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by bwhite 16y ago
There are plenty of prop shops that would let you trade with a very modest (low 5-figure or even 4-figure) dollar amount. Some will leverage your money, some will flat-out stake you in addition to your input. These places have the benefit o
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by bwhite 16y ago
Are the significant Linux/OSS projects publicly funded?
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by bwhite 16y ago
It's also possible that Mozy's "forgotten password" function "succeeds" without showing any error messages to the user if the user has been removed.
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by bwhite 16y ago
As the saying goes, if OSHA were in charge suppressors would be mandatory.
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by bwhite 16y ago
+1. My brain read Security Six. I think I suppressed a mediocre Single Six experience and foregrounded the delightfulness of the Security Six.
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by bwhite 16y ago
Sound suppression is largely a function of relatively slowly bleeding off the gas that results from combustion. There is not much powder in a 22lr (22 long-rifle) round, which is why it is easily suppressible. I can make no particular comme
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by bwhite 16y ago
It's a signalling mechanism.
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by bwhite 16y ago
+1 to you for correcting my misunderstanding, though I stand by my comments about regulatory capture.
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by bwhite 16y ago
The oil spill goes on the list of recent events in which the government isolated an industry from downside and encouraged risk-taking. BP's legal liability is capped at $75 million by Federal law. In the case in which an industry makes lots
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by bwhite 16y ago
This is an example of code that is unnecessarily O(n^2).
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by bwhite 16y ago
I am trying to imagine the mechanics of what a "no-bid" situation would look like. Presumably you mean that one of the market makers would have to take the other side of the trade, but the rules for MM entities stipulate that they have to p
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by bwhite 16y ago
This is happening. Nasdaq is breaking trades that occurred between 14:40 and 15:00 which executed at more than 60% away from the previous (consolidated) print price.
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by bwhite 17y ago
Mark Cuban nailed this early on: http://blogmaverick.com/2009/01/18/breaking-down-bernie-mado...
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by bwhite 17y ago
Holding the slide is not what prevents the hammer from falling. A semi-auto handgun with an exposed trigger that is placed out of battery has its trigger immobilized by mechanical linkage, regardless of the hammer's position. Because of the
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by bwhite 17y ago
A Glock will certainly fire with the slide immobilized. If the slide cannot move with respect to the frame the current round will not be ejected and the next round will not be chambered, but it will certainly fire the chambered round. It is
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by bwhite 17y ago
If he forgot to initial a box, John Stewart would have a laugh at his expense and it would underscore the notion that filing is complicated (and should be simplified). But that's about it. The salient point here is that there is no right an
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by bwhite 17y ago
Spot on. At handgun distances (say under 20 meters) the issues of trigger control and grip are going to dominate the quality of the sights, as long as they are half decent. Since good shooting practice is to focus on the front sight, thus r
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by bwhite 17y ago
Goldman does have excellent IT vs other big i-banks. (Well, now they're all bank holding companies since they wanted (or were compelled to want, depending on who is telling the story) to gain access to the Fed's discount window.) But slang,
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by bwhite 17y ago
If it were truly synthesized from scratch -- individual atoms plucked one by one from the air -- the answer to the question of whether or not it is kosher is mu ( http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/mu.html ) as kosher is inapplicable to non-
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by bwhite 17y ago
My argument was about incentives. Better equipment would mean learning a new skill set (how to operate the new gear), being responsible for more productive activity per unit time (managing more flights per hour instead of wrestling with ant
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by bwhite 17y ago
The problem is that the incentives are all wrong. The air traffic controllers represent a significant problem. The original union (since busted by Reagan) had an incentive to reduce work and increase pay, so they established conservative a
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by bwhite 17y ago
Postulate two sets of people. Set A consists of those who regularly eat meat, deeply care about the origin of that meat, but care very little about the environmental impact of raising meat and are dismissive of any cruelty or health concern
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by bwhite 17y ago
If the M1 Garand is C, the M14 has to be C++: similar in many respects but with better (ammo) encapsulation. Heh.
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by bwhite 17y ago
+1 Tax filings start in a couple months, the deadline is just about 5 months away. At best this is just a very temporary stopgap. If they can't cut the budget now and can't float a bond issue now what makes them think they'll be able to do
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by bwhite 17y ago
I'll bow to nobody in my disdain for the AR platform as a battle rifle. Direct gas impingement blows; it is broken by design. I don't care that it eliminates a moving part, the right answer is gas-piston (like the AK) or even better, op-rod
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by bwhite 17y ago
Emulator? Oh, you must be using one of those newfangled windowing subsystems. Hm. It's a fad I tell you, just a passing fad. (Actual answer: aterm for the transparency feature.)
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by bwhite 17y ago
This isn't right. China holds between 22-25% of US debt, which is a plurality, not close to a majority ( http://www.treas.gov/tic/mfh.txt ). China has also indicated that it would prefer to buy less US debt, though it's unclear if this is p
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by bwhite 17y ago
Awesome. Another great resource in this mold is the book The New Turing Omnibus by Dewdney. "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - Dijkstra
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by bwhite 17y ago
If politics were less important (more or less == "if government were smaller and less intrusive") it would be less interesting and submissions about it would crater. It's the same reason why SCOTUS nominations are so contentious now. Previo
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by bwhite 17y ago
Exchanges provide anonymity. How volatile would the market be if every time Soros or Buffet made a trade, a horde of followers-on tried to do the same thing. They eliminate counterparty risk. If you sell some shares in exchange for $$, you

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