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by HSO 16y ago
yup, that's what i'll try now. didn't know this email address. thx for the suggestion.
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Ask PG: How to delete an (old) HN account?
11 points by HSO 16y ago|5 comments
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by HSO 16y ago
It's not just developers or geeks. I actually quit a job in the financial industry a while ago as soon as I got other money coming in because I was too pissed with their drone environment: outdated HP boxes, Win XP, Matlab, Excel/Office etc
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by HSO 16y ago
Let me rephrase: The claim is correct for real income in relative terms and incorrect for real income in absolute terms. The claim you're disputing was made about real income in absolute terms. So I agree with you. But I have added some idl
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by HSO 16y ago
The claim is correct for relative income and incorrect for absolute income. In absolute terms, wages have been stagnating for a long time and combined with technological progress, yes, absolute real wealth may have advanced for almost every
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by HSO 16y ago
> "the theft of a portion of someones life " I will not downvote you but I have a problem with the attitude that (seems to) stand behind this phrase. Remember the context. If you are an American, you grew up in one of the richest countr
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Ask HN: Brothers (/sisters) as co-founders?
2 points by HSO 16y ago|2 comments
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by HSO 16y ago
> there really isn't a point to publishing a blog unless you think someone out there is going to visit regularly Why does it have to be "regularly"? What would be wrong, in your eyes, to trust in Google and word of mouth to steer reader
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by HSO 16y ago
> I'm saying that when it comes to asset performance, "Countries with a stable political system and market economy" is a better sample than "all countries", That's like saying "I'll buy only stocks that go up". You didn't know, in 1900
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by HSO 16y ago
overcombed
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by HSO 16y ago
So you're saying the back-end is still basically the same as it was a few years ago and stable?
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Ask HN: If you could start from scratch, would you still use LAMP?
3 points by HSO 16y ago|10 comments
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by HSO 16y ago
At first, I thought we had a misunderstanding but now that I see your point, I have to disagree. Survivorship bias basically is a sampling error and, in this case, leads you to underestimate the risk of your investments, both of which are n
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by HSO 16y ago
off the top of my head, US stocks in the 70s were also flat over about a decade; as they were in the 30s (counting from '29); and probably some other decade before that, but stocks were not mainstream then
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by HSO 16y ago
You (or Siegel) may suffer survivorship bias. Yes, the US stock market has performed well. But what about early Russian stocks, German stocks, French stocks? I'd venture a wild guess that investors got pretty much wiped out between 1917, sa
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by HSO 16y ago
> the big losses are from the all of the wasted resources being put into making trades faster and faster But you could also see it as "pushing the limit", similar to people trying to see who runs 100m the fastest, or Formula 1, or Kaspa
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by HSO 16y ago
Hey, I like some of these comebacks ;) > If nobody reads it, no one will think it's ridiculous. Ok, you got me here. Still, if you have a blog and there's tens and tens of entries and nary a comment to be seen, doesn't that look sad som
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by HSO 16y ago
"activities that were worthless if not destructive from a social point of view." Although I do actually like Paul Krugman's writings, and although I do have an opinion about the financial industry, whoever crowned Krugman "social evaluator"
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by HSO 16y ago
This scratches an itch I've had for some time now. I've been off and on with a blog of my own. The problem is, I change my answers to the following questions all the time, so I've been trapped in a cycle for some time now, put it online, ta
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by HSO 16y ago
Sounds like a finance quant to me... except the "immediately useful to humanity" part, maybe ;)
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by HSO 16y ago
Hm, let me clarify, I meant to say "either pay or even pay a premium". So yes, they are paying less but they are still paying for a functionality that could, in this particular case, for the most part also be fulfilled by the more versatile
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by HSO 16y ago
I find it fascinating that people these days are willing to pay (a premium) for less features or less choice. It's counterintuitive, but if you look at e.g. Leica's exploding sales, or Macs, or indeed bare-featured Kindles, there's a patter
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by HSO 16y ago
How did this make it to the HN frontpage??? First, there is this tabloid-y "prove beyond a shadow of a doubt" phrase right in the first sentence, not a good sign. Then, the first table shows the last data point is 2001? Then, given that the
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by HSO 16y ago
Just out of curiosity, how did you manage to learn 9 languages (and how long did it take you, if you actually "studied" them explicitly somehow)? I'm trying to learn French and it still sucks, after almost 3 months in Paris (but not much so
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by HSO 16y ago
People should be clear if they want to do something academic or commercial. If you want your code to be "secret sauce", then don't publish in academic journals, write a memo to investors or customers. If you want to do science, publish and
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by HSO 16y ago
Sorry for being such a pedant but I really can't stand to see more misspellings of foreword. It's "foreword", everybody, not "forward", not "farward", not "forword", not any of the thousand uglier varieties I've lately run across, sometimes
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by HSO 16y ago
I wonder when Apple will take a higher share in the enterprise market, i.e. when the "halo effect" from use of iphones, later maybe ipads, in big corp.s will lead to increased use of macs/os x there too. if it happens, i.e. when os x reache
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by HSO 16y ago
The reason for this may be that the market is made up of interacting learning machines (if you subsume humans among them). Thus, every algorithm introduced changes the basis on whcih the algorithm was selected. Talk about moving targets...
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by HSO 16y ago
Yes in principle. Except that those who have a gut feeling for markets and economics usually are not the same as those with technical acumen. Usually, those with technical acumen find manipulating economic and financial data by hand, and do
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by HSO 16y ago
Hehe, just returned from Euroscipy '10 and somewhat drunk so forgive me for my bad English. After seeing all the awesome applications of Python using Numpy/Scipy in science during 4 days and interacting with (parts of) the community, all I

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