jamez1

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by jamez1 10y ago
Sarcasm in general pisses people off, doubt it's anything Paul graham specific
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by jamez1 10y ago
If you think the internet is the world wide web as well, then sure, it's changed a lot. But the actual internet infrastructure is still the same, this paper discusses the protocols and architectural problems. I challenge you to name so
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by jamez1 10y ago
Where does the world wide web fit into your model of the world? (it didn't need "collective provision") All the article proposes is that we don't have our data locked up, that it's not centralized, so that we have c
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by jamez1 10y ago
So if a hospital has vital patient information locked up with ransom ware, you want to make it illegal for them to pay to get it out? Your source quench nonsense sounds like just another piece of pointless infrastructure to be abused.
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by jamez1 10y ago
Discussing with your peers how much you are being paid is the only way you figure out your value. Companies are quite opaque and it's hard to know what you are worth to them, that's why they don't disclose this sort of thing.
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by jamez1 10y ago
Do you have any objective reason why what you said could make sense?
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by jamez1 10y ago
The article is about the distinction between the financial economy and the real economy. Everything you wrote seems to lump them together, and then make inferences assuming both economies are one in the same. (Missing the point of the artic
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by jamez1 10y ago
Do you have any idea how self driving cars work? They currently have sensors that are much different from your eyes behind a windscreen, they don't get blinded by light and rain doesn't bother them.
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by jamez1 10y ago
I like to think of web programming like the english language, how it's a mashup of all these other languages and ideas. It's hard to learn as an outsider and has many gotcha's and wrote learning exercises
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by jamez1 10y ago
She's on point, you're trivializing something you don't understand
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by jamez1 10y ago
FOIA aren't exactly something the government cares about, don't think that's an apt comparison
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by jamez1 10y ago
It's not about need, it's the structure that a university provides when you're trying to study complex topics. And trigonometry is taught in high schools? It's something most children pick up, I don't think it'
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by jamez1 10y ago
An algorithm has limits that humans don't, as Godel's incompleteness theorems prove. The study of mathematics is communicating some deep logic, but it doesn't end there as you trivialize. It's not just some poetry that w
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by jamez1 10y ago
The banks are the ones that wear any fraud, all they're asking is to use the NFC to communicate. It's the equivalent of apple charging you to browse the web, and forcing you to use their browser in the name of 'security'
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by jamez1 10y ago
I'm guessing you've never worked in IT, but security is a joke in the entire industry. Everybody knows that we are hopeless at it, and often the flaws that are exploited are just as simple as this.
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by jamez1 10y ago
Assuming people live 70 years on average, isn't this supposed to be 70*328? Also you have variability, there will be some days that are much more populated than others.
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by jamez1 10y ago
Sure, but that aligns these sell side analysts against our interests. Her opinion should be prefaced in the above manner, I for one am glad to know her history. Investing is a tough game if an analyst can't handle criticism and attacks
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by jamez1 10y ago
Japan pioneered QE and pushes it to the extreme, even to the extent of easing their equity markets. Why do you think any central bank can make a free lunch?
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by jamez1 10y ago
What are you an economist? Why do you need detailed mathematical arguments for something that can be explained quite simply? Anybody who cares to listen to the field will see these issues time and time again. Statistics like any other disci
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by jamez1 10y ago
>you can absolutely use normality-assumed parametric tests on non-normal data within reason and your conditions you listed are within reason I would be careful throwing around this kind of rhetoric. There are special cases where the para
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by jamez1 10y ago
>Data is very often approximately normal >If you assume your risk profile can be characterized with standard deviation, well, you're an asshole. Did you know that standard deviation can be used to describe a normal distribution?
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by jamez1 10y ago
Why do you think we have the classification 'parametric' if the only thing that matters is the distribution of the sample mean? If it's all going to converge to be normal as you say, why is there parametric and non-parametric
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by jamez1 10y ago
In what field do you work that the median absolute deviation is used at all, let alone more than the mean absolute deviation? When he talked about mean absolute deviation being sqrt(pi/2) sigma did that not make it abundantly clear wha
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by jamez1 10y ago
A parametric test is making an assumption about the distribution of the random variable, not it's mean. Inside many of these tests, they might make use of CLT assumptions of sample means, but that doesn't mean they don't stil
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by jamez1 11y ago
There's a lot of folklore about how active funds consistently under perform passive funds, but that's only in aggregate. If you aggregate a few active funds they will be a good proxy for the index, which after fees, will have less
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by jamez1 11y ago
It's better to lean on the side of consequences than freedom, given that their incentives are only partly aligned with the shareholders. They'll do stupid M&A, plunder money on consultants and make up bullshit all for somethin
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by jamez1 11y ago
Technology/Economy has nothing to do with how backwards/progressive a country is.
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by jamez1 12y ago
I like how they tried to come up with answers to most peoples criticisms. Why on earth would you have Wordpress hosted in the same network as the one with access to your critical infrastructure? That wouldn't fly in any finance shop, a
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by jamez1 12y ago
Every language should have this. Simple idea but it makes so much sense.
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by jamez1 12y ago
F# is awesome, I wish I had jumped on it sooner. I find myself spending a lot less time writing code and a lot more time thinking. The .Net ecosystem is great. I hope more shops adopt F# in the future.

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