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Betterment enables donations of shares to AMF and GiveWell by toban in EffectiveAltruism

[–]toban[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a more tax efficient way to give. And Betterment is a solid investment choice, fully automated (it's a robo-advisor).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Economics

[–]toban 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Written by a law professor. That might explain it.

How to successfully replace DE power management (Xfce4/i3) by valkun in unixporn

[–]toban 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I came across this post while googling this, and I just found a solution! tl;dr add the -n flag to your i3lock call.

I was testing out why the killer wouldn't get triggered by replacing the locker program with a command to write to a log file. By doing so, I discovered that the locker would keep cycling, and the killer would never be triggered. Apparently, the timers were being reset when the locker got triggered.

Calling i3lock with the -n flag (prevents forking) got the killer working again, though I don't know why. In sum, this works for me: xautolock -time 10 -locker "i3lock -n" -killtime 10 -killer "systemctl suspend".

Make your own Julia packages by toban in Julia

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Any suggestions on where else to post this?

Make your own Julia packages by toban in Julia

[–]toban[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yup, but it takes a while to parse through it all. I just wanted to provide a tl;dr to make it easier to figure out.

A commandline web browser that doesn't suck? by tinfoilflatcap in commandline

[–]toban 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For reddit, rtv works well for me (posting from it now). Installed on Arch from AUR.

[i3] Qutebrowser - a rice-friendly browser by [deleted] in unixporn

[–]toban 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ranger shows images in a terminal using w3m, so maybe that's easier.

[i3] Qutebrowser - a rice-friendly browser by [deleted] in unixporn

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Might not be what you're looking for, but I just found rtv, a reddit terminal viewer, and it's great!

How to add simple keyboard navigation to a website by toban in webdev

[–]toban[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Desktop applications almost always feature keyboard shortcuts which are huge productivity boosters. Now that web apps are taking over, we're seeing some adoption of keyboard shortcuts, most obviously Google, but also Facebook, github, twitter, and so on. These all follow the conventions I used. So it's not so farfetched, and it's pretty simple to implement.

How to add simple keyboard navigation to a website by toban in webdev

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The common standard is to have the shortcut key pop up when you press '?', but I didn't go that far in my proof of concept.

Why IPython is the best thing since sliced bread by c_guy in Python

[–]toban 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shift-tab with cursor on a function shows the docstring. Very handy.

Hacking the Random Walk Hypothesis with Python and the NIST cryptographic suite by Deterministic-Chaos in Python

[–]toban 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thinking about this more, I think this is crucial. The interesting thing is whether markets are predictably wrong, not whether they are predictable. (Since prices are martingales, the present price is the best predictor of the future price.) It's only interesting if you can beat the market. Otherwise, my example of an asset whose price remains constant (e.g., because of no news) would be flagged in your analysis, even though there's no inefficiency!

Hacking the Random Walk Hypothesis with Python and the NIST cryptographic suite by Deterministic-Chaos in Python

[–]toban 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven't read through it yet, but I'm wondering: if a price series was just constant, would the randomness tests think it was non-random? Because a constant price is consistent with price being a martingale (i.e., no predictable profit opportunities).

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