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by lucozade 9y ago
I don't know either party but I'd hazard a guess that they're not really offering 500k for a K developer. They're more likely offering 500k for someone who has a lot of experience managing financial tick data in a KDB en
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by lucozade 9y ago
There wasn't really a move away from Libor fixings. They were, and still are, very important in the derivative markets. There was a move towards collateralised transactions so the overnight rates become more important for funding than
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by lucozade 9y ago
> I am not sure I understand the distinction you make between your 1 and 2 The difference is that collusion between banks is cartel price fixing and is very illegal. The majority of reported cases of traders requesting rate moves did not
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by lucozade 9y ago
> two distinct manipulations of Libor I'd argue that there were three. The first, and unquestionably illegal, was what Tom Hayes did i.e. collusion between actors at multiple banks to move Libor. I don't think he should have go
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by lucozade 9y ago
TBH if you're going to manage your financial future based on trite, vacuous phrases then crack on. You clearly don't care very much about your money so it shouldn't matter much what you do with it. The only caveat I'd ma
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by lucozade 9y ago
You don't need to learn Java before you learn Kotlin. As you may notice in your paraphrasing, it doesn't say you need to, it says it's simple if you know Java already. More concretely, what you'll find is that a lot of t
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by lucozade 9y ago
There is an alternative hypothesis. That it's just an evolutionary accident. Possibly it's a side effect of some other factor that is significant. I mean, we get a lot of evolutionary traits because of bias through natural selecti
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by lucozade 9y ago
For those of us who are separated by a common language, apparently a wife beater is a singlet. I was initially surprised because the last time I wore a wife beater was when Daly scored against Wales and the chap behind me in the pub got ove
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by lucozade 9y ago
I'd recommend looking at the work the LLVM team have done on this. [0] for example and there is a Youtube video from one of the LLVM confs if I recall correctly. In a nutshell they are still researching this but their general approach
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by lucozade 9y ago
For ticking data being pushed into bespoke pivots, running this on the backend and, say, pushing renders to the frontend isn't generally better. You're not likely to be sharing much of the grunt. Also, latency will be an issue so
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by lucozade 9y ago
The C++ probably wasn't written for a browser. More likely it was written for a native frontend and has been ported to the browser via WebAssembly.
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by lucozade 9y ago
Do you mean Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies generally? For the Bitcoin protocol itself, then I don't believe there are any trustless solutions. The protocol deliberately promotes pooling with no disincentive to growth. As such, you have tw
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by lucozade 9y ago
The blockchain is an electronic accounting ledger. It uses some clever encryption technology to make it very hard for transactions on the ledger to be forged or changed. Bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies, are electronic coupons that can b
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by lucozade 9y ago
I could be mistaken here but I don't believe the price of gold (relative to USD) has ever halved. Ever. Now the gold price has, historically, been more stable than USD so there have been times when USD deflated so fast that the relativ
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by lucozade 9y ago
> Fees have actually come back to earth over the last month Well yes, but who would to want to use Bitcoin as a medium of exchange now? The period of fee inflation will surely have killed that off for all but trivial uses. Similar ration
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by lucozade 9y ago
Unless there are loops in which case you're both right.
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by lucozade 9y ago
It's in red just above where it says "Telegram's ICO..."
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by lucozade 9y ago
I think you're probably right with most of this. Not sure about it passing with flying colors though. Currently, it is fundamentally failing at the job it was created to do. Where I think it's been very valuable is that it has bee
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by lucozade 9y ago
I'm not sure the time thing is particularly true but you're absolutely spot on with it being a value of money thing. And you're spot on with your characterisation as to how it works.
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by lucozade 9y ago
HN doesn't dislike Erlang. You only see unequivocal detestation for PHP and VB. My guess would be PHP although there's a reasonable argument that most of the Fortune 500 runs on VB.
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by lucozade 9y ago
I can safely say that if it's C++, and changes are instantly in front of you, then it's not the C++ application I used to maintain. Unless the definition of instantly has changed since I kicked the compile off.
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by lucozade 9y ago
Th Rust macro system is difficult to use. So it doesn't get used a lot. But when it does it tends to be used well. The C preprocessor and C++ templates are not difficult to use. But they're both difficult to use well. So they get
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by lucozade 9y ago
As a, slightly facetious, addition. I think Rust macros are better than either the C preprocessor or C++ templates because they're so bloody confusing. They require someone with a great deal of energy, knowledge and will to win in orde
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by lucozade 9y ago
That's mostly because the Go folk stopped calling Go a systems language. And they did that pretty quickly after public launch precisely because of all the people pointing out it had a non-optional GC.
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by lucozade 9y ago
If you want to attribute uniqueness to digital assets then cryptography definitely could help. But beyond that why do you need decentralisation? There's a nice to have that you can track ownership transfers more accurately but, as the
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by lucozade 9y ago
Sick and tired? May I recommend placebocoin? It uses an innovative virtual blockchain * and the coin value is guaranteed to rise making you feel better about yourself. Try it today! * virtual in the sense that I haven't built it and ha
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by lucozade 9y ago
I agree. I think publication of studies/experiments that don't find anything particularly interesting should be encouraged not condemned. It's much more of a problem that there's a bias to publishing to a headline. I&#x2
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by lucozade 9y ago
Nah. enord's saying that they'll all sit down together and realise that they don't know very much about intelligence after all. So all the current excitement around super-intelligent AIs, and whatnot, will go the same way as
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by lucozade 9y ago
In this particular case, it appears that some of the wrongdoing involved a lieutenant in Internal Affairs. So yes, they do have internal investigations departments. See Day 2 of [0]. [0] http://www.baltimoresun.com/news&#x2F
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by lucozade 9y ago
It's also a really weird choice of painting. Almost like some sort of rebuttal to #MeToo.

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