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by mruts 7y ago
Why hasn't Amazon declared war on their customers? It doesn't have to do the market, and it certainly has nothing to do with capitalism. It has to do with rent seeking on behalf of lobbyists are the corruption of government. Imagi
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by mruts 7y ago
I mean, there are. Community college is super cheap. After two years transfer to a state school. Work a part time job. I guarantee you that if you do all of these things, you won’t have any debt.
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by mruts 7y ago
I was thinking the same thing. I don’t think anyone was trying to deceive anyone.
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by mruts 7y ago
That sounds more like a Communist dream. Capitalism doesn’t reward really efficient slaves.
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by mruts 7y ago
This kind of populist pandering makes me upset. What about people who didn’t go to college? Or people who killed themselves to pay off their student loans? This is nothing more than wealth transfer to a specific demographic (young, educated
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by mruts 7y ago
Presumably, banning your competitors’ apps will provide greater incentive to make your own apps better. Not having any knowledge of your competitors apps is the problem, not the banning part.
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by mruts 7y ago
I wouldn’t expect a VB programmer to really know anything about the higher forms of computing. Maybe I’m being a little harsh though.
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by mruts 7y ago
In Common Lisp you can do the edit-and-continue thing, and the language can be very fast if you want it to be.
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by mruts 7y ago
For performance reasons mutability in Scala is often necessary. It was a financial shop and many things were too slow to just fold over. Closures are slow, and copying is slow. A lot of what we were doing was adding up and multiplying numbe
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by mruts 7y ago
I love FP and have programmed Haskell in professional contexts. But I have to admit, I don’t like it and it’s strong formalisms make so many problems much harder than they have to be. Take lenses for example. All of this unnecessarily compl
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by mruts 7y ago
F# seems pretty sexy to me.
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by mruts 7y ago
It’s only a few lines of code, though.
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by mruts 7y ago
I mean, I don’t think if I lost a programming conpetition to someone who was taking adderall I would feel any different about it. If it’s a conpetition, let’s just have the best person win and not impose arbitrary limitations on people. A g
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by mruts 7y ago
Why does anyone care? I don’t run matherons or exercise at all but why do people feel so strongly about this? No one is making money on running marathons and if people want to cheat, more power to them I suppose.
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by mruts 7y ago
There’s no way that’s going to be true. Many people including myself play games that require very low latency (overwatch, csgo) at resolutions (1440p or 4k) and fps (144) that I don’t think streaming will be able to do.
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by mruts 7y ago
Also aren’t 64 bit apps slower?
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by mruts 7y ago
If anyone is interested in APL, I would recommend trying out kdb+/q. The personal version is free (no charge): https://kx.com/connect-with-us/download/ It integrates an APL-like language (q) with a very nice
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by mruts 7y ago
http://brilliant.org is really great. There’s a free tier and a paid tier, but I just pay for it.
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by mruts 7y ago
I'm not arguing that it's not a problem. I'm just saying it's good for me, and I like it. I think it's entirely possible to believe something is suboptimal and wrong while also being happy that it benefits me.
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by mruts 7y ago
I was talking about Julia, not Python. Python clearly has great NN libraries and great data science libraries.
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by mruts 7y ago
I was talking about Julia, not Python. Python obviously has industrial grade NN libraries.
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by mruts 7y ago
Type checking isn’t really related to typing “int.” Many languages infer types. In fact, Hindley Milner type systems should be able to infer all types without explicitly specifying any of them.
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by mruts 7y ago
I whole heartedly agree. Python is garbage for data science. If an industrial grade NN library was written for it, plus some quant libraries, I think most people would switch. I work in finance doing data science-y things and have yet to me
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by mruts 7y ago
Hypothetically, a companies value should be a sum of it’s expected infinite cash flows divided by the discount rate. If a company lost $10 one year, $5 another, and broke even the third a guess of making money the fourth year is probably mo
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by mruts 7y ago
The market incorporates information into the price, not the other way around. Or in other words the price is the total aggregate of the information.
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by mruts 7y ago
I live in Africa and pay bribes on a weekly and sometimes daily basis. It’s hard to do anything at all without bribes here, and I am certainly sympathetic of it. People who don’t have experience with 3rd world countriss often think it’s a b
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by mruts 7y ago
Where do you keep your bike when you are going other places?
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by mruts 7y ago
I've seen tons of people riding the CitiBikes in NYC. They seem fairly popular.
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by mruts 7y ago
The title of the article is literally: "A Growing Problem in Real Estate: Too Many Too Big Houses." Since mcmansions are large (as you said), I think they are relevant to the discussion.
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by mruts 7y ago
I mean, do health insurance companies mandate best health practices in order to get health insurance? Of course not, they just charge premiums commensurate with the risk they're taking on.

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