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by xapata 6y ago
> How does a static rather than unconstrained supply make something a LESS good store of value? Because a healthy capitalist economy needs an incentive to invest. A steady, low, positive inflation rate is essential to encouraging those
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by xapata 6y ago
> So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. Equally plausible is that we only write quotations from the people whose dots serendipitously connected.
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by xapata 6y ago
> confidently change it Having a good variety of tests helps. > tree structure You'll need a complete language to parse a tree.
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by xapata 6y ago
Muggers need low traffic, but not no traffic. One neighborhood I lived in had so little traffic I felt perfectly safe. It was an area criminals went to flee after their crimes, not to commit crimes. Amusingly, I'd run into more film
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by xapata 6y ago
Some choices are mutually exclusive. It seems common, but in my view (intentionally?) ironic, to use the term in those contexts.
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by xapata 6y ago
Egress goes both ways. Streets with no hiding places nor alleys to flee down tend to be safer. Also, a street lit well in some pockets but not others ruins night vision and creates hiding places. A residential street with lights on at eve
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by xapata 6y ago
So strange that YOLO has come to mean the opposite of what one would do if worried about the fact one only lives once. But I guess that's true for much slang.
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by xapata 6y ago
> lol ... an agitated old man chased my friend for a block while screaming On the second thought, this makes me sad. I hope someday I'll be an old man living among friends, instead of watching my neighborhood devolve. It's a
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by xapata 6y ago
I don't think there's necessarily a contradiction between a weak form of the efficient market hypothesis and the quite evident phenomena of reflexivity. Inefficiencies form, the agents seek them out and in so doing remove them.
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by xapata 6y ago
Using the airplane analogy, there's a good amount of turbulence in the market. Especially as you look at smaller scales, both in time and price changes. There's a decent amount of literature discussing evidence that low-latency
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by xapata 6y ago
What's the five-dollar bill in this metaphor? I'd like to use it. Currently my employer has told me to use a one-dollar bill. As I continue with your metaphor, I struggle to see what insight it's giving.
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by xapata 6y ago
> Hoping 300 million people all follow those simple rules is a bit hopeful to say the least. There seems to be something different about the US population than, say, the Taiwanese population regarding mask usage. I don't have a goo
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by xapata 6y ago
The evidence would have to be overwhelming that it's not helpful, because the prior is so strong.
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by xapata 6y ago
Yeah, but you might have to explicitly opt out. It's probably in the fine print of your terms of service.
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by xapata 6y ago
Isn't that a standard practice for brokerages -- loan out the shares that your clients are holding? I remember Ally Invest sent me some notice that I'd be receiving a cut of the profits when they loan out my shares.
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by xapata 6y ago
Live long enough and there'll be plenty more. I'll have more regret over that girl I never spoke to.
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by xapata 6y ago
Irrational, but understandable.
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by xapata 6y ago
Why would you short when you can buy a put option?
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by xapata 6y ago
> link to papers No, I can't. Can you link to papers that show flossing is effective? Probably not, but the mechanism is so obvious that essentially all dentists will tell you to floss. Further, mask-wearing was already a well-e
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by xapata 6y ago
Sorry, edited after you wrote this. I took out the reference to the Trump administration because it wasn't helpful to the main point of many doctors not being experts on epidemics.
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by xapata 6y ago
> a real doctor, nurse practitioner, and the CDC Sadly, many doctors and nurses are statistically illiterate. I know, because I (try to) teach them statistics. Remember, the Surgeon General of the CDC said that, "[masks] are NOT e
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by xapata 6y ago
I think bullets 3 and 5 were the main point of that comment. It wasn't well-said, but it is in fact valuable to spend a moment to get familiar with the jargon a person is using, even if that jargon happens to have homonyms with a diff
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by xapata 6y ago
No, that's not what I said. "Cheap laughs and the thrill of anger" is a superset. More succinctly, "bread and circus." There's nothing new about it.
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by xapata 6y ago
> owning land is not productive On the contrary, it's providing the valuable service of holding property that I don't want to hold. I'd rather put my capital to some other use. You seem to dislike arguments of "pure
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by xapata 6y ago
Not completely orthogonal. Perhaps they should be, but the intersection of the two sets (advocates for rent restrictions and advocates of zoning restrictions) appears to be a large portion of the total, as far as I can tell. > enough to
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by xapata 6y ago
My interpretation of the evidence leads to the opposite conclusion. Here's a good summary: https://www.slowboring.com/p/induced-demand
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by xapata 6y ago
> restricting rent increases No, that'll just create a lottery system and unemployment or lower wages, because people won't be able to move to the jobs. > eliminating zoning restrictions that limit housing Yes, this would be
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by xapata 6y ago
The UK is probably worse off for having such an obvious clue that someone is high class. Accents are harder to switch than clothes and a haircut.
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by xapata 6y ago
> Profanity ... motivates people Yeah, that's the problem. Too many people swayed by cheap laughs and the thrill of anger. Thus the failed insurrection earlier this year. It's hard to predict what'll be fun this week. &
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by xapata 6y ago
Don't they all have the same LPs? Behind all of these nefarious entities is CALPERS, etc. just trying to keep your pension fund solvent.

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