geekpondering

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by geekpondering 3y ago
It's linked at the bottom of the article, and that's the link that Dunedan provided.
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by geekpondering 3y ago
I move around a lot and have run into all kinds of weirdness when it comes to CPAP stuff. Any time you establish a new doc, if your CPAP prescription is more than 1-2 years old you need to do another sleep study, so I think I've done 6
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by geekpondering 3y ago
There's occasional talk in Japan for dumping Kanji in favor of Hiragana and Katakana only but Kanji makes it easier to read the written word: 1) Japanese doesn't use spaces between words (and the language is structured in a way to
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by geekpondering 3y ago
> You're not allowed to say here you only want certain kinds of well off immigrant Not out loud, anyway. The Dutch have an immigration system that very much benefits well off immigrants (see the 30% rule vs agricultural immigration
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by geekpondering 3y ago
Yeah, I got yelled at once by JP passport control for coming back after a visa run, mainly because on the entry card I put a residential address (short term stay place) and that I was staying another 90 days. The three main things JP passpo
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by geekpondering 12y ago
> Exploiting Market Inefficiencies == A More Efficient Market. The whole idea of "buy low, sell high" is exploiting inefficiencies in pricing, which is all HFT's are doing. There's a difference between pricing ineffic
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by geekpondering 12y ago
"If Buyer D is still willing to spend $11, how is that perverting the market?" What if Buyer D isn't willing to spend $11? "only serves to make a market more efficient" I would say it's exploiting inefficiencie
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by geekpondering 12y ago
I don't think its necessarily a question of how close we are to the singularity. I think it's a question of how close we are to the Orwellian Memory Hole.
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by geekpondering 12y ago
HFT doesn't "facilitate transactions". What is often happening is Seller A wants to sell something for $10. Buyers B, C and D submit an order to buy it for $10. The computer sees this, knows that it might be worth more than $
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by geekpondering 12y ago
...middle-men that aren't providing any service or benefit to anyone except those that profit from those trades. These "middle-men" are injecting themselves between buyer and seller to take their cut simply because they have
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by geekpondering 12y ago
<pedant> Edward. </pedant>
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by geekpondering 12y ago
"The price of not having to learn is that you give up control to someone else" Some people don't see that as a 'cost', which is what many people in the tech industry don't understand at all.