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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. Shameful. Going after your scientific opponents 'throug
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by 1gor 17y ago
You can chart the damage done by Goldman Sachs and their gang of thieves by looking at commodity pricing pre- and post-ICE. Before ICE, commodities followed a more or less normal growth path that matched global GDP... Fun
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by 1gor 17y ago
I wonder why the term 'market efficiency' crops up over and over again in the discussions like this? In 1986 Andy Lo and Craig MacKinlay performed a rigorous statistical test of Efficient Market Hypothesis and decisively rejected it, simult
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by 1gor 17y ago
I would not overestimate importance of the dollar for the Chinese. Those dollar holdings are a simple by-product of past currency interventions, a way to park those dollars bought from exporters of electronic goods etc, not a conscious cho
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by 1gor 17y ago
Meanwhile, the Chinese are unlikely to allow their currency to appreciate in value Why? Seems like a completely baseless assumption. When US consumption is on the rocks, the only engine of growth for China is its own huge domes
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by 1gor 17y ago
There is a lot of confusion as to what is called a 'bank', so it is difficult to understand the author's analysis. I believe there are several business models in place: 1. Traditional deposit/lending. Essentially, banks fund themselves sho
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by 1gor 17y ago
'Saving Wall street' was intended as 'saving the financial system'. A collapse of several banks/insurance companies would trigger a run on the remaining banks, complete break-down of business lending, mass bankruptcies among non-financial c
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by 1gor 17y ago
That probably was a knock-off. I went through 6 months army training camp with one of those (the original), used it almost daily, and it did not jam once.
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by 1gor 17y ago
The article's explaination is not convincing so the question still stands.
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by 1gor 17y ago
From the article: The Russians still won't discuss it, and Americans at the highest levels—including former top officials at the State Department and White House—say they've never heard of it. From "Dr. Strangelove":
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by 1gor 17y ago
be careful with ActiveRecord What alternative ORM would you recommend that is mature enough?
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by 1gor 17y ago
I have a theory why successful 'old' guys come as such a surprise. It is because a 'young founder' is largely a product of propaganda. Young guys are mercilessly exploited by VC crowd. Venture Capitalists and startup-buying companies like G
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Nonlinear properties of market prices are as important as economic fundamentals(blog.chaosmonitor.com)
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by 1gor 17y ago
The traditional vc-based path to building a company is sub-optimal, this has been the topic much covered on HN. Product-based way of building a company seems to be the future. The companies that went directly to customers first on merits of
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by 1gor 17y ago
Would you skip engineering and cs books? Is whom you know more important in life that what you know? Essentially, the article calls you to try to be Steve Jobs, not Steve Wozniak. If you are an MBA type rather than a hacker, then go ahead,
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by 1gor 17y ago
It's a tough call to come up with 'original thought' in a thread comment. But I can give some pointers about non-linear methods that work. Time delay embedding is a common method to estimate hidden structure in the system. You can make shor
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by 1gor 17y ago
There is no need to speak in general terms, there are very specific things that make economics a bogus science. The biggest issue is that modern mainstream economics is modelling the world as Gaussian. There is no room for 'fat tails' in ec
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by 1gor 17y ago
Economics is not a science at all, in its current mainstream form. It is based on a set of hopelessly outdated assumptions about the world, and its current toolset is easier to throw away than to modernize. Especially since the economic aca
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Computer model warns about 'unexpected' Central Bank announcement(blog.chaosmonitor.com)
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by 1gor 17y ago
There is no point in arguing with the statements of today's facts. Such statements are also not very interesting, since they are common knowledge. What is interesting, is the dynamics and the direction of the change. In all emerging market
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by 1gor 17y ago
This article is full of naive propaganda bits (state-owned roads destroying state-owned schools), but it has one important observation. China has been keeping its currency pegged to the dollar and lived off US consumption. Now US will not b
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by 1gor 17y ago
There may not be any specific reason for a startup failure. It is quite normal that only a small percentage of startups find a unique spot on the 'fitness landscape' that would allow them to grow and prosper. The rest may be just as well eq
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by 1gor 17y ago
Carol situation is a case of prisoner's dilemma , which may be presented in a bit shorter way than the article does. Let's use standard game theory terms for the possible actions of one male individual: 'Cooperate' (C) = to publicly approa
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by 1gor 17y ago
in terms of text editors on Mac, nothing else is really that close emacs
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by 1gor 17y ago
I remember time when City of London bankers and brokers used to have two hour lunch with a few pints of beer. Then their banks were bought up by soulless Americans and the enslavement began. In a few years everybody was forced to eat their
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by 1gor 17y ago
I think you are mistaken about Unicode. It is much more mature on postgres. UTF8 was already offered on Postgres 7.3 while MySQL only managed to get it working in version 4.1.
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by 1gor 17y ago
http://www.foxycart.com/ I have not tried it, anyone has any experience with it? Unsuitable name for me, but they say you can run in on your own domain, and skin it to match your site.
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by 1gor 17y ago
Wouldn't it be nice to use this framework for business web apps! Quick and responsive interface, easy to construct layouts around complicated business logic... Not, actually. A surprisingly large part of my enterprise prospects/clients have
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by 1gor 17y ago
What Wolfram Alpha needed was to avoid the Spore-style overhype To avoid ? I'm quite sure he (or his PR firm) has engineered the whole hype thing.
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by 1gor 17y ago
How long before they start offering the full commodity application stacks? LAMP is the same on every shared host.

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