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by hendzen 10y ago
Sure... they should just use their (clearnet) government email addresses, secured with mandatory 2FA. If those get hacked it would be potentially embarrassing, but it would be less likely if they all had reasonable security measures. For an
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by hendzen 10y ago
It's pretty simple, you just pay the WSJ for a subscription.
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by hendzen 10y ago
really awesome that cutting edge crypto is being used by our elected officials & their aides to avoid public records laws!
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by hendzen 10y ago
signal
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by hendzen 10y ago
Honest question - why should you be entitled to a free (as in beer) high-quality database that provides open-source cross-datacenter replication? Typically that is a feature only needed/used by large enterprises with sizable IT budgets
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by hendzen 10y ago
It looks like you are trying to replicate the MongoDB Inc. business model (regardless of major differences in the actual product being offered). MongoDB offers a commercial version of their product with enterprise features (encryption at re
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by hendzen 10y ago
It seems like this would be a very costly alternative for a company since it would essentially be a commitment to buy back 30-40% of outstanding RSU's at the equivalent price (current 409A valuation?). Over time I'd imagine this w
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by hendzen 10y ago
That only works if the company's shares are publicly traded.
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by hendzen 10y ago
More importantly, when are we going to see a port of PostgreSQL to React?
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by hendzen 10y ago
What about early return? In practice this logic becomes much very error-prone.
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by hendzen 10y ago
Compile with -fno-exceptions
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by hendzen 10y ago
What is fundamentally broken about RAII? To me that is one of the killer features of C++ over C, which requires manual goto statements to achieve something approaching RAII.
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by hendzen 10y ago
This is all possible on Linux today with timerfd [0] and eventfd [1]. You can use the same mechanism for async file-IO with libaio and the IOCB_FLAG_RESFD [2] flag. Granted libaio only really works well on XFS [3], and even there it has iss
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by hendzen 10y ago
A question - with the answer left as an exercise for the reader: What do speech recognition, language translation, face recognition, object classification/detection have in common that is not true about predicting the future price of a
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by hendzen 10y ago
Congrats on implementing Textbook RSA. Unfortunately as implemented this isn't really secure in any sense. I'd encourage you to start reading here: http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/1448/definitio
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by hendzen 10y ago
Why exactly will the volatility ever subside? Currencies that are considered stable are not magically so - this is the result of a careful balancing act by central banks. Bitcoin doesn't have an equivalent entity managing the rate of i
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by hendzen 10y ago
Try your hand at stochastic partial differential equations
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by hendzen 10y ago
It's a fair point. I included it because it has a high exposure to Chinese equities.
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by hendzen 10y ago
In general. This is a passive portfolio. It's designed for a style of investing where you automatically put a % of your income in to the portfolio every month or every quarter, with the occasional rebalance if needed.
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by hendzen 10y ago
Sure... I think the portfolio is a reasonable choice for the typical HN user. By that I mean someone around 25-35 working in the technology sector with a high but not extraordinarily high income.
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by hendzen 10y ago
This is a a pretty simple diversified, passive portfolio. - VOO: tracks the S&P500 index (US large companies) - VWO: emerging markets equities - BND: US bonds I picked these index funds because Vanguard ETFs are well-regarded for their
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by hendzen 10y ago
Quick answer: 35% in VOO, 35% in VWO, 30% in BND. Depending on your risk tolerance you can lower/raise the proportion of BND.
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by hendzen 10y ago
For anyone not aware, the parent commenter, Andi Kleene, is an expert on TSX. When I last seriously looked in to TSX, around 2013, he was maintaining a fork of glibc with support for TSX-optimized pthread primitives and had written most of
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by hendzen 10y ago
There is usually an inverse correlation between Sharpe ratio and capacity. That is, strategies that produce very high risk-adjusted returns stop working if you crank up the size of the book. So the groups running the really high sharpe stuf
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by hendzen 10y ago
So does every large technology company including Google, Apple, Twitter, Facebook, Netflix, etc.
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by hendzen 10y ago
If you truly believe this leverage will force the company in to bankruptcy, you should short Hostess stock (TWNK). It's currently trading at ~$12.50 per share. Furthermore, if you believe it is possible to save a distressed company lik
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by hendzen 10y ago
They are the owners of the company. The leverage is just a technique to move future cashflows in to the present so they can pay their investors and move on to the next company. Would it be better to just allow the company to go completely o
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by hendzen 10y ago
You still have to formally tell your investors that you will be using Twitter (or some other internet platform) to disseminate said information. This Shopify data could definitely be used to gain an edge in trading their stock. You basicall
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by hendzen 10y ago
Did you guys talk to your legal department before going live with this? As Shopify is a public company, showing sales/revenue stats like this in real time might be in violation of SEC regulation FD if you did not alert all your investo
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by hendzen 10y ago
If you're making money everything is relaxed. If your strategy is losing money things will be very tense. That's just how it is when you have skin in the game.

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