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by bwanab 10y ago
Seems weird that from what I hear about the intense interview process that Google programmers go through that they'd feel a need to dumb down the language of choice.
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> To that end, I suspect it wasn’t a coincidence that the industrial revolution was followed by three centuries of war. I'm seriously trying to think of any centuries preceding the industrial revolution that wouldn't have quali
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by bwanab 10y ago
Starting when? Marijuana use has been widespread in the U.S. since the 1960s.
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The acceptance rate for males is 9%. For females it is 21%.
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by bwanab 10y ago
There are many good points in the article. I worked in Switzerland for a couple of years and there are also some inaccuracies to keep in mind. 1. Yes, the average Swiss makes more than the average American, but the cost of living there is a
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by bwanab 10y ago
One of the ideas behind julia is to get a language that is as expressive as python, with better functional programming capability, that runs at the same order of speed as C. You can't get something for nothing, but it's a really g
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by bwanab 10y ago
Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs might be considered "big banks" and yes, they do.
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Many Latin words entered old english in the 500 years that Rome occupied England and Wales.
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by bwanab 10y ago
=== In typical New Yorker fashion it assumes you have never heard of platonism, formal logic or 20th century physics but assumes you remember the future conjugations of regular latin verbs.=== So true and so well put - And I love the New Yo
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by bwanab 10y ago
Yes, I totally agree. I like Dylan's music a lot, but I cringed this morning when I read the news. Murakami deserves the prize. I suspect he'll get it one of these years, but I think his body of work has already made the case.
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by bwanab 10y ago
I'll take the other side of that bet. My view is that it will come down to the insurance companies. They are going to price policies such that only a very wealthy person can consider self driving. This will be in less than 15 years.
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by bwanab 10y ago
I heard a lecture from a guy who'd made a fortune on a trading desk then got a Ph.D in psychology. Many of the same characteristics are going on with traders. But there's a twist. Since there's an arguable logic to trading, o
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by bwanab 10y ago
> I'd be a lot more sympathetic to the plight of the elderly in such a position if they weren't, you know, basically kicking away the ladder they used to climb to the top, spend the country broke, and then continue to vote enti
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by bwanab 10y ago
All the things you mention are true and important, but they're all second derivative. The first derivative to growth between 1870 and 1970 was cheap energy - primarily oil. What happened in the 70s? The oil embargos and drastic increas
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by bwanab 10y ago
At least in Colorado, you can only by pot from licensed shops where they card you when you go in and card you again when you purchase. This is a far cry from 7-Eleven. Colorado has seen pot smoking go down for kids which is counterintuitive
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by bwanab 10y ago
If you don't like the default color scheme try Gandalf. It's a little more subdued and "normal".
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by bwanab 10y ago
Not exactly. Feudalism was rent seeking from top to bottom. Local Barons obtained the right to get rent from peasants who lived on their land. In turn they paid to their local Earl who paid to the local Duke and so on up the ladder to the K
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by bwanab 10y ago
Not really. Keynes prescribed fiscal stimulus. We are currently engaged in a very large experiment on the limits of monetary stimulus.
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by bwanab 10y ago
The Swiss also have a real ageism issue. When I worked there, I had a good friend who was Swiss that got fired. He was in his 50s at the time and the attitude was that nobody that age should be coding. He was a very good developer, but coul
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by bwanab 11y ago
If not her, who? If not now, when?
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by bwanab 11y ago
That, or the revenge of capitalists at the temerity of the poor working class wanting a slightly better life. Your answer will probably be determined by your preexisting political leaning.
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by bwanab 11y ago
This has to have been written by somebody who only knows of Steve Miller's admittedly bland hits in the middle 70s. He put out 5 remarkably good albums in the late 60s that sold, well, lukewarm at best. It's hard to blame him for
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by bwanab 11y ago
In my first job in finance, I worked for a professor who was developing what at the time became the first model to accurately price bond options. As we visited potential clients, one of the common complaints from their quants was that the m
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by bwanab 11y ago
You could do worse than to play around with Sam Aaron's other project Overtone which is built on top of Supercollider.
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Obama to propose $10-a-barrel oil tax(politico.com)
13 points by bwanab 11y ago|4 comments
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by bwanab 11y ago
Hmmm... It is a common usage in Appalachian East Tennessee also. I suspect it's more generically Appalachian than just Pennsylvania.
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by bwanab 11y ago
Coding with Excel might actually contribute to a banking system collapse http://www.businessinsider.com/excel-partly-to-blame-for-tra... . At my firm, we are continuously in the process of formalizing excel sheets into audit
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The Difficulty of Talking About Doomsday(theatlantic.com)
1 points by bwanab 11y ago|0 comments
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Prof. Haidt was also the co-author of this piece in The Atlantic Monthly: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/greg-luk...
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by bwanab 11y ago
It's my understanding that the fact that women could inherit at all was a huge move toward social progress at the time.

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