6502nerdface

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by 6502nerdface 4mo ago
I wonder how the DJs will react to this hackernews post about them, when and if they find it in their regular searching, or if somebody tweets it at them.
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by 6502nerdface 1y ago
Wait what's wrong with voluntary eugenics? Perhaps the fact that something both "feels like eugenics" and is understood as the "correct medical and scientific thing to do" should cause one to reassess any unexamin
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by 6502nerdface 1y ago
James Yeh, Ken Griffin's "first quant" and eventual co-CIO of Citadel, used to say, when annoyed by a junior who was overfitting to the backtest, "I don't let the computer boss me around! I tell the computer what to
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by 6502nerdface 1y ago
All experience has shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
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by 6502nerdface 1y ago
But not the right to be forgotten.
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by 6502nerdface 2y ago
> trying to hide a signal in random noise doesn't really work Actually it works perfectly and it's called a one-time pad!
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Authelia and Lldap: Authentication, SSO, User Management for Home Networks(helgeklein.com)
73 points by 6502nerdface 2y ago|27 comments
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by 6502nerdface 2y ago
> This isn't how the law works. We don't throw the good and bad on the scales of justice to see which side is heaviest. Shoot, there goes the argument I was planning to deploy against Saint Peter at the Pearly Gates.
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RTTY Art Historical Archives(web.archive.org)
1 points by 6502nerdface 2y ago|0 comments
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by 6502nerdface 2y ago
It's noticeably improving, though! Over the last 10 years or so, both their GDP per capita and household income per capita have roughly doubled. Now when I visit medium-sized cities there I am amazed to find latte-slinging coffee shops
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by 6502nerdface 3y ago
$8,400 over three years is about $230/month. And aside from the opportunity cost of your labor to optimize that, you should also theoretically account for any purchases that you wouldn't have made if you weren't trying to opt
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by 6502nerdface 3y ago
Mark Twain had just finished building that house the year prior, and he would die the next year; the house itself would burn down not long after that :-( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormfield
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by 6502nerdface 3y ago
> antitrust lobby you mean protrust lobby :)
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by 6502nerdface 3y ago
But disassembling/decompiling doesn't give you anything like the original code!
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by 6502nerdface 3y ago
> I am struggling to find the right words to express how wrong your view is to me. Then surely I have failed to convey it! In any case, my edited point about "deadweight loss" is perfectly consonant with the parent poster'
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by 6502nerdface 3y ago
> That $230,000 was taken from the pockets of my non-homeowning friends. Nope! First of all, it's come from no one's pockets until you sell. Until then it's just a hypothetical, theoretical gain on paper. Second of all, wh
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by 6502nerdface 3y ago
> Interesting to see how companies adapted to the changes in noncompete laws. What will be the next fallback position? a friend of mine just left a quantitative hedge fund recently that, in anxious anticipation of noncompetes possibly be
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by 6502nerdface 3y ago
I used to work at Two Sigma Investments, and back in 2012-2014 or so, after the publication of his "irrationality" books (before the ones about dishonesty), Dan Ariely gave a well-attended talk at the company headquarters (I wonde
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by 6502nerdface 3y ago
> Meritocracy is tyranny by another name. [You then go on to elaborate with historical examples of how merit != virtue.] As far as I can tell, the linked article in fact makes exactly the same point: > They [the founders] also knew th
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by 6502nerdface 3y ago
In Las Vegas they solve this by blowing cold air onto the sidewalk through an always-open door, thereby cooling passersby, and perhaps enticing a few to enter for a game of slots.
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Hackers' Conference (1984)(textfiles.com)
2 points by 6502nerdface 3y ago|1 comments
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by 6502nerdface 3y ago
As described by an attendee, Robert Gaskins [0], who would later invent PowerPoint: This meet-up was initiated by Kevin Kelly and Stewart Brand, and designed by Lee Felsenstein, Bill Budge, Andy Hertzfeld, and Doug Carlston, timed to coinci
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by 6502nerdface 3y ago
(2017)
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Deep Time Maps: maps of ancient Earth(deeptimemaps.com)
1 points by 6502nerdface 3y ago|1 comments
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by 6502nerdface 3y ago
I wonder if the title is making a pun about eating a Jewish variety of leavened bread.
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by 6502nerdface 3y ago
I did some research on this a while ago and concluded that GA is about as dangerous as motorcycling, both about 5-9x more dangerous than passenger cars depending whether you count fatalities or fatal accidents per passenger-mile. On a per-h
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A kid who could read my mind (2009)(susam.net)
2 points by 6502nerdface 3y ago|0 comments
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by 6502nerdface 3y ago
> A seldom expressed idea is that maybe we acted close to optimally throughout this whole thing. He doesn't go so far as to say "optimal," but Janan Ganesh recently made a similar point in the Financial Times: https:&#x2F
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by 6502nerdface 3y ago
Here you go https://youtu.be/EIyixC9NsLI
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by 6502nerdface 3y ago
If this is interesting to you, I highly recommend Paul Kingsnorth's 2014 novel The Wake . It's written in a sort of de-latinized English and tells the story of an Anglo-Saxon freeman living through the Norman conquest in the Linc

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