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by t_mann 5y ago
It's easier to have trust when there's less trust required, that statement should make sense without seeing it as an attack on inherent properties of a functioning society. And the reason that the financial system didn't brea
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by t_mann 5y ago
We may not be able to go completely "without trust", but we can signifiantly reduce the amount of trust required. For financial contracts that can actually make a lot of sense. There's an army of banking regulators in every c
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by t_mann 5y ago
If there ever was a contrarian move then it'd be for an 18-year-old to start nurse training now. Probably one of the last professions at all to be hit by automation, practically guaranteed demand for skilled labour and a hefty shortage
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by t_mann 5y ago
The site mentions something about Oxford-style tutorials, that sounds like it could come a lot closer. Also, simply having a good curriculum and materials to use could make it easier to provide quality in-person tutoring for whoever does th
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by t_mann 5y ago
There was an essay recently on HN on the merits of individual tutoring for children, in the spirit of Renaissance aristocrat education (not the exam-prep style tutoring that is common today). Projects like Khan Academy could make this extre
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by t_mann 5y ago
Thanks for this dose of reality for the previous poster. It always amazes me to what lengths some engineers can go explaining with extreme confidence all the reasons why they think a specific feature isn't possible, all the while being
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by t_mann 5y ago
Not pure-play reader, but shoutout to start.me, I've been using it for years now. The idea is to customize your one-stop start page (with to-do-lists, weather,...). I use it for 90% RSS plus some market data, it's actually my main
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by t_mann 5y ago
The headline makes me wonder - what ever became of Tesla's dream of an building a global atmospheric electric power network? Is it for commercial, physical or technical reasons that the idea seems to have been given up?
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by t_mann 5y ago
I'm almost tempted to say that you're wrong on both accounts, that vapourware doesn't get prolonged attention and that blockchain is pure vapourware. But to focus on the first one: homeopathy was invented in 1796 and is still
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by t_mann 5y ago
Sounds a bit like they might put you in the IT rather than the engineering department if you come in as a SE. Control is far outside the ballpark of a typical SE, unless you happen to have studied EE (which is arguably just another one of t
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by t_mann 5y ago
Sounds believable, but how many people successfully transition into those?
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by t_mann 5y ago
Those probably smell of cigarette smoke. Better get faux ones, you don't wanna scare them with too much authenticity.
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by t_mann 5y ago
Would be interesting to compare this across areas. My impression is that eg Finance (another popular destination for mid-career switches) is far more open in that regard. Experience, even if it's in a different field (as long as it&#x2
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by t_mann 5y ago
I totally wouldn't mind some hardware that lets me flip, turn, push or pull the flips, knobs, buttons, shades,... that I already have in my home in some programmable way that I can control. No way am I going to replace my perfectly fun
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by t_mann 5y ago
Yeah, quite impressive language to make the backbone of all your systems.
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by t_mann 5y ago
" Mother nature does not like working from home " Really? So mother nature doesn't care about the carbon output from commuting? The reasons for going back to the office are becoming more esoteric by the day. From 'serend
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by t_mann 5y ago
Maybe it's better to think of it as a team product. That being said, I'm sure there are people who could build something like that on their own by combining the right classes in a good engineering school.
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by t_mann 5y ago
Jane Street is a prop trading shop. I heard that they take tech seriously, but still impressed to see them at the front of HN with a tool like this.
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by t_mann 5y ago
Setting an algorithm loose on the stocks that you own in your employer is not a great look from a compliance perspective at all. And if you give it specific instructions like try to sell down my holdings optimally, that doesn't relieve
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by t_mann 5y ago
It can give us an indication of how the growth rate depends on size Except that what you've plotted there isn't the growth rate, but the absolute growth. Your argument for DK isn't convincing either, they claimed sth much s
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by t_mann 5y ago
Well, you tried something, next time try to make something that can't lose ordinary people money unexpectedly. A few notes: - The links didn't work in my mobile browser. - What I've seen similar platforms do is let users crea
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by t_mann 5y ago
Fun, probably not fact, but at least rumour: the general Slavic term for Germans, nemez/niemec is related to the term for a mute person (that part is true, look it up), and that's because the Slavic tribes assumed that what the Ge
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by t_mann 5y ago
Well, on-chain games might not get us back to this as much as people think, but they're definitely closer to it than 'normal' online games.
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by t_mann 5y ago
Wish I could downvote this. How many people even understand how compound interest on their bank account works? A conservative way of investing offered by mom & pop banks where I come from is through funds with capital guarantees (get th
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by t_mann 5y ago
Interesting analysis, especially the economics. Just a few thoughts: - My take was always 'Anything-to-earn' isn't a game, it's a job. And it's at least as old as WoW grinding farms. - A technical point: you actuall
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by t_mann 5y ago
I had no idea that was even possible, very cool tech!
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by t_mann 5y ago
The respondents said it did.
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by t_mann 5y ago
I don't wanna take any sides here, I just point out when someone reports their data in a questionable way.
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by t_mann 5y ago
And an efficient-market-PoV should, from an investor PoV, be put back on the shelve together with the other econ fairy tales like general equilibrium, rationality,... There's a reason funds prefer to hire STEM PhDs over economists.
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by t_mann 5y ago
Realistically, the only thing that's Wild West about it is the fact that it's effectively skirting regulations applying to financial products. The rest looks like the standard influencer-type business model.

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