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doovd
5y ago
Well, if you learn about chars and then realise a string is a "string" of chars, then it's not so bizarre. If we're starting with ints before introducing floats, then why not start with chars before introducing strings.
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doovd
5y ago
Yeah I don't think the KGB were making artistic scrapbooks in their spare time. Whole article is BS
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doovd
5y ago
That's s bit unnecessarily pedantic, I think we all understand in which context we are talking about correlation.
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doovd
5y ago
Well, sure - it could certainly be the case that it's easier to scale selling trade ideas than trading them on yourself - hell there's a whole industry around it (alphacapture). I am somewhat skeptical, especially as this is marke
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doovd
5y ago
> Same could be said about a concept of solo traders. If you are as successful as you claim why don't you run a fund? This doesn't make sense though, running a fund is not necessarily natural progression of being a successful t
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doovd
5y ago
How do you answer the following inevitable questions? If you have good trade ideas/signals, then why do you not use them yourself? I assume you do not use them yourself because it' does not make sense to share your edge (if you ha
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doovd
5y ago
> This dog-eat-dog "if you don't steal, you won't survive" endemic level of corruption and ubiquitous legal broken windows is IME not uncommon in shitty third-world countries No different in most first world countries
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doovd
5y ago
FWIW, liking to work at night is s very popular thing.
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doovd
5y ago
This is horrific, imagine changing your text and having to update the indices
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doovd
5y ago
Why is it something humans must "escape"?
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doovd
5y ago
Google missive
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doovd
5y ago
What a weird response. Almost all STEM degrees require candidates to write code these days, so coding is far more accessible than underwater welding.
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doovd
5y ago
No J or V, Interesting those were sacrificed.
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doovd
5y ago
So just use fiat?!
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doovd
5y ago
> contributed to the USSR bankrupting itself trying to keep up with cold war tech? Source?
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doovd
5y ago
This is not necessarily the case, due to market spread. It's very easy to build a strategy that's consistently wrong, but by flipping the signs you will still be consistently wrong because of market spread.
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5y ago
Sure, easy for a bystander to make this assessment.
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doovd
5y ago
add them all and then one on top.
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doovd
5y ago
On balance of probability, how likely do you think that the their was referring to the prisoners rather than the books? > 50% presumably?
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5y ago
Everyone understands that Russian math means Russian approach to math. And American approach does not result in general population knowing enough math. And this is why American math is lagging behind.
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5y ago
The vaccine doesn't stop you from getting covid. It reduces the effects so you're less likely to need hospitalization. So saying x% of people with covid are vaccinated doesn't mean much. There's some education for you.
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doovd
5y ago
How does it compare against xxhash?
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doovd
5y ago
Just keep changing the design on a 0.25s timer and you will satisfy the objective without fancy image processing :p
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doovd
5y ago
With climate change etc there probably won't be future archaeologists so :shrug:
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5y ago
I would not blame the problems here, but rather the lack of support.
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doovd
5y ago
This is a core principle in a lot of the dependency-graph-based frameworks seen in banks (secdb, Athena, quartz) etc. Inspired by those?
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doovd
6y ago
40 hours is excessive? From a philosophical standpoint, yes, but from the way things are in the world that's totally normal lol
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doovd
6y ago
Meh, stock market is mostly a casino for the retail investor. If you told the bank you want a loan to pop in the stock market they'd reject you rightly so :-)
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6y ago
> You could invest that cash flow up front. 2020 was a very profitable year in the stock market Yes, investing borrowed money is an excellent idea. /s
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6y ago
Very common practice amongst top schools in the UK.
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