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by maest 5y ago
q and k are still actively used in many parts of finance.
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by maest 5y ago
> aioj.pdf Fitting file name, in the spirit of J's terseness.
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by maest 5y ago
It's important to not conflate getting investors with getting customers. Ultimately you care about the latter and you don't always need the former to get there.
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The Extraordinary Case of the Guevedoces(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by maest 5y ago|1 comments
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by maest 5y ago
Perhaps controversial, but maybe that's an issue with the PL - if higher level, domain specific, more powerful abstractions were baked into the language, maybe all the boilerplate would not be necessary. Of course, getting a new langua
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by maest 5y ago
They're just using a flat prior, which is maybe inappropriate.
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by maest 5y ago
Similarly, disabling the social features on SO was very useful. The "Hot network questions" block to the side is needlessly distracting and adds 0 value.
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by maest 5y ago
I don't understand your objection. The cost includes all tax.
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by maest 5y ago
Incidentally, this is also why tobacco manufacturers don't really mind high cigarette taxes: it puts a higher floor on the cost of a pack of cigarettes, which means the overall profit is larger.
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by maest 5y ago
Related: WhatsApp desktop blocks you from uploading gifs - the only way to share a gif is by using their in-build gif searching tool (powered by giphy). It's grating to see the web app being intentionally limited just to pump their gip
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Ask HN: Python Wrapper for Cronjobs
1 points by maest 5y ago|1 comments
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by maest 5y ago
You can sleep in all cars, but in most only once.
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by maest 5y ago
Slightly off-topic: One of the simplest import systems I've seen were in q/kdb (like with most things in that language, everything is as simple as possible) Imports work by simply calling `\l my_script.q` which is similar to simpl
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by maest 5y ago
What I don't get about this is that the US govt is the sole issuer or dollars - the govt issues currency and uses it to provision itself with the resources it needs to build bridges, operate its bureaucracy, pay the army etc. So, theor
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by maest 5y ago
> Do you enjoy having to maintain a home and property? Better question is, how much would you pay (or want to be paid) to maintain a property.
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by maest 5y ago
From the synopsis, looks like it's based on the Asimov novel.
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by maest 5y ago
`watch` is better in some cases.
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by maest 5y ago
On fireforx, at least, there is a 1 second lag between pressing down on medium and the page scrolling down, probably because of bad js. Deactivating js paywalls you, though, so no way around it.
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by maest 5y ago
At least for some, the answer is "to show they can/conspicuous consumption"
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by maest 5y ago
So charge per application, with the money going towards first month's rent, if successful.
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by maest 5y ago
Are there any good models of how regional climate will look like in 10/20/30 years given the current rate of change? I suspect the housing market in most places hasn't baked that information in (with the exception of e.g. pro
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by maest 5y ago
> stupid last minute changes Those are a feature of Software Engineering, as opposed to Civil Engineering. If there was a cheap way to turn Towers into Bridges (and the cost of failure was comparable to that of an app having an outage),
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by maest 5y ago
If the changes are driven by their investor's desire to somehow monetise it, then this must be part of a longer term plan. So two questions: 1. How well is this working for them 2. If the answer to 1. is "not very", how long
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by maest 5y ago
Wouldn't competition among insurance providers drive the cost down to breakeven?
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by maest 5y ago
> That gives some room for investing the free float. That's why Buffet bought National Indemnity, btw. He wanted the float which, for him, was a cheap way of financing investment. Not a very folksy move, truth be told.
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by maest 5y ago
This reminds me of my favourite SO answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/40429822/864112 It boggles the mind that anyone could ever suggest this as a solution.
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by maest 5y ago
A think I've been wondering is why is integration harder than differentiation. The latter can be done almost mechanically, as long as your primitive functions are "nice", but the former often requires cleverness like what&#x2
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by maest 5y ago
You mean by the state?
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by maest 5y ago
Also, the hypermodern chess style actually involves letting the opponent occupy the centre and then applying pressure from long range with pieces, looking for weaknesses in the opponent's defence. https://www.chess.com/
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by maest 5y ago
FDB Systems | Full stack engineer | London based, Remote OK, UTC+/-3 | https://fdb.systems FDB Systems builds data products for hedge funds and other investors - we have a growing portfolio of niche data products (e.g. htt

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