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by bokonist 14y ago
Since when has a monopoly ever been a good thing? In the U.S., it is the healthcare providers who form for-profit monopolies that jack up the prices and screw over the consumer - see for example: http://runningahospital.blogspot.com/2012
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by bokonist 14y ago
If the phenomena was purely psychological, then it might be possible to overcome it. Possibly, rotating the specific task you are working on, or changing locations, or taking shorter but very intensive breaks (like playing street hocky for
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by bokonist 14y ago
I have wondered if the 5 hours of heavy coding maximum is psychological or physiological. Does productivity drop because your mind rebels against itself? Prolonged mental focus is an unnatural thing to do in the scheme of evolution. There
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by bokonist 14y ago
If you are in the Boston area or interested in relocating to Cambridge, my company, HubSpot, is hiring. We're a late stage startup building an all-in-one marketing platform. You can watch our recruiting video here - http://www.youtube.co
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by bokonist 14y ago
I would assume that any robocar would keep a record of its visual interface, like the airline blackbox. It would probably become much easier to judge who is at fault.
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by bokonist 14y ago
In Korea ~50% of the population has one of the three most popular surnames (Park, Lee or Kim). There are only about 250 surnames in use ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_name ). In the U.S. a bit less than 3% of the population has o
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The Three Branches of the U.S. Government(foseti.wordpress.com)
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by bokonist 14y ago
How is your spouse locked by contract for 10 years due to for-profit education?
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by bokonist 14y ago
I dropped my phone and to get a replacement the other month. I did not re-install my work email or twitter. I think it was definitely a good decision. We have our web app integrated with PagerDuty, so if something really bad happens and
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by bokonist 14y ago
My reaction from reading both your original pitch and your revised pitch is that you were being quite vague. PG knows about the problems of collaboration, limitations of current tools, etc, you don't need to sell him on the existence of pa
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by bokonist 14y ago
AAPL is $600 now. (...) If a large institutional investor wants to manipulate the price, he can place huge buy and sell orders at $700. To what profit? The investor would lose their shirt. Let's say period A had 20 shares sold and 20 sh
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by bokonist 14y ago
Google "HFT frontrunning". The issue is that HFT algorithms can use their superior speed and the ability to cancel orders to essentially figure out what institutional buyers are bidding, and then front run the market to buy up shares in fr
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by bokonist 14y ago
You might have different auction interval times based on the volume of the particular market or stock. An AAPL auction happens every minute, but some low volume securities might trade once an hour or even once a day.
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by bokonist 14y ago
You are falling into the behavioral economics trap. In general, the big movers and shakers in financial markets act in quite economically rational ways. There is a natural selection process at work where the people who are good at using t
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by bokonist 14y ago
In theory, if this system were to be adopted, the Stock Exchange Operator could charge a small tariff so that some of the money that now goes to HFT's goes to the stock exchange, with the rest going to the shareholders. So in theory, adopt
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by bokonist 14y ago
" As far as narrowing spreads, that’s absolutely true, but in absolute terms what does it translate into? For the individual investor it might save them a quarter a month. " In a properly designed, information age stock market there should
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by bokonist 14y ago
The fundamental problem is that the monetary systems of the modern world are all designed on the Wile E. Coyote principle. As long as you never look down, the system works. In the U.S. there is ~$14 trillion in government debt. There exis
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by bokonist 14y ago
I wonder if calorie restriction works because it slows down your metabolism, and thus slows down cell division, and effectively makes it so you are just living more slowly/aging more slowly than other people. However, I would think you wou
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by bokonist 14y ago
"and there's even stronger evidence that low-BMI people live longer," Not true. If you go by the raw numbers, your BMI of 17.6 puts you at the same death risk as someone who has a BMI around 30 (which is borderline obese): http://ars.els-
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by bokonist 14y ago
Kitsch
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by bokonist 14y ago
The freeness of tv is a relic of the broadcast era when it was impossible to charge for TV usage. People now pay for cable, and people long paid for print. People also pay for iphone apps. I think the freeness of the web is due to an acc
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by bokonist 14y ago
Man, I wish Facebook would just charge $25 a year and then focus on making the actual user the customer, rather than making the end user the product and advertisers the customer. If they did that, there would be no more advertising, no mor
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by bokonist 14y ago
Do you have pylint integrated with your IDE? It greatly, greatly speeds up the cycle around fixing basic problems like undefined variables or wrong method arguments. I don't know how I ever coded in python without it.
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by bokonist 15y ago
I've noticed that audiences laugh a lot and that most of what they laugh at is actually not very funny. Isn't the very definition of funny is that it makes people laugh? Laughter is inherently a social, group bonding phenomena. Inherent
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by bokonist 15y ago
"I'm pro-legalization, and if you read his blog Devin seems to be too, but if legalizing is a pipe-dream solution to the "incarceration problem", then pointing wildly to it during discussions of the incarceration problem does everyone a dis
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by bokonist 15y ago
"Finally, his end conclusion is still spurious - if you lock up more people than everyone else clearly law enforcement isn't the problem." Not true at all. The way to measure how lax law enforcement is is by what percent of crimes result in
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by bokonist 15y ago
If you believe the autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa, it is the police that are responsible. Fukuzawa lived in Japan during the mid to late 1800's, before and after the time of the Meiji restoration. At that time Japan had quite a lot of
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by bokonist 15y ago
"laws are often injust ... the war on drugs" Look up the statistics. Even if every person in the U.S. incarcerated for drug possession was released tomorrow, the U.S. would still have the highest incareration rate in the world. If every d
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by bokonist 15y ago
"America is in all eras notorious for endemic crime." In 1894 Philadelphia, a city of a million people at the time (2/3rds the current population) recorded 22 murders. By 1990 the murder count peaked at 535 before falling a bit back to aro
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by bokonist 15y ago
I find with my active noise canceling phones it works best to play a white noise track in the background. The white noise track ensures that even during the gaps in the music or periods or low volume that I don't get distracted by conversa

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