if exchange rate in one direction is low, I think that means the rate in the other direction is high. They can't both be low at the same time.
I think they mean the fees / commission
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You're right, but don't you think it's interesting that of all places, the military would select for intuition and introversion? That kind of defies, well, intuition.
The other thing that is tempting about the study is that the military does have lots of leadership, organizational, discipline, and political demands that are probably as bad as or worse than any corp. And add to that the low pay compared to corps.
I think those attributes might be distributed differently in USAF officers than other branches
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The DNC barely exists and doesn't do anything. (Same for the RNC.)
In a presidential year it's basically all geography and coattails from the presidential campaign. This one followed the post-inflation trend from every other country, if you need a single explanation for it.
I disagree - IMO the idea of having superdelegates is terrible. Any way of picking your party's candidate that deviates from how the candidate is selected in the general is setting yourself up for failure. IMO this is part of why the party has lost steam and alignment with their base. That does fall on the DNC, I think
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You can overcome this using headers, which instructs Gmail not to cache. Snippet:
response.headers["Cache-Control"] = "no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate"
response.headers["Pragma"] = "no-cache"
response.headers["Expires"] = "Fri, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT"
You might want to investigate this further - IIRC a lot of email services retrieve images in advance server side to avoid leaking whether the client has interacted with the email. I might be mistaken here.
It means you are not a degenerate gambler. You probably also do not enjoy slot machines, or the bullshit that passes for card games in a casino. I want to play blackjack, not "blackjack" where you change the allowed bets and rules specifically to increase the house edge thank you very much.
Do you feel the same way about insurance in general?
Polymarket is a new thing and it's throwing a lot of political pundits off their tracks because they treat it as political sentiment indicator, but it's all just gambling and manipulation.
For me personally, I placed a bet for my non-favored candidate so that either my person wins, or I win some amount of money. I'm using it kind of like insurance or hedging. Unfortunately if enough people use it this way, it probably no longer works as a predictor
Even if I know that is bullshit if someone claims to know the next number of a roulette and backs it up going all-in on black, it is not rational for me to bet on red.
But if their having placed a bet makes your opposing bet cheaper, then it can! : )
I haven't run the data, but anecdotally I can tell you that those things probably don't affect hitting the front page. They do affect the total score, but that is not what is being optimized here.
It's counterintuitive, but if you post at a really popular time, you're competing with a lot of other submissions. If you post at a really slow time, you'll get fewer votes, but it will take fewer to reach the front page and you'll have less competition.
In the end, it kinda evens out. The number of votes it takes to get to the front page and the number of competing submissions are both correlated to your fields above.
I think that this assumes a uniform distribution of "interestingness" in the competing posts across all of those dimensions and I wouldn't be surprised if that isn't the case
Maybe it would help to use a box cox transform on the score distribution?
Im curious about how this relates to deterministic time and the lack of free will.
>Our minds are “big”, in the sense that they span many individual branches of history. And they’re computationally bounded so they can’t perceive the details of all those branches, but only certain aggregated features. And in a first approximation what then emerges is in effect a single aggregated thread of history.
Does this allow free will?
I've actually thought about free will in the context of wolfram's ideas before, and I like the idea that our minds are computationally irreducible - I think it is a very close analogue to free will.