3chelon

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by 3chelon 10y ago
50% losing and 50% gaining, without any spreads or commissions, would eventually destroy all your wealth. It's the classic "random walk" or Brownian motion study in finance, and it destroys your wealth because every time you
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by 3chelon 10y ago
I agree. The nature of the spread acts like entropy.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
The spread betting companies are winning, of course. They are the market makers and they can manipulate the market as much as they like, even pushing the price up or down temporarily to hit stop loss orders and the like. And of course they
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by 3chelon 10y ago
I'm intrigued now. What does Nabokov have to do with this discussion?
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Interesting. Slightly left-field here, but people with autistic spectrum disorders are often considered to be prone to depression, often because of social anxiety, but this would suggest the opposite is also true, as ASD sufferers generally
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Of course, it's chemical warfare down there. Using strong acids and the like to destroy bacteria and virus structures is something I'd heard about, at the microscopic level, but I'd absolutely never thought about its implicat
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Useful to know. Of course, batteries get better and electronics gets lower powered - I can imagine in the near future implanted devices being effectively passive (such as RFID)... but your point about the body being a hostile environment is
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by 3chelon 10y ago
We hear a lot about how digital obsolescence is a growing problem, and almost all of it refers to not being able to access your old family photos and movies, or maybe old documents and spreadsheets. But what happens when your pacemaker is o
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by 3chelon 10y ago
I didn't make it all the way through the post. Too many exclamation marks - after every sentence, it seems - and quoting Miley Cyrus was the breaking point for me. But seriously, do people really buy new watches to match their new cars
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Whatever Happened to Virtual Reality?(eurogamer.net)
3 points by 3chelon 11y ago|1 comments
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by 3chelon 11y ago
How so? Many of the classic Valley proto-entrepreneurs (Gates, Jobs, etc) famously dropped out of college. From my own experience, I probably learned about 75% of what I needed to know about programming before I went to university. I'm
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by 3chelon 13y ago
I was thinking about this a few years back, when I was working on firmware for pre-smart-phones. Probably something to do with getting old and forgetful :) The trouble with audio - as everyone has pointed out - is the privacy and storage is
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by 3chelon 14y ago
That was my first thought, so I checked, and yes, it does. You just change the carrying rules. But by the time you've accounted for the number of digits you'd need to do anything useful, it's fairly useless except from a theoretical computa