DANK_YACHT

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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
I'm not saying that if you buy an option that ends up OTM that you'll globally lose money, but in the context of that one specific trade you lost. Perhaps you're willing to take that loss in order to achieve some other goal,
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
For options trading, there is always a winning and losing side. Someone is always harmed.
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-11-17/blacks... The tldr is that they bought credit default swaps for debt owed by Codere SA, and then offered the company financial assistance to restructure w
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
The original commenter also made a random assertion: "doing math is not thinking." The person you're responding to attempted to provide a definition of "thinking."
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
Financial instruments are incredibly complex. It's very dangerous to engage with them unless you fully understand what you're getting yourself into. Other people have a huge incentive to exploit any weakness in the financial asset
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
GStreamer has a much more sane CLI interface. FFmpeg generally works better than GStreamer, but it's definitely possible to make a better command line interface.
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
The issue with FFmpeg is that it's complex, so you need to understand what all the options do, but the interface is also complex, so you need to understand how to format what you want to do, even if you already have a good understandin
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
The patent approval process isn't perfect. Had you violated the patent, and had Google sued you, you could always argue prior art. What would your evidence be?
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
They’re probably referring to the diameter of a circle. The way it’s written is unclear, but not necessarily an error per se.
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
This seems like programmer error. Don't put restricted fields into types you're deserializing off the wire. It's like accepting user input and directly inserting it into a database without any validation.
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
A little known fact is that rental assets depreciate in the eyes of the government. This is why you can deduct depreciation from rental property on tax returns. The corollary to this is that damage to those assets happen against the depreci
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
> As a meat eater, I understand I'm the driving force of this issue. How did you come to that understanding? Did you dedicate your free time to studying the impact of meat eating, or was it part of your legally mandated education?
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
Yes definitely. No analogy is perfect.
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
The entire point of electing someone to represent you is that they should take care of things for you without bothering you too much. Imaging you hire a lawyer to represent you in court and you constantly need to petition your lawyer for ch
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
> and the biggest one imo is dietary choices. Yes, let's blame the consumer. First of all, the consumer has no idea how their specific spending habits contribute to an issue. For instance, an educated consumer (many consumers are no
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
Ah yes, I forgot that two wrongs make a right /s.
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
I use pen and paper as well, but rather than print out all the source code, I write down the call stack. A calls B calls C, etc. along with the line numbers of the call. Much easier than printing out the source and you still have the IDE ni
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
We put our kid into daycare around 7 months old. Obviously every kid is different, but we're happy we chose that time. Around 7 months, our child had developed an understanding that we leave and come back, but was still young enough th
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
Why? Having shoes that tighten themselves sounds cool and convenient. Personally, I hate tying my shoes. If anything, the technology has failed by being so brittle.
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
Roombas could definitely be better. Mine gets stuck all the time. The reason I keep using it, however, is that it cleans a lot of stuff prior to getting stuck, so it still feels worth it to me.
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
> Her idea was that some tech will change world so much that there will be 100X return. Is that really so different from the VC approach?
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
> Privacy regulations can make it very difficult for competitors to gain traction for incumbents This is an oft repeated argument that makes no sense. The point of privacy legislation is not to increase competition. The point is to incre
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
I don’t know. My school wasn’t very good, so I can’t imagine it was on any type of approved school list.
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
Yea I was in school at the time.
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
I got a job at a FAANG by writing a for loop to check if a number was prime right around that time. The solution was completely naive and the interview was done over the phone in less than an hour. This is an anecdote, but there were some o
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
What do you mean you know very little? You would interview the firm and ask them what the discovery process was like. You likely wouldn’t care about the gritty details of how they sorted the documents. More important would be the scale of t
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
I’m not conflating class signaling with intelligence. It says something about your worldview that you would take that away from what I said. My point was that college involves the exchange of ideas, and each student’s intelligence is a comb
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
The biggest difference was that most people were interested in something . One friend was really into robotics. He introduced me to a lot of robotics concepts and he had a plan on how to pursue a career in robotics. Personally, robotics wa
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
> It may be a smart choice, but not all smart people who try to make that choice get in. But not all top students in mid-tier attempted to go to Harvard. So if you were basing the "smartness" of these two populations based on t
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
I went to a mid-tier school. The low-tier Harvard students are assuredly smarter than the top-tier students from my school. One reason is that students don't exist in a vacuum. Your peers influence your intelligence. Being surrounded b

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