isn’t simply that you need to track the meta to be competitive, it’s that the game only worked when decks were less powerful. When games regularly took 10–20 turns, luck evened out pretty well even if you were a bit slow o
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by stouset 4mo ago
Jujutsu might be what you’re looking for then.
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by stouset 4mo ago
I think M:tG was ruined by this too. Back in the day, you could try out new things and play 10-20 turn games where both sides had winning chances. The odds that your opponent had anything approaching an optimal meta was zero. Now, especiall
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by stouset 4mo ago
Righteous judgment according to which set of beliefs? Only the delusional are certain about anything that happens in the afterlife.
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by stouset 4mo ago
GGP asserted that if I participate here, where emoji are forbidden, that implies they aren’t as useful as I think they are. I provide equally ridiculous examples of how engagement in a venue that restricts things has no bearing on whether o
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by stouset 4mo ago
It seems you understand my point.
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by stouset 4mo ago
> forcing prospective academics to pledge alegiance to the American woke left This is utter fantasy. You are making a completely separate argument.
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by stouset 4mo ago
People surely thought a similar sentiment about spaces between words and punctuation.
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by stouset 4mo ago
You choose to participate here instead of having face-to-face conversations. Does that mean that face-to-face discussions aren't useful? I walk on sidewalks where cars are prohibited. Does that mean that cars aren't useful? I driv
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by stouset 4mo ago
Because the social norms of this place currently discourage it. I also don’t use contractions in formal writing settings. Does that make them bad?
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by stouset 4mo ago
I explicitly called out different emoji sets conveying subtly different meanings.
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by stouset 4mo ago
Emoji (and their predecessor, emoticons) are IMO the greatest new feature for written language that has happened in generations. Eschewing them is certainly a choice you can make, but I personally think it's a poor one. Authors can now
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by stouset 4mo ago
This sub-thread was in reply to someone who stated that "'code is the product' is what IMO caused the downfall of this entire profession".
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by stouset 4mo ago
Despite the gallons of ink spilled on the subject I have not worked at a single place in my 30-year career where developers sat around perfecting masterpieces. I have worked at a never-ending list of places where people shipped the first
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by stouset 4mo ago
Maybe, but you could also look at it from another angle. Taking something that’s traditionally been hard and making it dramatically easier, better, and faster unlocks pent-up downstream use-cases. I’m sure it’s some degree of both selection
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by stouset 4mo ago
SF has other power generation besides Hetch Hetchy.
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by stouset 4mo ago
Even 15% for five years only doubles your original investment. To get a billion from a million you need to do 15% for fifty years, and that ignores inflation. Or 25% for thirty-one years. These numbers are ludicrous.
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by stouset 4mo ago
This is the key insight. Chant “mutually beneficial exchange” all you want but the system and its players have done everything possible to ensure that everyone at the bottom has as little leverage and as few alternatives as humanly possible
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by stouset 4mo ago
The statement that there are no ethical billionaires who’ve gotten there by creating something approximating a billion dollars of value can be trivially disproven through a single counterexample. The fact that her detractors have spilt gall
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by stouset 4mo ago
“This power must be scoped to the above four specific risks and there must be protective measures against political favoritism or arbitrary decisions.”
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by stouset 4mo ago
And have increased their standing to the world’s fourth largest economy. Absolutely terrible.
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by stouset 4mo ago
What were your criticisms, and what changed?
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I too know people who have been victims of the far-right culture that has festered amongst native-born Americans. This country was founded on the idea that we allow competing opinions and ideologies, even those we find distasteful. If peopl
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by stouset 4mo ago
Now the issue becomes opening the door only to the few entities that can be trusted. It is much easier and cheaper, and carries considerably less risk to simply not. This is one of those situations where multiple overlapping incentives all
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by stouset 4mo ago
Would Kagi be spending money on these partners if they weren’t relatively certain it was improving their product?

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