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by csense 9y ago
My understanding: A VIX future contract says Alice pays Bob cash up front for a contract, then Bob pays Alice cash on a specific date in the future based on the VIX value on that day, how much depends on a formula based on how low/high
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The IBM 1401 compiles and runs FORTRAN II(youtube.com)
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by csense 9y ago
> It's likely their lawyers told them to stop talking, and that we don't know the full story here Any defense attorney will give him this advice. My guess is the investigation into this is not looking to discover the truth, it
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by csense 9y ago
It's interesting how so many stores now have rewards systems. You can get $X off your purchase today if you sign up for this program so we can track you . This is basically a system that makes people an offer to sell their privacy.
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by csense 9y ago
Want to know why the Rust Belt is the Rust Belt? Because the manufacturing industry discovered this strategy decades ago: If a union's going to come in and make your life inconvenient, send the jobs overseas to a country where that w
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by csense 9y ago
> The US doesn't need a Shenzhen When the US was a manufacturing superpower for most of the 20th century, it provided a way for ordinary people to earn a good living. Workers and suppliers pumped money into a wide variety of local
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by csense 9y ago
Why does China get a Shenzen and the US doesn't? What would it take to build a US-based electronics hub to rival Shenzen in, say, one of the Rust Belt states?
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by csense 9y ago
George R. R. Martin (author of the Game of Thrones novel series that the HBO show is based on, probably one of the most well-known fiction writers in the world right now) actually uses WordStar 4.0 for DOS [1]. [1] https://www.ro
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by csense 9y ago
New Year's resolution: Don't buy anything else on Steam.
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by csense 9y ago
> There are only a limited number of coins out there so people are going to stop mining for them as he near that limit. You can see that now with fewer people buying ASIC and similar FPGA modules. This is true, but the effect should tend
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by csense 9y ago
We told them we wouldn't expand NATO further toward Russia. Then we went back on our word and did it. Russia responds to Western meddling in its "backyard" with geopolitical moves in Crimea and Ukraine, and meddling in the U
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by csense 9y ago
Most people starting college are 17-20 year old young adults with income and assets far below what would be needed to take out $30K-$100K+ in loans. Not enough lenders would want to take that risk, unless they have the taxpayer to back them
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by csense 9y ago
From the headline, I would guess WD is putting a user accessible CPU in each of their disk drives, idea being that if you have a CPU living close to the drive, then e.g. map+reduce workloads can be more efficiently executed. Instead of goi
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by csense 9y ago
The best insight in this comment: "There was discovery in the old method, but I was still at the wheel. The search had an aim before, and is now aimless." The real issue here's the increased personalization. Echo chambers, f
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by csense 9y ago
If you made 1000x as much money as you do now, you would probably buy much nicer house, food, clothing, entertainment, etc. But you probably wouldn't spend 1000x as much on that stuff, because after a certain point, your needs are full
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by csense 9y ago
So what's the root cause? When we drive a truck full of food for the poor over the border, is it stopped and relieved of its contents by men with guns who sell the food and the truck to non-poor people so they can buy more guns? Or is
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by csense 9y ago
Quit Facebook.
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by csense 9y ago
> Trump (and conservatives) aren't going to do a thing for these people, but at least they mentioned them. One of Trump's campaign promises was to cut back environmental and business regulations and get the coal industry rollin
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by csense 9y ago
For those of us who remember the Web of the 1990's, HTML was supposed to be a simple markup language to allow ordinary folks to design websites. I guess it turned out that non-professional website authors went with WYSIWYG editors (any
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by csense 9y ago
Now that powerful machines are commonplace, the biggest limiting factor of software creation is developer productivity. Python's so popular because it maximizes developer productivity.
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by csense 9y ago
When I went to school they made sure that Drugs Are Bad, Just Say No was a message that was hammered into every single child. Think about how our culture views drug addicts -- if you hear an acquaintance or a friend of a friend is doing dr
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by csense 9y ago
I'm really sick and tired of going to a site on my phone, and getting inundated with popups and banners and crap telling me to install the app (Reddit, I'm looking at you). I just want to view the same fricking website that I view
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by csense 9y ago
Given that silicon's the second most abundant element on Earth, it seems like it should be trivial to mine without causing environmental damage.
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by csense 9y ago
I've heard a lot of people say the arrow of causality goes the other way -- between globalization and automation, our society's struggling to provide enough jobs, so the unemployed turn to idleness, despair and drug use. Low inter
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by csense 9y ago
The US blackout of 2003 caused a fair amount of economic losses (mostly spoiled food due to dead refrigeration) and ~12 deaths (about 0.00003% of the affected people). It was a minor annoyance and life goes on. I'm hoping that's
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by csense 9y ago
It also links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_dat... which says "private surveying and mapping activities have been illegal in mainland China since 2002." So gathering data for cro
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by csense 9y ago
In other words, the provider's attempting to "look into your eyes," and determine how much value this is providing, thus how much you're able to pay, and base what they charge you off that. It's called price discrim
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by csense 9y ago
I think one of the causes of poor parenting is that families are more spread out, people are more isolated in general, and you have fewer children. Back in the day when people had 3, 4, 5 kids, a lot of folks would remember younger siblings
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by csense 9y ago
Anytime I go onto a company's website and I either can't figure out what they do, or pricing information isn't available, I think "Right, their business model is to overcharge folks who have more money than sense" a
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by csense 9y ago
> as long as the Government doesn't bail out After 2008, this is not an assumption that can be made.

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