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by hsitz 13y ago
I mostly agree. But "playing the market" as its normally understood involves trying to make money on the market within a fairly short time frame, by buying low and selling high. I believe Buffett has many times said that the mar
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by hsitz 13y ago
The recent Adami/Hintze paper that is topic of this article is itself the paper that shows that the ZD strategy is not evolutionarily stable. The May 2012 Press/Dyson paper was what caused people to question what had been thought
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by hsitz 13y ago
The writer's comments were not primarily about a dog being locked _inside_, there were more about the dog being left _alone_. It's illegal to lock a kid inside alone all day (or at all), but that's how many dogs are left, ev
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by hsitz 13y ago
run4yourlives: Well stated. Warren Buffet, I believe, has often emphasized the fact that the growing wealth disparity is not good for long-term economic growth in U.S.
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by hsitz 13y ago
Classical liberalism (what you call "true" liberalism) focused on negative freedom. Modern liberalism (what you call "socialism" although it's not: modern liberals are still in favor of regulated but mostly free markets) focuses on ensurin
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by hsitz 13y ago
"There's this odd commingling of the concepts of socialism and liberalism in the general populace's minds, for some reason. The two could not be more antithetical." The reasons for this are historical. What you call the "socialist" element
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by hsitz 13y ago
Vim supports scripting with Lua similar to the support it already has for Python, Perl, Ruby, Racket. Your instance of Vim just has to be compiled with that option. See ':h lua'. One major problem with its support for scripting languages
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by hsitz 13y ago
Thanks, I had just skimmed the article. You're right that there is no irony. And it may not even be a coincidence, may just be that one of the reasons that a person attracted to Python may also be attracted to Go.
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by hsitz 13y ago
"The code you write with Go just seems to be correct." Ironically, Eric Raymond made very similar statements _about Python_ in his 2000 article explaining why he had moved to Python from static languages and from his previous dynamic langua
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by hsitz 13y ago
No problem. When I read your post I was confused whether you were suggesting that he could have gotten a 30% speed up in overall time by making i/o more efficient. Now I understand you weren't. But I would still suggest that, within the c
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by hsitz 13y ago
I think that 30% improvement you're referring to must be for just the i/o itself. Given that the i/o for the problem amounts to less than 1/1000th of the processing time, a 30% improvement is basically irrelevant. It doesn't help much to
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by hsitz 13y ago
Modifying your Go code to use int64's the program (compiled with Go v.1.0.3) takes about 20 minutes for the L1 problem on my Thinkpad x200 (core duo 2.4GHz). More importantly, the argument that Ruby is "too slow" seems to hedge on the L1 in
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by hsitz 14y ago
Yes, I have a Raspberry Pi and agree. Also Raspberry Pi ends up costing significantly more than the USB sticks once you purchase a case and the necessary cables(usb/hdmi) and power adapter. Some guy on youtube has good set of videos compa
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by hsitz 14y ago
I agree that "just get out and run" isn't really helpful for training for a marathon. It helps to have a plan and to follow one of the many training plans. For example, you can do 25 mile weeks by running 4 miles a day 7 days a week or by
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by hsitz 14y ago
I think the percentage of marathoners who qualify as a "marathon maniac" is quite small. To become a member of Marathon Maniacs at even the lowest level you have to document running (a) 2 marathons within 16 day timeframe or (b) 3 marathon
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by hsitz 14y ago
The Ford story has a superficial similarity to the Einstein one, but in reality they're diametrically opposed. Einstein _understood_ how the physical world worked so he didn't need to carry around unnecessary "information". Ford, at least
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by hsitz 14y ago
It is free to download and play, but this version runs only on ARM processors. So if you have a Raspberry Pi or some other machine that runs a version of Linux on a device with an ARM processor, you're good to go. These machines are gener
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by hsitz 14y ago
I just looked back into use of the Vim 'balloon' feature. I think the ballooneval and balloonexpr would do the job fine, the only fly in the ointment is that the help window is tied to the mouse cursor position in two ways. First, the win
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by hsitz 14y ago
Have you checked the "balloon help" functionality? This was intended for use with mouse and windows for things like tooltips, but I think it may be general enough to expand for use you're looking for. My memory isn't so great but I fooled
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by hsitz 14y ago
Yes, and I used 'smart' but what I actually meant is 'well-informed'. Doesn't even matter if they're smart, but a well-informed person should have a basic grasp of how constitutional law works. Some basic problems in this thread: 1. The U
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by hsitz 14y ago
Speaking as a lawyer, I would say that upwards of 99% of the comments in this thread are full of crap; people confidently throwing around opinions or even supposed-knowledge without any real knowledge of constitutional law. The dishearteni
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by hsitz 14y ago
"The bad models were a consequence of a fraudulent system. So by definition, the models weren't the cause of the financial crisis. Therefore the bad models were an effect, in the same way the financial crisis was an effect." This is faulty
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by hsitz 14y ago
Another +1. When I've used this method I've noticed that the tendency at first is to try to just remember the code and copy it out of your memory. There comes a point, though, when you don't remember it well enough to "copy from memory" a
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by hsitz 14y ago
One of the many features of Org-mode in Emacs is that it functions in a similar-style to IPython's notebook for over twenty different languages, Octave, R, Ruby, Python, C, C++ and others: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/language