gridlockd

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by gridlockd 6y ago
Efficient market hypothesis is nonsense. A lot of institutional investors are long-only. That is their mandate. All the information they may have does not change that fact. It is unlikely that you will beat the market in the long run and
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by gridlockd 6y ago
Tensorflow-JS is that framework that you export to from Tensorflow. Tensorflow-JS is not Tensorflow, it's just the same brand.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
Smash that downvote button to make society more just and less racist!
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by gridlockd 6y ago
That "tiny minority" still has an outsized impact. The pareto principle applies to pretty much everything.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
So you're saying that telling people to shut up will not actually change their minds and make the world a better place? I don't like that. I'll give you a downvote, that will set things right!
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by gridlockd 6y ago
Unfortunately, the self-styled "anti-racists" of today are giving me a tough time convincing actual Neonazis that there isn't some sort jewish marxist conspiracy out there to censor them.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
The point is that people want to know what's going to happen before it happens. If I believed a Democrat was sure to win, I would want to allocate my stock portfolio different than if a Republican were to win. Also, you can make money
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by gridlockd 6y ago
> Because a PhD is useful for a lot more than getting a permanent academic position. My first "proper job" was at a research division of a big corporation. They had ~20 PhDs when I started and expanded to ~100 over 3 years. I d
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by gridlockd 6y ago
This isn't going to piss off current customers though, it's going to piss off customers from fifteen years ago, who haven't upgraded, or maybe the freeloaders that used CS2 lately. A lot of people were pissed off about Adobe
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by gridlockd 6y ago
five sigma
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by gridlockd 6y ago
gods > people
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by gridlockd 6y ago
The gods help those who help themselves.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
Green jelly beans linked to acne.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
Of course there's lots of factors, but this is one obvious factor that must not be ignored. > What about different strains and variability in how deadly they are? Is there any evidence that the variations spreading now are different
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by gridlockd 6y ago
Fair enough, it's arguably cynical to tell the children that Santa Claus isn't real. However, we're all adults here. The highest-quality software can not win in the software market. This is evident from the software that is
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by gridlockd 6y ago
> This is just pushing testing to the customer. Correct. > Why would the customer report a bug instead of switching to a less buggy product? All products are buggy to varying degrees. As a user, you can't easily tell if another p
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by gridlockd 6y ago
I don't buy the "bugs caught early are cheaper to fix" paradigm. Most bugs are caught early without special precautions, but special precautions can be quite expensive. Most software doesn't have truly catastrophic fai
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by gridlockd 6y ago
This may be uncomfortable to point out, but at some point, the virus has to run out of susceptible people to kill. The real chance of dying from COVID for an individual is not the average of ~0.4%. It's 0.0% for the vast majority of pe
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by gridlockd 6y ago
> I quite honestly wonder sometimes why Rust excited me so much when I first started using it, but I do not get such excitement from Zig. Good! Maybe you can actually get something done using it then, instead of getting lost in mastering
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by gridlockd 6y ago
> Just please do not make the mistake of believing that it is unique to Zig. Factor brings the best of Forth and Lisp together... What is unique to Zig is that it has these features without bringing together "the best of Forth and
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by gridlockd 6y ago
Unless there's material evidence that Elon Musk or his company execs have had any hand in this "coup", I would write that off as trolling.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
> MSNBC at least seems to be informing their viewers on domestic issues better than that baseline. The difference is only about 5% to the "no news" crowd. Also, people that are better-educated tend to lean liberal and therefore
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by gridlockd 6y ago
> I'd be interested if you can guess the fantasies i have knowing that. I can't, please elaborate.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
> You got more renewable usage in Europe and more stable grids than the US. Usage and production are two different things. You can produce more energy than you need and have a stable grid by just throwing money at the problem. In 2016, y
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by gridlockd 6y ago
I'd be interested, what sort of fantasies do you have about rising CO2 levels and/or temperatures on this planet? What do you believe is actually going to happen?
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by gridlockd 6y ago
You'd think that if this was an easily solvable problem, the great engineering nation of Germany would've solved it, instead of just firing up the coal plants. To store just a fraction of the needed power would require millions of
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by gridlockd 6y ago
Those taxes and levies are used to finance the renewables, so it makes no sense to leave them out of the picture. These renewables produce a lot of power that isn't needed during their peaks, which gets sold at low or negative prices o
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by gridlockd 6y ago
> Excess death in places where hospitals were overwhelmed (Lombardy, NYC, Madrid) was so many standard deviations above normal values that I am not even sure how we can be having this discussion. Sure, you may have very high excess death
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by gridlockd 6y ago
> Two things: first, you don't need every hospital to be overwhelmed for it to constitute an issue. Of course, but you need a significant amount of hospitals to be overwhelmed to cause significant excess death. Remember, we're
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by gridlockd 6y ago
You can get pretty much any GPU at pre-COVID prices right now, except for the newest generation NVIDIA GPUs that just came out to higher-than-expected demand.

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