travmatt

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by travmatt 5y ago
Any business who followed your logic would be then vulnerable to the first competitor who was willing to sell the cure instead. To prevent that from happening, it would take a global conspiracy of every company who could develop said drug,
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by travmatt 5y ago
In reality, a company will look at the cure and know that it will end the market in management. They will also understand that whoever brings the cure to market first will take the majority of the profits, and the other will just lose. A co
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by travmatt 5y ago
If a company is aware that a new drug could cure a previously managed disease, it’s pretty obvious that you’d like to be the one pocketing any available profits before a competitor does. The conspiracy only works to the extent that nobody e
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by travmatt 6y ago
I don’t think the stock market has correlated with underlying economic realities in a long time, and I don’t think short selling is the cause of that. Additionally, I’d think that the small constant corrections of short sellers helps avoid
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by travmatt 6y ago
Economic research[0] disagrees with you. “”” We show that stock prices are more accurate when short sellers are more active. First, in a large panel of NYSE-listed stocks, intraday informational efficiency of prices improves with greater sh
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by travmatt 6y ago
Markets cannot find efficient prices without short selling.
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by travmatt 6y ago
One of the people in the world most vulnerable to short selling is against it.* Short selling is still an essential part of markets and price discovery, it’s not really that hard to understand why Elon is against it.
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by travmatt 6y ago
I saw a picture on Reddit of a wall stacked high with 3060’s. In the comments, the poster mentioned he placed a bulk order, the downside was it took a while.
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by travmatt 6y ago
Some might argue that you should provide evidence and arguments that support your allegation that’s she’s selling influence.
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by travmatt 6y ago
I have a hard time reconciling the fact you claim to be making a dispassionate analysis, and yet cannot find a single accomplishment of Janet Yellen that would merit her being an in-demand speaker, except her ability to ‘direct government l
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by travmatt 6y ago
I’m telling you that black people in America have a culture that is descended from a lot of sources, and you cannot just simplify it as Anglo-Saxon, again because such a wide swath comes from the African diaspora that ignoring that means ig
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by travmatt 6y ago
I know expat Jamaican and Dominican communities in New York that celebrate festivals yearly. I ate jerk chicken with red beans and rice last week, I don’t think that was an Anglo-Saxon invention, nor was chitlins, collard greens or other di
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by travmatt 6y ago
African-American culture is most certainly not Anglo-Saxon. It’s actual roots in the African diaspora and the Caribbean, and there are entire communities, like the Gullah of the Carolinian coasts, that have preserved their culture and langu
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by travmatt 6y ago
To protect against harassment: https://www.androidheadlines.com/2019/08/t-mobile-hands-over...
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by travmatt 6y ago
One possible candidate drug I’ve read quite a bit about but have not seen anything on HN about is high-dose melatonin, and even typical melatonin use is associated with a lower chance of testing positive. There’s a bunch of papers discussin
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by travmatt 6y ago
> The UK's health services are struggling at the moment. Are you saying the NHS is struggling with their doctors publishing dangerous recommendations? I’m not sure what you’re implying.
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by travmatt 6y ago
I haven’t heard vitamin d administration is associated with better outcomes, but I’ve heard that vitamin d levels are inversely correlated with outcomes - i.e., people should take a blood test and determine if they are vitamin d deficient,
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by travmatt 6y ago
If you do his breathing exercises you can step into a cold shower and legitimately not notice the cold.
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by travmatt 6y ago
It’d be pretty useless to only research and document phenomena that you already understand. But in case it seems that odd to you, here’s 16 other cases of cancer that went into remission after a viral infection: https://clinmedj
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by travmatt 6y ago
> I read 45 books in 2020 He’s claimed to have read a fairly large number of books in 2020. So not on the basis of his writing swift, rather his taste as a reader.
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by travmatt 6y ago
I don’t think the many eyes fallacy states that code audits are impossible or useless.
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by travmatt 6y ago
A good example was the AWS S3 outage that occurred when a single engineer mistyped a command[0]. While the outage wouldn't have occurred had an engineer not mistyped a command, that conclusion still would have missed the issue that the
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by travmatt 6y ago
Other comments here have remarked that previous sightings may have violated airspace laws. It’s unlikely that he’d break those laws.
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by travmatt 6y ago
If you go to YouTube and type in “FIBA gather step”, you’ll see a video released by the rules body showing legal 0 steps, the rule is being used exactly as intended, to the point where they want people to know it’s explicitly legal. What yo
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by travmatt 6y ago
James Harden doesn’t travel, he simply knows the rule book better than non-experts. Specifically, he knows the gather step better than most anyone: https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2020/2/23/21149538/jam
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by travmatt 6y ago
I’m just as concerned about: > According to one cyber-security expert, the claims sounded "believable". One anonymous source at the topic of the article that bolsters the claim, then all the experts who were willing to attach t
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by travmatt 6y ago
Except if something changes suddenly and surgery is suddenly needed - that’s what makes it an emergency.
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by travmatt 6y ago
For those interested in accidental vs inherent complexity, “Out of the Tar Pit” is a very easy to read paper that explores those definitions: https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master...
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by travmatt 6y ago
~10k and a minor hit of publicity. If you’re a security researcher I imagine that this is a solid boost to your reputation.
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by travmatt 6y ago
In the decision the justices note that qualified immunity was not the matter brought before the court, and it may yet shield the agents in question from personal liability.

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