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by tanderson92 7y ago
On a slight tangent, has anyone ever looked into the etymology of the modern term troll? There hasn't been too much serious scholarship that I can find on the term, seemingly arising in mid-1980s newsgroups. But, I did find this which
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by tanderson92 7y ago
This is a good point.
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by tanderson92 7y ago
That's not yet proven, especially if IRC was a viable (open) technical stack to build on top of. Your argument also applies without modification to the following excerpt from Wikipedia: > The classic example of rent-seeking, accordi
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by tanderson92 7y ago
Soros' position in the market doesn't necessarily express an opinion that Lyft is going to lose value. He is being paid by Icahn to facilitate the transaction, and so a reasonable goal, that he apparently pursued, is to minimize e
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by tanderson92 7y ago
Exactly. And as for why Icahn wants to sell -- well, he's a pre-IPO investor and might not want to stick around to settle for a public market price in 6 months when there is also possibly demand for Uber shares.
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by tanderson92 7y ago
The loophole that Soros and Icahn used is like being able to say you never cheated on your wife because you did so (cheated on your girlfriend) before the wedding ceremony and not since.
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by tanderson92 8y ago
You should already have a full backup of your (private) RSA key anyway on an encrypted USB drive in a desk drawer somewhere, so you use that until you can provision a new Yubikey.
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by tanderson92 8y ago
Why do you not differentiate the interests, and hence credibility, of a perpetual trust and corporate-owned news organizations?
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by tanderson92 8y ago
As discussed elsewhere in this thread (search my nick), "no one" refers to frontrunning as encompassing both legal and illegal cases except the author of the definitive textbook on market microstructure.
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by tanderson92 8y ago
In fairness, it's a very Harris-y kind of chapter which cuts against how you might want to understand or talk about front-running with people outside the industry. (off topic: having met the guy I'm not at all surprised by how he
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by tanderson92 8y ago
FWIW, I have a copy of Harris' book on my desk right now and every explicit citation of Harris in Khan & Lu's paper appears to be accurate--supported by the text in Harris (Chapter 11). edit: > But that's basically the
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by tanderson92 8y ago
In even succint-er Levine-y terms: its not about fairness, it's about theft.
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by tanderson92 8y ago
If Capitalism is ownership and control by individuals, and socialism is ownership and control by workers (but not via their collective will as expressed through democratically-determiend state action), then what is Norway? I guess if you de
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by tanderson92 8y ago
I used this too, it was great and works flawlessly. I found the author's reasoning unconvincing (and not really argued at all).
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by tanderson92 8y ago
I understand your critique much better (and agree more), thanks for clarifying.
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by tanderson92 8y ago
> The industrialized countries are already so poor that the birth rates are so low they are rapidly going extinct. Country wealth and birth rates are not positively correlated, and due to immigration, countries can have positive populati
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by tanderson92 8y ago
I basically followed drduh's guide mentioned above. In particular, for the touch feature there is this subsection: https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide#touch-to-authenticate See also: https://develope
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by tanderson92 8y ago
I don’t do that and it wouldn’t be useful for me personally, but I’m just a single data point. What's much more important for me is the underlying capabilities -- a key which supports rsa4096 is great, a key which supports curve25519 i
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by tanderson92 8y ago
I also have configured my Yubikey 4 to require a physical touch for every SSH auth attempt even in GPG-for-SSH. The PIN stuff also carries over to my knowledge -- at least, I need to use my user PIN to unlock my SSH key for the first attemp
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by tanderson92 8y ago
For a different approach (this approach is mentioned briefly at the beginning of the post, and dismissed with "I did not like that very much"), see also drduh's Yubikey guide: https://github.com/drduh/Yub
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by tanderson92 8y ago
> 1) Don't plan on renting your whole life because inflation will catch up with you. It seems like in your framework (point (2-3) of the first grouping) this is not true as long as your annual rent is less than 3-4% of required cap
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by tanderson92 8y ago
If you believe that democracy is a good feature of government, then policy outcomes (such as, arguably, the existence of billionaires) which threaten the effectiveness of that agreed-upon-good are failures. This is not saying that that whic
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by tanderson92 8y ago
Right, we certainly would never have a global credit crisis, blowup, and ill-justified austerity based on rigorous quantitative financial economics. On the topic of the article: The desire to focus on questioning whether a framework for eco
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by tanderson92 8y ago
This is why pass-tomb was invented.
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by tanderson92 8y ago
nb: The algorithms that people use in practice (e.g. in MATLAB) are even more sophisticated and based on ARnoldi iterations, an entirely different set of algorithms, through the ARPACK set of numerical routines.
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by tanderson92 8y ago
Not just the author has access; the drafts of the Infamy speech are public: https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2001/winter/c... You can view the handwritten edits by Roosevelt in the archival
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by tanderson92 8y ago
The following hack makes it even more friendly, removing the annoying sci-hub sidebar so you can view it purely as a PDF. https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/28331-remove-annoying-boxe...
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by tanderson92 8y ago
https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-buzzfeed-news
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by tanderson92 8y ago
Of course "a lot" is the answer. That is precisely my point: for the audience of these slides, speed does matter. :)
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by tanderson92 8y ago
Yes but how many of the people who these slides were designed for are people doing cosmos simulations? That's the relevant quantity. It's especially funny because the author's area of research is in cosmos simulations. :-)

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