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by fatdog 10y ago
volatility arbitrage exists in pretty much every currency, so this isn't a vulnerability, it's a FX trade.
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by fatdog 10y ago
I regret to say I might have some bad news for you. However, not everyone is ambitious and competitive, but not everyone uses social media. They do seek a sense of approval (or attention), even if it is defracted via a pseudonym. Most socia
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by fatdog 10y ago
read reports of rate of user growth slowing down, teenagers switching to other platforms, and my own view that it is a millennial demographic phenomenon, like a pop genre. They can make more money, but imho it will be through value added se
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by fatdog 10y ago
Authorities of all sorts love the bully narrative because it legitimizes their demands for compliance. Social media is undermining to them because people don't want to be supervised. The real reason social media sites die without moder
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by fatdog 10y ago
When you truly master something, the understanding of mastery is a surprisingly portable skill. It can make you seem like a generalist, when in fact you are just a transcendent specialist.
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by fatdog 10y ago
Want a poster of this in every meeting room, maybe sans brain picture in favor of Rodin's Thinker sculpture.
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by fatdog 10y ago
Terrible stories, but they cross into agitprop outrage porn.
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by fatdog 10y ago
Kolmolgorov complexity, conditional entropy, beach holiday write off.
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by fatdog 10y ago
Love how sitting in the passing lane at a speed %10 lower than target causes cascading collisions. If driving causes cancer, at least the people who drive in the passing lane (the left one) deserve it.
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by fatdog 10y ago
It's actually very widely accepted, and his methods are used in the intelligence community for political forecasting. It threatens a lot of conventional beliefs, but they are conventional mainly because, as shown, people are sheep. Thi
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by fatdog 10y ago
More of the same political tactics. Feel dirty having read buzzfeed. There should be an Onion article titled, "Challenger to status quo is racist, anti-Semitic, transphobic, misogynist, possibly gay, rapist, pedophile, terrorist, boge
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by fatdog 10y ago
Battery technology is a lot like bitcoin and gold in that once it is manufactured, users are not dependent upon a state controlled centralized network for it. It's revolutionary, and will probably be heavily regulated given the amount
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by fatdog 10y ago
The fool's reproach, it is a kingly title. I like how YC let her feel like it was her decision. Well played.
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by fatdog 10y ago
I think this is a very equitable process. If a medium-functioning retarded person wouldn't hire you, that's saved the company like $100 of time to ascertain your qualifications. This is much better than using biased metrics like p
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by fatdog 10y ago
Begs the question of, homes where. Public housing, hotel rooms, condominiums, remote cabins, camps, shelters, the devil is in those details. "Homeless" is a euphemism, more of a metonym for a cluster of issues that form an identif
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by fatdog 10y ago
Why do homeless people camp on sidewalks? Because it works. The question becomes, "works for what?" The proposition appears to mean to make camping "not work," by imposing risk and cost on campers. It's responding t
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by fatdog 10y ago
There is a cultural problem in some orgs where some (even sr.) devs think not documenting things creates job security, but it really just creates bottlenecks that suffocate the organization. Few things signal a corporate death spiral like t
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by fatdog 10y ago
One explanation would be that women could be said to have a better instinct for power, and they recognize quickly that as a corporate survival strategy, power over people is more rewarding and sustainable than power over things. Feminism is
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by fatdog 10y ago
It might be worth considering why authorities think banning or regulating encryption is tractable. - 100+ years of business telecommunications without significant strong encryption. - Robust wiretapping and law enforcement access laws and
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by fatdog 10y ago
I don't know anyone in tech who appreciates cigars. It doesn't go with things like rock climbing, kayaking, snowboarding, ultramarathoning, CrossFit, or redditing that our fields are known for. I love them, but what's the HN
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by fatdog 10y ago
Mark Joshi's "The Concepts and Practice of Mathematical Finance" came recommended to me by some people in the field as a foundation. I found it quite readable.
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by fatdog 10y ago
More corporate batman than bateman, but in effect, yes.
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by fatdog 10y ago
I clicked on this article because it is how to get along in groups of men. While prison likely has a high concentration of pathological personalities, the more serious the company you are in, the more it will have collected people who are a
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by fatdog 10y ago
Can someone state honestly and pseudonymously why they don't hire oldz? Speculating I would say: - chose younger hire because cheaper and can be moulded into company specific role. - younger candidate more easily managed by less exper
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by fatdog 10y ago
Seems he took idea of "survivorship bias" a bit literally.
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by fatdog 10y ago
Hipster coffee and Italian coffee are very different. The former is characterized by "fruit" flavors, which a lot of people taste as just acidic, where Italian coffees are more base and tannic, owing (I think) to higher levels of
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by fatdog 10y ago
Two questions: 1. In the same job (say, sr. developer) with equivalent qualifications, what differences in approach, behavior, and performance can one attribute to someone being a man or a woman? 2. How would you recommend responding to a p
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by fatdog 10y ago
What is fairness but political accountability? There is an old joke about how people use statistics like a drunk uses a lamp post: for support and not for illumination. Given this, we can expect people to use AI like everything else in stat
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by fatdog 10y ago
Any bets that the FBI has traded some discretion on the Clinton email scandal now for total support on surveillance and crypto when she gets in? Even if they haven't, if Clinton does get it they have a huge lever to hold over her if sh
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by fatdog 10y ago
A slack channel linked to the community of edge.org would be pretty good.

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