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811.
by bcoates 13y ago
There's nothing wrong with settling in cash. There is something wrong with failing to maintain the separation between marketplace and counterparty. There's no meaningful settlement at all here; there is literally no way to get USD
812.
by bcoates 13y ago
These options are based on the spot price of another exchange, rather than being tied to a futures contract or something you could actually settle by trading USD for BTC or back. You aren't actually buying or selling an option, but gam
813.
by bcoates 13y ago
I think it's for persistence, there's a lot more to storing mutable data on disk than reading and writing JSON or CSV or pickle files if you want it to be robust. SQLite is great for that sort of thing. Also, it looks like it is
814.
by bcoates 13y ago
The medical sector in the US operates this way openly, most medical providers have some sort of ability-to-pay based fee and payment schedule, if you ask. The big advantage over just taking on the debt and not paying it is that you can pres
815.
by bcoates 13y ago
It'll trash your credit no matter who it's sold to; at least buying it yourself would relieve you of the debt.
816.
by bcoates 13y ago
Critical question unanswered by the letter: Is the bonus pool for a team primarily fixed in advance as a law of nature, or primarily determined by team performance as a whole, at the end of the period? If it's the former, you're r
817.
by bcoates 13y ago
I'm not sure either but I think it's the procedural mindset. People learning about relational databases hear about how a join is equivalent to cartesian product, then imagine the nested-loops implementation and think that k-way jo
818.
by bcoates 13y ago
If you've got an underproductive department with overprotective management, I've got a suggestion for where you could trim some fat. I have difficulty comprehending the logic that trusts someone to monitor, assess, and organize a
819.
by bcoates 13y ago
> Hungarian notation presents type information at the point of use, as opposed to declaration. > I must ask: are you really arguing that identifiers need not give any hint as to what they are bound to? Because that idea is kinda prob
820.
by bcoates 13y ago
How is consuming billions of dollars of the time of talented specialists a good thing in and of itself ? There's an argument that it's the best possible thing they could be doing, or that India's space program is extremely c
821.
by bcoates 13y ago
Because the availability of IE is part of the Windows platform -- a Windows program gets to assume that IE is installed and the various APIs provided by IE are available. If Microsoft wants older Windows software to work, it has to ensure t
822.
by bcoates 13y ago
I thought that the claim was the XP and Vista are no longer supported versions and nobody need write new software for them.
823.
by bcoates 13y ago
The P/E doesn't mean it's overvalued, it means it's priced assuming substantial growth in earnings. That doesn't make either the forward-looking market price or the backwards-looking profit numbers wrong. If that gr
824.
by bcoates 13y ago
By that logic a random-trading machine that never bought the same security twice would never lose anything, despite reliably winding up with a very worthless portfolio.
825.
by bcoates 13y ago
I'm surprised there isn't more commentary on when and how to use external but standard or common commands like grep, sed, awk, perl, join, find, tar, parallel, etc. It's one thing to use bash consistently everywhere but as a
826.
by bcoates 13y ago
Is there a provider that credibly offers high availability Linux servers? Disks fail, capacitors fail, power fails, network equipment fails (a lot). I'm sure it's possible to build an ultra-reliable server that mitigates all that
827.
by bcoates 13y ago
Is DO apologizing here as a PR move, or do they make reliability claims that would lead you to think this sort of thing wouldn't happen?
828.
by bcoates 13y ago
Is information about disruptions to the US PSTN collected anywhere? The discussion of cable tapping and the NSA's apparent taste for doing things the expedient way instead of the legal way makes me wonder if the "vandalism" d
829.
by bcoates 13y ago
I did a drop in replacement of s3cmd by aws s3 and the end result was much better performance, no issues. Also the 's3cmd sync' and 'aws s3 sync' commands don't have exactly the same heuristic so switching caused a
830.
by bcoates 13y ago
Isn't a VPN a much bigger hole than ad-hoc port-to-port SSH tunnels?
831.
by bcoates 13y ago
I don't know about the horse's ass part, but 'dude' is supposedly similar to 'yankee' in the rural western US, in the sense of being a useless, helpless outsider.
832.
by bcoates 13y ago
Are there a lot of products where Google's forced out the competition? All I can think of are search, maps, and webmail (a long time ago) and web analytics (closely coupled to their core business). The rest of the stuff I can think of
833.
by bcoates 13y ago
A simple data race in C11/C++11 is undefined behavior, it doesn't have to result in any well-defined state that you might get by interleaving the execution of threads. I think this has been on HN already: http://www.hpl
834.
by bcoates 13y ago
> The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a club of mostly rich countries, reckons that labour captured just 62% of all income in the 2000s, down from over 66% in the early 1990s. That sort of decline is not su
835.
by bcoates 13y ago
Packaged sugar products, cosmetics, and toiletries, truly the linchpin of our economy. When whoever made this finds out about Sysco they're gonna freak out.
836.
by bcoates 13y ago
One of the problems with it is there's no "don't run as administrator" right click option. Developers can add a manifest, there's some crazy sysadmin tools that aren't even installed with windows to suppress it
837.
by bcoates 13y ago
Huh, and I though GM was saved by the government giving them $50 billon dollars to play with, of which they managed to lose $10 billion. I guess the success criteria was that they didn't lose all of it? http://www.nbcnews.co
838.
by bcoates 13y ago
Doubling to indicate a plural initialism, like "pp 3-7" for "pages 3-7" or "EE. UU." for "Estados Unidos".
839.
by bcoates 13y ago
the only letter whose name doesn’t include the sound it makes I'm trying to figure out if the author pronounces H with a Tom Brokaw "haitch" or an Elvis Presley "aitchuhh".
840.
by bcoates 13y ago
The insurance companies supported and lobbied for the ACA -- which was the only reason it barely passed -- because they thought they were getting a gigantic payday from the employer mandate. With that gone they're doing their best to e

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