crasshopper

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Politicizing Sandy(basecase.org)
6 points by crasshopper 14y ago|0 comments
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by crasshopper 14y ago
So rich people never deserve sympathy? It's got to hurt when people close to you, whom you see as peers, make off like bandits whilst you're left relatively a lot worse off. "Life's not fair", bellum omnium. But the reason to talk about fai
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by crasshopper 14y ago
Somebody made something for you for free. No need to get nasty. You can just fork it if you dislike the wording.
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by crasshopper 14y ago
Matt Brown is a good guy.
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by crasshopper 14y ago
Very nice! Thank you!
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by crasshopper 14y ago
How can anyone be expected to be excited about your stealthy product then? Why bother posting? Why not just email people who look good on the "Who's looking for work" thread?
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by crasshopper 14y ago
I would just change my Google Business owner profile and my own website if I have one. Who cares about the spammy copy sites?
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by crasshopper 14y ago
I flipped out the first time I saw mplayer ascii rendering. I'm thinking of projecting Rashomon ASCII-version at an art show sometime. Or any classic film with deeply emotional topics, intricate facial expressions, reduced to 7-bit projecti
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by crasshopper 14y ago
http://www.floodgap.com/software/ppmascii/ppmascii.txt
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Ask HN: How do Riak, Canonical, and other "deep-down" companies make money?
8 points by crasshopper 14y ago|2 comments
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by crasshopper 14y ago
Andreas, rdd.me has a very nice facility for sending web pages to the Kindle. Also, here is what @bgmasters has already said about reproducing the content: http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/22922727433/read-share-p...
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by crasshopper 14y ago
Some of the things Kyle said and quoted seem relevant to an earlier HN discussion [1] titled I don't "get" art """ The Book of Tea[2]... requires a mutual understanding between the artist and the spectator: > The sympathetic communion o
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by crasshopper 14y ago
I'm sorry, I do not have quantitative data on the savings rates of finance professionals. This is just based on my personal observations.
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by crasshopper 14y ago
Based on the tone of the question, this sounds way too ambitious.
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by crasshopper 14y ago
I don't have a Ph.D. and I found it a fun read. But this is why I say everyone has to follow their taste.
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by crasshopper 14y ago
I may have answered your question here: http://isomorphismes.tumblr.com/post/15431506533/i-never-did... . The benefit of DIY maths is that you get to focus on what your interest is, whether that be algebra or geometry or stats/data analysi
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by crasshopper 14y ago
Wait for the lawsuits. The article says $750 trillion of transactions are indexed to LIBOR each year. The short side of those were cheated out of money. Hence "Banking's 'Tobacco Moment'".
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by crasshopper 14y ago
why shouldn't competition produce ... financial instruments that aren't pegged to any artificial index? There are those, too, but people want to hedge against the risk that "interest rates" move. Then they must define "interest rate": is
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by crasshopper 14y ago
the entire financial world is built on this rate The Epicurean Dealmaker (@epicureandeal) posted the standard response to your comment a few days ago ("Ready, Fire, Aim"). Prices are calculated as LIBOR + spread. You and I argue over the
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by crasshopper 14y ago
Regarding this part of your statement: there is no financial incentive to act responsibly because if you go bankrupt this year last year's bonus is already banked; it should be noted that many bankers are terrible at saving; they simply s
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by crasshopper 14y ago
According to Carolyn Sissoko (syntheticassets.wordpress.com) this is how English banks used to operate as well. Back in the days when draughts were accepted or not depending on the creditworthiness of the bank they were written by, it would
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by crasshopper 14y ago
Those are both good ideas.
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by crasshopper 14y ago
You are maybe thinking that it is difficult to identify powerlaws? (EDIT: s/identify/statistically verify/; s/powerlaws/TRUE powerlaws/) But look: http://globalrichlist.com/how.html The bulk is indeed powerlaw. Maybe you are thinking that
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by crasshopper 14y ago
Power law (Pareto distribution), not lognormal. But you're partly right. Simulate random exchanges at random prices and the wealth distribution will come out Pareto. However, we cannot conclude that because [a] random exchanges lead to a po
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The sun is setting on MVC frameworks(caines.ca)
3 points by crasshopper 14y ago|0 comments
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by crasshopper 14y ago
what city?
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by crasshopper 14y ago
Related: the jazz educator David Baker has described the progression of learning jazz to first, joining together big, pre-made pieces; then, joining together small pieces; finally (as a master) joining together atoms. I think something equi
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by crasshopper 14y ago
Imagine this. You read a novel and really enjoy it, interpreting some facet of the work as X. Later in an interview, the author suggests (or says outright) that the facet was actually Y ≠ X. That facet=Y would worsen the novel for you. You
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by crasshopper 14y ago
> I think that classical art is enjoyed by those without an artistic background because there's at least an appreciation for the time and mastery invested into each piece. Really? I'm a non-artist and I find all that old stuff (pre Turn
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by crasshopper 14y ago
That is not a valid deduction from what leot said.

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