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by DINKDINK 9y ago
"The nascent equity options market saw assumptions based on the Black-Scholes model overturned and replaced by a more complex world of volatility skews" Black-Scholes is based on an assumption that stock moves are normal/Gaus
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>Not to mention that 100 ms is musically a 16th note at 150 bpm. Being off by a 16th note even at that speed is – especially for percussive instruments – obvious. There's a difference in constant, but consistent lag (delay) and vari
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
This strategy is Small-Game fallacy. Reducing the complexity of the real world -> If only shares held for a long term have full rights, you will obfuscate how you pay for those rights. either the stock will have a depreciated market pri
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Strange-Face Illusions During Interpersonal-Gazing(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
2 points by DINKDINK 9y ago|0 comments
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>The "traditional understanding" of getting an applicant to your job that is over qualified is that they are just trying to get a paycheck while they look for something better. Is the solution here to bias the "overqualifi
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
An alternative site, if you prefer to see it in matrix form https://data.bitcoinity.org/markets/arbitrage/USD
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
Where's the data for what the US looks like after EPA? where's the control group? This is emotional, not rational.
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>To assert otherwise is not only cruelly ideological, but utterly unscientific. Your argument is: Obese people need saving, we should pass laws to limit their choices so that they're not so obese. Do you have any evidence that obes
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
OP's statement says that it's good that digital media ("books") is being banned by the government.
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
Your argument is essentially. "Good. We should be banning books with political viewpoints that I or the government disagree with"
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
Please list which housing developments have destroyed existing housing stock. Here's the catch, you can't because all of it in the past 5 years has been on existing commercial property (gas stations, commercial businesses), so yo
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Does Adding Expensive Housing Help the Little Guy?(marketurbanismreport.com)
54 points by DINKDINK 9y ago|56 comments
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
You're correct. My original statement was wrong regarding Intel's assumption. The principle issue is that developers shouldn't assume that processes that occur in SGX are obfuscated in any sense because you can build SGX side
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
You're correct. My original statement was wrong regarding Intel's assumption. The principle issue is that developers shouldn't assume that processes that occur in SGX are obfuscated in any sense because you can build SGX si
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
The security assumptions that SGX is built on are flawed. They assume that no side channel attacks will be mounted to determine the processes that occur in side the chip. You can even build software to do side channel analysis on the phys
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>They then stand next to the filled-in pothole soliciting tips from grateful motorists. That is the wet dream of libertarian private sector innovation. Probably a more apt 'libertarian utopia' would be an entrepreneur buying la
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>What's odd is that this article is so well written that it really clicks with bitter developers who are just confused in the vast sea of alternative technologies Hearn has a penchant for penning very well written articles but compl
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>What are the benefits of paper wallets over a hardware wallet? Cost. Use cases: one could transact in a medium trust environment using paper wallets passed around offline. >What are the benefits of paper wallets over storing it onli
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>How does Bitcoin work offline? Depends on the stage of evolution of Bitcoin you're in. Early Stage: two parties can still trade transactions offline but there's a risk of being double spent against (not completely trustless bu
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D.C. court rules tracking phones without a warrant is unconstitutional(cbsnews.com)
12 points by DINKDINK 9y ago|1 comments
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
I prefer a blockchain that is immutable, has controlled inflation. Bitcoin users can always choose a different PoW algorithm if a threat actor coerces too high of a percentage of SHA256 mining equipment
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
No. Miners can only double spend transactions if they have > 50 % of the hash rate. The only purpose of miners is to add proof of work to in exchange for new coins that users value. If the proof of work is on a chain that contains valid
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>'mining' consumers power and resources is a total waste Driving a cash truck to merchants, to pick up cash, to take back to a bank, to be counted by a physical machine, to update a database in a bank server is also a 'tot
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
The net value of doing additional mining is that the payment that you accept as a merchant is that much harder to undo by an attacker. If you accept that a bank vault that has one guard is made more secure by adding another guard you must a
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>There's no net-value created by doing the 'mining part' - in fact, it's a value-destroying activity You don't understand where cryptocurrencies derive their value from if you're saying this. Mining is what
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
If my memory serves me, I don't think Octave has comprehensive functionality that mimics Simulink
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>In fact, if you look to history and the creation of the first states in Sumeria thousands of years ago, the raison d'etre of those states were to use violence and propaganda so that an idle class could expropriate surplus labor tim
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
The crypto-ancap philosophy obviates those as well.
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
Appears to be free and non coercive negotiation until you get to the actual coersion: "In San Francisco the coalition persuaded the city transit authority to make it easier to deny permits to companies facing labor strife." If you
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
I'll add another point. Even if you believe, today, that Google is good/noble, it's still best for the market to promote competition. If you allow too much power to concentrate into an oligopoly, the cost to capture the ma

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