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by verteu 3y ago
Agreed. It's also the "the first rule of kernel maintenance," according to Linus: https://linuxreviews.org/WE_DO_NOT_BREAK_USERSPACE
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by verteu 3y ago
Ah yes -- Good find!
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by verteu 3y ago
(nvm, see below)
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by verteu 3y ago
The article says: "The cost of that relief is ultimately borne by taxpayers."
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by verteu 3y ago
The stock market is quite similar to a prediction market (on the future valuation of companies), and it's made plenty of people wealthy and powerful.
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by verteu 3y ago
Thanks for the study! I was hoping for something about teens (not adults >=19), and ideally a meta-analysis. This article looks promising: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook#Psycholo... I know the m
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by verteu 3y ago
Is there actually strong evidence that social media harms teens' mental health? From what I can find, the correlation between social media use and mental health problems is small [1] or nonexistent [2]. There are few causal studies, an
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by verteu 3y ago
No, you'd need to account for several things (curing someone of malaria has compounding returns, high-impact opportunities may dry up, etc). There's substantial discussion: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts
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by verteu 3y ago
Agreed -- I believe the confusion comes from this sentence in the document: "Moreover, if the defendant fully complies with the understandings specified in this Agreement, the defendant will not be further prosecuted criminally by this
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by verteu 3y ago
> any exchange in such close company with a hedge fund should always be suspected of front-running Indeed -- I knew several professional traders who used FTX. At the time, their consensus was: 1) "Probably Alameda has an unfair late
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by verteu 3y ago
Here's a quote from a former federal prosecutor on the record: https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/24/ex-sdny-prosecutor-says-ca...
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by verteu 3y ago
You expect Google to prioritize Youtube Premium support in a country with $2,000 GDP per capita?
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by verteu 3y ago
Probably due to low unemployment [1]. Inflation has multiple causes. If it truly has a single cause ("creating money"), can you show a graph of "money created" vs inflation? I don't see much correlation between ∆M2
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by verteu 3y ago
Not true -- inflation can be caused by multiple things, including supply shocks or even future expectations of inflation ("wage price spiral"). It's Econ 101.
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by verteu 3y ago
How do we know inflation was due to the stimulus checks, and not due to supply chain issues caused by covid/Ukraine? IIUC, "European nations largely avoided the one-time payments" [1] but suffered the same inflation [2]. [1]
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by verteu 3y ago
Despite the downvotes, I believe this is true: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC164356/
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by verteu 3y ago
Hormones play an important role too: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1738817161826894917... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC164356/
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by verteu 3y ago
It seems the US compares quite poorly in life expectancy and rankings by experts. It does better in cancer survival rates (but the data seems old). - https://www.internationalinsurance.com/health/systems/ - https
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by verteu 3y ago
Wow -- thanks for sharing.
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by verteu 3y ago
Good point!
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by verteu 3y ago
Your pay is upper bounded by the value you create, but may be arbitrarily less, especially if there is monopsony, high barriers to moving/reskilling, and/or collusion among employers. There's nothing inherently fair about t
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by verteu 3y ago
Any evidence to support this claim? Historically, unions helped workers by improving working conditions in the early industrial revolution (limbs lost from unsafe equipment, deaths due to lack of fire escapes & inadequate ventilation, w
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by verteu 3y ago
> I analyzed 1,232 models from the Open LLM Leaderboard and 88 models from the General Language Understanding Evaluation (GLUE) Leaderboard. This analysis seems highly sensitive to the population of "models." What if I submit t
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by verteu 3y ago
Amazing -- could you describe it a bit more?
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by verteu 3y ago
> My understanding is that after you adjust for demographics, because most service members are young males, the rate actually isn't higher, but the reality is what it is: we lose more people from suicide every year than combat opera
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by verteu 3y ago
> Deficit aside, how does a nation "borrow" money and must therefore pay interest on it They sell treasury bonds, mainly to other nations and corporations.
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by verteu 3y ago
Yes, GP was a layperson using "laundering" imprecisely as a proxy for "using for state-sponsored criminal activity." Your rebuttal, while pedantically correct, does not refute their larger point that Bitcoin greatly aids
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by verteu 3y ago
NSA has both "defensive" (protect US info) and "offensive" (gain foreign intel) departments. This could be written by the former.
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by verteu 3y ago
A more precise version of GP's comment might be: "Transferring USD to a hostile nation is significantly harder than transferring Bitcoin. Crypto's ratio of criminal to legitimate use-cases is tiny compared to USD, and continu
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by verteu 3y ago
If they're not 100% correlated with S&P500, they still provide value: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_portfolio_theory#Divers...

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