It's also a head-ache for options traders because some options models (black scholes) have log-normal pricing baked in which don't actually allow for the underlying asset to go negative. So nevermind worrying about…
I find the Libertarian obsession with Argentina quite curious. There seems to be this view that Argentina is massively over-regulated with massive government and that if you strip that all away Argentina will be a power…
I think this is a simplistic take. In companies where there are clear management structures there are clear and obvious ways for managers to fuck around and play politics. When there aren't clear management chains,…
That's not really possible. If you're writing a dissertation and find that some of the important foundational work you're building upon is wrong you can't just ignore it. If it's wrong, you need to say it's wrong in…
Non mainstream are they guys who are accidentally being directly paid by Russia...
Sorry but I don't think you understand the newspaper business. Bezos bought the entire Washington Post for $250m. Amazon has a market cap of $2T of which Bezos owns ~9%. The capitalist incentives are very clear, the…
I wonder how much stock people put into people like Andrej's opinion on an Elon Musk project? I would imagine the overwhelming thing hanging over this is "If I say something that annoys that man, he is going to call me…
It makes total sense for a startup to be highly selective. But being overly selective at the CV/application stage is dumb. If they really do have some really highly specialized requirement that should be on the advert.…
The excitement isn't the capabilities of the model, it's how efficiently it was created. One of the major lessons in AI in the last couple of years was that scale mattered - you would want to throw more and more compute…
I think about this quite often. What I'd really like to study at some point is: How much more does the receptionist at JP Morgan's head quarters make than the receptionist at Walmart's headquarters? Because…
I'm surprised this article doesn't mention the elephant in the room. With Musk's influence over the Trump administration it seems overwhelmingly likely that Tesla will achieve Full Self Driving by changing the…
Here's my guess what would happen: Youtube will have a word with their contacts in government and in short order you'd end up in a court room for some nebulous federal crime about malicious use of computers and hacking…
I think it's pretty pointless to discuss the pretextual judicial justification for something that is just raw politics. Trump will decide if Tiktok is banned, it's as simple as that. You don't need to analyze the…
Come on now, even the author is pretty clear they're making compromises. Whether that's slower internet speed, lower quality display, worse battery or inability to run modern apps/web apps. There are a lot of ways in…
These frameworks serve 3 purposes. The first purpose is to have something concrete to point at so your employees don't sue you over unfair practices - they create a paper trail for management to operate and build…
What I'm saying is the pie is getting bigger, inequality can increase too and that you probably are still better off. If Youtube doubles in size next year, and Mr Beast increases his share of that from let's say 1% to…
Again you've gone straight back to zero sum thinking. There's no reason Alphabet keeping Mr Beast happy has to be bad for you! It might be good for you! It might be - in fact it almost certainly is true - that the…
To answer your question directly: EVs aren't more expensive to service than ICE vehicles. If you piece together the quotes from various high level Hertz people, the problem is just that repair costs for accidents for…
If Youtube put Mr Beast out of business today, they would still have paid him an enormous amount of money over the course of years. Not to mention the hundred million dollar Amazon Prime deal that came out this week,…
I don't think you're analyzing this right. The web browser itself has no defensible moat. The reason that Chrome is winning is because Google has a massive money printer in the basement run by 3 guys and a hungry…
Yeah I wonder if it has any interaction with the NK economy at all. Presumably it translates into weapons imports or black market luxury goods imports?
Reading the original bug report and the response by the maintainers.... yeeash. They are way more tolerant than they should be. At this point I feel the structure and verboseness of the original report are just massive…
If the route we want to go down is looking at lobbying my guess is that the more complexity you add to the SNAP rules, the more lobbying you will get. If this is on the table every food company and their dog will be…
Depends on your understanding of human knowledge I guess? People talk about the frontier of human knowledge and if your view of knowledge is like that of a unique human genius pushing forward the frontier then yes -…
This is... interesting. From my understanding - and people can correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Microsoft spend an extremely large amount of effort essentially trying to screw people who made things like this in the…
It's also a head-ache for options traders because some options models (black scholes) have log-normal pricing baked in which don't actually allow for the underlying asset to go negative. So nevermind worrying about…
I find the Libertarian obsession with Argentina quite curious. There seems to be this view that Argentina is massively over-regulated with massive government and that if you strip that all away Argentina will be a power…
I think this is a simplistic take. In companies where there are clear management structures there are clear and obvious ways for managers to fuck around and play politics. When there aren't clear management chains,…
That's not really possible. If you're writing a dissertation and find that some of the important foundational work you're building upon is wrong you can't just ignore it. If it's wrong, you need to say it's wrong in…
Non mainstream are they guys who are accidentally being directly paid by Russia...
Sorry but I don't think you understand the newspaper business. Bezos bought the entire Washington Post for $250m. Amazon has a market cap of $2T of which Bezos owns ~9%. The capitalist incentives are very clear, the…
I wonder how much stock people put into people like Andrej's opinion on an Elon Musk project? I would imagine the overwhelming thing hanging over this is "If I say something that annoys that man, he is going to call me…
It makes total sense for a startup to be highly selective. But being overly selective at the CV/application stage is dumb. If they really do have some really highly specialized requirement that should be on the advert.…
The excitement isn't the capabilities of the model, it's how efficiently it was created. One of the major lessons in AI in the last couple of years was that scale mattered - you would want to throw more and more compute…
I think about this quite often. What I'd really like to study at some point is: How much more does the receptionist at JP Morgan's head quarters make than the receptionist at Walmart's headquarters? Because…
I'm surprised this article doesn't mention the elephant in the room. With Musk's influence over the Trump administration it seems overwhelmingly likely that Tesla will achieve Full Self Driving by changing the…
Here's my guess what would happen: Youtube will have a word with their contacts in government and in short order you'd end up in a court room for some nebulous federal crime about malicious use of computers and hacking…
I think it's pretty pointless to discuss the pretextual judicial justification for something that is just raw politics. Trump will decide if Tiktok is banned, it's as simple as that. You don't need to analyze the…
Come on now, even the author is pretty clear they're making compromises. Whether that's slower internet speed, lower quality display, worse battery or inability to run modern apps/web apps. There are a lot of ways in…
These frameworks serve 3 purposes. The first purpose is to have something concrete to point at so your employees don't sue you over unfair practices - they create a paper trail for management to operate and build…
What I'm saying is the pie is getting bigger, inequality can increase too and that you probably are still better off. If Youtube doubles in size next year, and Mr Beast increases his share of that from let's say 1% to…
Again you've gone straight back to zero sum thinking. There's no reason Alphabet keeping Mr Beast happy has to be bad for you! It might be good for you! It might be - in fact it almost certainly is true - that the…
To answer your question directly: EVs aren't more expensive to service than ICE vehicles. If you piece together the quotes from various high level Hertz people, the problem is just that repair costs for accidents for…
If Youtube put Mr Beast out of business today, they would still have paid him an enormous amount of money over the course of years. Not to mention the hundred million dollar Amazon Prime deal that came out this week,…
I don't think you're analyzing this right. The web browser itself has no defensible moat. The reason that Chrome is winning is because Google has a massive money printer in the basement run by 3 guys and a hungry…
Yeah I wonder if it has any interaction with the NK economy at all. Presumably it translates into weapons imports or black market luxury goods imports?
Reading the original bug report and the response by the maintainers.... yeeash. They are way more tolerant than they should be. At this point I feel the structure and verboseness of the original report are just massive…
If the route we want to go down is looking at lobbying my guess is that the more complexity you add to the SNAP rules, the more lobbying you will get. If this is on the table every food company and their dog will be…
Depends on your understanding of human knowledge I guess? People talk about the frontier of human knowledge and if your view of knowledge is like that of a unique human genius pushing forward the frontier then yes -…
This is... interesting. From my understanding - and people can correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Microsoft spend an extremely large amount of effort essentially trying to screw people who made things like this in the…