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I suppose I'm just a little worried about a 10 year sideways market. The run-up has been absolutely insane the past year...some graphs are just a literal straight line up. I didn't get to participate in much of that and concerned the prevailing wisdom on these larger timescales may no longer hold true.
but unless you think have some special insight that hedge/quant funds don't have
Of course not, but it is a hedge, is it not? What would be your preferred hedge in this scenario?
What's the best way to hedge against this, considering many of us have significant savings in the market?
A few puts on SPY dated a year or two out?
Aren't quite a few of these concerns alleviated by owning a condo?
Please report back, would be very interested in your findings.
I appreciate the link, however it should be noted that piece was written by the co-founder of that same company. They do seem to be evidence driven but let's not pretend there's not some degree of bias towards the solutions his company is proposing.
Additionally, that article focuses almost solely on the chances of producing acid rain, which actually is another issue and not the one I was first concerned with. That piece talks about "redistributing" SO2 from the troposphere to the stratosphere which is a neat concept but a.) that's purely theoretical, and b.) that's not what they are doing or trying to do anyway.
It could be argued that air pollution has a greater and more devastating effect on the everyday lives of people alive today then global warming does now or will in the foreseeable future. In my city it was estimated that more than 1 in every ~16 deaths is related to air pollution, and the air here isn't nearly as bad as it is in other cities. Worldwide, UNICEF estimates nearly 2,000 deaths under 5 years of age per day from air pollution [0]. Annual deaths worldwide are estimated at 8+ million yearly across all age groups. Making that problem worse by any measure in the hope of producing a cooling effect that is a fraction of a fraction of a degree is not worth it at all and at least in my opinion is a net-negative.
This might be the worst idea I've ever seen. I'm glad they are so interested in reducing the effects of global warming - that's fantastic - but they are literally purposefully releasing a toxic, major air pollutant into the air to create in their own words "clouds of dust" for the purposes of reflecting sunlight. Sure, there might be a slight cooling effect but who in their right mind could possibly think this is a good idea?!
I understand they are deploying to the stratosphere and not the troposphere but I can't imagine there aren't any negative second-order effects.
As someone who lives in a city with a major PM2.5 problem that effects the millions here on the daily (near an active stratovolcano no less!), reading about what they are doing was somewhat infuriating.
Should the title here be 4.6 to 4.7 instead of the other way around?
Is there something like this in text/readable format?
I feel like I'd be really skeptical of results from a non-deterministic model for something as precise as accounting....
Ok, but some extra plumbing (and whatever sorts of engineering studies referred to) and electrical work surely can't as expensive as demolishing and rebuilding a whole building.
These seem like extremely solve-able problems.
I read something at some point that it's more expensive to convert these into residential buildings than it is to literally demolish and rebuild.
I'm not entirely sure how that math works out, or why, because one would think it couldn't be that complicated. Maybe someone here knows more about this.
Out of curiosity which country was this?
My team is doing the same, and yet all of us still aren't sure that we're actually more productive overall.
If anything it seems to me like we've just swapped coding with what is effectively a lot more code review (of whatever the LLM spits out), at the cost of also losing that long term understanding of a block of code that actually comes from writing it yourself (let's not pretend that a reviewer has the same depth of understanding of a piece of code as an author).
Can you talk a bit about the tech stack?
Which betting markets were you referring to and where can they be viewed?
Is this more of a thing with higher quality perfumes, or is "projection" a symptom of specific scents/ingredients?
I can't be the only one who immediately thought "Star Destroyer" regarding the "black spear".
Does that wipe out your margins? Most proxies I'm aware of are relatively expensive and if you're charging per API request than there's not much margin to work with.
What was the scraper written in? Python? Node? Go?
What's the tech stack? How did you get around issues with your scrapers IP getting blocked?
What's the tech stack? I assume you're doing quite a bit of scraping.
It's funny because Next.js is the first thing on that list.
Is there any real benefit to using one of those generators versus just writing all the HTML yourself?
Some user was able to open a browser modal with a custom message in everyones browser. Any ideas how they did that?
How does the aircraft get to 70k feet? Is it launched from a separate vehicle?
How do you retrieve news topics? Are you using some sort of news API or are you just scraping a ton of sites?
If the latter, isn't that illegal or against their terms of service in some way?
How would you compare C# and .NET Web APIs with Entity Framework to Rails and Active Record?
It's been awhile since I've built an API with Rails or Express, so I'd be learning them again anyway.
What would be your "first" choice?
They better be careful. Once the fish get a taste for lion, they may establish a beachhead, and construct a breathing apparatus, perhaps of kelp, to hunt down the remaining members of the pride.
It may not go the way the lions think it'll go.
A good API for real estate listings doesn't seem to exist.
I'm fairly confident posts like these are artificially weighted to fall off the front page..that seems to happen when a COVID related post gets popular on HN. This post has more points and comments than the majority of stuff on the front page but it's currently on page 3.
I've casually noticed something similar over the past ~18 months with posts related to COVID.