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by thedevil 9y ago
My more pessimistic estimates put the losses at more than the FDIC had at the time and I have no idea what happens when the FDIC runs out of money. It probably wasn't rational but I was really scared.
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by thedevil 9y ago
I don't know much about crypto. I do know that 1) a payment system with transactions that take more than a few seconds and cost more than a few pennies is not a good payment system for most things. 2) I've never heard anyone talk
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by thedevil 9y ago
Yeah, I assumed that some large investors (e.g. hedge funds) would have someone skilled in accounting shenanigans and would make big bets to move the market to reflect the information that was publicly available.
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by thedevil 9y ago
Around 2008, I read some public filings by banks. I made only two back-of-the-napkin adjustments: 1) I combined off-balance sheet assets and liabilities into the balance sheet, and 2) I changed the expected % losses to approximately that o
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by thedevil 9y ago
> actually jewish-marxists plots Where did you see the word "Jewish". I didn't see it when I read the text, it's not in the relevant footnote, and I did a search and didn't find it. Regarding the Marxist part: I
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by thedevil 9y ago
I didn't see any link in the Economist, but I think this is the original source: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db293.htm
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by thedevil 9y ago
You're cherry picking the data to match your conclusions. To be fair, so is the article. And your "revealed preference" justification for cherry-picking sounds compelling. But I still disagree. When I was a teenager, I obse
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by thedevil 9y ago
The people in power have to fear losing elections. The system was specifically designed so the masses can force change without violence. Supporting terrorism to override that system is awful, regardless of how you feel about capitalism.
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by thedevil 9y ago
> Occupy and anti-Trump protestors should study and learn how that works. You see to have effective peaceful protests, there has to be a credible threat of extreme and overwhelming violence that will follow unless the government listens.
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by thedevil 9y ago
Note that China was a juggernaut up until a few hundred years ago. https://infogram.com/share-of-world-gdp-throughout-history-1...
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by thedevil 9y ago
* luck has more to do with results than we think * "focus on the process, which we can control, rather than the result" This is also well explained by Scott Adams: "Goals are for losers... try systems that improve your odds o
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by thedevil 9y ago
I'm just switching to regular wireless service and giving up the things I like about Google Voice.
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by thedevil 9y ago
Because of these, Alexa O'Brien, Microstopped, and a few other incidents I've seen on HN, I've become very concerned about Google's power over my life, arbitrary moral decisions, and lack of customer service. Within a w
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by thedevil 9y ago
While this came out today, Pence also made similar statements in the summer. https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/vice-president-pence-visi... Nonetheless, I think him repeating the claims a second time signals more comm
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Pence: “America Will Return to the Moon–and Go Beyond”(whitehouse.gov)
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by thedevil 9y ago
This shouldn't surprise anyone. It's basic psychology that should be taught in school. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-group_favoritism Edit: And it's something to keep in mind with politics. The othe
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by thedevil 9y ago
Somewhat tangential, but does anyone know why Russia likes the word "geopolitics" so much? Does it mirror a Russian word with a similar meaning? In my experience, it's used so much by Russian propaganda sources and so rarely
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by thedevil 9y ago
Slavery hasn't been a factor for a century and a half. Natural resources play a meaningful role, but there's plenty of poor countries with resources. And the indigenous people before didn't have a juggernaut economy from tho
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by thedevil 9y ago
Paul Graham claimed in 2004 that the winning candidate each presidential election is actually the candidate with the charisma. http://www.paulgraham.com/charisma.html Since then, Obama beat McCain and Romney and Trump beat
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by thedevil 9y ago
I was about to post the same. Last time I used this technique, I hit 3/3.
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by thedevil 9y ago
I was able to get this to work in the command line (after gcloud components update). This is an exciting feature! Thanks for the support! And thanks for all the good work on AppEngine! And thanks to other commenters too!
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by thedevil 9y ago
Thanks for the quick response! I'll double check them later today.
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by thedevil 9y ago
Me too. If anyone figures this out, I'd love to hear more.
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by thedevil 9y ago
Maybe. If I were the real hacker wanting to prove it, I'd maybe leak a few celebrities without previously leaked SSNs. I think at least one of them would unintentionally verify it for the public by getting upset and ranting on Twitte
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by thedevil 9y ago
If I were the real hacker, I would prove it by leaking information that wasn't already public. If I were someone pretending to be the real hacker, I would show a screenshot of SSNs that I could find with Google (e.g. Kim Kardashian, Do
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by thedevil 9y ago
I haven't read it either, just skimmed. Maybe I'm overly concerned. It's not devoid of math, but it's certainly very light on math. And the supply and demand isn't until chapter 8 while inequality is 1.1. But muc
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by thedevil 9y ago
> issues like inequality, globalization, and the most efficient ways to tackle climate change... > groups of students demanded an overhaul in how economics was taught, with less emphasis on free-market doctrines and more emphasis on r
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by thedevil 9y ago
This list is close to mine. I would also add: - Influence: the Psychology of persuasion - Selfish Gene - Emotional Design - Antifragile - How To Fail At Everything And Still Win Big
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by thedevil 9y ago
> as soon as the company raises prices to cover costs ... new entrants (and revived old entrants) would quickly come into the market Is it really that easy to create an Uber competitor once it's established a monopoly? If you'r
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by thedevil 9y ago
This made me wonder: What does it take to become a protected/victim group? Ugly and socially-unskilled people are not protected/victim groups even though their lives are harder. My current hypothesis is that the main reason that a

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