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by vgatherps 4y ago
It feels like a leap to compare the claim "This guy cheated in some low stakes chess games and shouldn't really be trusted in high stakes chess games" to the claim "This person committed a minor misdemeanour so they shou
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by vgatherps 4y ago
Engineers are probably a lot more expensive than a DEI employee
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by vgatherps 4y ago
I don't think Binance's books are public so you can't see. If you mean that I can't a fake a trade with a third party, then yes, that's true - all fake volume has to be done between parties that are in on it. Otherw
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by vgatherps 4y ago
They massively overhired, they have thousands of employees many of them highly paid engineers
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by vgatherps 4y ago
I live in Hong Kong and can only remember one time I saw a fake meat on a restaurant menu, and it was at an extremely western health-focused restaurant of a large gym chain (nood food). It's definitely not "almost all" restau
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by vgatherps 4y ago
How much better can you get by pushing production to use greener methods instead of reducing demand or changing it to something else (which would fall on personal consumer activity change or raising cost of production via say carbon tax)? O
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by vgatherps 4y ago
Of all possible things to stomp you chose hamsters?
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by vgatherps 4y ago
My work might make me biased but I think there’s a lot of room to make more general purpose code differentiable. I work on a ton of stuff that would very much benefit from being differentiable, but also very much can’t fit at all into the “
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by vgatherps 4y ago
Maybe I’m missing some recent events but I’ve only heard or seen anything political in regard to state political leanings and especially “identity politics”. Just feels weird to feel so strongly about that aspect of a programming language.
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by vgatherps 4y ago
To be clear your claim is that because Google chrome has some use of a programming language where the community leans left, people are going to meaningfully stop using chrome? Some people are so fragile…
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by vgatherps 4y ago
In case anybody is wondering whether there’s a game of telephone happening from mad family members, I was literally there watching this happen. I regret not speaking up.
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by vgatherps 4y ago
Reminds me of a friend who passed away from what was essentially doctor apathy. While recovering from a major surgery started getting terrible abdomen pains. Doctors could hardly even be bothered to tell her to deal with it, completely dism
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by vgatherps 4y ago
It's been quite a while but I have some very fuzzy memories of a lab I worked with in undergrad working on some sort of optimistic methods for solving PDEs, something along the lines of speculatively projecting into a lower dimension s
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by vgatherps 4y ago
> Coinbase _can_ hire good talent... wonder if managing it is the/a problem. I've worked at a company where at an individual level people were quite talented, moreso than competitors who did better than them .... but getting an
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by vgatherps 4y ago
On the other hand, the regulatory requirements on CME are FAR greater and the requirements on their exchange technology are drastically greater as well. CME also has to build risk and margining technology since its customers are generally m
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by vgatherps 4y ago
> It’s been more than a decade and it’s still not that cheap to short crypto Is not true, you have been able to short in derivatives markets for ages and frequently get paid for it. > I am 100% convinced that’s by design. Nothing abou
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by vgatherps 4y ago
An potential failure case for defi is that some contract: * Is looking at USDT pairs as well as USD pairs for a price oracle and doesn't handle USDT pairs going to infinity well (i.e. BTC/USDT skyrockets) when tether goes to zero
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by vgatherps 4y ago
FTX wouldn’t just ack your cancel request and then give you a fill - you would get cancel successful messages, order status updates that cancelled your order with no filled quantity, and then ten seconds later get a fill for that order. Occ
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by vgatherps 4y ago
There’s a graveyard full of “crypto exchange but built with good tech”, ftx even bought one iirc. The market favors move fast, market to retail, etc etc over spending time cutting microseconds off the 99th%. A lot of the exchanges also don’
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by vgatherps 4y ago
I don’t entirely agree with this. My math education relied way to heavily on mechanical substitute-and-compute, but there’s definitely value in making sure that children can actually do and understand what computations are actually happenin
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by vgatherps 4y ago
Oh interesting, I didn't know about that. I thought the XRP case was still ongoing so didn't realise there had been change. Wasn't trying to make value judgements on whether anything is a security, just was wondering if it&#
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by vgatherps 4y ago
Programming isn't mentally hard either, it's just hitting keys on a keyboard! There's tons of tutorials online, stackoverflow, and even AI an do it for you now! Could easily learn it in a week, don't see why people spend
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by vgatherps 4y ago
Your question itself assumes away quantum mechanics. There is fundamentally no fully certain particle in QM, the theory cannot meaningfully make predictions about something that's fully certain. I've been out of school a while so
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by vgatherps 4y ago
Which is strange since it would have unveiled his insolvency, unless the bill he wanted had loopholes or he figured he could steal more from international to fill the hole?
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by vgatherps 4y ago
It’s embarrassing for the U.S. regulatory regime that FTX.us was insolvent as well (you could see this by comparing borrow lending data to their wallets after the implosion, as well as some messages released in the CFTC complaint). Hopefull
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by vgatherps 4y ago
Is this enforceable for things which aren’t securities? The brokerage regulations are just common sense and it would be a shame if they got tied into battles about whether token XYZ is a security or not.
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by vgatherps 4y ago
If it just took an hour of research to meaningfully know that FTX had stolen customer funds, there wouldn’t have been 8bn stolen. This argument keeps getting trotted out yet people keep getting hit with more and more sophisticated scams, on
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by vgatherps 4y ago
> It's unregulated, so there are fewer safeguards against fraud I work in traditional finance and this imo is a major reason why - the GP is right in that nothing about the fraud was crypto related. But today you could never run an
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by vgatherps 4y ago
Yes, 100%! This is exactly the machinery the makes it hard for a compiler to elide the exception. I don’t think there’s anything in the standard that prevents the compiler from optimizing away said exception completely, but neither gcc or c
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by vgatherps 4y ago
If you use error codes, you always pay the cost (even cheap) of generating codes. If the function isn’t online able this might increase the stack usage, prevent inlining in the first place, etc. With exceptions the error paths don’t even ha

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