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by v64 6y ago
This isn't possible so soon after the IPO as very few shares are currently available for shorting
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by v64 6y ago
Some of the speculation in this thread [1], originally flagged as hearsay, seems to be confirmed by this article, namely his use of nitrous oxide. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25235843
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by v64 6y ago
No, I don't particularly enjoy wearing them and avoid them to prevent causing hearing damage.
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by v64 6y ago
Speaking for myself, I live in an apartment with thin walls and can't blast my sound as loudly as it would be in a theater.
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by v64 6y ago
If you're willing to dilute the meaning of "ponzi scheme" so broadly, then yes, the economy is a ponzi scheme.
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by v64 6y ago
> you'll quickly realize people are literally gambling with their life savings Gambling, yes. But the stock market is not a ponzi scheme.
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by v64 6y ago
I'll provide an anecdote from my own life that I feel highlights the interplay between luck and work: In 2010, I had just graduated college, was quickly running out of money, and had no luck applying to jobs at software shops with lang
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by v64 6y ago
> What does being poor have to do with it? I was addressing OP's concern about his own life: "In some cases I really would become poor or have no future if I didn't succeed" I agree with you that part of OP's pro
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by v64 6y ago
> I don't understand how not to think like this, because every real success I've fought for and won came as a result of believing my life was over if I didn't succeed. In some cases I really would become poor or have no fu
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by v64 6y ago
It depends on your goal. If your goal is to optimize spending, go with Amazon. If your goal is to support mom and pops over multinational corporations, go with the mom and pop. I think NDizzle's point is that most peoples' rationa
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by v64 6y ago
That's also why we call it QBism [1] instead of quantum bayesianism [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Bayesianism
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by v64 6y ago
I also strugged with analysis. I always felt like epsilon-delta proofs involved pulling some absolutely strange value for delta out of your ass that happens to work out in the end, and I never developed an intuition for that. Same with inte
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by v64 6y ago
Actual paper is here: https://sci-hub.st/10.1007/bf01386232
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by v64 6y ago
> the same amount of energy can be expended into building new ways of curing cancer or whatever important problem That's the catch. We don't know what problems are important. We think we do, and sometimes we're right, but
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by v64 6y ago
Same, I saw the headline and thought this was gonna be Sid Meier's version of the Sims
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by v64 6y ago
I play piano and watching videos of Gould playing is fascinating. He violates every rule your piano teacher tells you about performance, from his unusually low chair made to accommodate a back injury to his habit of singing along to tunes t
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by v64 6y ago
I absolutely love this story and will be stealing it wholesale from you to share with others.
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by v64 6y ago
Cliff, if you're still hanging around the thread, I want to thank you for this Klein bottle I got over a decade ago, back when I was a mere math undergrad. [1] Despite a number of close calls and myriad stories about strange objects ge
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by v64 6y ago
you can still use old.reddit.com to access the site and set that as your default if you're logged in, my experience hasn't changed much since the redesign
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by v64 6y ago
To be specific, from Wikipedia [1]: "a detector with the mass of Jupiter and 100% efficiency, placed in close orbit around a neutron star, would only be expected to observe one graviton every 10 years, even under the most favorable con
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by v64 6y ago
> My own theory (without any real evidence) Many philosophers and others have written about how the powerful divide the lower classes in this way. I don't have any explicit citations offhand, but your observations have merit amongst
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by v64 6y ago
That's if you're a user. They're referring to defaults like r/all and r/popular.
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by v64 6y ago
Do you know the winning color beforehand and does your selection of the bag allow you to physically handle it? If so, you put one marble of the winning color in one bag, all the rest in the other, and then you select the lighter bag.
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by v64 6y ago
Constructivist mathematics [1] is an approach to math that restricts the universe of discourse to objects that can be explicitly defined. With this restriction, the subset of the real numbers considered consists of the reals that are defina
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by v64 6y ago
If you reject the axiom of choice, what are your thoughts on Zorn's lemma and the well ordering theorem (other than the observation of "they too are false" via equivalency)?
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by v64 6y ago
> My first "programming" experience was with mIRC scripts. I even wrote an IRC client using mIRC sockets at some point, and a dummy webserver / SMTP client. Same here! The mIRC scripting language was incredibly rich, and t
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by v64 6y ago
> Maybe people could train to read easily that font - they didn't have much of alternatives. That would mean readability is rather conditional. I'd like to know. I feel like comprehension of the underlying language will aid rea
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by v64 6y ago
> He’s telling beginners that because you’re trying you must have good taste That's not how I read the quote. I read it as him saying, you can't know whether or not you have good taste without first producing a lot of bad work,
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by v64 6y ago
I don't think we're in disagreement. You asked: Of all the people who read that quote and nod along thinking, “yes this is me” how many are actually right? Of those people who think "yes this is me" as beginners, those w
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by v64 6y ago
Every expert started out as a beginner.

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