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by thkim 3y ago
Whether or not authors are credible, instead of the claims, is not a scientific discussion.
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by thkim 3y ago
Since when is ad hominem a part of evaluating claims?
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by thkim 3y ago
I did not say I consider private research in some sort of higher level than public research. I only said they have no incentive to do full disclosure right now. Without knowing exactly what they know, it is insulting to authors to describe,
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by thkim 3y ago
Original authors have been working on it for 23 years since they first found the material in 1999. They are part of private institution and have no incentive to rush the disclosure so that other labs can catch on their life's work. Aut
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by thkim 4y ago
Algo trading != HFT. HFT is a type of algorithmic trading strategies, categorized by trading interval. In the same categorization there are mid-freq strategies as well. The term "high frequency" is rather subjective, it depends on
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by thkim 4y ago
OK so Tether went from 83bn to 73bn... what's the big deal? It's not like LUNA.
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by thkim 4y ago
I think Tether can get away with less than 100% collateralization. At the current market cap of 82bn, even if they are only 20% collateralized, it takes 16.4bn one way movement to deplete their reserve. Is that likely event? Guess it depend
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by thkim 4y ago
Which part of it is "stupid" ? Please have some respect.
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by thkim 5y ago
From my experience, this is true, but reward is not why such behavior becomes culture. Culture is ingrained by leaders who act and lead according to value organization adheres to. The key here is to have leaders at every level who embodies
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by thkim 5y ago
I sense negative images on the term "growth". Yes, "growth" often employs methods that are borderline scam. It's exactly what they are hired to do: enlarge and fix funnel at all stages. There's nothing inherent
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by thkim 5y ago
A society where quickest decisions are made would be either 1) dictatorship or 2) non-human, i.e. AI based. Would that be a good society to live in, I can't tell for sure. I can say for sure that democracy is designed to be slow and in
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by thkim 5y ago
I don't agree with this argument. Open source contribution is a fine art. Half-baked pull request is a nightmare for already-strained code reviewers. It does not help open source community as a whole.
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by thkim 5y ago
It's not politically correct nor polite to say this, but Japan's problem is their education and cultural system ingrains subservience to the point that Japanese people are subservient even to injustice. It's not just ineffici
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by thkim 5y ago
Intrinsic value has nothing to do with cost of transaction.
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by thkim 5y ago
An investment asset must have a cash flow and/or intrinsic value. Otherwise you do not have a way to recuperate your money, so it is not an investment. They also provide basis for value of the asset. Bitcoin has neither. That is why Bi
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by thkim 6y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "employer can prevent employees from taping them." Do you mean you assume management corner offices are not taped? That's a problem with corporate culture, not video surveillance. I still do
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by thkim 6y ago
Why is video surveillance a problem? It seems to be most efficient at protecting employees from being falsely accused & spares from witch hunting. It also helps prevent crime for society. If privacy is the concern, then regulation shoul
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by thkim 6y ago
Nothing "wrong" with PHP itself, but it's clearly not designed for modern web programming patterns which makes it feel outdated. No separation of model-view-controller, not friendly for API or AJAX, no class structure until l
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by thkim 6y ago
https://www.kingsing.com/product/561-en.html?gclid=EAIaIQobC...
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by thkim 6y ago
It looks like a typical machine can manufacture a mask 50~100 per minute. For 40 hour work week that is 200k masks per week. So technically we only need 5000 of these machines to produce 1bn a week.
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by thkim 6y ago
This is probably before the virus was better understood. Some argue that the virus can be spread by the host 48 hours before a symptom is developed. Whether true or not, what's so difficult about everyone wearing a mask just to be on t
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by thkim 6y ago
It's OK using same mask every day. It still helps the virus stay local. CDC should tell everyone to wear masks right now. If we just tell (or force with fine) everyone to wear a mask and have their mouth covered whenever in close proxi
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by thkim 7y ago
Business is not war, but they are similar enough. If you can't earn your money by winning against competitors, you will be left to starve and die. No blood, no trauma, but the end result is not too different.
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by thkim 7y ago
When you are a junior staff you don't understand why decisions are made rather inefficiently. You only come to understand as you move up the ladder in the organization. There is nothing stupid or evil about how "organization"
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by thkim 7y ago
Could it be that Vision Fund is a grand scheme to vacuum global liquidity, especially from the Middle East? In the absence of war these days, Weapons of Financial Mass Destruction might exactly be what is needed.
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by thkim 7y ago
I gave Firefox a try yesterday. It crashed four times in a day. I'm switching back to Chrome for peace of mind. Chrome hogs memory but I'd rather suffer memory than irritating browsing experience.
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by thkim 7y ago
If I were to guess: got $100bn cash, not many obvious opportunities to spend on, why not add a device to portfolio? OS + device seems to be Google corporate strategy. Fitbit has disastrous financials. It's been losing money for four st
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by thkim 7y ago
You are confused by the "propaganda" you posted. Like I wrote in other thread, if the innovation comes at low cost, it might make sense to have no barrier to IP. Innovations in Shenzhen are low cost. It's vastly different fro
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by thkim 7y ago
You seem to confuse between basic science and applied science. What you are saying is government should direct resources to every research. Basically saying that planned economy is better off than market economy. I wouldn't say market
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by thkim 7y ago
This is a naive thinking. Advances in software industry are purely intellectual so it doesn't involve heavy cost, which is why open source idea can work and be argued that it promotes innovation. Say you are a pharmaceutical company de

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