lilott8 · HackerTrans

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So is what they're doing some sick joke? I doubt people couldn't care less about the damage done by functionally worthless companies. People are pissed at the perception of manipulation by wall street. This is hilariously myopic. People aren't upset about losing money. They're upset that the game _looks_ (and ostensibly is) rigged. That is where all the lack of confidence stems.

lilott8

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Especially after "2^32 is all the space we'll ever need for ip addresses."

lilott8

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That's the very problem, in this case, it _did_ benefit the institution -- the hedge funds. By restricting buys, retail was unable to drive the demand and put shorts into margin calls (we discuss the ethics of this until the cows come home). In this very case, an unknowable amount of money should have been transferred from hedge funds to retail investors but didn't because buyers were unable to buy.

lilott8

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While a cursory search appears to prove your point (given the constraint of "public funds"), the fed has bailed out hedge funds [1], I don't remember reading that all.

Probably the quietest "bailout" comes from Long Term Capital Management in 1998 was basically bailed out by banks at the urging of the feds[2].

It seems that most funds are left to die [3] (or, more alarmingly, dissolved at the hands at the SEC for insider trading (I'm sensing a trend...))

Perhaps, as "an exercise left to the user", I'll look more deeply at this matter; as it's quite interesting.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/business/economy/hedge-fu... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management [3] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/101515/3-big...

lilott8

6 yıl öncediscuss

This reads sort of tone deaf to me. There is a clear definition of what it means to be impoverished. In the US it's income relative to dependents, [defined by HHS](https://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty-guidelines). TO say that someone isn't impoverished because they are living rent-free (legally or illegally) or don't have obligations to pay bills misses the point altogether; and quite frankly, is flat out insincere. It doesn't matter if the child moves back in with their parent and doesn't have bills to pay. I'm curious to know, what if the person that loses their job is 40 and moves in with their parents? My point is, I don't think it matters if it's a child moving in to their parent's second house -- they may never be able to recover from this, and that is the larger, systemic problem at hand.

How we, as a collective society, address issues pertaining to the poor, disenfranchised, forgotten, downtrodden, speaks volumes about our priorities and interests. And I think, given the types of relief that has happened during this moment, and looking at how society answers this historically, we are not doing well.

lilott8

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This fact almost killed my Ph.D. I wrote a programming language and type system for biologists and chemists. But the PL theory syntax nearly did me in. TAPL was like banging my head against a brick wall -- completely opaque to me. My PI wasn't familiar with the space either, so I was sort of on my own. The school eventually brought in a PL theory faculty and things sort of got better. But yes, the syntax for PL is certainly one of the more complex, nuanced, and difficult notations I've worked with.

lilott8

7 yıl öncediscuss

Yup, I self-cite quite a bit. But not to demonstrate productivity or some other arbitrary metric(s). I self-cite because the images I use in my research are really difficult to make and I'm in a niche enough field that using the images really helps people who are not familiar with the area understand what is going on. These images were arduous to make, so I reuse them. (I should note, that I've gotten in "trouble" for reusing them without a citation).

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