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by ericwaller 17y ago
Sudden acceleration is more likely to result in a (deadly?) crash for drivers with longer reaction times. Elderly drivers have longer reaction times.
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by ericwaller 17y ago
At least in NY state, the exact odds and payouts are published. So you can certainly assign a premium to the risk involved, and you can do so exactly. But since everyone knows the odds, the lotto market is perfectly efficient and no one can
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by ericwaller 17y ago
So, to see if I'm understanding: is the purpose of the Maybe monad to abstract the concept of "evaluate to Nothing if the previous expression evaluated to nothing?" Also, is 'build'/'return' being used implicity somewhere?
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by ericwaller 17y ago
I agree about not needing the confirmation. I actually got the confirmation 5 seconds after the result.
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by ericwaller 17y ago
I think it was implied that the type 2 and 3 civilizations are intentionally avoiding us.
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Anatomy of a feature(inessential.com)
1 points by ericwaller 17y ago|0 comments
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by ericwaller 17y ago
Your site is getting caught in Safari's suspected malware filter. There's a out-of-place link to "Best Philadelphia Wedding Photographers" in the footer which might be related.
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by ericwaller 17y ago
The vertical axis is f(x), and the shaded region represents f(x) > 1.
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by ericwaller 17y ago
ISPs have to cut off the Internet access of accused copyright infringers or face liability. DMCA is the new DOS
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Behavioral Economics with Mechanical Turk(ericwaller.com)
8 points by ericwaller 17y ago|0 comments
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by ericwaller 17y ago
After the conversion from Apache [+passenger] to Nginx [+unicorn] overall throughput went up by a factor of 3. I noticed a similar gain (10-12 req/s to 25-30req/s) for action cached pages after switching out nginx+passenger for nginx+thin
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by ericwaller 17y ago
Let me do the same, http://twitthegame.com/ It's a place to talk about sports on twitter (like stocktwits).
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by ericwaller 17y ago
Thank you. I'm not sure what you mean by fair use. Are you referring to our republishing of tweets? Twitter's TOS gives them the right to redistribute content through third parties (like twitthegame.com).
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by ericwaller 17y ago
1. I see what you're saying. Logging in does two things: it tells us who you are so we can follow you, and it let's you post from the app (the page updates in near realtime like stocktwits, so the idea is you leave it open during a game or
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Ask HN: Review my app, twitthegame.com (sports on twitter)
4 points by ericwaller 17y ago|5 comments
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by ericwaller 17y ago
It's just that it generally doesn't work this way, the moral hazard would be insane. Lenders are smart enough to have debt personally guaranteed by someone at the corporation when the company has no assets of its own to use as collateral.
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by ericwaller 17y ago
Ok, so basically the system wasn't really set up to deal with this strange asset. Because if I sell a put option (which means I may be required to buy shares later on), my brokerage is definitely going to enforce margin requirements to make
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by ericwaller 17y ago
He only sold the voting rights associated with the shares in that transaction.
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by ericwaller 17y ago
If you're referring to the bank buying back shares as a "favor" to the investors who didn't know better, I don't think that was part of his plan, just luck.
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by ericwaller 17y ago
Right, I guess what I'm really questioning is who let him take on that much liability without having him personally guarantee it. I can't get a small business loan for my brand new corporation, pay it all to myself as compensation, and walk
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by ericwaller 17y ago
Also it seems like this was just luck. I don't think he expected to have the liabilities waived (by being bought back by the bank).
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by ericwaller 17y ago
What about the liability?...He contained the liability to his investment vehicle, Australian Style Investments. The A$4.5M was paid to an another entity of Bolton’s, Australian Style Holdings, to quarantine it from the $120M liability in A
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by ericwaller 17y ago
text-decoration:underline clears things up pretty well
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by ericwaller 17y ago
[KartMe is a] free service for easily organizing and sharing favorite books, restaurants, gadgets, recipes and more Yeah, I would literally stick that text below the logo/search and above the three-steps description.
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by ericwaller 17y ago
Definitely not. Google is the canonical example of a startup entering a crowded market and just doing it better. If you're from India, you're probably familiar with http://www.smsgupshup.com/ . I don't know too much about them, but my unde
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by ericwaller 17y ago
That difference in kind is probably an illusion created by the magnitude of the difference in degree. From what I've gathered, the consensus, both in neuroscience and in philosophy of the mind, is that consciousness is totally emergent from
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by ericwaller 17y ago
Hey Chris, I'm a huge fan of Grooveshark, and it's cool to see you guys on HN. I do have one suggestion for you though: autoplay is a great feature, but it took me a long time to realize the button was even there. If there's a way to make i
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by ericwaller 17y ago
I do see your point that in some sense we make infinite many implicit decisions all the time, but I think the word really refers specifically to the intentional act of creating a position. Though that's a semantic argument and not really im
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by ericwaller 17y ago
But that's kind of the point, regardless of what you think about global warming you should be wary of "you're either with us or against us" type arguments. And for the record I don't know much about global warming, it seems at least plausib
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by ericwaller 17y ago
You still oppose carbon regulation In fact I do not, and you've placed me into one of the two mutually exclusive categories I accused you of creating earlier. I'm only arguing that relevant data/predictions should be reasonably vetted (th

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