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by thedufer 5y ago
> they all tend to assume that imposter syndrome means that people are truly capable. Isn't that just what impostor syndrome means? It's not a syndrome to correctly identify yourself as an impostor. That's just "b
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by thedufer 5y ago
The big difference is that if you send a packet with a spoofed source IP, the reply won't get to you. The phone system allows you to set up a full two-way channel without the receiving party ever needing the correct identifier for the
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by thedufer 5y ago
> Laszlo Bock studied the predictive value of technical interviews when he was in charge of people operations at Google. He reported finding that they had zero predictive power. Mind citing a source here? That would be a pretty big deal,
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by thedufer 5y ago
> The Howey test doesn't apply here. If it's not securitized and it's not tradable, it's not a security. Do you have a reference for that? Because that aspect doesn't sound relevant at all - the court case the Ho
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by thedufer 5y ago
I think Captain Sonar ( https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/171131/captain-sonar ) is a great example. I haven't seen an online version of this, which is disappointing - it's hard to get 8 people who are w
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by thedufer 5y ago
I think you're talking past one another. The thing you're taking about is specific to debts, but merchants are well within their rights to reject transactions, as no debt has yet been incurred. This is why it is perfectly legal to
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by thedufer 5y ago
Your comparison to Amazon's inventory implies that this is a weights vs Amazon issue, but what I'm trying to point out is that there are three sides, and none of them agree. If the weights are accurate, that means that the custom
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by thedufer 5y ago
That doesn't seem to prove anything at all? It's a 1.6 lb camera. Weighing in at 1.2 lbs short is either a bad scale or a lot of accessories missing, but it definitely does not corroborate a missing camera.
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by thedufer 5y ago
Nowhere did I disagree with what you've said, except for your final sentence. The interesting thing about cryptocurrency is not that it facilitates illegal activities, but that it does very little else - and that is in fact quite diff
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by thedufer 5y ago
I'm very curious how you got there. I certainly don't hold that belief. I do however hold the apparently very controversial view that we should have laws, and that they are pointless if they aren't enforceable. I think the
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by thedufer 5y ago
Interesting that all of the pro-cryptocurrency folks read this as an attack. I quite carefully did not place value, positive or negative, on it. Perhaps the fact that you read it that way reveals your true thoughts on the matter. No, I do
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by thedufer 5y ago
You could more concisely say that it is useful for completing transactions that are illegal, which encompasses nearly your entire list but I guess doesn't sound as nice.
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by thedufer 5y ago
The linked data isn't adjusted, though - it's just raw open/close values for each year. The mistake here is ignoring dividends, which push returns up by 2-3% per year.
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by thedufer 5y ago
There are different ways of figuring out what a wage will end up being, and looking at how they interact (which is what Baumol's Cost Disease does) can be tricky but enlightening. Supply/demand is one such way. Another is related
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by thedufer 6y ago
> The 'A shorts to B who shorts to C' type arrangement is unlikely in the extreme. Would B keep paying A for the borrow (and have the collateral tied up) if they have passed the stock to C? Nope, they'd return it... I thin
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by thedufer 6y ago
"there was no finding" means that they did not show that that happened, not that they showed it didn't. You're reading something into that quote it very carefully does not say.
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by thedufer 6y ago
The US has this as well, albeit to a lesser degree. The employer-side FICA is around 7%, and is paid directly by the employer, rather than deducted from your paycheck.
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by thedufer 6y ago
Have you ever said "let's hang out Tuesday afternoon"? Abolishing time zones makes that a useless phrase for a large slice of the world - consider the area where the date changes in the middle of the afternoon. And which days
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by thedufer 6y ago
I was more pointing towards the second half about expanding a nickname or last name into a full name, but I think they're actually closely related as different ways in which the author might be adding context that is missing from the q
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by thedufer 6y ago
I think this is addressed in the following section: > Sometimes you have to use brackets anyway. Maybe the speaker or writer was using an acronym or a completely unfamiliar piece of jargon that the reader needs explained. Maybe they were
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by thedufer 6y ago
You're still complaining about floats, and now JavaScript, neither of which is relevant to JSON. JSON is perhaps named poorly, but it merely "was inspired by the object literals of JavaScript" (quoting the spec) - there is n
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by thedufer 6y ago
JSON has no floating point numbers. It just has decimal numbers, which can be arbitrarily large and arbitrarily precise. If you deserialize them into floats and then are upset that they aren't exactly right, that's on you, not J
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by thedufer 6y ago
> So you're liquid in the direction that moves the price to where it needs to be and not liquid in the other direction. "liquid in one direction" is a nice way of saying that no trades are happening, which is to say illiqu
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by thedufer 6y ago
I don't think it's poorly done, so much as it isn't what you expected it to be. The text below the image pretty clearly explains the effect that you're seeing: > Commercial and industrial areas are also likely to be
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by thedufer 6y ago
Your data seems obviously cherry-picked. Why 2000/2020 in one case and 1995/2020 in the other? In fact, your last link actually goes to 2000, not 2020, which makes it look an awful lot like you looked at that year and didn'
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by thedufer 6y ago
The negative comment is from a hellbanned account (which is, frankly, unsurprising). It's not even possible to downvote it, as far as I can tell, due to being DOA.
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by thedufer 6y ago
> We have absolutely no idea whether the vote counts in the US are authentic. Of course we do. Georgia did a full hand recount this election, finding no evidence of anything like what you're alleging. And many states do random-sampl
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by thedufer 6y ago
But Vec::retain is pretty close to one of the fundamental functional constructs for containers (it's the in-place version of filter). The argument here is that others should use functions like retain instead of re-implementing that nas
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by thedufer 6y ago
I'm not sure if this is the source you meant, but patio11 wrote a good overview of various brokerages' revenue sources: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/6/26/how-brokerages-make-mone...
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by thedufer 6y ago
What's the advantage of this over existing OCaml parser-combinator libraries? The "Why Use Reparse?" section really sells parser-combinator libraries in general; as far as I can tell, it applies equally to all of angstrom, m

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