BlandDuck

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by BlandDuck 3mo ago
This is a very good point. I think key issue is that it requires time and effort to evaluate and understand the final product. Before I starting reading something to understand it, I want to have a sense that it is likely going to be worth
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by BlandDuck 3mo ago
Exactly. That's what the index funds would have had to do as well.
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by BlandDuck 11mo ago
> I always found this statement to be rather wishful. Individual lowering of prices makes sense if and only if your competitor is capable of saturating the market. Otherwise, demand elasticity becomes very relevant. Sure, your competitor
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by BlandDuck 1y ago
It is a concern that this could simply reflect changing naming conventions for private funds. There is nothing that requires a fund to use the "Fund I" convention. Would it be possible to confirm the trend using Form ADV instead o
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by BlandDuck 1y ago
Scaling cuts both ways. You may also be underestimating the aggregate benefits of slight improvements added up across hundreds or thousands of employees. For a single person, slight improvements added up over regular, e.g., daily or weekly,
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by BlandDuck 1y ago
Standard theories of production clearly distinguish between fixed and variable costs. Moreover, it is well understood that this distinction depends on the time horizon, with more costs being variable for longer horizons. Moreover, concepts
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by BlandDuck 1y ago
I judge technical explanations of audio gear by their description of balanced signals. A common error is to focus on the positive and negative signals having opposite polarity, which is entirely irrelevant for canceling out interference (it
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by BlandDuck 1y ago
Exactly, if it had been obvious at the time that "the market" would deliver a better return, for certain, then nobody would have bought bonds at those prices. Then bond prices would have declined (and their expected returns or int
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by BlandDuck 1y ago
In finance there is an ongoing discussion of whether the small-cap premium still exists. For technical discussions, look for the terms "SMB size factor".
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by BlandDuck 1y ago
"Estimate of the remaining time before universe decays expected to be revised 10^76 times before its finally over" (conservatively assuming the estimate will be revised about once every hundred years as we learn more).
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by BlandDuck 1y ago
Too many investors, too few seats
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by BlandDuck 1y ago
You may want to look up the words "rams" (plural of "ram") and "humor" in an english dictionary.
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by BlandDuck 1y ago
Totally. Also, an attenuator is easier and cheaper to implement, because it just requires normalizing V+ into the jack plug. An offset requires an adder. My preference is: attenuator < offset < attenuator + offset. I see no benefit of
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by BlandDuck 1y ago
I love old, well-written technical books, like these. There is something about the language, directness, innocence (for lack of a better term) and careful arguments that I find incredibly satisfying. They are not afraid to go technical and
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by BlandDuck 2y ago
I agree entirely. I have two wonderful daughters, and stories like this hit hard. There is a fiction short-story called CHICXULUB By T. Coraghessan Boyle. It is one of the hardest hitting stories I have read as a parent. Still brings tears
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by BlandDuck 2y ago
Interesting ideas. I respectfully disagree with all of them. Do you have any evidence to back them up, or are you yourself "just [...] making things up that sound good" ?
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by BlandDuck 2y ago
I agree entirely. As a professional scientist who routinely uses Bayesian methods to solve complex computational and statistical problems, with actual real world applications, I cannot stress enough how irrelevant such philosophical musings
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by BlandDuck 2y ago
Look at the bright side, at least flights today are still as fast as 60 years ago. For trains, you would be hard pressed to find a route that is not significantly slower today than 60 years ago.
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by BlandDuck 2y ago
But corporate computing is also suffering from the deteriorating user experience. I have access to large amounts of harware and software through my employer. And while Microsoft Office is unavoidable, I hate it everytime I open Word or Exce
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by BlandDuck 2y ago
I know there is a bunch of new DX7 implementations on more modern hardware, i.e., the Raspberry Pi. When implemented on modern hardware, wouldn't it be possible to run the algorithm at a higher CPU processing speed, to reduce the alias
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by BlandDuck 2y ago
It is great that the URL for this website is: https://landley.net/history/mirror/institutional_memory.html In other words, it is in the "history/mirror/" sub-directory, being preserved for futu
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by BlandDuck 2y ago
How does this posting coincide with the posting of this YouTube video. Coincidence? I think not! https://m.youtube.com/shorts/8s2_wjUTT-M
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by BlandDuck 2y ago
"We can't accept drum and bass we need jungle I'm afraid" ;)
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by BlandDuck 2y ago
I can also be used to poison people who read forbidden books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Name_of_the_Rose
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by BlandDuck 2y ago
Hayek makes no statement about the ability of market forces to stabilize prices. On the contrary, his point is that the equilibrium price in a decentralized market is a good sufficient statistic that aggregates the current demand and supply
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by BlandDuck 2y ago
Thanks, that's sounds very reasonable. Unfortunately, it also sounds like there is not much push at this point to reverse these changes and streamline the process.
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by BlandDuck 2y ago
My impression is that over the past 20 years or so, the visa process has become a lot more bureaucratic, involved, and time consuming. Is that your impression as well? What has changed, and why? Are any of the changes for the better?
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by BlandDuck 2y ago
> And I think it's safe to say that that would not be a good long-term strategy. Why is this not a good long-term strategy? What is a better strategy? It seems like the alternative may well have been to go bankrupt and go out of bus
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by BlandDuck 3y ago
yes to both
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by BlandDuck 3y ago
> Is it right that I was filtered out by degree and not by capability? No, it’s not right, but it happened. It is not obvious how to find a better way to filter. In an ideal world, there would be plenty of time and resources to learn the

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