tw1010

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by tw1010 7y ago
Why aren't Apple worried that this'll incentivise employees to leak insider information to grey-hackers who'll share a cut of the reward?
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by tw1010 7y ago
I mean, haven't they kinda saturated the market?
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by tw1010 7y ago
Please tell me where you can read more about the idea that "the entire "fracking revolution " has been funded by loses from bondholders"
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by tw1010 7y ago
Everything I'm not personally an expert in (which I can't verify myself with my own understanding, other than by trust), I assume is somehow deception and largely ignore (until I'm smarter and more well informed). Taking anyt
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by tw1010 7y ago
I guess the standard argument is that a governmental credit rating body would slow things down. If fintech startups needed some new feature from the credit rating agency, they might not be able to get it in a reasonable amount of time. Is t
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by tw1010 7y ago
Whatever happened to division of labour?
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by tw1010 7y ago
It's weird that tech people think that just because they invented something, they can just as easily make it go away.
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by tw1010 7y ago
This is especially interesting to think about in light of the whole school of self-teaching Knuth has pushed out into the world in fragmented pieces here and there.
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by tw1010 7y ago
That's not true. There are definitely papers that tries to control for socioeconomic factors.
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by tw1010 7y ago
We can keep playing the "maybe there are other factors besides DNA that could explain small differences in IQ"-game until the cow comes home. The sad thing is that eventually we'll probably find some genuine correlation b
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by tw1010 7y ago
Taleb argues against R^2, and the author of this article seems to just ignore those points. I think Taleb has valid points, but the author here seems to be doing just the same conventional analysis that people writing psychology papers tend
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by tw1010 7y ago
But Taleb is specifically arguing against simple linear correlation measures like R^2. (See figure 1 in Taleb's article.) Feels like you haven't grasped the specifics of his argument without taking that into consideration.
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by tw1010 7y ago
I genuinely don't understand how people stay together when they see themselves as "terrible fucking roommates". Feels like a completely different universe from the one I inhabit, where totally different properties of human re
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by tw1010 7y ago
This is part of some cynical narrative on HN. Don't buy into it wholeheartedly. Plenty of couples stay together really long despite living in the same apartment. True love does exist, even though the internet loves to brainwash you int
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by tw1010 7y ago
Anyone know how a good book or three about history of the military-industrial complex? I'm especially curious how various economic ups and downs in the military may have influenced venture capital. I'm also interested in tracing b
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by tw1010 7y ago
Look at it this way: a lot of smart people contribute to common goods, e.g. scholarly progress. So in a way, it'll benefit everyone. I understand the counter-argument. But isn't a bit of a strange feature of the world that people
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by tw1010 7y ago
Sometimes I get a bit conspiratorial about the fact that whenever people want to give an example of how terrible life was in the past, they always mention primitive or agrarian times. It's almost never comparing life today with 100 yea
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by tw1010 7y ago
I'm guessing you're an engineer? Life certainly isn't amazing for people in society at large. There are people on the other side of the code we're producing. Something us engineers love to forget about.
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by tw1010 7y ago
Interesting. But it's due to statements like "you’re either above the API or below the API" that I unfortunately can't get through many ribbonfarm articles. I mean, it's clearly not true that "everyone works fo
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by tw1010 7y ago
The most annoying part of everything changing so fast is how hard and slow it is to analyze, make sense of, and actually get to the bottom of things and what should be done about them. Like, even if we do figure out if Uber etc is good for
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by tw1010 7y ago
Yeah. Promises that "The future is going to be amazing" has been used time and time again throughout history to get people to accept going through troughs (of sorrows), waiting for futures that never come (or come only after they&
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by tw1010 7y ago
Not trying to make a judgement about the lack of output or anything. I appreciate the work he did and the ideas he published. Mostly making a comment on the observation that outsider researchers being bought by google doesn't seem to p
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by tw1010 7y ago
At least in terms of public output. He hasn't published anything in particular in the last few years, whereas the years when his income came from the fellowship (judging by blog output, his twitter, and his academic CV). Can't sa
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by tw1010 7y ago
Has anything actually happened in the last two years? Genuinely curious.
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by tw1010 7y ago
What does that even mean? How do you kill yourself with a bucket of money?
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by tw1010 7y ago
This is well known in parts of europe. Strange that the US doesn't know about it?
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by tw1010 7y ago
Or, you know, there's no shortage and it's just a narrative ploy from corporations in order to decrease wages.
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by tw1010 7y ago
Ok, anyway cool app! I actually found some cool trends via this.
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by tw1010 7y ago
The examples on the front page looks surprisingly good, which makes me suspect they were hand-picked. Kind of beats the purpose of the app if I'm just shown trends the author and me already know about, since we seem to inhabit the same
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by tw1010 7y ago
Whatever costs 100 dollars less than an Aeron, allocating what you saved on a gym membership for a year. That's the best use of your money.

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