Hermel

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by Hermel 10y ago
> Was it unethical to exploit the fact that the mythical king didn't bother to calculate exponents? Yes, it is clearly unethical to enter into a contract with someone when you know that the other person would never agree if he actua
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by Hermel 10y ago
> had to expect But apparently did not. The question is also: what did Max-Hervé expect? If he knew that the insurance could not have meant the contract the way they wrote it, it is morally (and maybe also legally) wrong to exploit their
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by Hermel 10y ago
That reminds me of the mythical king who agreed to pay "just" one grain of rice for the first square of a chessboard, two for the next, then four, then eight, etc. and ended up losing his entire kingdom. Normally, continental Euro
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by Hermel 10y ago
No, the study shows that similar families are rich today as back then. It does not say what happened in between. It could well be that these families lost and regain their fortunes multiple times.
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by Hermel 10y ago
Finally! I don't know how often I accidentally navigated away from a page by pressing backspace while writing in a textbox.
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by Hermel 10y ago
And previously, he was betting on AAPL to raise to 200$. To be fair, the coming Trump victory might not be priced in yet. Also, Brexit could bring some turbulences.
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by Hermel 10y ago
> The right way is to ask for the documents. That's what they did, so why are you complaining? (Note that these documents are called Zeugnis in German, which translates to certificate, so maybe something got lost in translation if y
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by Hermel 10y ago
In my experience, the better option is to seek work with a better pay and then learn to enjoy that. If you find joy in doing things well, almost any job that challenges you will bring you happiness.
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by Hermel 10y ago
What is in your opinion the right way to check whether you have actually graduated at Oxford and what grades you had if not asking for the official documents that contain this information?
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by Hermel 10y ago
New York's "Bitcoin License" slows down Bitcoin development and makes startups go somewhere else. London and Zug (Switzerland) are much more crypto-friendly. New York might be missing a big opportunity here.
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by Hermel 10y ago
What is a joke is the disfunctional legal system of the US with its exorbitant fines, out of which a disproportionate amount flows into the pockets of reckless lawyers.
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by Hermel 10y ago
That works for physical goods, but not for a diner in London.
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by Hermel 10y ago
It's certainly possible, but still much harder to evade than a sales tax or an income tax.
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by Hermel 10y ago
That's why VAT is such a popular tax in Europe. It is very hard to evade. As soon as you spend money, you pay taxes.
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by Hermel 10y ago
BMW sells more electric cars than Tesla in some markets and about half as many globally. Unlike the WSJ, I would say these are respectable figures.
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by Hermel 11y ago
>It's just crazy to see them beat the competition so badly. The BMW electric cars (i3 and i8) are quite successful, beating Tesla sales-wise in Germany and selling half as many world-wide. The great weakness of the Tesla S in the Ge
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by Hermel 11y ago
As a regular reader of German news, this does not seem true to me. My impression is that the German media are more Russia-friendly than their British and American counterparts. After all, Russia and Germany could be natural allies from a ge
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by Hermel 11y ago
I have come to the same conclusion: decentralization is the key factor against corruption and lobbyism. That's also why I sympathize with separatist movements in Scotland, Catalunia, Northern Italy, etc.
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by Hermel 11y ago
More human life-years get wasted every day in Europe's traffic jams than we lost in the Brussels attacks. Maybe we should rethink our priorities.
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by Hermel 11y ago
In my experience, asking candidates to read and explain someone else's code is a much better indicator than letting them do some whiteboard programming.
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by Hermel 11y ago
> Basically, users are given an intentionally badly designed user interface in which they receive no training, and a task that is impossible to accomplish within the obvious constraints of the interface, and asked to accomplish a goal. T
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by Hermel 11y ago
I've been looking into Stein's paradox last year more deeply as I could not wrap my head around it. The baseball example is easy. It is quite intuitive that some of those who scored well probably just did so by accident, and are a
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by Hermel 11y ago
And how does the ability to solve these puzzles make you a good quant?
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by Hermel 11y ago
The opposite is the case. Satoshi's assumptions are relevant as they are the basis for the expectations people have. Departing from these visions is what upsets a lot of users, and rightly so.
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by Hermel 11y ago
There was a planned hard fork in 2013 that went just fine.
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by Hermel 11y ago
That's funny about the debate. Both sides accuse the other of changing the rules. Large-blockers want to increase a parameter in the code. And small-blockers want to change Satoshi's implicit plan of increasing it as necessary.
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by Hermel 11y ago
As someone who has been closely following the Bitcoin community since 2011, I am baffled by the toxicity of the blocksize debate and the resistance even against a moderate blocksize increase.
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by Hermel 11y ago
The Bitcoin network is not having much difficulty with a couple of transactions per second. It is the community that struggles with adjusting to an appropriate throughput.
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by Hermel 11y ago
Are you happy with the performance of AppEngine? I have tried it last summer and was quite disappointed. CPU-bound programs that completed in a few seconds on my own computer took about ten times as long on AppEngine despite similar nominal
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by Hermel 11y ago
It is not about the word, it is about whether it is descriptive. For example, you cannot protect "soap" as a trademark for soap, but you can protect "soap" as a trademark for everything else.

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