fredch

7 ms·

1.
by fredch 8y ago
FOR THE RECORD, Financial crashes are not "black swan" events. I've never seen a black swan in my life, but I've seen two or three financial crashes. As far as I can tell, Taleb is just a memer. His degeneration of lat
2.
by fredch 8y ago
What does QE have to do with anything? Also, if you think extending cheap financing to businesses during a financial collapse is wasteful you're a fool. Pretty strange to be bitching about monetary policy then in the same breath prais
3.
by fredch 8y ago
Shameful FUD
4.
by fredch 8y ago
Don't people just write helper functions to deal with the error checking spam? It's five lines at the top of the file... Anyway, I will miss our GOPATH overlords. I have enough decisions to make, I'm fine with the language ma
5.
by fredch 8y ago
It's a lot of trouble to go through to get people to forget you called some Thai firefighter a pedo on Twitter...
6.
by fredch 8y ago
Eh, it's a very limited study that basically says two sets of subjective effects are similar. Useless, maybe, but not pseudo.
7.
by fredch 8y ago
Will someone please update this with experiences with Ryzen?
8.
by fredch 8y ago
I think the question is, what happens when we move away from this usefulness in physics? I didn't follow the paper, but some way of backdooring quantum uncertainty into classical physics might be useful, too
9.
by fredch 8y ago
Very carefully.
10.
by fredch 8y ago
Another week, another example of people doing something dumb on the basis of medical superstition...
11.
by fredch 8y ago
Forget that. There's example code in the standard library documentation that golint will flag. Seriously. And the devs don't give a fig, even though the "proper" way forces you to put some throwaway variable outside the
12.
by fredch 8y ago
The author is obviously alluding to democracy.
13.
by fredch 8y ago
Suicide is the purest expression of the precautionary principle. Think about it. Seriously, oxygen is a known carcinogen, responsible for the massive generation of free radicals in the body. Realize: look at how oxygen burns wood, it can ev
14.
by fredch 8y ago
Finding a good doctor is harder than finding a good mechanic these days...
15.
by fredch 8y ago
These medications carry black box warnings from the FDA, which means they should be used as a last resort due to significant side effects. It's great that they worked for you, but they are objectively very dangerous and should not be
16.
by fredch 8y ago
Don't do pills unless you're legit suicidal. Natural things like meditation and exercise are the way to go. Take some time off work or school and make building healthy habits your one and only priority. Take the time to reassess y
17.
by fredch 8y ago
Wake me up when EUV's here...
18.
by fredch 8y ago
"Cannot stop" is kind of strong. More like "have nasty side effects while tapering off and puss out". Having been on the Zoloft,I can say is got a black box warning for a reason and should only be taken if you're se
19.
by fredch 8y ago
This seems more like an extension of the lymphatic system; also you're confusing musculoskeletal fascia with ground substance.
20.
by fredch 8y ago
No, bodily "energy flows" are all in the head. It's very easy to think yourself into all sorts of physical sensations.
21.
by fredch 8y ago
This is one of the weak points of the author's presentation. He's meaning "race" as ancestral origins grouped at the level at which there was relatively little external gene flow during premodern times, e.g groups separa
22.
by fredch 8y ago
Another gun person who thinks he's living in an action movie...
23.
by fredch 9y ago
Protip: get your stats from FRED: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MPU4910063 He probably means the rate of increase is falling? Or he doesn't care and just wants to complain about these kids with their damn eye
24.
by fredch 9y ago
Depends which kind of intelligence. If what you wrote were true, there'd be a lot fewer sanctimonious libertarians with six figure programming jobs.
25.
by fredch 9y ago
The article was fine aside from not being news. But The Atlantic's quality has plummeted over the last couple months. A lot of lazy, narrative-driven pab. Someone upstairs must have decided quantity was the thing and screw quality.