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by feiofh398r39rty 8y ago
Wow, the splitting of hair reached nano-proportions. What is the difference again? Are you saying that if Bush lost, in the period 'after the election' Senate would've let him nominate a candidate he would like? Preposterous.
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by feiofh398r39rty 8y ago
Book was Crichton's, movie was Spielsberg's
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by feiofh398r39rty 8y ago
You're assuming that the quickest route to safest auto-driving lies via incremental improvements to existing systems and that's not necessarily true; see: AlphaGoZero
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by feiofh398r39rty 8y ago
It's really low value compared to the most of the rest of the front page stuff. Interesting in a way but there is a lot of interesting stuff around that does not hug the front page.
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by feiofh398r39rty 8y ago
Moscow metro has 250 stations on 3 times as much area (why did NY get to 750 stations?) and annual ridership of 2.4 billion. Train delays are rare, in my experience maybe one delay of 10 minutes a week (not counting the late night-time when
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by feiofh398r39rty 9y ago
They stand as the arbiter of who will gain money and who will lose. There basically is a series of cases 'erroring parties vs Goldman' and 'erroring Goldman vs other parties' and whether Goldman will lose money is decide
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by feiofh398r39rty 9y ago
And the rules defining what is 'clearly erroneous' and what is not is intentionally made vague because arbitrage of this clause makes the exchanges money.
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by feiofh398r39rty 9y ago
>we do a lot of business together and I make you a lot of money >Other banks are watching and there are plenty of other exchanges to do business with And the answer to that should be "sorry, if we will roll back your trade, SEC
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by feiofh398r39rty 9y ago
>The idea that a tier one investment bank and a small trader should be held to the same "rules" is so wondrously silly... it's hard to describe but there ought to be a word for it. Just like the idea that the aristocracy s
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by feiofh398r39rty 9y ago
Yes, this is actually pretty surprising in the hindsight is 20/20 way. I disagree that FoxPro was great, it had too many bugs and issues for that, but the 'concept of FoxPro' was indeed great.
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by feiofh398r39rty 9y ago
IQ also correlates with future-orientation, which is basically self-control and anti-criminal behaviour. Being more or less likely to commit a crime is a huge success predictor.
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by feiofh398r39rty 9y ago
Well, flexibility is what I mean. Being an employer of a salaried employee means signing more than just one fixed paycheck per 2 weeks, not questioning when someone requests to be paid more and working with your employees rather than agains