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by fr0sty 14y ago
> The main point is that action in government is slow. And for good reason. If people want to hold onto the fantasy that when a bunch of people get angry, the government will take drastic action...then fine... Sandy Hook was one month a
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VW joins Daimler's protest of new A/C refrigerant(autoblog.com)
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by fr0sty 14y ago
It should be pointed out that the author is not a programmer but a college english professor so he is likely being invited to different sorts of meetings than the tech crowd may be used to. Also, I happen to know the author to some small de
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by fr0sty 14y ago
Madoff is a spectacularly bad example here. He was arrested Dec 11 and plead guilty on March 12 of the following year without even attempting to plea bargain.
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by fr0sty 14y ago
>He sold gambling software while living in a state where gambling was illegal. Jack Daniels Whiskey is made and sold by a distillery in a county where selling liquor is illegal.
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by fr0sty 14y ago
>The only plywood you will find that is "actual" size... Actual thickness you mean... All construction sheet goods available in the US come in 4x8 sheets (drywall excepted, which I believe can be as long as 12'). Just because you can ex
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by fr0sty 14y ago
> And if I display the exact same frame twice in a row at 48fps I get 24fps. Not quite. Shooting at 48fps requires a faster shutter speed than 24fps (1/48 vs 1/96) which gives you less motion blur.
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by fr0sty 14y ago
The term you are looking for is "avoidance" not "evasion".
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by fr0sty 14y ago
If you "just got out of college" then you are likely <26yo and are covered by your parents insurance.
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by fr0sty 14y ago
As the father of an almost 2-year-old: Baby spending is a gaseous thing. It expands to fill the size of your budget. All a baby needs is onesies, diapers, food, some blankets and a place to sleep. A car-seat and a stroller for going out (pl
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by fr0sty 14y ago
Three words: Economies of Scale A lot of stretch goals I have seen are things like upgraded components, extra colors, and the like which are wuite possible as your order sizes push your per-unit costs down. This is doubly so for software b
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by fr0sty 14y ago
While $90 is an improvement I think we need to get closer to $20 for things to get really interesting.
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by fr0sty 14y ago
When will this sort of thing become affordable? The wireless card is 50GBP+VAT and the board it plugs in to is 20. thats > $150 to control an LED wirelessly which is only a little bit insane. I'd love to throw together little 'internet
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by fr0sty 14y ago
The big difference between cars and planes is that a near universal failsafe in a car is to slam on the brakes. Car stops. Simple and relatively foolproof. There is no such avenue available to a plane in flight. If you still think it's poss
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by fr0sty 14y ago
So people list their bad debts on a website and compete for the most compelling sob story to get them written off. I actually cannot imagine how this would lead to better outsomes than just buying and forgiving debt blindly. You would prefe
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by fr0sty 14y ago
"The risk-weighted investment into Solyndra was probably on the order of the low tens of millions." What do you mean by "risk-weighted investment"? The loan to Solyndra was for $535 million dollars of which practically none was returned [1]
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by fr0sty 14y ago
1. Author graphed his daily returns which should give you a handle on his volatility. He also stated his max drawdown was $2k. 2. Author has stated elsewhere than he began with $10k in seed capital. 3. The "bullish" market you cite increase
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by fr0sty 14y ago
Nitpick: When exchanges have busted trades there is a "at or below $XX.XX" condition as well as the "between XX:XX and YY:YY" condition. In the Flash Crash as well as the Knight Capital incident "up/down 30% from the Previous Close" was the
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by fr0sty 14y ago
Ok, that wasn't clear to me. You talked about programming hotkeys (and then automating the hotkeys) so I assumed this was running on your desktop.
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by fr0sty 14y ago
Wouldn't the term "Statistical Arbitrage" be a more apt description of what you were doing? If you are relying on a broker-supplied pricefeed over the internet you are far outside the real of what is traditionally understood as "High Freque
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by fr0sty 14y ago
Survivor bias would be my guess. To say that X% of "successful tech entrepeneurs" have MBAs means nothing unless you know the % of total tech entrepeneurs (successful or not) that have MBAs.
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by fr0sty 14y ago
Umm... "But the Nexus 4 falls just short of perfection due to one major omission: It’s not compatible with any LTE networks."
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by fr0sty 14y ago
"You just need some electricity." If you wave your hand enough anything is trivial. The "some" you are talking about is 250A @ 400V (100kW) which is a trifle more than a typical gas station can readily supply (especially if you want to char
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by fr0sty 14y ago
Fair enough. My point is we balk at a 200% increase in the price of gasoline but won't blink at a 100000% increase in the price of water. Also consider that @ $1 per 16oz bottle you are paying $8/gal for essentially tapwater that was bottle
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by fr0sty 14y ago
> The gas stations without electricity aren't to get electricity any fast because the price of gas is higher. If you can sell gas for $10/gal then it becomes worthwhile to get a generator and start pumping gas. If you can't sell gas at
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by fr0sty 14y ago
But water is not really a special case, though. Tap water is nearly free and bottled water is >$1/gal. so the markup during a disaster is >100x.
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by fr0sty 14y ago
New Jersey has an "Anti-gouging" law that makes it illegal for retailers to increase prices by more than 10%.
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Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4725789
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The building is 35 stories tall. the 17th and 18th floors are right in the middle. Besides that, I don't think the powers that be want people belching diesel exhaust just a few feet above street level.
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by fr0sty 14y ago
Hydraulic elevators are only used in buildings with 2-5 (in rare cases up to 8) floors. These are certainly traction elevators but the controls and wiring are still likely located in the basement.

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