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1711.
by zardo 11y ago
Yeah me too, but not really. You make absolutely no difference when you buy a few shares of stock. Your shares matter in proportion, it may be a small number, but it isn't zero. A hundred thousand one dollar bills are worth just as muc
1712.
by zardo 11y ago
Because you use a buy and hold strategy and only worry about how a stock performs long term.
1713.
by zardo 11y ago
Don't forget your house, its value is dependent on the local economy, which could be tied to your employer. If you own a house in a town that is largely employed by ACME, and you work there, and you invest your money in ACME, if ACME g
1714.
by zardo 11y ago
Financially, the right decision is the one with the greater expected value, while accounting for the marginal utility of money. Your understanding of the stock market is fundamentally wrong, owning a stock is owning a piece of a company, a
1715.
by zardo 11y ago
I don't think that would get you a convex cost function. Having a correct example of the CSS should work better.
1716.
by zardo 11y ago
A precise definition could probably be cobbled together using computational complexity. Something like, a phenomenon which results as a product of deterministic processes that cannot be fully modeled by a polynomial time algorithm. I think
1717.
by zardo 11y ago
What's tinfoil hat about that? That's basically the history of colonialism. India was ruled by the British East India company for a century.
1718.
by zardo 11y ago
a) would be a terrific outcome for future historians.
1719.
by zardo 11y ago
>That's like saying that we should randomly start drilling holes in the ground because sometimes we will strike oil. Unless you have better tools for locating the oil, that's not a bad strategy.
1720.
by zardo 11y ago
You don't necessarily need to hit every cell in an organism to produce useful therapies. Most cells aren't going to be expressing the gene that's causing a disease, only cells in the affected tissue or organ need to be treate
1721.
by zardo 11y ago
Potential for misuse is near infinite though - imagine a privatized CRISPR inaccessible to the sub-$50 million/ year crowd. I can imagine a lot worse than that. Imagine genetic engineering gets dirt cheap, and that does seem to be the
1722.
by zardo 11y ago
In geometric algebra it's a single equation. ∇E=∂B/∂t
1723.
by zardo 11y ago
Isn't operating an RC helicopter over a parade already an FAA violation?