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by maurycy 18y ago
The second relies on definition of "to be the same". :-)
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by maurycy 18y ago
Few months ago we were writers, now we're typists. What's next?
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by maurycy 18y ago
Taking leverage makes sense only if the expected value is positive. If you don't know it, only if marginal utility of potential loss is either smaller or equal to potential gain. It is important, though, to not confuse potential loss with v
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by maurycy 18y ago
Might be you don't know you misinterpret.
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by maurycy 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_in_a_teapot
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by maurycy 18y ago
So we should stop listening to Soros, too.
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by maurycy 18y ago
Doesn't it prove the generalizations false? Or Google is a counter-example to the logic as well?
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by maurycy 18y ago
And the reason why banks, and not only banks, lost so much on the papers is because the loans were basically worthless. Banks knew that loans were worthless but the paper's ratings created a different impression, boosting the loans. The spr
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by maurycy 18y ago
But the reason why companies were so happy to lend so much money was caused by a belief, which turned out to be false, that loans securized into CDOs and such papers, frequently rated well, are safe and risk is properly managed. The betting
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by maurycy 18y ago
Isn't it well known correlation? Better economy translates to sexier MBA. Worser economy means sexier engineering.
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by maurycy 18y ago
The loans were the consequence of betting. Or, more precisely speaking, of false belief that AAA rated papers, which were betted on, are safe.
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by maurycy 18y ago
As a person who spent few years doing C programming, and then got trapped into the Ruby realm, I must say that the main difference is focus. If you have to focus about memory management, strings, you think much more about the code you write
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by maurycy 18y ago
Such argument refutes everything but churches.
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by maurycy 18y ago
What statistical evidence says so? The oldest large tech companies have mere 50 years, and they still seem to do more or less fine (eg, IBM, Apple, Microsoft).
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by maurycy 18y ago
Figure out how to live forever.
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by maurycy 18y ago
Why the dot in the URL?
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by maurycy 18y ago
Welcome to Spying 2.0
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by maurycy 18y ago
Two Moleskine. One for serious stuff. One for current stuff. iPhone notes, reviewed frequently. Text files which I convert into Moleskine notes. That's all.
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by maurycy 18y ago
In what country you have to continue paying full salary of a fired employee?
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by maurycy 18y ago
Means that hedge funds should hedge against their own investors, too.
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by maurycy 18y ago
Hedge funds exploit the system, as we, hackers, do.
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by maurycy 18y ago
It happens because there is also a silent run on hedge funds that are forced then to close their positions, bringing, even sound, assets down. The other reason is highly leveraged funds when the margin requirements went up after interest ra
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by maurycy 18y ago
If it is true, it means that counterterrorism in the airport actually decreases security, as it decreases motivitation to find real solutions to the problem.
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by maurycy 18y ago
Diversity is good because when members have different experiences, and thus point of views. "Point of view is worth 80 IQ points"
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by maurycy 18y ago
Why do you think that reddit has no value?
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by maurycy 18y ago
What are the arguments actually? The fact that Ordynov was robbed by wholesome food? Dostoevsky's rubbish, as always.
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by maurycy 18y ago
History is a poor predictor because there is no history. History is a tool. For instance, what is the real reason for the current crisis? There is a lot of explanations: goverenment (cheap money, urging to lend to poor), capitalism (complex
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by maurycy 18y ago
Good entrepreneur does not necessarily means a good investor.
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If so, start your startup and benefit. Also, if it rips off people, there is a potential competetive advantage to deliver a better work-place, right?
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by maurycy 18y ago
Despite ugly style, this is not a bug actually, assuming that error_intr is meaningful, and continue should be called only if error_intr is false: if (errno = error_intr) continue;

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