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by kweinber 11y ago
As someone who has had the stomach churning task of firing people, jokes like this don't seem worth it. How much good will can you earn by making employment at your company sound like a joke?
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by kweinber 11y ago
Hat tip to the eff... Don't forget to support them, they've got your back on stuff like this....
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by kweinber 11y ago
+100 for Practical Vim... Hands down the best vim guide. After 10 years of kinda-knowing-vim, that book changed how I use vim entirely.
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by kweinber 11y ago
Miles Davis' autobiography is also an amazing, vulgar, honest and incredible work as well. The audible audio book is especially good because the narrator nails his raspy but dogged voice. Highly NSFW and highly recommended.
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by kweinber 11y ago
Uber is larger than most huge corporations. Their funding is astronomical (5.9 Billion) and their investors include folks like Goldman Sachs. It isn't fair to real startups for giants like Uber to claim startup loopholes.
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by kweinber 11y ago
Dental insurance is one of the worst insurance deals going (partially because the market isn't as big and diversified as other types of health insurance). For nearly anyone 17-60, you'd rather have the equivalent cash than the d
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by kweinber 11y ago
I've had to do the math to calc this stuff... what you are saying is simply false. If I execute a single order with a full fill, and you execute the same fully filled order with 99 canceled order behind behind it, show me how the e
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by kweinber 11y ago
No confusion at all kasey_junk, I think those cancels should cost something in all those spoofing cases you mentioned (except for registered market makers who are usually exempted from messaging rules like this in exchange for real rules).
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by kweinber 11y ago
Fees only kick in if you cancel 100x the orders than you actually execute. And then you only pay half a cent per order over that limit. I was suggesting something much more like a txn fee per order closed above a much tighter threshold (li
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by kweinber 11y ago
Protecting market making is excuse-making since registered market makers are already exempt from "over-messaging" rules like this. Plus It would be possible to enter time-expiring orders to accommodate market making without all
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by kweinber 11y ago
HN should require a signed comment when you downvote. My comment is getting hammered with downvotes now.... And I don't know why... I'd hate to assume that people just want to bury a simple, fair solution to the problem without a
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by kweinber 11y ago
Spoofing is bad because it allows you to lie about your intentions in a system that is supposed to give true price transparency. This would all be corrected if the exchanges charged money for cancelled orders. These traders are placing orde
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by kweinber 12y ago
The free market also prefers awful and addictive things like Mcdonalds, cigarettes, and Facebook. When personal profit and easy gratification are the main drivers of a system then don't solely expect good things to pop out... good AND
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by kweinber 12y ago
I would suggest you stay away from describing your business practices as "manipulation", though. Almost all connotations of that word in psychology, law, and business imply deceit. It sounds like you are decorating the showroom
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by kweinber 12y ago
Making a nicer product that increases user engagement is manipulating the product to match what the user likes, not manipulating the user. Changing the order and quality of ranked news articles, bending the truth, using behavioral science
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by kweinber 12y ago
I read the post to suggest that the existing team was obviously not very emotionally sensitive since they are explicitly working to "manipulate behavior" which sounds sinister. Perhaps hiring more folks who are both rational AND
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by kweinber 12y ago
One thing to realize is that Apple is gearing more of their products to the Chinese market with the golds, reds and other cosmetic choices. The other thing to note is that Ive is a silversmith's son so he may be drawn to metallurgical
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by kweinber 12y ago
I recently switched from a 15" macbook to a lenovo windows 8.1 laptop after 10 years of mac/linux for my daily driver. I live with Windows as the base install and virtualbox linux (arch + ubuntu). I am so glad to be free of the Ma
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by kweinber 12y ago
Anyone personally work on a DDS project is in actual production? I have never even seen one although I've worked in some of the industries where it is supposedly a success.
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by kweinber 12y ago
Invisibilia is new but sure to be a hit: http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/ Also Startup: http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/ Both dance around our world regularly enough to inclu
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by kweinber 12y ago
If anyone has a lenovo box, they could use its Superfish feature to get around this.
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by kweinber 12y ago
I never said that all warrior cultures are male dominated... just this one.
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by kweinber 12y ago
It is because we live in a warrior culture that glorifies male domination. Nudity and sex imply vulnerability and female power. (which is why nip-slips at football halftime shows seem so threatening). The interesting thing is that frontal
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by kweinber 12y ago
For most, tbis really comes down to: which OS do you want to run commercial software on, Windows or Mac OSX? Even though you'll try to stay pure linux, there is always that pesky need to open a contract in Word or a photoshop file
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by kweinber 12y ago
nice knowin' ya, Alan.
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White House Responds to Carmen Ortiz/Aaron Swartz Petition
8 points by kweinber 12y ago|0 comments
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by kweinber 12y ago
I feel like the software really hasn't changed enough for me to feel differently about Apple at all. However the the fact that the hardware is GLUED together and non-upgradeable in all models is the thing that has me looking elsewhere.
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by kweinber 12y ago
Maybe this is a clever way of breaking the fourth wall to teach you just how Wikileaks really works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_wall
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by kweinber 12y ago
I work in the industry and there are two things that helped me through my feelings of internal dread. 1) Becker's "The Denial Of Death" is an incredible summary of Otto Rank's psychoanalytic work, explains Freud"s
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by kweinber 12y ago
Gps satellites all send slightly incorrect information... A separate radio signal correction is transmitted to correct it. That way, during wartime (or in high value target areas) the US can basically mess up enemy gps enabled weapons by

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