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by xapata 6y ago
The context matters. At the time it felt justified given the violence of England against Argentina.
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by xapata 6y ago
Back then there was the unprofessional foul, with disgusting regularity. Referees were much less willing to show cards.
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by xapata 6y ago
I was in a random bar in Barcelona when Ronaldo scored a hat trick to come back against Wolfsburg in the CL. For a Madrid fan, it was amazingly juicy. A little old lady started dancing the flamenco to taunt a table of young lads.
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by xapata 6y ago
And there was that moment Messi skied a penalty kick in ... what was it, the Copa América final? He announced his retirement the day after. Of course, retracted.
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by xapata 6y ago
Getafe today is better than Getafe 2004, for those of you wondering.
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by xapata 6y ago
Yep, indeed I am. The same way I think casinos don't mind if you try to count cards at blackjack.
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by xapata 6y ago
Isn't that a contradiction in terms, "It's easy if you work at it."?
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by xapata 6y ago
> friction ... if youre smart you can find an edge > easy money laying around There's a bit of dissonance between the way you've characterized this process in different comments. That's my point. "Hey, there'
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by xapata 6y ago
The exercises are dependent on what researchers are paying for. The spammer needs to keep up. Which they can do by sampling hCaptchas and figuring out what tasks are being done. The question is how much value spamming provides. If it&#x2
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by xapata 6y ago
hCaptcha makes money by having humans label things to teach machines. This suggests that at some point, the machines will be nearly as good as the humans at labeling. At this point, until the humans are tasked with a different training ex
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by xapata 6y ago
I don't see why those particular magnitude calculations are relevant to this analysis. > economics has nothing to do with investing, and is worthless Is it worthless because it has nothing to do with investing, or has nothing to do
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by xapata 6y ago
I'm not sure how you came to either of those assumptions. First, I'm an economist. Second, I didn't suggest any method for identifying strategies. The question is the number of potential strategies. If it's relatively
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by xapata 6y ago
You're saying it'd require a salary of $500k or more to find someone competent enough to manage an investment opportunity worth $100k annually? That implies the investment opportunities are actually quite complicated. Obviously,
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by xapata 6y ago
> manually ... releasing locks You might like `contextlib.ExitStack` if `with lock` doesn't cut it for you.
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by xapata 6y ago
That doesn't make sense unless there are very few viable small scale strategies, at which point they'd probably be difficult to identify. Your assertion might have been true before computers were able to help someone manage many
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by xapata 6y ago
Please explain your skepticism.
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by xapata 6y ago
Interesting. I find them distracting. I thought the cruft might be more distracting when it doesn't fade into the background via syntax highlighting.
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by xapata 6y ago
> jurassic hardware Like the late 1980s, when Guido was creating Python?
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by xapata 6y ago
So long as our fiction keeps us imagining ourselves as secretly royalty, we'll prefer dynasties to democracy. (And thus we prefer military.)
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by xapata 6y ago
Suppose you didn't have syntax highlighting. Would the braces be more distracting then?
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by xapata 6y ago
Or ... no college, because he's a musician? Ah, no. Berklee.
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by xapata 6y ago
Many people don't go to college. It's also good to remember that those who do go to college wind up with (on average) dramatically more wealth, regardless of student loans.
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by xapata 6y ago
> Essentially never lose money Just like Long Term Capital Management. Can't lose!
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by xapata 6y ago
I use `concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor` fairly often. I handle inter-process communication usually through a database or message queue, expecting that someday I'll want to go clustered instead of just single-machine multiproces
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by xapata 6y ago
Yeah, I almost never order over the phone. I go in person to look at the menu.
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by xapata 6y ago
"How late are you open tonight? Ok, thanks."
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by xapata 6y ago
In that case they'd probably be more comfortable with something provided through the app store. Try BetterSnapTool for $2. It's pleasantly customizable.
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by xapata 6y ago
> The problem is ... when you don't [know you are being manipulated] Exactly. Thus my assertion that I'm free to the extent I am aware of how my environment and society affects me. Though that's not a complete definition
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by xapata 6y ago
There are some good Mac window managers out there.
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by xapata 6y ago
Population grows exponentially. Number of scientists should, too. The question is the exponent.

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