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by names_are_hard 6d ago
Fair enough. I don't know how often I do it.
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by names_are_hard 7d ago
2 seasons per month? I started watching The Sopranos this week, I watched 1.5 seasons over the weekend.
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by names_are_hard 17d ago
This is either incredibly advanced, genius-level insight into the future of software engineering, or absolutely nonsensical gibberish. I'm not smart enough to tell which, I suppose we'll find out.
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by names_are_hard 17d ago
Can you explain the fraud disincentive bit? I feel like there's something obvious I'm missing, but why would a manager earning less than their reports make fraud more likely?
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by names_are_hard 24d ago
I find the language of "collaborating with Claude" off-putting. I don't collaborate with Claude, I use Claude. It's a tool in my hands, not a colleague or a friend.
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by names_are_hard 1mo ago
I wish I worked in your organization. Every time I see the English dialect I call LLM-ese my brain shuts off.
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by names_are_hard 2mo ago
I think that I might not have been clear enough. Of course Rosh mesivta and exilarch differ in the source, but I don't think a human translator would choose to translate one title and not the other. In circles where people use the word
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by names_are_hard 2mo ago
I'm not a book editor or translator, just a guy with a reasonable familiarity with rabbinic literature in its original language. I spent some time reading the translation of Tzemach David, and I can say the following: it's legible
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by names_are_hard 2mo ago
Well the idea that the price of a stock represents the actual value of the company can be complicated but the realization that it's super hard to figure out what the actual value of a company really is, because figuring that out really
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by names_are_hard 2mo ago
Is buying insurance gambling? Is giving your second cousin 100k some money so he can open up is restaurant gambling if you expect a percent of the profits but won't actively be involved in advising him on running the business?
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by names_are_hard 2mo ago
I don't understand how this happened. Surely you picked up enough of the lecturer's views during the lectures and you knew what you had to say to get a good grade. So why didn't you do it? The way I see it, the humanities cla
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by names_are_hard 3mo ago
It's funny when quintessential American business models bump up against foreign regulations and they have to find workarounds to keep in line with the law while trying to stay true to character. Not long ago I was in a Five Guys in Fra
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by names_are_hard 3mo ago
Wow. I spent decades of my life living in the US but apparently the wrong parts. Now I'm living in a different continent but I hope one day I'll have the opportunity to experience this part of America. Happy Independence Day!
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by names_are_hard 3mo ago
>> Reproduction or distribution of any materials obtained on this website or linking to this website without written permission is prohibited.[0] [0] https://berkshirehathaway.com/disclaimer.html
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by names_are_hard 3mo ago
The article mentions tang repeatedly as if it's a positive thing. Maybe I don't know what tang is, but shouldn't pancakes be sweet and not tangy?
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by names_are_hard 3mo ago
Claude is a tool in the hands of the person using it. If you built a cabinet using power tools would you say the drill and saw built the cabinet? Or that you did? I find it irritating when people send me a code review and say that Claude wr
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by names_are_hard 4mo ago
Robinhood (and retail in general) order flow is valuable precisely because there's already no information in it. It's assumed to be more or less random. Institutional order flow can move the market, or be an indicator that the mar
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by names_are_hard 5mo ago
Yes. And indeed, when aggregated and averaged across all betters, nobody makes any money. The question isn't what percentage of bets resolve to no, but whether there is a consistent bias in the prices away from the fair price, which ha
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by names_are_hard 5mo ago
Yes, Silicon Valley has some bits that don't quite match real life. But every now and then there's some true insight in it. Like the bit where the crazy VC tells them that the last thing they need is revenue. https://yo
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by names_are_hard 5mo ago
> If it were true, then decline wouldn't have begun in the 19th or 20th century but around the time that property and currencies emerged. Why? Can you elaborate on that? Did the emergence of property and currency cause a negative co
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by names_are_hard 6mo ago
The Arab parties are potential "kingmakers" in the coalition arithmetic. In particular, it was Mansour Abbas that made the "change government" (Lapid-Bennett) and if there's any chance of unseating Bibi again it&#x2
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by names_are_hard 6mo ago
But it's still described as a $2M toll, not a 13.81M CNY toll. So I guess we're not there yet.
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by names_are_hard 6mo ago
When a stock drops in value, the dollars don't flow anywhere, they just disappear. Think about this: For every buyer ("putting money in a stock") there is a seller ("taking money out of a stock') at exactly the same
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by names_are_hard 6mo ago
I live here, I don't need Polymarket to know that there will be missiles tomorrow. In fact, that's why I'm on HN now even though it's just past midnight here. Because it's a well known law of nature that just as I d
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by names_are_hard 6mo ago
It means holding the actual stocks in the underlying index, as opposed to synthetic replication, which aims to achieve returns matching the index via derivatives or other techniques. It's physical in the sense that literal means not li
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by names_are_hard 6mo ago
Or he's just a manchild who likes doing things that he thinks will make him look strong.
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by names_are_hard 6mo ago
It really wasn't rocket science. Even I packed my go bag and loaded up the car on Friday night, and I have no information they don't share on the news. (I live in Israel, and when the first siren woke me at ~8 on Saturday morning
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by names_are_hard 7mo ago
I found the key insight -- when a human tries to sound like an LLM, that's perceived by other humans as humor.
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by names_are_hard 7mo ago
I'm in Israel. If you turn on the TV lately, you will inevitably hear a bunch of talking heads endlessly analyzing every word Trump said, and the movement of various US military apparatus, and then sharing "expert" insights i
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by names_are_hard 8mo ago
> When the printing press came out, I bet there were scribes who thought, "holy shit, there goes my job!" But I bet there were other scribes who thought, "holy shit, I don't have to do this by hand any more?!" I

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