dzamo_norton

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by dzamo_norton 4y ago
The expected return in a negative sum game is negative. We can call such schemes investments but then we're going to have to call PowerBall tickets and roulette wheels investments too.
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by dzamo_norton 4y ago
So she was in a strong negotiating position, it just took 1-2 months for the negotiations to play out. I hope she bumped her rate up before returning.
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by dzamo_norton 4y ago
Shareholders are at the back of the queue in a bankruptcy.
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by dzamo_norton 4y ago
Presumably he hoped to warn his network that they should lower their risk profiles and get into a defensive position. Without specifics no one knows if that means withdraw from exchanges or trade into fiat but people do have some general id
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by dzamo_norton 4y ago
Once there are regulations that are penned and enforced by a centralised authority what is the use of cryptocurrency?
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by dzamo_norton 4y ago
It's hard not to think that's a team writing secretly under an individual name.
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by dzamo_norton 4y ago
Europe disarmed massively after WW2, understandable if you look at scale of the damage that was done. That left the US as the bouncer (street name: NATO) for the West, an arrangement that's probably by and large worked, some questionab
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by dzamo_norton 4y ago
Currencies are not for hodling. You're supposed to spend them in the same year you get them, not compare their values to assets after 100 years. Their job is not to appreciate but to facilitate efficient commerce in civil societies.
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by dzamo_norton 5y ago
A definition of "adoption" would also help here. Are we counting the zero-sum game speculators as "adopters", or are we counting something like flows enabling the legally compliant exchange of goods and services in the r
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by dzamo_norton 5y ago
I did not feel it with Nim at all, so I guess the team have done a thorough job of separating concerns. I'd happily write more Nim actually, just checked and the compiler is still there :). Thanks I'll drop in there some time, al
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by dzamo_norton 5y ago
Also to be found out there, and which would need attention, is use of 0 as a sentinel if time = 0 // handle missing data case else ... The kind of thing that makes you wonder "what sort of a day was 1
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by dzamo_norton 5y ago
Did you know that Ukrainian devs are a super talented bunch? If you're reading this my guess is that there's a good chance that you've used some open source software that contains their contributions. At Apache Drill we mis
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by dzamo_norton 5y ago
41 yo fart. Rational at times. The tinge, in general, comes from the huge number of crypto projects that are indistinguishable from Ponzis, vehicles for what would be a financial crime if done with regulated instruments, or just the counter
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by dzamo_norton 5y ago
I think this is a big part of the aesthetic similarity. Without curly, or ordinary, brackets delimiting code blocks you get that nice clean look. Having used Python a lot for a period (and having made one toy app in Nim) I now find especia
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by dzamo_norton 5y ago
Cannot reproduce. Android 9 on Nokia 8.
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by dzamo_norton 5y ago
A wide variety of sources queryable through standard SQL, including some not found in alternatives. The competition for querying the common data sources is, as you note, stiff! We want to do those well, but also chase the long tail of more
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Apache Drill: the reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated(drill.apache.org)
70 points by dzamo_norton 5y ago|21 comments
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by dzamo_norton 5y ago
socat
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by dzamo_norton 5y ago
> thats basically what uber did to the taxi system and it worked. Modulo any discernible path to profitability.
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by dzamo_norton 5y ago
> Or calling any trade in crypto "shady". This one shows his true colors. A huge amount of people just deposit dollars on a KYC exchange, then buy and sell whatever crypto they fancy. > None of this is shady. It's fully
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by dzamo_norton 5y ago
Secretaries aren't an obvious case in my experience. A good number of them appear to me to work as hard as the boss they assist. And in some cases they appear pretty much as capable (but they never carry anything like the same respon
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by dzamo_norton 5y ago
E.g. Python
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by dzamo_norton 5y ago
This is a tunneled scenario. By definition, you cannot not sensibly use it draw conclusions about network layers.
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by dzamo_norton 6y ago
> Bitcoin transactions are irreversible Surely the reversibility of transactions by a trusted, appointed authority is a feature, not a bug. It's an important safeguard against fraud, money laundering, etc. I've never heard of
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by dzamo_norton 6y ago
Each Bitcoin transaction costs the electricity to power a home for three weeks, and that's just the mining. If it were ever subjected to rigorous AML, exchange control checks, etc., it would also accrue the overheads which apply to fia
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by dzamo_norton 6y ago
It's really not that bad. Most of the investment is early on, after that servers just run. I use unattended updates to keep patches coming in while I'm doing other stuff. Updating from a Debian stable repo won't break your st
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by dzamo_norton 6y ago
To someone who doesn't know better this looks a bit like: "We really like funding you but we don't like this project of yours that looks like it will eventually produce a fast browser without memory bugs and into which we can
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by dzamo_norton 6y ago
And the final possibility, namely both, probably happens a fair bit.
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by dzamo_norton 7y ago
That... just ain't so. So many of the GNU programs written for the command line are in C, are performance sensitive and would be crippled by any of the scripting languages you've mentioned. You don't have to look far: grep,
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by dzamo_norton 7y ago
This laundry bag of personal grievances could only have made sense at a coffee machine on the premises. It is worthless in a public forum.

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