cratuki

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by cratuki 19y ago
"is a society that sends so many of its brightest college graduates into a capital markets monkey pit maximizing welfare?" It's not "Society" that is sending people into jobs in banks, it's individuals making individual decisions to accept
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by cratuki 19y ago
As with most of the west, the quoted opinions misunderstand the core strengths of western style of government. The issue of giving people a greater say in their society is of little consequence. If it was critical then the most successful n
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by cratuki 19y ago
> "Banking industry" is an insult to those who actually > produce goods. What do you think should be a use of industry? Is it OK to say "transport industry" despite the fact that what they do is a service? Banks produce value throug
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by cratuki 19y ago
I suspect Gates doesn't really understand what capitalism is. All of his fortune has been built on the back of legislative protection. And - specific to charity - I have several times noticed Microsoft gaining positive media for the 'charit
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by cratuki 19y ago
I'm a coder non-economist also, but have been look at this for a few months and will take a shot at explaining it. The way the fed aim to control interest rates is via the amount of money that they issue into circulation. The problem is tha
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Most of the world's great music is out of copyright and waiting to be free(songseed.com)
9 points by cratuki 19y ago|6 comments
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by cratuki 19y ago
Should they need to? They should be free to scrape and represent, and ycom should be free to block them if they choose. When you pursue anti-rights relating to the ownership of information distribution you come to disgusting solutions like
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by cratuki 19y ago
It's always exciting to hear someone eager starting out. The only secret is to keep being interested and not give up on yourself. If you're looking for a fun problem to solve, try writing a brute-force sudoku solver. That could be fun in th
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by cratuki 19y ago
Looks cool but sample code doesn't work as marked on the page: Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:/temp/chart.py", line 6, in <module> chart.download('hello.png') AttributeError: 'SimpleLineChart' obj
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by cratuki 19y ago
I've written a long response, http://cowoh.org/~craig/perfect_project_management_app.txt .
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by cratuki 19y ago
> Women studies are not among the "real" humanities It can be, it just depends whether you base conclusions on a respectable level of evidence or non-falsifiable mumbo-jumbo. There's lots of bad work done in more established humanities
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by cratuki 19y ago
I have a macbook. It's solid but I'd avoid it for linux (which I've decided I prefer to osx) - the single-button trackpad alone makes it a bad choice for linux. If I were getting a new laptop now I'd get a high-end thinkpad with lots of RAM
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by cratuki 19y ago
I got x=25. I didn't draw any new lines.. I just worked out all the angles I could within the diagram, and then played x and y (other unknown angle within small triangle containing x) off against one another using dead-simple algebra. Along
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by cratuki 19y ago
> Never had ANY issues with it so far. It requires far more HDD space than not using it because it doesn't seem to clean up after itself for a while. And if you get low on hard disk space your system grinds to a halt.
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by cratuki 19y ago
Is there some sort of free software filesystem where you basically automatically sync it with a silo somewhere remote? I've got a new clean hosted instance, and was thinking it would be neat to be able to use mercurial for source control on
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by cratuki 19y ago
1. Get lots of users 2. ??? 3. Profit! I'm wondering how dangerous the police state aspects of it are. The fact that I've willingly told somebody "who all my friends are".
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by cratuki 19y ago
The Michelle Bach situation is interesting. Assuming the facts are true, she in fact arranged an interesting although slightly unreliable option for herself here. Had the price gone down, she could have tried to divest her holding to the cu
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by cratuki 19y ago
Wohoo! Someone who gets the idea of a state machine framework. Check out my effort at building one of these - datamagi.org. This is quite interesting actually - if you look through the change history at the top of the page you can see I've
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by cratuki 19y ago
My startup is focussed on this industry. I have a profit model, and the system is compatible with copyright law but does not leverage copyright. I've taken much longer to get it off the ground than it should have because I work far more eff
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by cratuki 19y ago
Hey - if you are looking for FX trading API or STP people at any point, please get in touch :) (My contract is likely to be up at end of the year) I'm working on an online music startup in my spare time, based in Islington.
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by cratuki 19y ago
I think the attractions of object databases are: - It's easier to restructure than a relational schema in isolation - ORMs can be painful if you want to work like that. But I think they're inherently slower for things like reporting. The fi
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by cratuki 19y ago
Lions too.
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by cratuki 19y ago
> designing software and working for hedge funds liquidity. > So, if anyone here has any ideas to save lives > or make a massive improvement in the world, give > me a shout. Find a way to destroy copyright and other attempts
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by cratuki 19y ago
Allegro-cache looks interesting although I haven't tried it: http://franz.com/products/allegrocache/index.lhtml I like the idea of having a powerful datastore within the same process as the application because you don't have the IPC overh