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by kolbe 5y ago
I don't even know what they do anymore. They used to make money by just raiding their portfolio companies' pensions, but now that corporations don't offer private pensions, I just don't know. Maybe they're actually
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by kolbe 5y ago
Pen and paper for me! One big flaw is I occasionally can't read my own handwriting.
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by kolbe 5y ago
I've always found the mental processes used in writing and coding are quite similar. Architecture as well. I'm sure it's not a coincidence that we borrowed from their disciplines' vocabularies to describe our work as wel
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by kolbe 5y ago
Something that really annoys me about hacker news commenters is that when someone says "this is why X bother developers," they write comments that claim the statement was a claim that X exclusively bothers developers.
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by kolbe 5y ago
I feel like this misses the point of why interruptions are frustrating to me. To me, I have so many things that I'm cramming into my short-term memory that I need to have access to while doing a certain task. If I'm in the middle
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by kolbe 5y ago
That isn’t at all the analogy. Quit reducing this to a war on climate. The “way the world is” corporations are highly mobile, and they engage in regulatory arbitrage. If RDS’s home country wants to put an onerous requirement on them, they w
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by kolbe 5y ago
There's a line in The Wire where an honest hard working security guard asks Marlo to not disrespect him by stealing in front of him. Marlo says, "you want it to be one way, but it's the other way," then Marlo kills him.
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by kolbe 5y ago
No, Shell is going to just take its thousands of high paying jobs from their headquarters to a more favorable regulatory regime. Very little else will change.
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by kolbe 5y ago
I think those same people are spending their mental energy on deciphering law, writing code, and trying to predict the stock market now.
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by kolbe 5y ago
I can’t even argue with someone who thinks so highly of some half-baked piece of local legislation that they’re comparing it to the 13th Amendment. Lol.
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by kolbe 5y ago
Reminder: people respond to (dis)incentives. You should really think about the rational response to a disincentive whenever you make a law. But we have politicians who neither care to, nor have the intellectual capacity to bother researchin
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by kolbe 5y ago
I hear it’s healthy to ignore data that contradicts your prejudices because you’re “suspicious.” /s If you want to investigate it more, then that actually would be healthy. But instead you look at some colors on a map delineated by sta
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by kolbe 5y ago
Your analysis lumps all violence equally, and suffers greatly from the variance inherent in reporting of “light” violent the crime. Homicides are much better to look at. There is very little difference between Alaska and New Orleans in thei
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by kolbe 5y ago
Why would you spend so much time writing so much about people who you admitted to knowing nothing about? Go visit rural America. Talk to people. Getting upvotes on Hacker News for presumptuous rants is no way to actually learn what’s happen
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by kolbe 5y ago
Do you have any reason to support your insult that it’s ‘a bit silly’? Because those of us who have extensive knowledge of volatility products (I was a specialist in VIX options at the CBOE, the first to make markets in VXX, and one of the
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by kolbe 5y ago
Back in their day, real time tracking of positions was virtually impossible. If someone in the pit was trading in a way that fellow traders thought exceeded his margin capacity, they would call up the clearing firm to tell them to look into
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by kolbe 5y ago
I was in the CBOT agricultural futures and options pits. Despite the fact that we had hand signals, yelling and then running over to a broker who had an order you wanted to trade was by far the most popular way for a trade to be executed. H
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by kolbe 5y ago
There is zero upside to the free public API as far as I can tell. Granted it's low cost to keep it up, but it's not generating any revenue.
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by kolbe 5y ago
Is this the final blow for Yahoo!'s finance API?
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by kolbe 5y ago
I'll admit that there are times when I am both stunned at how well the compiler will optimize, and times when I'm stunned at how poorly it does. It would seem you can never make an assumption on what will happen--hence my addictio
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by kolbe 5y ago
You say that, but I've seen plenty of modern war videos where US soldiers are pointing/shooting weapons manually and locating enemies only by seeing them with their eyes.
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by kolbe 5y ago
I would at least appreciate a disclaimer that the vast majority of these optimizations could be accomplished by encouraging the compilers to make the assembly vectorized. You said in a footnote that compilers will only do these optimization
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by kolbe 5y ago
These AI solutions that shoot a laser at weeds or water at a squirrel seem to be pointing a straight line towards AI weaponry, which makes me a little uncomfortable.
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by kolbe 6y ago
Pardon my elementary understanding of economics, but I own a lot of Taiwan Semiconductor stock, and I would have thought the answer would be for them to raise their prices until supply meets demand, and that would probably not result in lux
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by kolbe 6y ago
I don’t think anyone on Earth has obsessed over Rule 30 as much as Stephen Wolfram. And I think there are maybe single-digit number of people who are more intelligent than he is. So, if he can’t answer some Rule 30 related problem, I seriou
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by kolbe 6y ago
The key is to hire him before he steps over the line.
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by kolbe 6y ago
I'm pretty tech literate, and I have no clue how to get a whitelist-only OS. I don't think it's fair to make every American understand this in order to protect their children from predatory companies.
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by kolbe 6y ago
As someone who has dabbled in CUDA with some success, I'm going to be a little contrarian here. To me, the difficulty with GPU programming isn't the fact that CUDA uses C-syntax versus something more readable like Python. GPU prog
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by kolbe 6y ago
I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. While what you said isn’t exactly correct, it’s pretty close. One reason for black scholes today is that it is a decent interpolation function. It is significantly easier to create an implied volat
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by kolbe 6y ago
In the same vein, a $2.7b fine doesn’t matter much either. But I’d take a 0.3% of market cap fine every ten years over the BS the US doles out to its corporate giants.

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