kyrieeschaton

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by kyrieeschaton 5y ago
Do we need scare quotes around "censorship" when reddit is telling them particular names are unmentionable in any context?
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
Anyone who believes that "master" is some kind of slur and takes the opportunity to take offense over it is not someone you want causing problems in your organization.
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
Have you heard of "cowboys"?
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
Not true. There is a reason why people sort products by popularity. This is just a variation.
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
People interested in this approach should compare Rich Hickey's Datomic.
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
Because Asians broadly speaking do not depend on favors from the ruling elite for their position, thus they are politically unreliable (although currently mostly aligned with them). https://spandrell.com/2017/11/14
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
Diversity substantively means fewer whites and asians. The goal is a 100% diverse school system.
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
Please add this to the column of "things evil right wing twitter anons were investigating years beforehand", so you can update your estimates of their future credibility.
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
MMT does not depend on or imply the relation between debt and inflation, it addresses the metaphysics of "government debt" as such. In fact it suggests you should not "inflate away the debt", as if governments were subj
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
20% of all dollars were created in 2020. The only thing preventing that from translating into the broader price level is that money velocity collapsed due to the Covid shutdowns. Instead most of that has channeled into financial and prope
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
Those emails are textbook schizophrenia.
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
"Securities" is a pretty well understood term. Mutual funds, the most legible way to get an estimate of the holding cost of securities (since they are required to transact at net asset value) routinely charge between 0.2-1% fees,
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
BTC trivially avoids, eg, chargebacks. It is effectively the only money transmission mechanism that verifiably does do.
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
Did you know that vanilla financial securities also require upkeep? Approximately 0.5% of the value of all financial assets is burned every year (and potentially an order of magnitude more, depending on what asset and packaging you're
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
What's the energy cost of a financial sector that takes a ~3% cut of all retail transactions, puts up physical bank branches to manage money, empowers a federal reserve to manage the value of currency with more or less competency... Co
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
Even fairly strong correlations break down on restricted ranges of inputs. Eg, if you're hiring between 80-90th percentile candidates (top ones get better offers, lower ones get filtered out), yes, the correlation will get swamped by
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
That is specious. People remember during the opening days of the Covid fiasco, when "disinformation" encompassed interpretations of publicly available data that were forbidden exactly until the moment they were mandatory (airborn
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
How much evidence is there that the "reddit onslaught" actually moved the price, as opposed to them being the stalking horse for more sophisticated actors with more capital exercising a vanilla short squeeze strategy?
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
The important question for any piece of analysis is "would we actually do anything different if this comes out one way or another?"
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
Simultaenous with pausing buys of GME they were allowing accounts and positions to be opened and margin trades to occur, so it cannot be that they simply needed to limit their capital requirement full stop. The capital requirement is a pre
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
He delayed publication for years (in the proverbial desk drawer) while he attempted to develop a positive and politically acceptable spin on the results (self censorship). He is also probably one of the top ten most prestiguous living soci
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
> Data collected by eminent political scientist suggests ethnic diversity, amongst other things, massively lowers social trust > "Wow just wow what a 'racist campaign for the return of segregation'" I wonder why it
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
Unfortunately most research on social capital and mistrust has been desk-drawered or heavily self censored due to the political implications. https://www.chronicle.com/article/robert-putnam-and-the-ethi... https:&#x2F
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
You can consider "hyperinflation" as a consensus that the government is lying about the value of its currency. How does a consensus develop that someone is lying? It's a complex process, and doesn't have a neatly aggre
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
The circumstances are that an english-tweeting western-sponsored Yale World Fellow with approximately zero actual Russian support found himself "poisoned" (nonfatally, of course) in a way politically useful to the west in their on
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
Because they burned 300 million dollars on a massive shift in recruitment priorities and are now having an "oh shit" moment and hiring back people from the ancien regime.
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
Sure, here's an example of the CIA flatly lying about a separate novichok incident. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/04/cia-director-used-fake...
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
Security agencies of democratic regimes (that happen to be marginally accountable to the people elected) don't have the ability to synthesize known molecules and use them for political purposes? They don't have the ability to lie
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
It's odd to hold as an assumption that the Russian government is the only entity that can synthesize this molecule. It's also odd to take the word of "a laboratory of the German armed forces" as some sort of independent
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by kyrieeschaton 6y ago
I wonder if they have regrets about their 300 million dollar diversity push.

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