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by T_S_ 15y ago
Twitter confuses the hell out of me when people are conversing, so you may be onto something.
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by T_S_ 15y ago
tl;dr Wage subsidy in the form of credit extended to established companies. No benefit to you, HNers. Remember green jobs? They aren't happening. So here's an alternative. Cut sales and income tax. Impose heavy carbon tax (enough to get gas
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by T_S_ 15y ago
Great comment. Gamification turns work into play. Removes guilt from play. Play is ego gratification or "flow" or a combination.
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The meaning of a transaction is generally understood. All I am saying is anything that would merit a journal entry gets feed through pipe instead of consolidated and reported months (or years!) later. I will do my own accounting, you can t
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by T_S_ 15y ago
Exactly. You are feeding false information into the system. Limiting the trading to epochs and holding orders levels the playing field.
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by T_S_ 15y ago
Actually I disagree. Shorts one of the few cures for bubbles that we have and they are weakened greatly by institutional rules that favor promotion over rationality. But, and this is a big one, we would have to reveal trading positions dail
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by T_S_ 15y ago
My point was about forward looking statements and inducing companies to reveal their rational processes. So by all means, use your gut. Then show your work. People can then bet on your gut. Or somebody else's work.
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Actually I am suggesting something more innovative (radical/extreme?) to companies. Toss away those GAAP crutches, and confess to the congregation all your transactions--realtime. Enter the kingdom of Real Transparency (TM). I don't need yo
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by T_S_ 15y ago
My example tax is only a conversation starter. You would be right to say that the reality is a little more complex. But not much. I worked in the bond, fx, and commodities end of Wall Street for nearly 20 years and an average guy from my ol
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by T_S_ 15y ago
Amendment accepted ;-)
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Great point. No exemptions. Otherwise no point to the tax.
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Simple solution. Penny a share transfer tax for all trades. Corresponding amounts on bonds and other instruments. Watch the amazing reduction in volume and volatility. Then watch the return to focus on value trading. Like that idea? Next, o
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It matters a lot, because it speaks to the intent of our negotiating partner. It is the difference between good faith and bad faith.
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by T_S_ 15y ago
Maybe, but then again, loyalty cards with tiered rewards do that. Making customers do work to signal their price point does it (e.g. coupon clipping). Bundling can do it too. Essentially, sellers have to add complexity to keep the discrimin
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by T_S_ 15y ago
I agree with most of the article. However the author suggests that the net reduces the ability for sellers to price discriminate. I think it helps both sides, and the outcome is in doubt. On the one hand it enables faster and broader flow o
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by T_S_ 15y ago
Show of hands would be quicker.
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by T_S_ 15y ago
Can anybody see the books on his dining room table (at 13:49)? I think I spotted Concrete Mathematics at the bottom, Duda and Hart, and Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman. Good places to start. What would your list be for Steve?
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by T_S_ 15y ago
There are no dice. It's entirely about self-interest and betrayal. So why would you think that? ;-)
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by T_S_ 15y ago
This article seems a little out of date. It's missing most of the things I have looked at over the past year. E.g. Riak, MongoDB, Redis and so on.
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by T_S_ 15y ago
Yes and ask for references. Shows you care. You can't earn respect without self-respect.
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Why Programming Languages?(soft.vub.ac.be)
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Ambition metrics seem to be evolving. Whatever happened to Victor Frankenstein ambitious? Or Craig Venter ambitious? Has creating new life become less ambitious since the story of DNA was unravelled? Turns out there are arithmetic problems
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by T_S_ 15y ago
Easy to scoff and funny too. However, note the input data used by the software.. A release from the company explained that Senturion analyzed the positions of leading EU officials, private financial institutions and Greek political faction
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by T_S_ 15y ago
Thanks for mentioning Reed's Law. TIL. According to that, the network value to an individual grows like 2^N - N - 1, which is the number of all possible subsets minus two obviously "useless" ones, The singletons (N) and the empty set (1). I
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by T_S_ 15y ago
Your definition of a design pattern is more precise than mine for sure. In FP its not "an abstracted, re-usable piece of functionality" unless it can be made into a library, as far as I know. But it seems to me that FP forces you to look
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by T_S_ 15y ago
I agree with your first part entirely. As for the comments about math I look at it this way. Math can usefully be described as a nothing but a bunch of design patterns, discovered and built in just the way you say. Look at the way addition
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Me too. But perhaps it have harmed the cases he was working on. Never underestimate the incentives.
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I liked the preface to the comments section below the video: Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. A
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unwords $ replicate 3 "timing, execution"
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No desire to revisit the era of Flash site intros.

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