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New comment by dasudasu in "Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets"

dasudasu — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:40:02 +0000

Non-insider trading is liquidity. That’s why people pay for retail trading volume (payment for order flow). Not because of nefarious reasons. Just because it represents liquidity. With no liquidity it’s impossible to enter or exit trades efficiently.

New comment by dasudasu in "EFF is leaving X"

dasudasu — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:58:02 +0000

The observation has been called Conquest’s Second Law. It is that common.

New comment by dasudasu in "Microsoft’s original source code"

dasudasu — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 21:11:49 +0000

They’ve already retired for the most part. Stallman for example is 72.

New comment by dasudasu in "Fraud, so much fraud"

dasudasu — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 16:19:57 +0000

I never understood how peer reviewers are supposed to "validate" a paper and how they’re tacitly thought to be doing so by the general public. Authors make claims based on data reviewers don’t have direct access to, from experiments they obviously can’t supervise the execution. They’re forced to accept the claims at face value. In my experience (and I’ve been on both sides), it’s more about overall quality and impact. Journals don’t want badly written papers on unremarkable topics. It’s closer to being a harsh anonymous editor than a real safeguard of “science™.”

New comment by dasudasu in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

dasudasu — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 02:47:08 +0000

The word definitely is completely idiomatic with regard to humans in French. Look up any dictionary definition. And there’s no law making it illegal in France. Besides, even if it had such a law, the French state doesn’t have a monopoly on the French language. It’s an official language in 29 countries.

New comment by dasudasu in "Anger is eliminated with the disposal of a paper written because of provocation"

dasudasu — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 15:24:55 +0000

Monks of various religious dispositions, or even just secular meditation adepts, seem to disprove this easily.

New comment by dasudasu in "'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps"

dasudasu — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 15:28:45 +0000

I used to not have a tv by choice and go on walks all the time as I had nothing to do. I stopped doing it as it became weird and lonely past a certain point and age. There’s nothing quite like seeing people out in the world with purpose while shambling without even a real destination. Turns out humans are pretty good at avoiding unpleasant experiences and watch tv for a reason.

New comment by dasudasu in "Electronic Structure of LK-99"

dasudasu — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 11:58:25 +0000

Cited patents are added by the examiner. Source: I have several patents.

New comment by dasudasu in "If we want a shift to walking we need to prioritize dignity"

dasudasu — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 18:54:50 +0000

Southern Canada is at the same latitude as Spain. Sunlight isn’t that bad even in December.

New comment by dasudasu in "For every 10% increase in the housing stock, rents decrease 1%"

dasudasu — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:38:53 +0000

Yea I just buzz since covid. Prices exploded.

New comment by dasudasu in "Blizzard manager departs in protest of employee ranking system"

dasudasu — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 01:44:59 +0000

The rationale is that there can only be so many employees and if natural attrition is low then they’d prefer to re-roll on mediocre performers in an attempt to capture the top ones.

New comment by dasudasu in "Pessimism is a barrier to progress"

dasudasu — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 14:42:55 +0000

Have you considered that his power of persuasion is very dependent upon what he himself practices? Leading by example.

New comment by dasudasu in "What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?"

dasudasu — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 17:07:49 +0000

Doesn’t take much volume to affect the spot price and in turn affect the value of everyone’s portfolio.

New comment by dasudasu in "Hydrogen battery startup says it has $700M order backlog"

dasudasu — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 15:29:03 +0000

Vanadium redox flow batteries have a decent energy storage density and can scale very well but ultimately it does add to the cost of the energy being produced as opposed to some tech that doesn’t need it.

New comment by dasudasu in "Heatwaves kill more Americans than hurricanes, tornadoes and floods"

dasudasu — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 18:37:05 +0000

The average age of an American soldier in WW2 was 26.

New comment by dasudasu in "Tether Required Recapitalization in May 2022"

dasudasu — Fri, 20 May 2022 17:53:27 +0000

There is a counterparty to every financial transaction. Presumably, both sides are happy if they agree to trade with each other. All of what you call "unproductive financial schemes" are mostly about exchanging risks, just like insurance.

New comment by dasudasu in "Electronics Explained: Fundamentals for engineers, technicians and makers (2018)"

dasudasu — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 17:01:55 +0000

Of course you can find PhDs that don’t master fundamentals properly, but that remains rare. PhD quals are supposed to root that out. It’s also true that in day to day electronic engineering, any sufficiently complicated circuit would be solved with SPICE or an equivalent. For a PhD student in electronic engineering to not know that SPICE essentially solves ODEs still seems very surprising.

New comment by dasudasu in "French fighter jet joy ride goes très, très wrong (2020)"

dasudasu — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 21:09:23 +0000

Pretty much. There's a recent video going around of a Russian helicopter in Ukraine firing off all its flares in panic after its sister helicopter is taken out by MANPADS. Predictably, the Ukrainians wait until he runs out, and then he gets taken out anyway. Not that hard to search for it.

New comment by dasudasu in "No one expects young men to do anything and they are responding by doing nothing"

dasudasu — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 16:21:18 +0000

My understanding is that the poorest people are covered by medicare or get their fees waved (hospitals won't refuse to treat someone needing critical care). That is not "zero social net". Nobody is in fact jealous of the American healthcare system though. Meanwhile, in most countries in Europe, people live in fear of having to be put on wait lists that extend from months to years, or just plain being unable to access any care at all due to said systems being overloaded at times due to having much less overall slack (for example during covid).

New comment by dasudasu in "No one expects young men to do anything and they are responding by doing nothing"

dasudasu — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 14:32:27 +0000

To think that the US has no social safety is also a common trope. Food stamps, medicaid, public & section 8 housing, SSDI, EI, etc. in combination with the unique opportunities allowed by American society to get back on your feet (low unemployment and barrier to entry). Americans in general have no idea how "humble" life can be for the European lower classes. Fun fact: Canada and the US have about the same homelessness rates on a per capita basis.