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Whether or not authors are credible, instead of the claims, is not a scientific discussion.

Since when is ad hominem a part of evaluating claims?

I did not say I consider private research in some sort of higher level than public research. I only said they have no incentive to do full disclosure right now. Without knowing exactly what they know, it is insulting to authors to describe, or even hint, them as avoiding to accept failture. It is simply unwarranted ad-hominem and not contributing anything to academic discussion at this point.

Original authors have been working on it for 23 years since they first found the material in 1999. They are part of private institution and have no incentive to rush the disclosure so that other labs can catch on their life's work. Authors already have stated they will publish more information next year. It's pretty arrogant to draw premature conclusions on quick analysis and demand the authors to disclose more information right now, when they are clearly not obligated to anything.

Algo trading != HFT. HFT is a type of algorithmic trading strategies, categorized by trading interval. In the same categorization there are mid-freq strategies as well. The term "high frequency" is rather subjective, it depends on what alpha you're targeting after.

OK so Tether went from 83bn to 73bn... what's the big deal? It's not like LUNA.

I think Tether can get away with less than 100% collateralization. At the current market cap of 82bn, even if they are only 20% collateralized, it takes 16.4bn one way movement to deplete their reserve. Is that likely event? Guess it depends, but I think market makers would be more willing to backstop them than UST shitshow. UST has "death spiral" structure that makes MMs less willing to backstop them once it goes on a path, which is exactly what hedge funds attacked against these past few days.

Which part of it is "stupid" ? Please have some respect.

From my experience, this is true, but reward is not why such behavior becomes culture. Culture is ingrained by leaders who act and lead according to value organization adheres to. The key here is to have leaders at every level who embodies such value. Having such values baked into performance evaluation is how "reward" plays a role in engendering and sustaining such culture. It is about whom does the organization promotes and chooses to be a leader. It's not about simple salary increase or cash rewards, as such things don't last more than a few months.

I sense negative images on the term "growth". Yes, "growth" often employs methods that are borderline scam. It's exactly what they are hired to do: enlarge and fix funnel at all stages. There's nothing inherently wrong with what "growth" team does. Think of them as aggressive salespeople - as long as product team delivers, you will see fundamental business growth. If you product team can't keep up, well, that's not sustainable.

A society where quickest decisions are made would be either 1) dictatorship or 2) non-human, i.e. AI based. Would that be a good society to live in, I can't tell for sure. I can say for sure that democracy is designed to be slow and inefficient with regards to decision making. We humans need time to understand, think and argue. We have slow decision making system so that we may reduce chance of error. I think "fast and efficient" are wrong benchmarks.

I don't agree with this argument. Open source contribution is a fine art. Half-baked pull request is a nightmare for already-strained code reviewers. It does not help open source community as a whole.

It's not politically correct nor polite to say this, but Japan's problem is their education and cultural system ingrains subservience to the point that Japanese people are subservient even to injustice. It's not just inefficiency Japanese people put up with, they don't do anything about corrupt and ridiculous politicians having their way through generations. They call it a tradition, but they are just afraid of speaking out because of peer pressure. It's like a mafia system. I know that I sound very broad and generalizing, but those who have lived in Japan for long enough would probably agree with this.

Intrinsic value has nothing to do with cost of transaction.

An investment asset must have a cash flow and/or intrinsic value. Otherwise you do not have a way to recuperate your money, so it is not an investment. They also provide basis for value of the asset. Bitcoin has neither. That is why Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme regardless of all the rosy pictures the believers try to paint. This is very important: Bitcoin has neither cash flow nor intrinsic value. The only way to recuperate money from Bitcoin is for another person to pay for it - the very definition of a Ponzi scheme. Gold does not have a cash flow, but it has an intrinsic value.

I'm not sure what you mean by "employer can prevent employees from taping them." Do you mean you assume management corner offices are not taped? That's a problem with corporate culture, not video surveillance.

I still don't see a problem with video surveillance, with full disclosure and proper access controls. What difference is there with police getting a warrant to search your house?

Why is video surveillance a problem? It seems to be most efficient at protecting employees from being falsely accused & spares from witch hunting. It also helps prevent crime for society. If privacy is the concern, then regulation should be about proper viewing rights and storage control, not shooting down surveillance entirely.

Nothing "wrong" with PHP itself, but it's clearly not designed for modern web programming patterns which makes it feel outdated. No separation of model-view-controller, not friendly for API or AJAX, no class structure until later add-on, and so on.

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It looks like a typical machine can manufacture a mask 50~100 per minute. For 40 hour work week that is 200k masks per week. So technically we only need 5000 of these machines to produce 1bn a week.

This is probably before the virus was better understood. Some argue that the virus can be spread by the host 48 hours before a symptom is developed. Whether true or not, what's so difficult about everyone wearing a mask just to be on the safe side? Is it because there isn't enough masks to wear every day? It's fine with wearing same mask every day as long as it can contain droplets from spreading outside of virus host.

It's OK using same mask every day. It still helps the virus stay local. CDC should tell everyone to wear masks right now.

If we just tell (or force with fine) everyone to wear a mask and have their mouth covered whenever in close proximity with some other person, we can go back to usual life. What's so hard about this?

Business is not war, but they are similar enough.

If you can't earn your money by winning against competitors, you will be left to starve and die. No blood, no trauma, but the end result is not too different.

When you are a junior staff you don't understand why decisions are made rather inefficiently. You only come to understand as you move up the ladder in the organization.

There is nothing stupid or evil about how "organization" behaves. It's exactly same as the society we all live in, just at a smaller scale. When you are in the position to make the call, you see that someone's idea may be as good as someone else's idea. How do you decide which idea is right? Do you choose one and fire the other with another idea? What happens when a wrong decision is made? This is the exactly reason why CEO or executives make compromises. They have responsibility to make sure that the organization survives no matter which scenario pans out. Junior staff often don't understand this because they can always move onto another opportunity when things collapse. As their career progresses, they also come to understand that you can't torch the field just because you don't like the crop growing there - it's much harder to find fertile land to begin with.

Could it be that Vision Fund is a grand scheme to vacuum global liquidity, especially from the Middle East? In the absence of war these days, Weapons of Financial Mass Destruction might exactly be what is needed.

I gave Firefox a try yesterday. It crashed four times in a day. I'm switching back to Chrome for peace of mind. Chrome hogs memory but I'd rather suffer memory than irritating browsing experience.

If I were to guess: got $100bn cash, not many obvious opportunities to spend on, why not add a device to portfolio? OS + device seems to be Google corporate strategy.

Fitbit has disastrous financials. It's been losing money for four straight quarters and they are losing grip on the market. If this was viewed as non-tech company they would have gone to Chapter 11 already. Tech bubble is real.

You are confused by the "propaganda" you posted. Like I wrote in other thread, if the innovation comes at low cost, it might make sense to have no barrier to IP. Innovations in Shenzhen are low cost. It's vastly different from Samsung developing a new semiconductor manufacturing process.

You seem to confuse between basic science and applied science. What you are saying is government should direct resources to every research. Basically saying that planned economy is better off than market economy. I wouldn't say market economy is a complete solution but time and again it has been proven to work better than planned economy. And also, why do you look down on applications? They are what actually make people's life better.

This is a naive thinking. Advances in software industry are purely intellectual so it doesn't involve heavy cost, which is why open source idea can work and be argued that it promotes innovation. Say you are a pharmaceutical company developing a new drug, investing billions of dollars. If there is no IP, why do it? You need to wake up to reality.