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by bwanab 14y ago
It might be interesting to point out that in all the examples you give there exist strong regulatory requirements. Are you (we, collectively) saying that regulations and government oversight should be on the table for web sites that provide
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by bwanab 14y ago
It was used heavily in the fixed income division. I was there during the phase out and among the A-Plus developers there was an "...out of my cold, dead hands" mentality. They (and there were a lot of them) really loved it.
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by bwanab 14y ago
Not to put a damper on your hopes, but 40 years ago I would have said the same thing about 2012.
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by bwanab 14y ago
But seriously, you're kidding right? Here's microsoft's answer to the diff and merge question: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2007-... Granted, excel is a powerful tool for an individual to work with, but for teams
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by bwanab 15y ago
Very nice video. I've played with Overtone and it's a lot of fun. This reminds me to get back into it more.
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by bwanab 15y ago
Not at all. From the article "Added sugar, more so than the fructose in fiber-rich fruit, hits the liver more directly and can cause more damage."
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by bwanab 15y ago
I walked through it last weekend. Very good tutorial. Seesaw will definitely take much of the pain out of swing development.
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by bwanab 15y ago
What you might not care to know: Next to gmail, pulse is probably my most used app on my android phone. This is largely because much of my infotainment reading is done on the subway with no connectivity. Pulse caches news stories from vario
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by bwanab 15y ago
You are correct in most of your points, but it's worth pointing out that for the 25 or 30 years prior to 2007 mortgage defaults did tend to be uncorrelated. During that entire time frame, if you were a trader who chose to insure yourself ag
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by bwanab 15y ago
There's truth in what you say and boomers in general have to take responsibility for having close to zero foresight with respect to how they've squandered their fortunes but let me counter a couple of your points. 1. The vast majority of bo
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by bwanab 15y ago
Since there are a lot of comments that disagree with the post, I'll say that I largely agree with its essential premise which is that a language's perceived difficulty shouldn't be based simply on the initial learning curve, but on how much
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by bwanab 15y ago
Same experience in java. I had to write a java interface to some C++ code. I ended up writing a C wrapper, then interfacing SWIG to that. It made a complex problem very simple.
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by bwanab 15y ago
I'm assuming that he doesn't really mean "creating capital..." for exactly the reasons that you give. But, there was a day that Wall Street was in the business of capital formation - pulling together relatively small bits of capital from la
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by bwanab 16y ago
To talk about the average income in Manhattan is nonsense. Big parts of Manhattan are untouchable by someone making less than several million a year. Other large parts are populated by families dependent on food stamps. There is no "average
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by bwanab 16y ago
All of your examples are Germanic cultures. Notably, I think this is true in the German speaking part of Switzerland, but not nearly as much in Suisse Romande.
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by bwanab 16y ago
Kubrick's films before 2001 (Spartacus, Paths of Glory, etc) tended to tell the story with words and pictures. From 2001 on, with the notable exception of Barry Lyndon, he seemed to become obsessed with imagery, or as you say, creating visu
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by bwanab 16y ago
All posters, except thrill, seem to have fundamentally misread the article. It isn't about Facebook or GS for that matter. Its concern is that several banks including GS have a "too big to fail" subsidy. That subsidy is an implied insurance
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by bwanab 16y ago
I'm dubious about your assertion. Yes, players would be willing to put their life on the line, but the way fame and fortune are achieved in football is winning the game, and a team whose best players have sacrificed themselves isn't going t
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by bwanab 16y ago
It'll be fun to see them go after the CIA World Factbook.
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by bwanab 16y ago
There's no evidence to back up this assertion. Many economies that don't have reserve currency status do just fine (e.g. Switzerland, Norway, S.Korea). The expense of US overseas deployments far outweighs the benefit of having a militarily
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by bwanab 16y ago
All that you say is correct. However, I would like to mention that motivation for the euro was at least as much economic as political. Many companies in Europe have means of production that span several countries. Having a stable currency a
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by bwanab 16y ago
Best of luck from an 8 year paying customer.
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by bwanab 17y ago
Whatever one thinks of Heritage (or Naomi Klein), there's useful data there. There's also a lot of opinion diguised as data. For example, the choice of formula from which to determine, say, trade freedom can reflect the prejudice of the per
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by bwanab 17y ago
Except in 1982 the rates would have been 8% and 12%.
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by bwanab 17y ago
A few of us actually live on the east coast.
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by bwanab 17y ago
I don't know if it's identical, but many if not all of the slides are from here: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hic...
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by bwanab 17y ago
I think the point he didn't make very well was that CDOs and the direction of the stock market were correlated and most CDO participants also were stock market participants. Manchester United's chance for victory is presumably uncorrelated
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by bwanab 17y ago
Tenor and Soprano Sax, Electric and Acoustic Guitar, Flute, plus lots of synths, sampling, electronic production. Style is mostly rock in a broad interpretation of the meaning of the word. This is a before work in the morning, after kids go
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by bwanab 18y ago
You beat me to it. That was my favorite design for distance competitions with my brothers and cousins when I was a kid. When you got it right it really sailed.