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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Perl is a wonderful, innovative language which failed because it tried to remove intratextual redundancy in the way you are suggesting. A string of length N is vastly more likely to be a valid Perl program than a valid Python program. Ultim
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
I justified it, at length, in the above comment by pointing out how little real information there was in the article about what had actually happened to BTX and Alameda. I did not say anything about "new investigative journalism".
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Coinbase Ventures (a fund whose wheelhouse is, uh, investing in crypto ventures) did not invest anything like $95m. Your fourth example, Blackrock, is tellingly neither a seasoned venture fund nor an experienced crypto investor.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
There is a mirror of the NYT article linked from TFA.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Right. So it was accurately described by the author of the linked article as 'a poorly researched fluff piece'.
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What if you made an investment based on not seeing any books, there not being any reliable guide as to the company's liabilities, seen or unseen, and not being aware of any regulation or oversight preventing fraud and/or blowing u
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Why do an investment group which is successful in making large, traditional, real money investments think they know better than the numerous seasoned venture funds and experienced crypto investors who did not give $95m to FTX? What was it a
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Teacher's Venture Growth is 8bn AUM. It makes complete sense to me that Ontario Teachers as a whole should put 4% of its assets into a venture fund. TVG put well over 1% of its assets into FTX. Numerous people who work for the venture
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Canadian teachers and retired teachers have $220b, which they paid into the plan from their not particularly opulent pay packets. Nearly $100m was given to a company based in a regulatory haven, which does not know to within $5bn how much m
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
It's not about performance or risk management, it's about due diligence. They should not be giving any amount of money to an organization with such poor internal checks of their finances.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
I think there's a huge difference with someone who has a huge appetite for risk, and someone who is taking risks, essentially without oversight, while on dopamine-replacing drugs. Many people who work in conventional finance are well a
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
The NYT article is headlined "How Sam Bankman-Friedʼs Crypto Empire Collapsed". The parts of the article which actually answer this question are, in their totality, as follows: > Alameda had accumulated a large “margin position
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
The Ontario Teachers' investment is outrageous. They are charging middle-class people (by definition) good money from their retirement savings to make reasonable investing decisions and do due diligence.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
But the author makes it very clear in the second par "our claims only remain tentative at best". Isn't it much more useful to write something which actually tries to answer the question of what happened, albeit with appropria
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Why is the run time exponential in the length of the string of a's? It seems like it should be at most O(n^3). 2^n is the number of subsets of the string of a's with no contiguity requirements. Nothing like this number of possible
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Which country and what is special about your eyes or glasses? I have noticed that in France glasses with decent but standard frames cost around 5 times as much as in the UK. My suspicion is that the difference is related to how supplementar
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
So 1. The Chinese govt makes laws restricting these apps for young children which are only valid in China, 2. Tiktok obeys local laws in China and local laws in the US, 3. the US and other Western govts don't force social media compani
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
> The failure is that mediocre students which come from an environment which helps them (good school, private tutors, stable home life) can be successful, while "naturally gifted" yet disadvantaged students don't. I think
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
The discovery of these pentomino tilings is an interesting achievement and evidence of an exceptional mind, but it's very far from a major advance in mathematics.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
By 1966 George Harrison had been in a group (with various names) with Lennon and McCartney for 8 years, their songwriting partnership had been actively writing songs for 5 or 6 years, they had written almost all the songs for 6 or 7 albums,
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
I don't think this is the whole story. Of course, it is a tragedy when people who had undeniable raw talent are neglected or passed over and don't get to achieve as they might. It's also sad and disappointing when we observe
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
It is 60% of 10k, and 0.0006% of a billion years.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
The city we call Antwerp in English is known as Amberes in Spanish. When you know that the French name is Anvers it makes a little more sense.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
It doesn't have to be this evil (although I have no reason to believe it won't at Amazon). A good manager can do some 'managing out' simply by communicating to her team that there are reduced opportunities for promotion
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
People complain about this all the time. It is annoying, but it's not illogical. If you have looked at something once, say there's a 99% chance that you have no further interest in it. But the 1% chance that you are potentially
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
You are right. Choosing a bigger number makes it less likely that you will win by being smaller than the other two, but more likely that you will win by the other two knocking each other out, since there are now more numbers available for t
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
This is obviously wrong. If you choose one million billion trillion every time you will not win 28% of the time.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
IIRC Kasparov was psychologically defeated by Deep Blue with the exact opposite of this play. After playing what seemed at the time like 'computer-type chess' - relentlessly accurate goal-seeking strategy, Deep Blue started to pla
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Your use of these citations is an example of exactly the fallacy which I am talking about. [2] and [3] are about the impact of Christianity on the modern world. I have never argued that this is not significant. My point is that reading the
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
The OP also recommended Plato's Republic. I am not arguing that one should not read biblical texts. Just that the recommendation to read 'The Bible' is really a recommendation to read the central texts of Judaism, the central

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