ddaygold

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   by ddaygold 9y ago

   The laws banning military grade weapons already exist -- the civilian AR-15 is not an military grade M-16, it is difficult to obtain an automatic weapon, destructive devices are banned-ish. Fundamentally the problem is that gun ownership i
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   by ddaygold 9y ago

   There was an interesting story going around the desk December 2016. The head trader was laughing and shaking his head about [1], JP's $200MM write down on the card. He then turned to the younger (millenial-aged) traders to ask if they
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   by ddaygold 10y ago

   One of my co-workers got his PhD with the lab/advisor that published his paper. He thought they weren't going to be able to synthesize it, so he left to be a quant. I sent him an email saying 'hey, isn't this what your P
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   by ddaygold 10y ago

   In comparison to the Soviet Union? Yes, the US was more transparent than the Soviet Union.
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   by ddaygold 10y ago

   There is code that pushes the boundaries of the human mind, complex systems that cannot have any additional complexity if they are to succeed. And there's other code that pushes against physical or economic limits: processor speed, mem
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   by ddaygold 11y ago

   I tried BRL-CAD while trying to finish my transition away from Windows to Linux. Although BRL-CAD has features that arguably make it more 'powerful' than Solidworks (the package I had learned previously), it was incredibly less in