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Except Maymin 2011 fails to even establish that his narrow definition of "markets are efficient" (specifically, finding a profitable technical analysis) is actually in NP.

What does it mean for a game engine to be data oriented or data-driven?

https://about.fb.com/news/2018/04/restricting-data-access/

The syntactic structure of both "code" snippets seems equally clear (or maybe "uncertain in the same ways") to me, though my understanding might be a bit off if the author has bias…

Perhaps you know more of kazinator's history than I do, but that HN account wasn't even created until 2014, so saying kazinator is the one who started this very old argument requir…

Is nobody else at the FSF capable of public advocacy? It seems to me that Stallman's unique ability was formulating the FSF's ideals in the first place, but once the platform is la…

Don't want problems for having 1-1s with women What sort of problems? I don't hear about many cases of women accusing other women of using their status as manager for sexual harass…

Epstein's argument seems to assume that any information which shifts an undecided person's view is biased. Basic chemistry lessons make the claims of homeopaths seem downright sill…

when the money gets spent either way* The core of the "bad investment" argument is that the money doesn't necessarily all get spent either way. renters see little reward or penalty…

I'm fine with paying a bit extra for more comfort and better service on a flight, but anything short of double the cost of the cheapest coach-class ticket never seems to get me tha…

Makes "SICP Style" seem like overselling it a bit.

Seeing some people's apparent fixation on the dog park data fabrication as invalidating the whole effort, I have to wonder whether actually collecting the data for that paper would…

Because reputation spreads. The linguistics department understands that the literature department's behavior does not reflect on the chemistry department, but the electorate seems …

What valuation do you give his mother's influence over the board at IBM?

The paper doesn't even manage to prove that finding a significantly profitable technical strategy is in NP.

Yes. Mapping from 2^n bitstrings to 3 market positions.

On top of that, the argument rests on the kind of error you expect to see freshmen making in a discrete math course: > The basic argument is as follows. For simplicity but without …

Most of that time is spent trying to figure out how and where to access the W-2 from my employer’s payroll provider. As soon as my employer made it hard for me to download my W-2, …

It is quite ordinary for SV employees to be fired or "resign" after being caught participating in wrongthink. Eich is the most famous example Eich was free to think whatever he wan…

That surprises me, because languages like Lisp, Smalltalk, Ruby and Haskell are all about powerful abstraction capabilities so you can express yourself exactly as you need instead …

Seriously, be open minded about subjective opinion. There is no right/wrong. Risk tolerance is, but refusing to diversify outside of real estate and precious metals is objectively …

Can you afford buying Apple stock and hope to make $500 a month with the stock is already so high? Why do you bring up the straw man of buying individual stocks? Trying to get clev…

The subs I've heard about banning were echo chambers dedicated to the idea that "this group of people I don't like ought to be [starved|exiled|thrown from helicopters|raped|enslave…

Then A is free to do so, but if he's not actually worth more, then he's likely to find out in his job search that he can't command B's salary. WSJ seems oddly unwilling to let the …

A quick `s/DSL/library/g` and the result is just as true and just as much of an issue.