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by derriz 12y ago
So after default, where would the money have come from to pay teachers and police salaries, pensions, public services, etc? And how would the country import oil, medicine, technology, etc? Even if current Greek debt was wiped out overnight
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by derriz 12y ago
Really? The economy has plunged further into decline after showing some signs of recovery in the second half of 2014. Tax avoidance (cheating) has soared given Syriza's populist promises to roll back measures designed to improve tax
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by derriz 12y ago
Indeed the article is poor. His beauty contest results are more plausibly explained by anchoring bias (start at 2 thirds of 100). EMH is about price dynamics so a single "run" of the beauty contest says nothing about it. I am w
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by derriz 12y ago
Had the exact same experience. I had assumed TED talks provided easily digested summaries of various scientific, economic, social, etc. fields. Until I saw a talk about my current field of work. Charlatan is too kind a description - as it
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by derriz 12y ago
If you think there is any insight into current market structure in that linked article, you're on the wrong track. It manages to be 15 years out of date and confuse open outcry (pit trading) with the specialist/broker system emplo
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by derriz 12y ago
"When trading real money in a real market, predictions based on historical data go out the window." No they don't. Depends on the style of course but most arb or stat arb strategies are fully derived from historical data. &qu
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by derriz 12y ago
Very confused/silly piece. Using versus not using code reviews, pair versus individual progamming and using feature branches/merges versus commiting directly to main/trunk are all independent process choices. I've exper
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by derriz 12y ago
I'm afraid I don't fully buy into software engineering exceptionalism; software engineering is more immature but it shares far more with traditional engineering project processes than with artistic or even craft-style work (of cou
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by derriz 12y ago
The majority of building projects are simple and predictable - like single domestic dwellings. Building contractors have gotten pretty good at estimating the cost and time (or else they go bust quickly) to complete a family home from scrat
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by derriz 12y ago
Reasonable time cost estimation is certainly possible with software. It's not particularly easy but you certainly have a better chance if you at least expose yourself to the decades of hard research on the subject and not arrogantly i
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by derriz 12y ago
Erm no. He did not "call" the Euro crisis. I notice he has stopped mentioning Ireland, for example, because it now represents a counter-example to his world view. After a few years of austerity, growth has returned, unemployment
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by derriz 12y ago
The whole agile/scrum "movement" should be simply amusing and provide endless inspiration for humor and satire. Unfortunately it has gathered enough wide-eyed zealous adherents that it has become scary. Religion/faith i
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by derriz 12y ago
Walk away now. Type Theory derailed my PhD studies. Seduced by constructivism, Curry-Howard, Martin-Löf and especially Girard's Proofs and Types, I wasted two years and subsequently abandoned my postgraduate studies. It's comp. sc