andylei

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by andylei 17y ago
i seems like your beef with these companies is that we're subsidizing them. so is the problem the institutions that are asking for money? or our politicians that are giving them money?
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by andylei 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster
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by andylei 17y ago
why would you blame goldman sachs for this stuff? if you were in this position, you would also lobby the government in the same way. you should be angry at the government for caving. this is also completely unrelated to the topic, that th
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by andylei 17y ago
actually, it's entirely possible. i know of prop trading groups that have been around for ten years with only one or two down months. in dislocated markets, making markets is actually relatively easy, so it's not that surprising that they
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by andylei 17y ago
hold the phone, just because a problem is NP complete does not mean that it is computationally intractable. most algorithms in the real world are NP complete, but people still try to solve them. just because there's no way to prove which
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by andylei 17y ago
>> One dangerous assumption in the hoteling model is that there are no costs to changing your position location cost is not really necessary. think of this as a game that the ice cream sellers play before they locate. they figure,
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by andylei 17y ago
downturns are actually good times to hire. not only are there lots of talented people that have been displaced from jobs, but market wages are also low.
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by andylei 17y ago
this is kind of unfair. the lessons microsoft and the development community have learned from working on browsers were all things that the Chrome team gets for free. they also get to start from scratch, whereas the IE team has to work on
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by andylei 17y ago
maybe. but also consider that if the SEC can go after 2 or 3 times as many companies, it may have a bigger deterrent effect, via extra publicity.
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by andylei 17y ago
>because any price spike you may have fortuitously gotten will be removed this is true, but "fortuitously" doesn't always apply. "price spikes" could be high or low, and could affect you positively or negatively. with out high frequen
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by andylei 17y ago
> The programs can gauge market response and, using pre-programmed manoeuvres, called algos (for algorithms), catch the demand before the public (that’s YOU), grab lots of it cheap, enter and cancel hundreds of small orders in order to
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by andylei 17y ago
actually, a lot of the best high frequency trading shops out there are small, private, prop trading groups. for example, tower research capital ( http://www.tower-research.com/ ) is a pretty successful high frequency shop that isn't a big
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by andylei 17y ago
well, there is a limited demand for widgets. if i make cheaper widgets, i'm taking away sales from my competitor. isn't that the same? your observation isn't something unique to finance. capitalism, or just business, is inherently compet
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by andylei 17y ago
it's not really gaming the system. if you have money, you can buy server space close to the exchange's computers. that may seem unfair, but that's not really unique to trading. consider manufacturing: if you have more money, you can buy
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by andylei 17y ago
really? you'd rather that someone goes hungry than you having to download ie8?
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by andylei 17y ago
>> you're pretty much guaranteed that a search on "seo consultant" will return the best seo consultants. this is pretty much the only subject where, by definition, the google search gives you the best results.
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by andylei 17y ago
it's in a post above, but they "removed" this option from their newly designed laptops because it requires an entirely different screen construction. i also don't think the majority of users want matte screens, even if many do.
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by andylei 17y ago
it's not in this article, but he wasn't arrested for modding his own hardware. he was running a home business where he was essentially selling modded hardware. from: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/08/game-console-jailbr...
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by andylei 17y ago
apple isn't in the netbook business, so it may not be a conflict of interest
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by andylei 17y ago
students in China actually must apply to specific majors when they apply to college. for example, instead of applying to MIT, you'd apply for electrical engineering at MIT. it's also very difficult to change majors after you've been accep
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by andylei 17y ago
well, the reason a rewrite is bad is that it gives competitors time to produce a better product. in terms of text editors on Mac, nothing else is really that close, so it seems like Allan hasn't really lost out.
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by andylei 17y ago
not that much more efficient. approximation algorithms provide pretty good solutions.
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by andylei 17y ago
that's ridiculous. the whole point of the article is that there is an optimal percentage of your wealth you should spend on the lottery. that's exactly the opposite of your argument, that if spending $X is good, then you should spend $2*X.
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by andylei 17y ago
the reliance on the Kelly criterion doesn't make any sense. the Kelly criterion is based on a game you can play over and over. it calculates an exponential expected growth rate based on how much you're favored. favorable lotteries don't s
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by andylei 17y ago
a poll is a better estimate than just guessing
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by andylei 17y ago
> My own hunch is they did it to avoid scraping/botting the text is in the alt attribute of the image. easily scraped.
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by andylei 17y ago
those formulae are rendered as images
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by andylei 17y ago
you take this too far. i agree that it's possible to learn CS without taking courses, but i don't think that CS courses are useless. if you can learn CS without a course, i don't see how taking a course would hurt. your argument is based
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by andylei 17y ago
that's just taxis online
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by andylei 17y ago
nope. on the first substantive page, in big bold text, it says "You are not required to test your products for safety."

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