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by justinmeiners 6y ago
> Because names don’t carry meaning, they’re pointers: That's been debated in philosophy for over 150 years, and there are many alternative theories. I think a better point is that technical names don't matter because their for
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
I did not know this particular policy was under scrutiny. Could this be handled at the exchange level? Can they set voting requirements for the kinds of stocks they will make available? Is there an SEC angle to this as well in how they clas
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
Yes, but this is far out of the context of this discussion. This topic has nothing to do with entering into an absurd unenforceable contract. Investments offer different terms to different customers. Those with fewer privileges are worth le
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
Presumably when you bought the shares you paid for that specific arrangement. If you don't like the share structure buy another company, or pay less for it.
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
Do conservative, PR polished, suits build great companies?
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
Unlike most programming books the environment and code samples never go out of date either. It's entirely self contained including assembly language.
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
> the client is asking for an ML solution In other words, nobody has an idea how it will work. ML doesn't generate essential data for you, or solve problems which you cannot reasonably describe a solution for.
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
Is this your degree or your sons?
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
Might as well at not choose to do anything then. Just use whatever everyone else does. We need people trying out better ideas even if they aren't as popular or easy.
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by justinmeiners 7y ago
Probably. I don't necessarily believe it's around the corner or ever will be feasible. But the motivation is clear.
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by justinmeiners 7y ago
No traffic and direct paths?
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by justinmeiners 7y ago
I was using an extreme example to illustrate. I definitely agree.
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by justinmeiners 7y ago
I regularly see people make this mistake and don't grasp it after correction. You could make a hash table with a constant time lookup, but the hash takes 1 hour. Big oh only tells you how it scales, not it's performance (runtime).
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by justinmeiners 7y ago
That's a little complicated as math is intertwined with science. But at the core I only see them as a difference in subject matter. Math is a philosophical study of space, logical structure, quantity, etc. Proofs are just tools for art
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by justinmeiners 7y ago
This isn't a mess, this is a good thing. Math is a way of talking about ideas, not a formal system for computers.
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by justinmeiners 7y ago
Good points. I know you know, but it's also worth mentioning that most math symbols don't have a definite meaning. Meaning is defined in the context it is presented, in whatever way the author feels makes the most sense. Math is a
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by justinmeiners 7y ago
Except nobody I know who uses C holds that view. I'm sure they exist, but without a unifying view there is no cult. C is a well established and widely known language with many uses. It's certainly not right for everything. Who is
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by justinmeiners 7y ago
? This is regular PR speak.
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by justinmeiners 7y ago
I regularly use other "modern" languages and still enjoy using C. Am I cult member?
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by justinmeiners 7y ago
That's a bit of and extreme characterization of "tend to look out for the well being of your family/people you care about" So who's model accounts for hoarding behaviors like this?
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by justinmeiners 7y ago
Distribution is also a cost. Imagine a hurricane where roads are damaged and supplies can't be brought it. If incentives are high enough people will urgently find a way to get it in to sell things people want If prices are fixed, they
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by justinmeiners 7y ago
Japan has had stagnant stocks for decades and isn't in collapse.
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by justinmeiners 7y ago
It's still less than a year of growth. Were you urgently buying a year ago?
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by justinmeiners 7y ago
True. It would be interesting to analyze what others aspects are correlated.
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by justinmeiners 7y ago
You're taking "cutting corners" out of context. He is describing how individual nodes don't need to run at the standards of regular data servers and are hence cheaper, but in aggregate provide a reliable service. > So
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by justinmeiners 7y ago
Not really. Just probability. If you have fully redundant services then ALL of them have to go down to have an outage. Suppose you 5 copies with 75% uptime each. The probability that all of them are down is 0.25^5 ~ 0.0009 Now of course tha
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by justinmeiners 7y ago
If had many paying subscriptions and stesfy growth how is that worthless? Do you perhaps mean the acquisition wasn't helpful to Yahoo?
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by justinmeiners 7y ago
makes sense, I like permissive licenses too.
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by justinmeiners 7y ago
Why does good things coming from another license mean GPL isn't working? GPL guarantees a lot of rights that an important minority of developers finds valuable . If you don't care for it, Im not here to convince you, but I think y
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by justinmeiners 7y ago
- The GPL license for GCC is valuable for free software rights. - just like chrome becoming the only browser, one compiler isn't good either. The implementation starts to define the language instead of the standard - separate projects

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