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by maest 6y ago
As far as I understand, the code inside the macro has to be syntatically valid Python? I think it would be cool to have sql baked directly into Python, something like: t = pd.DataFrame(mydata) sql!: t = select new_col=col1 +
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by maest 6y ago
> deterministic properties. Thing is, I don't see this addressing quantum mechanics. The randomness in QM is _truly_ random, it's not just a deterministic system where we can't learn the initial state. I'm not saying
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by maest 6y ago
Offtopic: How are finding the Pixel 4? I've mulling over upgrading from my curent Pixel 1 to a Pixel 4a (not exactly the same as Pixel 4, I know). My current phone is still working mostly fine, but the camera is a bit wonky because I&#
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by maest 6y ago
> Even if you are totally self funded you still are accountable to your customers. Rentiers are an exception.
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by maest 6y ago
Wow, this looks clever. (maybe a bit too clever) I'll need to read more about it, thanks for the pointer!
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by maest 6y ago
Sum types are one of the main things I miss when working in Python. Is anyone aware of any good ways of adding sum types to Python?
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by maest 6y ago
Maybe it's a language thing, but I read your question as: "There is no problem the free market can't solve".
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by maest 6y ago
Your question was > What makes you thing there is a problem that the free and open market won’t correct?
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by maest 6y ago
There are many well known failure modes of the free market.
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by maest 6y ago
FDB Systems | Full stack engineer | Remote OK, UK only | https://fdb.systems FDB Systems builds data products for hedge funds and other investors - we have our own small but growing portfolio of niche data products (e.g. https:
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by maest 6y ago
I thought execution beats idea? In which case, there's nothing wrong (morally or otherwise) with taking someone else's idea and executing on it.
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by maest 6y ago
Off-topic, but this might be a good opportunity to address this: Do people find "?" as being aggressive? I think questions generally, tend to be aggressive (which is why deflecting back at your opponent is common in online argumen
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by maest 6y ago
This is a question philosophers have struggled with for millennia.
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by maest 6y ago
Sounds like the main function here is to create concepts at the correct level of abstraction, a bit like an API.
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by maest 6y ago
Do you have, by any chance, any good resources on PDF.js? The README on the github is ok, but it doesn't really cover what workers are supposed to do and provide any useful mental model for the architecture of the whole thing.
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by maest 6y ago
What's up with all the tarsnap posts recently?
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by maest 6y ago
You can just use Firefox + ublock.
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by maest 6y ago
> I don't think I have seen two seconds though. The obscenely priced Bose SoundSport (GBP 180) in-ear headphones have around 2 seconds of lag. That is when I press stop and when the music stops, it's around 2 seconds. Same for
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by maest 6y ago
> This dynamic is a detriment to both these workers and their native counterparts. Yeah, but it's great for the large companies hiring them.
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by maest 6y ago
> Those skills are probably also in demand in your origin country. That's not guaranteed to be true. Take finance - if you want a career in this field there's only a handful of cities where it makes sense to live and work: Lond
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by maest 6y ago
> Big gains come when you have vision that no one else does Dunno man, is that really true? It's true that some of the outsized winners out there are those that bet big on long odds (i.e. had vision and acted on it). But not everyon
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by maest 6y ago
#12. is pretty convincing.
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by maest 6y ago
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html We both know that&#x2
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by maest 6y ago
Being patronising is hardly humorous.
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by maest 6y ago
The free market is a great tool but it has plenty of failure modes and this is clearly one of them.
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by maest 6y ago
I shared this with some of my friends, and we all agreed it was obnoxious. So, where do we go from here?
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by maest 6y ago
Since we're sharing views on the writing style - I found it off-putting enough that I had to quit halfway through. It's very tiresome to read, with _way_ too many digressions and jokes.
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by maest 6y ago
The q/k interpreter requires a license which costs >$100k; wouldn't be surprised if some banks/funds pay >$1M. Not a compiler, but the same idea.
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by maest 6y ago
As Matt Levine likes to say, "Insider trading isn't about fairness, it's about theft". Insider trading isn't about making the markets fair and giving the same information to all investors. It's about stopping p
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by maest 6y ago
> fabrications some diseminate to induce panics That rarely happens, in reality. It's just the boogey-man CEOs tell their investors at night so they can blame someone for bad stock performance. There are strict rules against market

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