andrew1

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by andrew1 16y ago
The term 'hedge fund' is used much more loosely these days. There's no requirement that a hedge fund be hedged against anything.
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by andrew1 16y ago
And yet, even though I spend more time than I should on the internets, I'd never heard about it. Also, some of the people on this site would have only been 12 or 13 (or younger!) in 2004 so might not have been that likely to have heard, or
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by andrew1 16y ago
Maybe what he means is that he can (e.g.) imitate a Parisian speaking English flawlessly, rather than a Parisian speaking French. Agreed though; whatever he means it must be an exaggeration.
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by andrew1 16y ago
I think you're wrong (although I could just be being silly..). As a mailing list comment points out, the effect of applying the for(c...) part to an n is: fc(n) = n * (2 ^ n) * (2 ^ (n * (2 ^ n)) So the first iteration of the d var
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by andrew1 16y ago
I don't remember noticing during my (mostly pure) maths degree that most of the time I was using pi that I was actually using 2 * pi. So there must have been a lot of problems where I would have been writing tau/2 using the proposed system,
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by andrew1 16y ago
Isn't the fact she had an MBA incidental to her behaviour? Her job could have been filled by someone without an MBA who might have acted in exactly the same way. I've met many self-serving, selfishly ambitious people who don't have MBAs!
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by andrew1 16y ago
> When you hear hoofbeats behind you, don't expect to see a zebra. Unless you're in parts of Africa, in which case you might well see a zebra. Apparently in South Africa medical students are told that when you see a small bird on a bran
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by andrew1 16y ago
Isn't this sort of what doctors do for a living, except they actually get paid to do it, rather than doing it for free on the internet.
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by andrew1 16y ago
In fairness, we don't actually know everything there is to know about the guy so maybe he gives 99% of his income away to charity. If he is 'doing good' in some unrelated way then maybe he feels this patent silliness is the best way to maxi
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by andrew1 16y ago
I might be a start-up owner who's convinced that the world desperately needs another social networking site. Just because I think that's an important thing for me to be working on doesn't mean that it actually is to the rest of the world. E
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by andrew1 16y ago
> would have zero impact for real investors (who are investing in wealth creation, not money creation) I don't understand what you mean. What is the difference between wealth creation and money creation?
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by andrew1 16y ago
Is 'Nothing' the one word answer?
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by andrew1 16y ago
> I wish these html5 games were built some consideration for iPad. If the author doesn't have an iPad then it's going to be a bit difficult for him to know how this will perform. Possibly he's just made sure it works OK for the 99.99% o
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by andrew1 16y ago
I don't know if it's the case but if you paid a higher rate of commission/fees on flash orders then it might be the case that the general market is getting slightly worse prices but at the advantage of lower fees. Which could make it benefi
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by andrew1 16y ago
But that's like saying let's get rid of zero. You can make the argument that zero doesn't exist as equally convincingly as you can that infinity doesn't exist.
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by andrew1 16y ago
> But I think that screwing around with the bizarre aspects of a concept like infinity is a huge waste of time. Maybe for you, maybe not for someone who enjoys doing it.
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by andrew1 16y ago
Akadien has recommended "The Big Short" already, and I'd second that. It goes into a lot of detail about this situation. The problem with trying to price these CDOs was that an individual CDO might be made up of 100 pieces of other CDOs whi
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by andrew1 16y ago
The bonds would typically be a composite of loans from all over the US. So the argument was made that even if (say) California's housing bubble crashed then only a small fraction of your bond would suffer losses as the loans made in other s
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by andrew1 17y ago
You should be able to get the final size to less than 100kb, I can't remember exactly what I ended up with using Proguard but I think it was 30-40kb. It should manage to remove virtually all the Scala library code as hardly any of it would
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by andrew1 17y ago
IT includes a proguard.jar file which I assume is used to remove unnecessary classes from your final application. I managed to get Scala working with Android a while ago by following online guides (a lot more hassle than this looks to be!)
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by andrew1 17y ago
I think we should stop this discussion. You don't seem to have any interest in discussing how this hypothetical society would actually work, only in nit-picking mostly irrelevant points (and in response: given that people would be free to e
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by andrew1 17y ago
> Read your history in some depth and then talk. Thank you for the advice. I will make sure in future that I never try to engage in a discussion about something of which I am not fully informed.
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by andrew1 17y ago
It sounds like you know a lot more about the Boer concentration camps than I do, maybe you can clear something up for me. From a quick perusal of Wikipedia it seems as if the concentration camps in the Boer war were intended to be more like
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by andrew1 17y ago
Anyone know why an albatross would feed this stuff to its chicks? I don't mean that in terms of comparing an albatross to a human (as in, I can tell that a bottle cap is probably not a good thing to eat) but comparing it to other animals -
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by andrew1 17y ago
There are hundreds of millions of people in the Western world who are not 'threatened by hunger', and yet the vast majority of those people still go to work every day, still use banks, still want to earn more money than they could ever need
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by andrew1 17y ago
Maybe she feels that having an understanding of the demographics of the industry she's working in (and possibly making contacts with whom she can discuss issues she imagines they will have experienced) will help her to kick ass.
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by andrew1 17y ago
> 'I wonder why not answer this to all proposals in this topic as those problems being solved would make people stop doing stuff the old way.' It wouldn't be inappropriate to - it's always worth considering both the positive and negativ
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by andrew1 17y ago
I don't understand what you mean. Even imagining a world where we didn't need any food at all; we'd still have teams of builders building the houses we live in, teams of teachers teaching our children, teams of bankers doing what it is they
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by andrew1 17y ago
The company I work at uses Java as its 'main' language. In the past year my team has been increasingly using Scala for new development. One of the most useful features of Scala is the functional treatment of collections. Most of the program
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by andrew1 17y ago
> 'Nobody would prevent anyone from eating' That isn't really the point though. Whenever there is progress the majority of people stop doing the 'old' thing in favour of the 'new' thing. Hardly anyone in the first world makes their own

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