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by _gmax0 3mo ago
When did "X is built one marble at a time" become popular? Maybe search analytics can tell us.
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by _gmax0 3mo ago
Winston Churchill once laid bricks as a means to outrun the black dog.
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by _gmax0 3mo ago
If not for taxpayers, the opportunity cost would be incalculably immense.
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by _gmax0 1y ago
Thanks for this, I hadn't come across it before.
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by _gmax0 1y ago
Last time this happened in the US was during GFC. Mercedes-Benz and BMW "went into hiding" instead of Birkins. Who's they? Members of every generation have to become class-conscious at some point, no? Some just pick it up qu
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by _gmax0 1y ago
Heard from the grapevine that CloudFlare uses it for their analytics.
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by _gmax0 1y ago
Internet researchers commonly use RIPE and RouteViews. https://www.routeviews.org/routeviews/about/ https://stat.ripe.net/docs/02.data-api/
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by _gmax0 1y ago
While traveling by car during one of his many overseas travels, Professor Milton Friedman spotted scores of road builders moving earth with shovels instead of modern machinery. When he asked why powerful equipment wasn’t used instead of so
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by _gmax0 2y ago
How tall was the guy? 80mg a day? Far beyond a reasonable amount.
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by _gmax0 2y ago
Do you have a link to this?
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by _gmax0 2y ago
Hasn't it always been flexible?
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by _gmax0 2y ago
I'll buy someone a coffee if they propose a state-space model that identifies a location on the author's plane as a function of time and incentives :^)
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by _gmax0 2y ago
Ostensibly this roostful homecoming is a result of increasing capital costs.
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by _gmax0 2y ago
David Goggin's public persona comes to mind as an extreme example. He frames his journey as one that involved embracing pain and discomfort. Now he preaches it incessantly like a sort of addict to masochism. I think this highlights th
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by _gmax0 2y ago
I had anticipated that this would've ended with you becoming Captain America.
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by _gmax0 2y ago
Off topic, but what's the state-of-art behind speech recognition models at the moment? Are people still using with DTW + HMMs?
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by _gmax0 2y ago
I actually do agree with you. If you "think locally and act locally" while young, you run the risk of being blindsided by tail outcomes in the future. I think either global thinking or acting in youth is a prerequisite to arriving
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by _gmax0 2y ago
It's my opinion that "thinking locally and acting locally" is a strategy better reserved for old age.
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by _gmax0 2y ago
Love it, such a straightforward formulation.
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by _gmax0 2y ago
Is slippage minimization even a tractable problem besides applying loose heuristics derived from empirical insights, e.g., identifying reliable early-signals of narrowing spreads and increased liquidity for a given exchange?
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by _gmax0 2y ago
Off-topic, does anyone know whether the source code for this UI is open source?
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by _gmax0 2y ago
Surely this'll trigger unwinding of the options dispersion trades that have been rumored to have been building up.
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by _gmax0 2y ago
Beautiful.
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by _gmax0 2y ago
Care to elaborate on how the real economy is positive sum and poker is negative sum?
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by _gmax0 2y ago
Obligatory "please do not discount suvivorship bias in your results".
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by _gmax0 2y ago
Cue the classic joke: A finance professor is walking across the University of Chicago campus with a student. They come upon $20 lying on the ground, and the student leans down to pick it up. The professor said, “Don’t bother. If it was real
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by _gmax0 2y ago
I wonder if there's a strong positive correlation between periods of high Federal Fund Rates and periods of prevailing sentiment that espouses for 10x developers.
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by _gmax0 2y ago
I heartily prescribe the programmer's manifesto to the author: http://programming-motherfucker.com/
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by _gmax0 3y ago
Marginally related (this paper explains the mechanisms of a DeFi exploit which are the same mechanisms used generally in this 'strategy'): https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03810
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by _gmax0 3y ago
What does "no longer needed" mean? I think most people who encourage the exchange of money for 'happiness' don't fully grasp the subjectivity of this judgement. A person's preferred strategy for expending and c

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