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I think the thesis of this type of trading is that black swan events are underestimated in the market, making far out-of-the-money options (i.e. insurance against unlikely events) sufficiently cheap that you can make money in the long run even if you lose money on 99.9% of days.
This is one of the few newsletters I subscribe to, interesting to see how it's done!
Exactly. There's not right and wrong for companies if there's never any _real_ risk.

If people had to just pay a small fine and go on with their lives for misdeeds, we'd see people hijacking sports cars every day.
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As different articles mentioned, ageism in tech begins around 35. The idea is to help companies already looking for diversity.

According to those articles, subtle wordings like ninja, tech-native, etc are excluding older professionals of applying for jobs.

A whole discussion about the theme here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20252097
Even though it's mostly frivolous for a mouse...

I've gotten myself into the QMK world, and was recently thinking about the possibility of something like this.

My thought was to start with a atmega32 or something. Might venture down that path when I get a free weekend or two now that I have access to a 3d printer.
I spent a while in Thailand and the dropship-bro "digital nomad" culture is just everywhere. During burning season the Chiang Mai dudes would come down to the islands and the rest of us expat/nomad types would bail to avoid them. Lots of Tim Ferris cultists and so forth, though there were also a lot of sincere people just trying to get out of the rat race. All chasing the four hour workweek thing. It's a weird subculture.
I'll agree that copyright has gone haywire as much as the next guy, but this seems to be the exact kind of defense strategy that will archieve nothing but annoy the judge.

The project seems to be based on the assumption that copyright really protects particular sequences of bytes - and that therefore, if you can sufficiently change the representation of a protected work, you're off the hook.

IANAL, but that seems far from the intentions of copyright.

The 4'33 case [0] comes to mind, where a work of nothing but silence was protected. From what I understood, in that case, the actual contents of the work didn't matter a lot (it was all just silence after all) - but what did matter was whether or not someone was consciously using this piece as a base for their own work.

My understanding is that copyright bans the act of using a protected work in an unauthorized manner. By that logic, it doesn't matter how an illegal copy is represented if the data is used with the intention of sharing an illegal copy.

[0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2276621.stm
The author may have a point but his numeric example is also comparing apples and oranges:

> If we compare, for instance, the number of people who died in the United States from COVID-19 in the second full week of April to the number of people who died from influenza during the worst week of the past seven flu seasons (as reported to the CDC), we find that the novel coronavirus killed between 9.5 and 44 times more people than seasonal flu

He is comparing the number of deaths from a disease to which we are largely immune (the flu, through flu shot or previous strains) to a new disease to which we have no immunity. Of course the number of cases will widely differ. But I think most of the educated people who compare covid 19 to the flu mean in term of IFR, i.e. the ratio of death to the number of people infected. Of course if that ratio is applied to a much greater number of infections you will get more absolute deaths.

Also is the way we account for deaths between flu and covid that different? I understand people accounted as covid death don't really die from the virus but from the effects of the virus (pneumonia, heart attack, etc). Isn't the flu killing the same way, and do we do flu tests for each death from pneumonia (or whatever the flu ends up inducing)?
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I wouldn't necessarily call the community/website "great" given that the discussion would devolve into a flame war just because a different half of the title was used.
Compared to any language that has threads, workers are a usability nightmare and come with a million caveats.

(For example they have major limitations in Electron, which is one place where having threads would be very convenient. The current best practice is to spin up an entire new hidden browserwindow instead which is frankly insane.)
I am a dropshipper and average margin on products I sell is 60-100%.

I don't sell course because i really doubt I could make much money by doing that when I can just keep dropshipping.

I never bought any course but I had a startup so I am familiar with sales and how you make conversion happens.
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I guess :) Just interesting sometimes to wonder where one would be if one would have chosen differently at a given point in life.
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ecryptfs is one way that encrypted home has been done, but it's also been done with encfs and ZFS (very recently).
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Try looking under the name "signal processing" instead. The toolbox under "time series analysis" is usually a variation on the contents of the old book by Box.
That's a somewhat cynical take, and I don't think any public policymakers would agree with your framing. What you're saying amounts to "We don't need more ventilators because all those people are probably going to die anyway and it won't save many lives."

A better reason is because we beat the outbreak. A few areas like Milan/Madrid/Brussels went past their health care capacity and could have used more hardware. But they're all past peak now, and everywhere else (almost -- there are a few worrisome spots in the US still growing, and the developing world is still a big question mark due to lack of testing) managed to reach peak without hitting their limit.

That's good news. We won. It's certainly not a problem that some of the efforts turned out not to be needed. It's like a war effort: everyone had a part to play, we needed to be conservative with our risk analysis and try different things.
I do know for a fact that Android contacts querries Google severs to pull data from Google services, like YouTube, to fill in extra contact details on the phone.

Knowing what Google's business is, I doubt they don't merge that data for a more complete profile.

You can try this yourself: Create a YouTube account, upload a picture for the account, don't add details like a phone number.

Now create a contact on Android, add a phone number (as most people do with contacts on their phone) and add the email address you registered the YouTube account, the Android contacts app will pull the profile picture from the YouTube account, and put it on the phone as the picture for the contact.

Gave me quite a little scare when I discovered this by seeing my YouTube profile picture as the contact picture on a (rather privacy and tech-illiterate) friend's Android phone, even tho I never added any phone number to any of my Google accounts, all he did was add my email address to the contact.
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Actually they somewhat did:
"Spitznagel included a chart in his letter showing that a portfolio invested 96.7% in the S&P 500 and 3.3% in Universa’s fund would have been unscathed in March, a month in which the U.S. equity benchmark fell 12.4%. The same portfolio would have produced a compounded return of 11.5% a year since March of 2008 versus 7.9% for the index."

This seems to suggest they needed to include the bad 2008-2009 time to come out looking better than just plain dca etf investing...
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is it caused by the coronavirus or the excessive measures taken to handle the coronavirus?

shutting down half the hospital when there is no need to for example
As a sibling commenter posted the fund actually presents itself as insurance - you don’t put all your money into it, you only put a small percentage. That percentage would indeed eventually disappear if you never refreshed it, but keeping a percentage in this “insurance” hedge would also mean you basically shrug off giant downturns like Covid.
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These should be avoided. Ranking articles? How about visiting the sources and reading what they have to say instead of taking peoples word for it.
I always call bs when left leaning sources, who are just as opinionated as the right leaning sources, are closer to “neutral” than the right leaning sources are to neutral. It paints a picture that right leaning sources are “closer to the extremes” when I believe the opposite is true.
Lifting of the order and people actually going back to normal are very different things.

Restaurant bookings tanked before the lockdown orders. If enough Georgians go "nope, not going out, not safe" the lockdown is de-facto still in place, even without a legal order.

(There are also other confounding factors, like people wearing masks, washing hands more often, etc.)
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Learning?
Not extensive testing and willingness to take responsibility if something goes wrong?
I think the distinction this protocol makes is that by using XOR as the "encryption" method, given any input block you can choose a "key" to decrypt with to produce any other output block. A block in isolation provides zero information to the downloader.
I think it could be argued that it is the knowledge of which blocks to combine is where the actual data is being stored, and maybe that's where the copyright owners could stake a claim.
Pneumonia is a common fatal complication of influenza, and I think there's reasonably good statistical evidence that the cases counted towards flu deaths are mostly caused by the flu especially in the bad flu epidemic years which are most comparable to Covid-19. That sentence is a bit like claiming that people don't die from falling out of airplanes because the actual cause of death was hitting the ground.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that neutral party should be the court.

If I get a fine, I'm sure I can't just wait a few years to pay it with no big deal behind that.
Excerpt:

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The problem with that tactic is that all blocks are essentially random noise (in isolation).

You could strengthen this a bit by always writing 2 blocks, one of which is random noise, and the other a xor of that block and t-2 others. This way each block is provably completely random (the blocks just aren't independent from one another).
I have had two relatives get roped into this world - one ended with them forgetting they had to pay sales tax and owing massive amounts of money, to the tune of millions in back taxes, the other fizzled out pretty quickly.

The craziest part of it was they totally bought into the "super secret" nature of the whole thing. There was a huge amount of family drama when someone in the family mentioned that her brother had a business on Amazon. He said it was top secret and he had access to trade secrets that no one else had.

Having unfortunately been involved on the tech side of MLM early on in my career, it was painfully hard not to point out the predatory nature of the whole thing.
It's very different. Dollar cost averaging (if you really follow it) has been very low risk for a very long time.

What Taleb says he's doing (betting on events that everybody assumes will not happen) tends to produce (nearly) guaranteed losses each year, with the hope that one day you make it all back and more.
It is worth noting that Gnasher, the UK Dennis's dog, is an Abyssinian wire-haired tripe hound, a rare breed indeed.
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It could happen, but I suspect this is a negotiating position more than a real desire to leave behind x86 in favor of Apple's ARM architecture chips. It makes more sense for them to improve the iPad Pro than to drop software compatibility across the MacBook lines.
Gee, I have a super cheap plug in motion detector night light that does this function for less than $10.
> Courts don't operate on technicalities. The intent is pretty much all that matters, as long as you prove that someone intended to pirate stuff, doesn't matter what rube goldberg machine they use to actually pull it off.

You are absolutely right.

This is what enabled prosecuting the founders of the pirate bay, among other things.

The fact that files are hosted elsewhere, mangled, encrypted, cut in pieces is entirely irrelevant to the court.

Hoping that a technicality gets you off the hook is exercise in shortsightedness.
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Yeah that is it, it was explained to me that it would be similar to our saying of: "What is this monkey business". Which would loosely translate to something like child play or a commotion.
masks mainly only matter when (1) you’re infected but don’t know it, or (2) you’re often in high face-to-face interaction situations (like medical care workers or cashiers)

(also, you can edit your comment to say masks instead of balls, as you apparently intended.)
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I mostly use docker compose. Perfect fit for tinkering but not over complicated and huge ram eater.

Also:k3s might be an option.
This is very nice. Do you plan to open source it? I'd love to play with it for my son.
And death from other infectious disease will be down as well because of the lockdown. But the demography of the victims from covid is largely skewed against people with a low life expectancy in the first place. And then a severe economic crisis will come with its own health issues.

So the net impact of covid will only really be known at the end of the year at best.
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A classic analogy for explaining the difference: https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
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The time period of March 2008 to March 2020 is cherry-picked. Yes, of course, the return is going to look impressive right after a black-swan event. That's why the fund exists. But in ordinary times, you're going to lose money. Which is not necessarily a bad thing, any more than it's a bad thing to "lose" money to a term life insurance policy but never pay out because you don't die.
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This is especially evident for those who used golang for non-trivial projects. Because the language has very poor support for abstractions and higher level constructs, you end up with much more verbose, brittle code that's harder to modify and read. IMO, the language designers, by optimizing for a language that's relatively easy to pick up* have pushed the complexity onto the programmer.

* Any language has its paradigms that need to be learned, and golang is no different. Just because you can learn the syntax in a couple of sittings does not mean you know how to use the language in an effective matter. Something I see many people not bring up.
Intel is dying under the weight of its own technical debt. AMD will eventually have this problem too as ARM catches up.

Meanwhile, it's 2020 and and x86 instruction sets upgrades are infrequent compared to ARM. And x86 CPUs still are required to support 16-bit devices from 35 years ago.
I forget which contrarian this stemmed from, but it was probably linked on HN previously.

There's a larger reason most central banks print money: most countries are debtor nations.

If you are a debtor nation, and you have the option to print at minimal consequence (say, because your currency is a world reserve currency), doing so is strictly better than all other options.

All other approaches open the very real possibility of an ugly spiral into depression (real) and default.

I believe the phrasing the author used was 'when faced with a choice between actual default (economy unable to support debt payments) and implicit default (currency inflation), almost every democratic government will choose the latter.'

It's easier for people to lose invisible money (inflation) than visible money (depression / fiscal tightening / loan repayment).