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by joosters 8y ago
It's common to use some percentage of the Kelly-calculated stakes in betting, Kelly might be the optimal sized bets but it is extremely aggressive. IIRC, even if you are calculating your % edge correctly, Kelly staking means that any
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by joosters 8y ago
I'm a happy SpamAssassin user too, just wanted to add that I've found using sa-learn to teach it about ham/spam makes the spam detection a lot better. When spam gets through, I move it to a junk folder, and from time to time,
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by joosters 8y ago
Thank you for (re)posting that video, it's an excellent introduction/overview.
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by joosters 8y ago
WeChat payments work fine with foreign cards...
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by joosters 8y ago
The most annoying (and visible) example of this is people naming their programs after the language/toolset used. As a user, I need not care that your code is written with Go/Python/KDE/Gnome, so why name your program wit
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by joosters 8y ago
Bookies have implemented this. Betting exchanges have existed for over a decade now, you can lay off your bets to lock in a profit if the odds have moved. Even 'traditional' bookies offer various forms of cashing out a bet.
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by joosters 8y ago
I find it ridiculous that first party analytics requires extra requests at all - there's enough log information from my actual page requests, you don't need to make extra ones. If your logging is so inefficient, it should be blo
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by joosters 8y ago
Even if there were perfect, reliable oracles, ‘smart’ contracts still are terrible. When something unexpected happens, the contract is guaranteed to screw up, with no chance for human compromise.
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by joosters 8y ago
In perl, you can also make hashes ‘const’ at any time, so accesses to non-existent keys will throw an error. This is also a great way to prevent dumb code typos in hash key names.
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by joosters 8y ago
I searched around but couldn't find any information on what the company charges for their service, or how large their cut is. When a company is not open about their fees, naturally I assume the worst. Why would they hide the informatio
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by joosters 8y ago
Well obviously they have to say that they don't supply drugs and prostitutes in these articles. What they do or tell the suckers staying at the casino is another matter...
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by joosters 8y ago
More garbage ycombinator hero worship. 'True Hackers' ? Grow up!
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A difficult case: Diagnosis made by hallucinatory voices(researchgate.net)
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by joosters 8y ago
Slightly related: A twitter bot telling the time using photos of Flavor Flav - https://twitter.com/flavorflavtime
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by joosters 8y ago
Good to see that they are following the universal law of raytracing demos: a reflective sphere stuck randomly into the scene (at just under two minutes into the first video) If you're trying to demonstrate the 'real world usefulne
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by joosters 8y ago
Prediction markets work just fine already, thanks. The blockchain equivalents are a terrible use of the technology, since they need to use external sources to get the results of markets. This means either trusting a centralized service (and
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by joosters 8y ago
But didn't you buy the previous phones anyway?
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by joosters 8y ago
Maybe you should have attached a parachute?
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by joosters 8y ago
I find zstd to be almost twice the speed of brotli when compressing files (my simple test case is a 55M directory of small files - about 2k each) However, zstd doesn't have the browser support that brotli does. So you can't easily
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by joosters 8y ago
I'd hate the birthday greeting, because it would be completely insincere. The staff don't know you, they couldn't care less about your birthday and they're only saying it because their computer told them to. And yet the
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by joosters 8y ago
Hey, some ICOs even make it clear that you won't get any of the profits, so perhaps the description can be reduced to just 'For carrying-on an undertaking but no-one to know what it is!'
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by joosters 8y ago
The South Sea bubble is by far a better comparison. It even had ICOs (sort of) and token trading!
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by joosters 8y ago
Are the 'safety critical' UI components rendered any differently to the non-critical ones? From reading the related blog posts, I understand that they are generated in a separate process, but asides from that detail, are they any
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by joosters 8y ago
No noise??? You need some deafening loud whirring fans to cool the racks of miners.
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by joosters 8y ago
Same here! My computer is a Mac mini and also using a mini DP to DP cable. There’s a 20% chance that the monitor will get stuck in power-saving mode when turning it on. When this happens, rebooting my Mac is the only way I’ve found to make
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by joosters 8y ago
The switches are useless until you have an idea about what the command can do. And yet the 'IP - COMMAND SYNTAX' section has text like ' link - network device'. What the hell does that mean? So 'ip link' does
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by joosters 8y ago
Learning how to read the help output is often enough I find the 'ip --help' is virtually incomprehensible, and the man page no better. There's no explanation about what the tool can do, only some machine-readable formatti
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by joosters 8y ago
By that flawed reasoning, BitConnect must have been extremely useful...
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by joosters 8y ago
If there's no intermediary, what exactly have Coinbase bought?
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by joosters 8y ago
Yes, but the costs might prove to be too high. For example, if people owned their own, they wouldn't need people driving around town collecting scooters to recharge, and then driving them back to a drop-off point. Likewise, rented scoo

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