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by lincolnq 14y ago
I had a limit buy order at $45 which I placed at 11am (when it opened) which was never filled (and should have been, as the price never went above $43 or so). There were definite trading glitches, and if they were skewed on the buy side, th
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by lincolnq 14y ago
Counterexample: I was never interested in photo sharing before Instagram. I wasn't a good enough photographer. Now I can make my photos beautiful enough that I want to share them. Is this worth more than a few dollars to me personally? Yes.
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by lincolnq 14y ago
Dwolla is awesome, but this comes off as an ad for Dwolla. I suspect most merchants will be dismayed to learn that asking your customers to pay with Dwolla requires them to sign up with a new service and link their bank account.
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by lincolnq 14y ago
Did you even read the article? Edit: This is exactly what the author is arguing against. Yes, you're writing a proof, but that's not the point of what you're doing at all.
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by lincolnq 14y ago
Fortunately we don't have to choose! We can make the red lights more blinky, apparently.
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by lincolnq 15y ago
Hm, you may be right. The methodology to arrive at these results in the paper is not given at all (as far as I can tell). However I suspect that the three you listed would not be benchmarked on their own, as they are not application servers
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by lincolnq 15y ago
Prelude> :t 11111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111 :: Num a => a Prelude> :t (length []) (length []) :: Int Prelude> 11111111111111111111111111111 - (length []) 1729917383 Prelude>
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by lincolnq 15y ago
I agree that the priors would suggest that you are correct, however, let me give some evidence to update you: The Warp web server for Haskell is the fastest Web application server that exists . http://steve.vinoski.net/pdf/IC-Warp_a_Haske
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by lincolnq 15y ago
I would argue that the compilation step is what is responsible for finding errors at compile time rather than runtime, but then the type system is perhaps required to enforce that. It is. A Ruby (or Python, or JavaScript, ...) source code
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by lincolnq 15y ago
Wow, interesting perspective. Let me attempt to summarize what you said: When compilers/runtimes become smart enough, you won't need a static type system, because the runtime one will catch all your errors. Here's why I think it's wrong: Ca
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by lincolnq 15y ago
Ah. I see where the disagreement lies. Your position is that they're still geniuses even if they "only" figure out how to fix cars on their own. I agree, they're still geniuses, but I would also agree that it is a waste. If the genius had l
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by lincolnq 15y ago
No. Just no. Where do you think money GOES when it is donated to charity? It doesn't disappear. Are you seriously making the argument that it's better for the world that $X is used to purchase an expensive unnecessary item, than actually sp
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by lincolnq 15y ago
If you're following this tutorial because you want to learn how to build the backend, I would highly recommend using Parse instead.
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by lincolnq 15y ago
Likely yes. But what matters is return on time in contrast to any of the other things you could be doing. "always work on the most important thing". Even small percentage point improvements in conversion go directly to the bottom line, whic
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by lincolnq 15y ago
Is that why more people are learning FP? I think it's a different trend: recognition that programming is no longer about writing tight loops. Those have mostly been written. Instead, practical programming these days is dominated by orchestr
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by lincolnq 15y ago
Great analogy. It appears that SR and HM both benefit from great teachers. I learned HM in a couple weeks of an undergraduate course, and that knowledge has continued to pay off. A good introduction can be found in Krishnamurthi's free book
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by lincolnq 15y ago
Viaweb?
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by lincolnq 15y ago
I am not sure, but I do know that your brain is making associations with everything you experience, whether you like it or not. Might as well use those associations for something useful.
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by lincolnq 15y ago
"tackling inequality" can be achieved in many ways. One of these ways could, counterintuitively, be creating an effective way to produce more elites. If your training program / intelligence amplification technology created another Norman Bo
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by lincolnq 15y ago
So how much money can someone make buying cracked phones, fixing them, and reselling? I guess it only takes one person doing this to normalize the price of a cracked phone.
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by lincolnq 15y ago
"unborn future billions" sounds so... abstract. Think of Petrov: http://lesswrong.com/lw/8f0/existential_risk/ We effectively credit him with saving the world. If it weren't for him, most of us might not be around. I consider him a hero.
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by lincolnq 15y ago
I'm extremely interested to see how this plays out. Giving large cash bonuses seems like it could wreck morale just as easily as it could boost it. And now when they're hiring in the future, they have to wonder whether the candidate is more
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by lincolnq 15y ago
I agree that we don't know the answers to these questions, but I don't agree that they outweigh the awful, terribly sucky thing which is death. I don't want anyone to die ever again. That people have died a few times since I started typing
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Mineral supplementation recommendations for healthy humans(medicineispersonal.com)
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by lincolnq 15y ago
Interesting viewpoint. It does seem like the people who are naturally most driven are naturally more likely to succeed, because motivation is at the root of almost everything humans do wrong on a macro scale. So there's a reason that a lot
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by lincolnq 15y ago
Awesome. I did the "Rationality Boot Camp" with these folks this past summer, and learned a hell of a lot, and they're a great (and very impressive) group. I would highly recommend taking a Saturday to do this.
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by lincolnq 15y ago
It really depends on your diet, but vitamin D seems agreed-upon to be worth supplementing, since most people don't spend enough time in the sun to get the appropriate dose.
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by lincolnq 15y ago
Our risk estimation brains are based on the ancestral environment. Technology multiplies impacts.
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by lincolnq 15y ago
I don't think that anyone who has seriously thought about / read up on the issue considers long copyrights to be of net benefit to society. This indicates a deeper issue. However, which deeper issue it indicates is a subject of much contr
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by lincolnq 15y ago
Um. Wedding blog posts aren't very interesting unless you're about to get married or you're in the industry, right? Maybe your market is just too small?

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