anthony_r

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by anthony_r 6y ago
> People do not lose their shirts when leveraged real estate purchases go wrong, because it's the bank holding the bag That is not true, both parties suffer. Imagine paying 10 years worth of mortgage in a place turned bad (NY in 80s
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by anthony_r 6y ago
So they had poor search results? Didn't know how to sell ads well? What was wrong with it? You haven't provided arguments.
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by anthony_r 6y ago
Always funny to read predictions that aged poorly :) For people that think they can foresee the future of "tech" or whatever else: tell me how around 2000-2004 anyone could have foreseen that Yahoo Search will be completely smashe
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by anthony_r 6y ago
In particular you cannot provide an internal SLA on write requests to low-level storage solutions if you can't guarantee that you actually have the spare disks. The SLA would have to be something like "we guarantee 99.999% write a
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by anthony_r 6y ago
You're spot on. My alma mater has had Google and the likes come to the campus for over a decade now. Also, I see nothing wrong with that, at the same time there was plenty of room for "pure research" into even the most obscur
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by anthony_r 6y ago
You think that losing 80 jobs is really the biggest problem here?
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by anthony_r 6y ago
Housing prices are long term "bound" by CPI, not the other way around. More specifically they have always mean reverted to CPI if you look few hundred years back. Robert Shiller wrote a lot on this topic. Also, the current level o
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by anthony_r 6y ago
Is anyone tracking the current spot price of N95 masks on a chart? Would need a true price, i.e. what do you have to pay if you have no "special powers" like a hospital. Spot as close as is reasonable, maybe with 1 week delivery;
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by anthony_r 6y ago
There's also flash, which is also pretty fast, and fits nicely between magnetic and RAM. Here's a handy rule of thumb about relative costs: the cost of a byte on magnetic_disk:flash:ram is about 1:10:100. I.e. the cost increases 1
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by anthony_r 6y ago
This reminds me of that joke video about replacing MongoDB with /dev/null. Look at the write speeds! /dev/null is web scale! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
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by anthony_r 6y ago
Nothing special about it, it's just another round-trip that you'd have to make. There's also the statistical impact of many round-trips: imagine a network where 1% of connections take 1 second, while 99% take 1 milisecond. If
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by anthony_r 6y ago
Impostor syndrome etc.. Also, who are you to judge that you're not good enough? As long as you are employed or employable that does in fact mean you're good enough.
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by anthony_r 6y ago
Never forget that ETFs are only really possible due to HFT. Most ETF users do not even realise this, unless they ask themselves "how do ETFs actually work", and they start reading about Authorized Participants.
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by anthony_r 6y ago
One thing to remember, Elon will not stop promising impossible things. Why people still believe that [Mexico will pay for the wall] is beyond me. http://elonmusk.today/
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by anthony_r 6y ago
My point is that it's irrelevant at this point, as those machines do not yet exist. The existing experimental setups and theoretical models are most closely related to boolean circuits (vs a Turning machine or a RAM machine or lambda c
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by anthony_r 6y ago
Thanks for the link, it does seem interesting. > What Von Nuemann algorithm can I put on this? I am very far from asking this question, thinking about the memory architecture is far too detailed here :). If anything it's about P v
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by anthony_r 6y ago
There's pretty good understanding on how quantum mechanics works (for decades), and you can easily write theoretical algorithms for such computers. It can be all expressed with matrix multiplications. See Shor's algorithm for an e
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by anthony_r 6y ago
Yes, this is what I'm thinking too might be the killer feature. But specifically - what would be easier to simulate?
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by anthony_r 6y ago
I cannot find the answer to this anywhere: what algorithms will we actually use the quantum computers for? Please skip Shor's algorithm, I understand this part. What else is there?
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by anthony_r 6y ago
The bigger question is what's the total capacity that is shared by a single neighborhood/city. For example - does this mean that a small city can only use 42Mbps down across all receivers?
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by anthony_r 6y ago
The speed of sound in pretty much any solid (or liquid) body is much faster than in the air. That's why the earthquake came first, and it was probably the earthquake that caused the 2. noises.
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by anthony_r 6y ago
What a shitshow.
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by anthony_r 6y ago
Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash ? I prefer to believe that stocks are not in a bubble of such epic proportions that a stupid split can be an "event".
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by anthony_r 6y ago
Ah yes, selling volatility via covered calls. The institutional investors' second favourite way of collecting "extra income" in the zero rates world, second only to explicit leverage. Some of them sold much more volatility, v
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by anthony_r 6y ago
There is no such thing as "split price". You get 4 shares for each share you previously owned, and it's up to the market to resume trading at a new level. It's a non-event, really, except it makes some operations easier.
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by anthony_r 6y ago
Every single metric points to low returns, probably even negative over the next 5-10 years: CAPE, average investor allocation to stocks vs bonds, bond yields themselves, market cap / GDP, basic demographics. That is all without even co
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by anthony_r 6y ago
The worst part about this is that it does not require GDPR consent because it is genuinely necessary to store such client data (to detect fake accounts). Same as you don't need GDPR compliance to store someone's address in an onli
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by anthony_r 6y ago
And you're 100% sure that this is not just currency controls because the Brazilian Real is getting killed? From what I can tell - Brazil is going to Argentina, quickly :(
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by anthony_r 6y ago
Pissed off at work. The workload is up since pre-Corona, management says "do more with less". All of this in addition to the work-unrelated stress.
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Examples? I thought it's very very rare.

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