dmichulke

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   by dmichulke 12y ago

   To be fair, there are also various counterarguments that a rational being should take into account before going to war: - The likelihood of being killed (IMO big these days, even as a non-combatant) - the likelihood of suffering from indire
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   by dmichulke 12y ago

   They only do it in films - to cultivate the heroism that will eventually lead them to charge into fire in practice. My best guess is it's an implementation of (social-)darwinist beliefs using cultural modelling (aka propaganda).
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   by dmichulke 12y ago

   It may also be just a piece of propaganda, especially since it's written by Spiegel. Somehow all opponents to the pro-US mainstream opinion end up there being narcissists (IS), evil dictators (Putin, Assad) and weak governments (Iraq,
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   by dmichulke 12y ago

   TLDR; Connect all people, addresses and businesses in the business register in a big graph, sort each node by its amount of neighbours and work from there through the list of best connected people. The underlying idea is that money launderi
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   by dmichulke 12y ago

   If you accelerate with g=9.81 m/s^2 then you'd need (300M/9.81) seconds which is ~30581040 seconds ~ 8495 hours ~ 354 days, so you could at least accelerate with a moderate 1g in approx. 1 year to the desired velocity. This
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   by dmichulke 12y ago

   This article could be called "Countries' trade deficits are a problem" with the very same logic.
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   by dmichulke 12y ago

   OK, I think the difference is whether the amount of money is fixed. If it were, global investment would equal global savings. In any case, it's locally possible to invest more (in nominal terms) than savings, both because money supply
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   by dmichulke 12y ago

   There are schools who disagree with this and say Savings = Investment because 99,9% of the money saved is put on the bank where it gets reinvested.
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   by dmichulke 12y ago

   Trustworthy entities (e.g, Mr Schneier and Krebs and whoever they trust) could just offer a signed list of pub-key - identity pairs which can be stored in the block chain. The amount of work needed should be pretty low, they start with the
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    by dmichulke 12y ago

    It almost sounds too good to be true. (Just like "enough vitamins", "no fat", "no trans-fat", "no cholesterol", "no carbs", "enough poly-saturated fat", "enough omega 3"
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    by dmichulke 12y ago

    OK, I see your point :) Here's what I mean: Capitalism is (as democracy) not a yes/no thing. Instead, it is one extreme of a scale and every state has a value on that scale and can can be more or less capitalistic (democratic). L
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    by dmichulke 12y ago

    Capitalism - that word again. I don't think it means what you think it means. PS: Post-capitalism implies capitalism was or is present and unless the author wrote this piece in Hong Kong or Singapore he should not even remotely apply t
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    by dmichulke 12y ago

    Are there any jobs where Prolog is required? Or maybe something like functionaljobs.com, just declarative? From my point of view (I worked a few years with the language while in academia), there are no real job offers where Prolog makes a d
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    by dmichulke 12y ago

    Well I think that 'consciousness' is a pretty strong term for something described in the article. Just to clarify: Are cats or toddlers conscious? Are the people that do not see the disk conscious?
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    by dmichulke 12y ago

    So analyzing the process of detecting a disk on a screen is somehow supposed to permit conclusions on consciousness? Well, my cat meows when I switch on the light so I suppose I should write about how "Electricity suggests language dev
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    by dmichulke 12y ago

    I know a few people who live in France, Germany and Belgium but are (IMO fully) taxed in Luxembourg based on the fact that they work there. They are called Grenzgänger / frontaliers. http://www.diegrenzgaenger.lu/ htt
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    by dmichulke 12y ago

    Most probably there is a treaty to avoid double taxation between both countries. The general rule is IMO (I'm not an accountant): You either are employed in the US and pay US taxes or you are a company or individual in Spain offering s
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    by dmichulke 12y ago

    If you don't fail 90% of the time, you don't try hard enough - don't know who said it
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    by dmichulke 12y ago

    Yes, start-ups die if they are not meritocratic. Big companies are only prepared to give you X% of your annual salary as a bonus if you're good (with X < 15%). So the bigger the upside of your "innovation", the more you wi
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    by dmichulke 12y ago

    > There's an implicit assumption in there that reducing taxes will cause people to 'invest' more Typically, in times when interest rates are positive and default rates acceptably low (i.e., normal times), people put their
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    by dmichulke 12y ago

    Thanks to the taxes that at the same time keep people from investing the very same money in a much more distributed way to the investment / consumption / research they'd prefer while avoiding the bureaucratic overhead. Please
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    by dmichulke 12y ago

    I also use cassandra heavily. From what I read (so not confirmed) one problem is that it uses space inefficiently. Since I predefine the columns anyway, they might as well use an efficient storage instead of mongodb style kv-pairs. I am als
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    by dmichulke 12y ago

    For a number of years, the common belief was that RTS Go = Starcraft Broodwar, especially in Asia. You can maintain this belief until today if you measure "minimality/essentiality" by size (in MB). Most probably there are oth
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    by dmichulke 12y ago

    If someone told me to build a recommendation engine, I'd basically use a knn-approach. You'd need to define - a similarity measure for users (based on, e.g., what they bought and what they looked at) and - you just recommend the t
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    by dmichulke 12y ago

    This is why I prefer using clojure + incanter. You get interactive freechart dialogues (and much more). Library: https://github.com/incanter/incanter A few (impressive) slides: http://incanter.org/docs&
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    by dmichulke 12y ago

    Well, there are "high-performance things" I like more in Clojure, for example: - areduce / amap - Uncleaned data is often of Object type (due to missing or invalid values) upon which one can apply the complete core.reducer f
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    by dmichulke 12y ago

    Are headlines the new way of discouraging investment in cryptocurrencies given Betteridge's law?
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    by dmichulke 12y ago

    Location: Luxembourg, Europe Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: - Clojure, Java, NodeJS, Prolog, VB, plpgsql - postgres, MongoDb, cassandra - Willing to learn Haskell, F#, Scala, Python, C# and some other functional languages
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    by dmichulke 12y ago

    "I'm not talking about hypothetical perfectly free market, that neither exists nor we'd really want to have it. " Please do not speak for others. "businesses in bed with politicians" Isn't that a failure o
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    by dmichulke 12y ago

    If your story is valid then - in some sense - Willy was less risky than Lehman was because the reserve ratio (assuming 10 mn$ of "printed money") was only a fraction of the existing money (I suppose less than 10%), so they operate