henron

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by henron 4y ago
Man, that's really sad. Goes to show you how much of life is outside of your control.
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by henron 4y ago
I really prefer working with functional transformations over containers (including iterators).
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by henron 5y ago
The recent CDC study [1] suggests that vaccine efficacy against hospitalization for people 65+ is ~80% in the US. If we have reason to believe that a third vaccine dose would increase that efficacy, and the immunological data suggests that
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by henron 5y ago
Monero looks like the best crypto for crime, so probably the most valuable crypto in the long run.
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by henron 5y ago
As long as the real rate of return is positive and wealthy people have a higher income or save a higher percentage of their income, inequality will increase. Hence inequality almost(?) always increases in times of stability. You don't
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by henron 5y ago
T bond yields are determined by auction, so the Fed does not have full discretion over long term interest rates. That's why the 30yr yield has fluctuated between 1.6-2.5% this year even though the overnight rate has not changed.
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by henron 5y ago
In case anyone wants to take a look at the actual data, I unrolled the weird summary files into CSVs: https://github.com/henrydavidge/redistricting-data-2020
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by henron 5y ago
It is so sketchy that one of the biggest crypto exchanges and one of the biggest trading shops are run by the same people.
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Structure and Design of SARS-CoV-2 Spikes(youtube.com)
2 points by henron 5y ago|0 comments
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by henron 5y ago
My mental model is that in the next decade or so mRNA treatments could be effective if a disease can be treated through the expression of a small number of proteins. These proteins could either have a direct function or stimulate an immune
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Understanding Coinbase(diff.substack.com)
3 points by henron 6y ago|0 comments
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by henron 6y ago
I'm not a fan of crypto as it exists today, but setting that aside, I feel like coinbase is at an unstable equilibrium as a business. If bitcoin becomes more mainstream, the high fees will not fly indefinitely, and margin drops. If bit
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by henron 6y ago
See the founder of Coinbase fail to name a single specific way that bitcoin makes anyone better off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1073&v=Iiny6KBekSc .
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by henron 6y ago
This technique of using distributed storage for large joins instead of shuffling between compute nodes also helps make your job robust to spot instance kills. Until disaggregated shuffle services are widely adopted, it can be really handy.
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Rat King(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by henron 6y ago|0 comments
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by henron 6y ago
There are enough people who were PCR positive that antibody tests aren't necessary for this kind of study.
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GloWGR: A fast, sensitive method for genome wide association studies(databricks.com)
1 points by henron 6y ago|0 comments
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by henron 6y ago
I agree with many of the observations in the deck, but how would you go about prioritizing the most impactful improvements? Is there a best in class method of quantifying how UX hurdles?
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by henron 6y ago
Often people find it easier to reason about real life situations than equivalent formal abstractions. This passage from a novel I read recently demonstrated this principle well. No idea if the statistics are correct, but for me at least the
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by henron 6y ago
No book has made me question the reality of my surroundings like Ubik by Philip K Dick.
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Lake Agassiz(en.wikipedia.org)
53 points by henron 6y ago|21 comments
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by henron 7y ago
The problem is that no direct to consumer fintech company has found a legal way to make money other than 1) processing transactions 2) holding savings. The examples of struggling companies in the article underscores this point.
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Show HN: A simple robo advisor in a Chrome extension(openrobo.app)
2 points by henron 7y ago|0 comments
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by henron 8y ago
I support Quillette's fight for free speech and wholeheartedly agree that it's important that we can debate any idea put forth in "good faith" (subjective, of course, but a necessary qualifier) on its merits. However, I
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by henron 8y ago
This is really moving stuff. In a similar vein, I found Joan Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking" to be a deeply personal and illuminating exploration of grief and loss.