https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-11-17/blacks... The tldr is that they bought credit default swaps for debt owed by Codere SA, and then offered the company financial assistance to restructure with the…
The original commenter also made a random assertion: "doing math is not thinking." The person you're responding to attempted to provide a definition of "thinking."
Financial instruments are incredibly complex. It's very dangerous to engage with them unless you fully understand what you're getting yourself into. Other people have a huge incentive to exploit any weakness in the…
The issue with FFmpeg is that it's complex, so you need to understand what all the options do, but the interface is also complex, so you need to understand how to format what you want to do, even if you already have a…
The patent approval process isn't perfect. Had you violated the patent, and had Google sued you, you could always argue prior art. What would your evidence be?
They’re probably referring to the diameter of a circle. The way it’s written is unclear, but not necessarily an error per se.
A little known fact is that rental assets depreciate in the eyes of the government. This is why you can deduct depreciation from rental property on tax returns. The corollary to this is that damage to those assets…
> As a meat eater, I understand I'm the driving force of this issue. How did you come to that understanding? Did you dedicate your free time to studying the impact of meat eating, or was it part of your legally mandated…
Yes definitely. No analogy is perfect.
> and the biggest one imo is dietary choices. Yes, let's blame the consumer. First of all, the consumer has no idea how their specific spending habits contribute to an issue. For instance, an educated consumer (many…
I use pen and paper as well, but rather than print out all the source code, I write down the call stack. A calls B calls C, etc. along with the line numbers of the call. Much easier than printing out the source and you…
We put our kid into daycare around 7 months old. Obviously every kid is different, but we're happy we chose that time. Around 7 months, our child had developed an understanding that we leave and come back, but was still…
> Her idea was that some tech will change world so much that there will be 100X return. Is that really so different from the VC approach?
> Privacy regulations can make it very difficult for competitors to gain traction for incumbents This is an oft repeated argument that makes no sense. The point of privacy legislation is not to increase competition. The…
The biggest difference was that most people were interested in something. One friend was really into robotics. He introduced me to a lot of robotics concepts and he had a plan on how to pursue a career in robotics.…
I went to a mid-tier school. The low-tier Harvard students are assuredly smarter than the top-tier students from my school. One reason is that students don't exist in a vacuum. Your peers influence your intelligence.…
Also, adding on to this Debian has built-in MITM protection. But in order to trust that MITM protection, you need to trust your Debian install, which you may have downloaded from the internet. You can only trust your…
I guess my point is that what Dynamic Land is doing is not compelling, so there will never be a perfect analog to compare it to, unless you compare it to another initiative that is also not compelling. Maybe Dynamic…
I find Tilt Five[0] to be 100x more interesting than Dynamic Land. They don't serve entirely the same purpose, but I think it illustrates the difference between clinging to the past (Dynamic Land) and embracing a…
Hands feel and manipulate things because they evolved in a physical world where that type of interaction was most efficient. The digital world opens up new possibilities that don't need physical manipulation to be…
Is google cheating when you search for something and it shows you results it scraped from a third-party source (e.g. song lyrics)? How is that different?
A lot of America's wealth comes from being competitive on a global scale. Google is popular not only in the U.S., but also in Europe and the rest of the Americas. Apple sells phones, computers, and service all over the…
It's ok to point out that there isn't enough evidence for a particular argument without presenting a counter argument. We should strive to believe the truth. If the truth can't be determined, we should accept that…
You're falling into the same trap the author asserts the NYT has fallen into. You're right, debt to the French didn't help Haiti's situation, but that doesn't mean that the debt to France caused Haiti's situation, which…
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-11-17/blacks... The tldr is that they bought credit default swaps for debt owed by Codere SA, and then offered the company financial assistance to restructure with the…
The original commenter also made a random assertion: "doing math is not thinking." The person you're responding to attempted to provide a definition of "thinking."
Financial instruments are incredibly complex. It's very dangerous to engage with them unless you fully understand what you're getting yourself into. Other people have a huge incentive to exploit any weakness in the…
The issue with FFmpeg is that it's complex, so you need to understand what all the options do, but the interface is also complex, so you need to understand how to format what you want to do, even if you already have a…
The patent approval process isn't perfect. Had you violated the patent, and had Google sued you, you could always argue prior art. What would your evidence be?
They’re probably referring to the diameter of a circle. The way it’s written is unclear, but not necessarily an error per se.
A little known fact is that rental assets depreciate in the eyes of the government. This is why you can deduct depreciation from rental property on tax returns. The corollary to this is that damage to those assets…
> As a meat eater, I understand I'm the driving force of this issue. How did you come to that understanding? Did you dedicate your free time to studying the impact of meat eating, or was it part of your legally mandated…
Yes definitely. No analogy is perfect.
> and the biggest one imo is dietary choices. Yes, let's blame the consumer. First of all, the consumer has no idea how their specific spending habits contribute to an issue. For instance, an educated consumer (many…
I use pen and paper as well, but rather than print out all the source code, I write down the call stack. A calls B calls C, etc. along with the line numbers of the call. Much easier than printing out the source and you…
We put our kid into daycare around 7 months old. Obviously every kid is different, but we're happy we chose that time. Around 7 months, our child had developed an understanding that we leave and come back, but was still…
> Her idea was that some tech will change world so much that there will be 100X return. Is that really so different from the VC approach?
> Privacy regulations can make it very difficult for competitors to gain traction for incumbents This is an oft repeated argument that makes no sense. The point of privacy legislation is not to increase competition. The…
The biggest difference was that most people were interested in something. One friend was really into robotics. He introduced me to a lot of robotics concepts and he had a plan on how to pursue a career in robotics.…
I went to a mid-tier school. The low-tier Harvard students are assuredly smarter than the top-tier students from my school. One reason is that students don't exist in a vacuum. Your peers influence your intelligence.…
Also, adding on to this Debian has built-in MITM protection. But in order to trust that MITM protection, you need to trust your Debian install, which you may have downloaded from the internet. You can only trust your…
I guess my point is that what Dynamic Land is doing is not compelling, so there will never be a perfect analog to compare it to, unless you compare it to another initiative that is also not compelling. Maybe Dynamic…
I find Tilt Five[0] to be 100x more interesting than Dynamic Land. They don't serve entirely the same purpose, but I think it illustrates the difference between clinging to the past (Dynamic Land) and embracing a…
Hands feel and manipulate things because they evolved in a physical world where that type of interaction was most efficient. The digital world opens up new possibilities that don't need physical manipulation to be…
Is google cheating when you search for something and it shows you results it scraped from a third-party source (e.g. song lyrics)? How is that different?
A lot of America's wealth comes from being competitive on a global scale. Google is popular not only in the U.S., but also in Europe and the rest of the Americas. Apple sells phones, computers, and service all over the…
It's ok to point out that there isn't enough evidence for a particular argument without presenting a counter argument. We should strive to believe the truth. If the truth can't be determined, we should accept that…
You're falling into the same trap the author asserts the NYT has fallen into. You're right, debt to the French didn't help Haiti's situation, but that doesn't mean that the debt to France caused Haiti's situation, which…