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by 1gor 14y ago
Here is an interesting take on the formula from The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb: > Things got a lot worse in 1997. The Swedish academy gave another round of Gaussian-based Nobel Prizes to Myron Scholes and Robert C. Merton, who had impro
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by 1gor 15y ago
Aah, but (neo)classical economic theory is defined by its unrealistic assumptions about reality. Essentially, you are claiming that North Korea is also a democracy, only without free elections.
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by 1gor 15y ago
The statement 'maximizing shareholders value' is meaningless without the timeframe. The correct phrasing is to 'maximize shareholders value in the long term '. The 'long term' bit is crucial, and it is not reflected in today's management i
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by 1gor 15y ago
what competes with this? http://xeround.com is a separate DB service, also heroku plugin. It is MySql-compatible, apparently they've wrote a custom distributed engine. Its is located on AWS or rackspace, so latency is quite low.
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by 1gor 15y ago
provide a legitimate reason why he was an asshole. Judging by his fanboys' comments, this should be guilt by association.
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More than 31,000 scientists sign petition denying man-made global warming(telegraph.co.uk)
5 points by 1gor 15y ago|1 comments
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by 1gor 15y ago
> our social/political/economic hegemony. Hm, sorry, what hegemony are you talking about? I always wonder why people who go all excited about gender issues can't accept that women are not men and do not have to be like men? Your 'hegemo
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by 1gor 15y ago
While working on a sinatra app recently, I noticed that sinatra has no rails equivalent to rails console. racksh (Rack::Shell) is a console for Rack based ruby web applications. From the README at https://github.com/sickill/rac
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by 1gor 16y ago
The typical creative professional is not a minimalist. Do you want to be a 'typical creative professional'? ...or http://www.everydayminimalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09...
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by 1gor 16y ago
There is an 'enterprisey' Ruby on Rails plugin that introduces random delays in your webapp. It turns out not to be a joke, after all. https://github.com/airblade/acts_as_enterprisey
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by 1gor 16y ago
The first thing my lawyer (in the UK) tells me is to always respond to any correspondence that contains false claims etc. The response should be a short 'I categorically disagree with everything you claim'. Not responding/objecting, I a
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by 1gor 16y ago
Of course, founders should care about AngelGate. The premise of the whole drama was that there may be a collusion between individuals who are involved in early stage financing of startups. A startup founder is by definition in a weak positi
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by 1gor 16y ago
I had a small telecommuting team once, and what helped us a lot were two pieces of technology around which our development process was built. The first one was a simple issue tracker. The 'nudging' and 'motivating' bit became almost redunda
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Hedge fund invests in LinkedIn at more than $2 Billion valuation(noir.bloomberg.com)
47 points by 1gor 16y ago|23 comments
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by 1gor 16y ago
How to explain Singapore’s growth despite lack of stimulus? The simplest explanation is its proximity to and focus on Chinese market. China's growth is not cyclical. It is driven by demographics mostly and it can be described as a
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by 1gor 16y ago
> Where are you getting the normal distribution information from? The author spends much effort estimating an 'average' app income and costs. Talking about averages does not make any sense in case of power law distribution. He is usin
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by 1gor 16y ago
Why does the author assume normal distribution (bell curve) for apps' revenues? In reality app sales are similar to those of books and follow power law distribution. A few bestsellers will account for large chunk of overall app sales. Then
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by 1gor 17y ago
Well, as a Canadian living in Russia for the past 13 years I have the following to say about the US... Seriously, the parent post is so full of old clichés, it's not even funny. I lived outside of Russia for the past 20 years and I've moved
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by 1gor 17y ago
A stray squirrel has once shut down NASDAQ http://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/10/business/stray-squirrel-sh...
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by 1gor 17y ago
The concluding remark about 'climate refugees' is out of place in this otherwise very important discussion about failed states. Climate change and its perceived influence on the mankind is a very controversial subject, and today most of peo
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by 1gor 17y ago
you know you are trolling/ karma whoring. Is this in reply to my comment or the parent?
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by 1gor 17y ago
And after you've started it, yes, this submission is off-topic. You may be surprised but there exist people who are not overwhelmed by the intellectual weight of The New Yorker. Also, there are people who have strong views about gay marriag
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by 1gor 17y ago
Actually, when a person has touched lives of so many people in a very good and profound way, he cannot escape a bit of attention back. The enquiry "are you ok?" is human and not evil.
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by 1gor 17y ago
There is a wonderful ruby/rake based static website generator http://webby.rubyforge.org . It offers a choice of templating languages (ERB, Textile, Markdown, HAML, SASS), and doesn't force you to use Liquid. Jekyll is a spin-off of a serv
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Global warming Hockey Stick seen in perspective(youtube.com)
2 points by 1gor 17y ago|0 comments
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by 1gor 17y ago
he's been in deep teabagger territory What has ESR's political views ('right wing' in your opinion) have to do with his argument in this case? Shoud we disregard everything you say just because you seem to be a 'left-wing treehugge
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by 1gor 17y ago
Artificially low rates would force anyone to seek yields at any costs, so portfolios were stuffed with all sort of junk, so your 'contained to real estate' point is not correct. I would also argue that banks accumulated toxic assets because
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by 1gor 17y ago
it was the lack of regulation that caused it That's a debatable point. The Fed's interest rate reductions in early 2000s have caused recent credit/real estate bubble. If you listen to the Austrian School economists you would hear th
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by 1gor 17y ago
No, you are wrong. Read thee whole quote here http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/24/taking_liberties/ent... and observe that the programmer is convinced the whole database of reporting stations is bogus, and the model has been tweaked m
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by 1gor 17y ago
If you think that Saiers is in the greenhouse skeptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of this, we could go through official AGU channels to get him ousted. (From Tom Wigley). Here "one of the world's foremost

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