earthshot

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by earthshot 6y ago
Risk parity has not fared well in this crisis.
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by earthshot 6y ago
My first response was in no way a flame war.
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by earthshot 6y ago
my first response was not at all inflammatory, it contained a well-sourced definition of freedom of assembly, it was upvoted, and you flagged it too. But you left his nonsensical 'everyone should agree with (my naive and uninformed opi
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by earthshot 6y ago
Yep, the Skagit Valley Chorale had a single practice where they practiced social distancing in the room, but about 1/3 of the people who showed up caught covid and 4% of them died.
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by earthshot 6y ago
No we absolutely cannot. I prefer the American Convention on Human Rights, which states: The right of peaceful assembly, without arms, is recognized. No restrictions may be placed not the exercise of this right other than those imposed in
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by earthshot 6y ago
And Matthew 6:5-6 > And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when yo
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by earthshot 6y ago
There's a national (and international) shortage of nearly all covid-adjacent medical supplies and you think it's a problem that we're not using more of those medical supplies right this very moment? You... you're calling
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by earthshot 6y ago
The case fatality rate changes quite dramatically when hospitals are overloaded. Additionally, the fatality rate of _other_ causes increases when hospitals are overloaded. Flatting the curve saves lives even if the total number of infected
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by earthshot 6y ago
If it is inaccurate, please provide well-sourced corrections. I have no desire to spread incorrect or misleading information.
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by earthshot 6y ago
The worker was exposed to covid-19, was told to quarantine, and came back on site anyway. This strikes me as an egregious safety violation and a truly excellent reason to fire the worker.
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by earthshot 6y ago
In my experience as a business owner I was not eligible to collect unemployment insurance even though I had to pay into it. Worst of both worlds.
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by earthshot 6y ago
Complaints about saving are the most absurd thing ever. Rich people were getting free money by doing nothing and taking no risk. Now they're getting less free money by doing nothing and taking no risk. It's crazy that you want to
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by earthshot 6y ago
^ this is a strong argument for a 100% estate tax, as well as for exceptionally high capital gains taxes. After all, people with inherited wealth or unearned income will have no incentive to work otherwise. A such, we MUST strip them of th
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by earthshot 7y ago
Sheets has had pivots for years. It's become very rare that Sheets doesn't have a feature I want, whereas it's become more common that I'm in Excel and wish I could use Sheets' query function.
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by earthshot 7y ago
I’m old enough to remember when geohot was loudly claiming that he’d cracked full self driving but was shutting it down without selling the assets because the government is mean. It was hilarious to see most of HN treating that obvious nons
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by earthshot 7y ago
"well he was warning that there was a wolf, but in fact it was just a few wolf cubs. Nobody ever could've foreseen that they'd grow into wolves!
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by earthshot 7y ago
HN does have a lot of fellow libertarians (and leftists) who oppose surveillance states. But you make a good point, that authoritarian violence has always been popular, all throughout history. It is no surprise that people like you still r
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by earthshot 7y ago
They were specifically talking about marketplace fraud, where Amazon customers are misled but no money is lost. Customer fraud (against Amazon) is a different thing, though there's a bit of overlap when it comes to fraudulent returns.
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by earthshot 7y ago
I went through my account's purchases, and I also found an old Anker cable that has been taken over by a different brand, but with the old reviews preserved: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B019PZE0RO/r
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by earthshot 7y ago
During a recent Amazon all-hands meeting, the company leadership talked about how there are something like 5,000 employees working on various marketplace frauds, including using ML on some of this. I have no idea why it's so hard, but
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by earthshot 7y ago
I don't have a seller central account, and (it appears) I cannot open one either. Is there a way for me to report listing abuse _without_ being a seller? I'd like to, at a bare minimum, report the abusive listings that have naile
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by earthshot 7y ago
This comment doesn't hold up to scrutiny if you know how Amazon comp works. A standard SDE package is something like this: year 1: $X cash + $Y cash bonus (vests daily) + $Z RSUs (vest at end of year), where approximately 95% of the co
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by earthshot 7y ago
The legitimate reason is that momentum causes even frustrated and annoyed people to finish most transactions even after they realize that AirBNB has tricked them about the price. Let's not pretend there's something nobler then th
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by earthshot 7y ago
I'm sure you'll be unable to find any examples of self-hosted data being hacked, hit by malware, or otherwise attacked.
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by earthshot 7y ago
There's an e-mail thread going around Amazon about this, internally. The scam is that the fraudulent seller finds an item that is real but out of stock from all sellers. The seller than sends in their inventory, and updates the listi
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by earthshot 7y ago
This is the precise reason that I only use Robinhood as a toy trading account. Give me a 'maximize losses' tax basis, please!
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by earthshot 7y ago
You need to adjust for cash and debt to get the enterprise value. If you do so, you’ll find that Tesla is worth about 50% less than it was.
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by earthshot 8y ago
> Why would anyone with great potential want to work for you? Because most people are reasonable, intelligent, and capable of recognizing the difference between Rubin's disgusting actions, and an imaginary frame-job wherein managers
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by earthshot 8y ago
I went the other way. I did a moonshot, made great connections, had a few years of fun, learned tons, but also had horrible years and had no financial security after a decade of unceasing work. I managed to get a mid level leadership role f