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by lucozade 10y ago
> It's just that they failed to mitigate the obvious risk factors in their marketing plan. Possibly. We won't know that for a fact until there's a couple of Q's of sales volumes. What we can say for certain is that it
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by lucozade 10y ago
What an odd article. It seems slightly perverse to point out that an existing settlement system has blown 2bn on a platform that processes <500k transactions per day for < 2000 participants. That might be true but it no way follows th
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by lucozade 10y ago
> The blockchain should only be used for non-financial applications Do you really mean it shouldn't be used in any financial applications or just not to replace fiat currencies? If the former could you elaborate on why? I'd be
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by lucozade 10y ago
That wasn't Dubno but Kirat Singh who worked for Mike at GS. I thin kit was the first of the SecDB offspring with other attempts at BAML and Morgan Stanley. I believe Deutsche bank are also doing something similar.
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by lucozade 10y ago
In the 3rd paragraph of the article which refers to the 5th paragraph of the linked NYT article.
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by lucozade 10y ago
> Not sure why people feel a need to downvote things they don't agree with That could be the reason. Or it could be that this article is referring to an increase in pre-school readiness in poor children. It makes clear that there wa
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by lucozade 10y ago
This doesn't reflect my experience. We moved some monte-carlo implementations from CPU to GPU starting around the time this article was written. The CPU implementations had had significant optimisation work done on them because it had
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by lucozade 10y ago
> So it's now GPL-but-not-really. No, it's GPL. It's a perfectly reasonable, and not uncommon, strategy to use legal instruments for protective or signalling reasons but not as an offensive weapon. Patents are a similar ex
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by lucozade 10y ago
But that's just poor English on the part of the author. The question she was really answering was "Did Google Help Translate a Classic Novel?". To which the answer, in her case, was no. My guess is that that may be because sh
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by lucozade 10y ago
> The only thing Linus seems to be disingenuous about is his claim of support for the GPLv2. I don't believe he's being disingenuous. What's happening is that Linus, and Greg, see the GPL as a tool, a lever if you will, to
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by lucozade 10y ago
They're just using a headline derived from Dijkstra's "Go To Statement Considered Harmful". As with Dijkstra it's a bit clickbaity i.e. they really mean use with care rather than harmful. Making it a question just g
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by lucozade 10y ago
Depends on which model you mean. The banks were holding higher tranches of the securitised mortgage pools. While those pools had traditional levels of defaults, the tranches had their expected value. As the defaults accelerated beyond histo
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by lucozade 10y ago
In other news, it has been discovered that a Time article was written in English. A language that has previously been used for hate speech. The only possible conclusion is that we should ban Time magazine. Or some such nonsense.
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by lucozade 10y ago
Fair enough. So it's the 105k graddie salary that's the bubble signifier rather than the intern salary per se. Makes sense.
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by lucozade 10y ago
I would have thought that interns being paid 80k is more of a sign than product managers being paid more than engineers.
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by lucozade 10y ago
The use of the term microkernel has stronger connotations than just having a bigger part of the system in userland. The intent was to have the minimum possible functionality in the kernel. At the extreme this meant just resource allocation
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by lucozade 10y ago
> If Common Lisp is a failure, how is it that there are multiple commercial offerings for it? Well, one possible explanation is that they were sufficiently popular at one point that codebases were built that are large enough to need main
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by lucozade 10y ago
Wouldn't at all surprise me if Apple's treasury department already lend out to banks.
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by lucozade 10y ago
> What happens if the banks don't meet their collateral requirements? That's equivalent to a default on the contract. It'll end up in a legal settlement whereby the currently posted collateral, if any, will be used in the
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by lucozade 10y ago
If finding arithmetic ways to make 4! floats your boat you're going to love division. You might want to pace yourself though, there are quite a few of them.
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by lucozade 10y ago
> Because Joel thinks women are weaker then men, obviously. Well no or, maybe he does, but you can't infer that from this. What he is referring to is the tendency of little girls to like, OMG, get super excited and make squeally noi
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by lucozade 10y ago
I believe the Olympic team is called Great Britain and our Northern Irish cousins can elect to represent either that team or the Ireland team.
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by lucozade 10y ago
> neoliberal means 'socially left, fiscally right' Maybe originally. Whenever I've seen it used in a publication (almost invariably left wing) it tends to be synonymous with "nasty idea I don't agree with".
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by lucozade 10y ago
> the goal of ideas like these is to reduce income disparity Except when they're not. That's the point of this article. UBI is one of those ideas that can be all things to all people depending on the details. For example, say y
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by lucozade 10y ago
As with most big systems there are degrees. Most of the code isn't in the fast paths so can be written in whatever language makes sense for the developers. For all the love it receives on HN, Java has plenty of practical success as a d
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by lucozade 10y ago
> the JIT can actually make code faster than C++ > How? A JIT compiler can sometimes beat an AOT compiler because it has more information. For example, it is entirely feasible for a JIT to heavily optimise a fast path even if the opti
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by lucozade 10y ago
> WMD were never a credible excuse for war in the first place I couldn't agree more. Neither the UK nor US were under an existential threat. Even if they had reason to believe that there was a direct threat to an ally i.e. Israel, t
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by lucozade 10y ago
My view prior to the report and from what I've seen so far in the Bush-Blair correspondence is the exact opposite. They and the intelligence services were so convinced about WMD that there was next to no questioning, at high levels, of
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by lucozade 10y ago
What I come to HN for. Interesting, thought provoking and very well written. Thank you very much. The line "Why are you laughing? It is backed by a study ." Sums up so much not-quite-science. Delightful.
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by lucozade 10y ago
So, the opposite of alchemy then. Cool. Will now read the article to see how they did it. Oh.

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