wkyle

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by wkyle 3y ago
I don't think that it makes a ton of sense to draw an ideological difference between shorting and buying in the secondary market, where buying is 'Investing' and short selling isn't. Both are valid contributors to price
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by wkyle 3y ago
No, NW border of Excelsior is 280, so definitely not north of Monterrey Blvd. Broad strokes neighborhood is Twin Peaks area. That part of Twin Peaks is heavily influenced by historically affluent planned developments. Some of the more well
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by wkyle 3y ago
Note that nonfarm payroll is still seasonally adjusted - 156105k vs. 156306k adjusted. The FRED series for NFP with and without sesonality: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=15LPE
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by wkyle 4y ago
> The answer to that more likely has to do with some very broad phenomenon: capital has been accumulating due to increases in energy availability. Human talent (that turns capital into something actual) is plateauing due to slowing of po
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by wkyle 4y ago
I'm not sure if this claim really makes sense - if water districts are incentivized by income, and if high users really have such inelastic water consumption, then wouldn't the water district continue to raise the tiered rates at
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by wkyle 4y ago
If the intention of this idea is to allocate reasonable consumption to each person at low prices and quickly increase prices beyond that, then I don't think this wouldn't be a bad thing. Tradeable quotas can be an effective way to
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by wkyle 4y ago
The parent comment suggests a progressively priced system that would presumably allow for cheap consumption of water at small quantities. I think the comments here discarding this idea by claiming price sensitivity doesn't exist for we
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by wkyle 4y ago
A cyclist must be courteous for you not to kill them? The instigator on an unsafe pass is the person passing, not the person getting passed.
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by wkyle 4y ago
It's certainly possible that even with the volatility smile markets still underprice unlikely events, but high returns from a tail-heding fund during a black swan event hardly provides any evidence. Regardless of pricing, the expectati
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by wkyle 4y ago
To give a brief counter to the Taleb/Spitznagel Empirica Kurtosis strategy, the pricing of deep out of the money options is systematically overvalued in relation to the Black-Scholes model, suggesting that the market correctly prices i
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by wkyle 4y ago
Why would a larger bicycle be less eco-friendly than a small, intricate bicycle with many bespoke components?
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by wkyle 5y ago
Transportation infrastructure investment is fairly zero-sum. A city full of self-driving cars is only marginally better than a city full of regular cars. The ‘smart approach’ is to reduce car friendliness in cities and rather invest in publ
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by wkyle 5y ago
On a more feasible scale, a similar idea could be better air filtration/ventilation. Better ventilation in homes or offices to decrease CO2 levels could be an easier way to achieve a similar effect. https://www.nytimes.com&#
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by wkyle 5y ago
That may sound like an easy fix, but easing the ability to discharge student loans in bankruptcy court would necessarily require higher interest rates on new loans (sans increased subsidization of student loans). That may be a palatable tra
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by wkyle 5y ago
Prophet is just a specific forecasting procedure.
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by wkyle 5y ago
This is a common anecdotal example of Simpson's Paradox. Even if work performance is positively correlated with college ranking, a subset of selected grads can have a negative relationship with the same variables. The mechanism is the
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by wkyle 5y ago
The lack of personalized ads on TikTok is really surprising - the recommendation engine must have some of the best targeting data out of any social media platform. It still seems like Facebook ads are far more demographically and psychograp
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by wkyle 5y ago
The Bugaboos in Eastern BC are well known for having rubber-eating porcupines. Standard practice when leaving a car at the trailhead for a while is to wrap the underside in chickenwire. https://www.mountainproject.com/photo&
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by wkyle 5y ago
The pillar experiment from the paper isn't fully explained in the article. The instructions stated "You may alter the structure however you want". The experiment was run with two groups, both of which were given equal costs o
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by wkyle 5y ago
There seems to be a lot of dismissal in this thread about the consequences of a Constitutionally-legal road to dictatorship. The historical precedent to this concern is the Nazification of Germany. After Hitler was appointed chancellor, the
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by wkyle 6y ago
It's kind of interesting that state departments of transportations are so involved in anti-litter campaigns. Seems like they were the most relevant government stakeholders prior to the creation of the EPA. The Keep America Beautiful ca
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by wkyle 6y ago
Vaguely similar to a joke from Ninotchka that Zizek often uses about the difference between 'coffee without cream' and 'coffee without milk'. He usually uses it to reference the concept of negation in the Hegelian dialec
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by wkyle 6y ago
The goal of a park (particularly the valley) is to allow as many people as possible to see and appreciate it. There are hundreds of thousands of square miles of empty wilderness in the Sierra (including in Yosemite) , with much of it simila
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by wkyle 11y ago
Considering 67.8% of murders are committed with firearms[1], it's pretty fair to frame this as an attempt to reduce gun violence. Also, this solution mainly focuses on resolving disputes in a non-lethal way that would have been traditi