kingkongrevenge

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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
That's winning at the special olympics. They are both so slow you'd never use either for cpu constrained tasks.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
> the ones he needs already exist for python but not for perl Rather unlikely.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
I'm always a bit puzzled by these claims of unreadable perl. Go find me perl I can't read: http://search.cpan.org/ . Where is it?
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
My roommate did this and got a large line of one year 0% interest credit, which he immediately maxed out on 4.5% one year CDs. Free money.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
> There haven't been the large public works project perscribed by keneysian economics in japan. At one point Japan was the single largest concrete importer in the world. They were building roads and bridges and train lines like crazy.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
Yeah, the main point of the efficient market hypothesis is that high alpha (CAPM) is very, very hard to achieve, not that markets are steady and only react to new information.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
I know it's not practical at the moment due to lack of deployment, but how does flex compare and contrast with silverlight/moonlight?
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
He seems kinda clueless to me. A whole article on the economic theory of recessions with no mention of malinvestment? He goes on at length about the efficient market hypothesis and bubbles yet never acknowledges that nobody can identify a
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
Large profits, duh.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
People don't have straight forward mathematically rational utility curves. High risk returns are over priced in all markets. High beta stocks are overvalued relative to low beta stocks, for example. Security is also "irrationally" over v
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
Many working poor have an effectively zero probability of dramatically improving their financial situation. The odds of winning the lottery are higher than zero. Therefore, there is a sort of rationality to playing if you have correctly s
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
Yes, exactly. That is the problem. Capital destroying companies are attracting capital due to government interference, when really they should be liquidated and bought up by competent managers.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
> opertunity cost The opportunity cost was enormous. The bailouts were a disaster for American capitalism. We now have a huge tattoo that reads "WARNING: Crony Capitalist Country. Proceed with caution". Don't ignore the very difficul
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
The real cost is the near certainty we'll get an even bigger blow up five to ten years down the road. Thousands of people who should now be looking for a new career are still in finance. Moral hazard's a bitch. The system NEEDED many jaw
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
There's a lot of rather convincing literature out there on the potential of tidal power. The energies are enormous and the technology is straightforward. It's not like photovoltaics where we're waiting on improvements in cost. It's simpl
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
> require a lot of R&D which will both create jobs and lead to additional discoveries If it's government funded/subsidized it's more likely to divert capital from more productive R&D and uses in the economy.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
> first one to see that this domain is somewhere C++ will excel in C++ is used a lot in the big sites like Amazon and Yahoo and Google. The frameworks just aren't open sourced. C++ remains a lot faster and a lot less memory intensive t
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
> It doesn't even have automated patch management That's not true. You can automatically keep synced up.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
Economics is inherently political. Please drop the pretense that there can ever be economic study not deeply interwoven with politics.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
So Counter Intelligence was weak in that case. It's an anecdote, and there are plenty of anecdotes about well kept secrets throughout history.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
> the idea that you can keep a secret that 100,000+ people are in on is just silly 100,000 would be hard, but 10,000 vetted employees threatened with the power of the state for the rest of their lives is definitely done in militaries al
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
People say there is no law authorizing the income tax. I don't remember the arguments nullifying the 16th amendment, but they have them.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
> found that there are. I can't see that. > equal or greater benefit in any of the health indicators Insulin resistance, for sure. > strength training induces neurogenesis What google informs me about neurogenesis is that it's t
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
I am not aware of any bubbles that happened without government policy. There is always a state driven monetary or fiscal component. > maintaining a stable currency - notably 1935-1970 and 1980-1990. By stable you mean inexorably lose v
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
Abuses and deficiencies of any one currency would be kept in check by competition, even if one currency dominated. An issuing authority couldn't abuse their position because everyone would just flee the currency.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
This is all about runners vs non-exercisers. Again, the literature on strength training and sprint work indicates major benefits not gained from long distance running. I doubt there are any distance running health benefits compared to ben
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
I think it's pretty true. That list is heavy on "plumbing" modules that are pulled in as dependencies. I don't know a good one that's more indicative of what programmers deliberately pull of the shelf for a project, which is what I was ta
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
That doesn't even mention running or endurance training. It's about fit vs non-fit people, which isn't relevant. I'm talking about a fit person who runs a couple 60s 400s and goes home vs a fit person who heads out to run three miles. The
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
Any sufficiently complicated Lisp program contains ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementations of the top 100 perl modules.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
Conventional wisdom is that long slow jogs are a good way to get healthier. The clinical evidence indicates most people would do better with some sub mile sprinting. Does the book address the physiological damage documented in my link?

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