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by artsrc 16y ago
An elitist system divides people into an elite and the others. So a system where you have demonstrate the ability know and do a certain set of things, and give unlimited attempts. Then provide enough help to enable everyone to get over tha
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If people did not consider those projects in significant in some way other than costing millions of dollars, they would cancel them. Being insignificant creates a need of efficiency.
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by artsrc 16y ago
Technically a relation has to have a primary key so all that set theory is valid. A system could be based on bags, like SQL allows, can also have data.
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by artsrc 16y ago
There aren't any relational databases doing any thing useful, only non relational databases, like those based on SQL.
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by artsrc 16y ago
I worked on a project at a bank that started insignificant, and became significant and the loss of quality and the increase in waste was phenomenal. It is great perceived importance that makes a boondoggle. A few employees, government or ot
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by artsrc 16y ago
That's how I keep my source code. People tried more structured storage and text is winning.
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by artsrc 16y ago
Sure the guys language was imprecise, but the SQL implementation of the relational model was imprecise as well, so we call all get it wrong with gay abandon. The funny thing about relational databases they model relationships fairly loosely
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by artsrc 16y ago
From what I can tell, there is a patent grant on the OSS version provided you pass the closed source compatibility suite. > (iv) pass all test suites relating to the most recent published version of the specification of the Java 2 Platf
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by artsrc 16y ago
When I was a young child, Australians did not eat much Sushi either. http://www.thebeijinger.com/blog/2009/08/26/Raw-Power-Beijin...
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by artsrc 16y ago
There is always some conventional wisdom, even if it is not a directional view on the market as a whole. Here is some conventional wisdom: "eBook readers will be cheap enough (<$99) that most people (>50%) will own one in less than
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by artsrc 16y ago
Thanks for the link. I think this paper does help put bounds on the upper limits to creating efficiency through some mechanisms. Using those bounds you can think about the limits to which reasons for crashes are not reflected, based on siz
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by artsrc 16y ago
Oracle is a many headed beast. I think that PostgreSQL (RedHat database etc.) can serve most (but not all) of the applications Oracle DB serves. There is an application server business (BEA), hardware business (Sun) and applications (People
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by artsrc 16y ago
Crashes can always come. Efficient markets have already priced in all these well known reasons for one. This article makes the classic mistake of exaggerating the known risks. Actually the crash is just as likely to be caused by something
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by artsrc 16y ago
I think the V8 technology in Chrome is based on much older Smalltalk VM technology that Google bought. Given that everything in software violates software patents, I think it is reasonable to assume that Java does.
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by artsrc 16y ago
I don't know why Dalvik exists. The JVM is GPL'd, you don't have to pay license fees to use. There are other Apache licensed JVM's ( http://harmony.apache.org/ ). If this lawsuit drives people towards the Newspeak and V8 VM that would be a
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by artsrc 16y ago
I heard of a company that specialized in costing projects to switch from Microsoft Office to Open Office. None of their customers actually switched. They just took the costing of the project to Microsoft sales and said: "we want to pay th
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by artsrc 16y ago
Or because they did not increase spending by this amount, 2003 might have been artificially low for accounting reasons: Expenditures are estimated to drop from $78.1 billion in 2002-03 to $70.8 billion in 2003-04, a 10 percent decline. Mos
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by artsrc 16y ago
California has a lot of issues and potential. I just don't feel this article really convinces me that they have selected the important ones. The cost of the prison system may be a significant burden and the article did not address that. Th
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by artsrc 16y ago
Functional literacy is about the ability to function, i.e. fill in tax forms. In Sweden functional literacy is in the high 90% range.
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by artsrc 16y ago
If you can think of a better term than "real participant" please let me know. If your job is to record or settle trades, be a day trader with no overnight position, track share holdings, etc. then you are a part of the machinery of this cap
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by artsrc 16y ago
In Australia HSBC offers foreign currency bank accounts, but I can't see that on the US site. I work for a fund manager not a bank. Would an ETF for high yield, first world, countries fixed income products work? http://us.ishares.com/prod
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by artsrc 16y ago
Seems like a version of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equity_home_bias_puzzle I don't know why US savers don't invest in Australian dollar accounts either. They pay about 6 times as much as US term deposits. http://www.infochoice.c
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by artsrc 16y ago
The volume real market participants want to buy or sell.
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by artsrc 16y ago
Maybe, but if globals are rare the asymmetry to reduce noise may be worth it.
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nonlocal 'leaks' that assigning an new identifier declares a new local variable. This is part of the abstraction not a leak. I don't think I understand your other question.
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It is real work, it just provides no real net value.
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The typical trading range for the day is $100 to $110. Scenario 1: So someone offers (is willing to sell) a limit order at $100. Buyer bids at $110. They wait until the other order appears and cross according to some market rules (perha
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by artsrc 16y ago
If there are 10 people who want move to street x, having 14 sellers all selling identical apartments, at identical prices is no different than having 50 people selling identical apartments at identical prices or 200. The difference with HFC
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I can see an obvious cost to X, after many years no-one has produced any evidence of value to X, therefore X should be abolished, if it can be done at reasonable cost. Investors providing capital should not care what time of day their trade
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Current price $100. Firm puts in order to buy at any price up to $110. The HFC algorithm puts small volume sells to work out that they are doing that, then sell to them at $109.99. They then turn around and fill their position at any low

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