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by Jorge1o1 4y ago
And to think, people in the U.S are fuming about the Electoral College. Wait till they find out about QV. Imagine getting involved in some shitcoin project where a guy with a hundredth of your investment has a tenth of your voting power
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by Jorge1o1 4y ago
Not the parent so I can’t tell you exactly what he did, but some suggestions: - The PNG specification contains plenty of information including width and length that allow you to use 2d arrays rather than ArrayLists - The RGBA 32bit integer
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by Jorge1o1 4y ago
Yes and no. It goes beyond lack of data and well into fraud (knowing deception). See, for example, point 34 of the report: >Opendoor has used an automated system to generate expected market values for homes. In many instances, Opendoor’s
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by Jorge1o1 4y ago
>laggy even when showing animations Yes, often because those web apps use a javascript like popmotion instead of just plain css transitions. Or some dev writes an onScroll or onHover function with zero debouncing.
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by Jorge1o1 4y ago
Mind you, technical analysis is a self-fulfilling prophecy. People tend to buy into “lines of resistance” and “lines of support”, and then they place orders around those milestone / psychological prices. You can literally see it on the
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by Jorge1o1 4y ago
Hundreds of developers, modelers, artists, and the like spent months working on NFT games, “digital land” and other projects that are sure to either get canceled or be commercial failures. Ironic how similar the crypto and traditional world
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by Jorge1o1 4y ago
Heh that’s good. I was just about to write out an angry comment on USDT vs UST when the joke hit.
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by Jorge1o1 4y ago
Naming your company after a failed experiment is also an ironic choice. What’s next… Icarus Investments?
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by Jorge1o1 4y ago
I feel you man. I took it for acne for like 3 or so months, and every morning it was a daily battle not to puke my guts out. It didn’t work btw, and I ended up needing accutane, which left my lips ravaged and bleeding for a year.
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by Jorge1o1 4y ago
Which is why there was a ballooning of crypto-market makers. Thin markets and dozens of fragmented exchanges is paradise for a quant market maker. You setup a few dozen websockets and you get to charge some bitcoin miner 10bps per transacti
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by Jorge1o1 4y ago
The reasons are political… just like in the United States. HBO with their Chernobyl miniseries single-handedly undid years of progress in the perception of nuclear energy.
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by Jorge1o1 4y ago
Moreover, with the micro-optimized SIMD quicksort algos that are perennially cropping up on this website... I would be willing to bet that "sort and take first N" is objectively faster than my crappy Python implementation -- even
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by Jorge1o1 5y ago
So a “poor” but highly knowledgeable financial planner making “only” $180k a year can’t invest in their friend’s startup because the regulators deem it too risky. But some random dentist can? https://www.bloomberg.com/opinio
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by Jorge1o1 5y ago
Clearly you’ve never tried to update nvidia graphics card drivers, add a webcam, a printer, or run a 32-bit application on linux. Compared to Windows/Mac these simple tasks are hellish — and for nontechnical users, nearly impossible.
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by Jorge1o1 5y ago
One of the most popular articles on HN with a whopping 900+ comments was about exactly this issue. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28621288 According to Paul Wood, the threat of bacterial contamination makes cultivated
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by Jorge1o1 5y ago
That’s exactly why it’s such a bad interview question, regardless of how “fundamental” it is to a website, changing the HTML <head> tags will never be within the new hire’s scope of work. They will basically never ever in their entire
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by Jorge1o1 5y ago
My guess is that there are constraints that make it unattractive to institutions. Only 20 trading opportunities a day, fairly limited alpha on each trade (1-3bps), limited liquidity since you're just trading against the small retail po
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by Jorge1o1 5y ago
Your gut feeling is very correct. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28972431 There was a whole fiasco where the dotnet/C# team were forced to remove features from dotnet in order to sell more copies of Visual Studio
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by Jorge1o1 5y ago
Until we have to start making AIs to identify knowledge and filter out noise. And then a whole cat-and-mouse game between fake news AI and fake news detection AI.
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by Jorge1o1 5y ago
But before you can teach them combustion engines you have to teach them combustion. AP Chemistry should be required for all 15 year olds.
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by Jorge1o1 5y ago
>Savings will run out and labor supply will increase again. This is my pet theory. One dynamic that I think could be interesting is if enough people exit the labor force, and hold out for enough time, would it force employers to make con
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by Jorge1o1 5y ago
A stock can be sold short, meaning you receive cash from your broker now, and you promise to give them the share at some point in the future. This is pretty much a negative view on the stock because you’re hoping you can sell to open at $12
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by Jorge1o1 5y ago
> “I am more convinced than ever that SARS-CoV-2 has a natural origin,” agrees Linfa Wang, a virologist at Duke–NUS Medical School in Singapore. >The Laos study offers insight into the origins of the pandemic, but there are still miss
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by Jorge1o1 5y ago
So I just learned that there’s a direct link from Adolf Hitler to Jeff Bezos… 1 degree. Vandalism?
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by Jorge1o1 5y ago
Cool site, and congrats for shipping! Some minor nitpicks: 1. I filtered to ITM but got options that were out of the money in my results 2. Rather than needing the 10,30,50,any moneyness picker, why not a slider? 3. In fact, there should pr
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by Jorge1o1 5y ago
This was really fun to browse! Consider adding a section for “worst traders” and “worst stocks” just for fun. For example, CLOV is a wsb matador.
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by Jorge1o1 5y ago
What inspired you guys to go with such a long time window? Most of the timeshares I know are like 2 weeks out of the year, but here it looks like you get (for most properties) almost 3 months!! Do people really take 3 month vacations? And e
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by Jorge1o1 5y ago
You hit on so many great points in this post. Another important function trading firms (especially market makers like Jane Street) is to serve as ready-and-willing counterparties for the pension funds, endowments, and retirement funds of th
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by Jorge1o1 5y ago
So they don’t have any tables describing their regression coefficients, but one of the params they use is lag-1 medals. For example, predicting 2020 medals using 2016 medals. It wouldn’t surprise me if the vast majority of the model’s predi
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by Jorge1o1 5y ago
> And there’s not a single young programmer that cares about that. Seriously. You’re young, you want to do a fun project, your managers are saying, in three months I need this thing done. You do whatever you want to do. Well, they get it

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