mruts

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by mruts 7y ago
Are you saying that everyone in the UK is an academic?
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by mruts 7y ago
Focus follows mouse obviates this feature. I'm not sure why it hasn't gained any popularity outside of certain Linux WMs.
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by mruts 7y ago
Well you could get to vote on it by becoming a shareholder. Though, once you became a shareholder, I think you would change your mind on this particular point. Moreover, Americans don’t want these jobs in the first place. Working in factori
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by mruts 7y ago
Growth of Iphone sales has stagnated, making Wall St more than a little upset. I suspect this is why we are seeing more investment in the Mac Pro, the Ipad, and OSX after being ignored for so long. I doubt Apple would be willing to lower th
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by mruts 7y ago
I would disagree that there isn’t idiomatic scala. Probably the most dominant style of programming scala is flatish class hierarchies with pure functions inherited and overrided as necessary. In idiomatic example of this style is the ByteSt
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by mruts 7y ago
I mean, that’s like saying killing yourself isn’t hard to do. You probably don’t need “crampons” (whatever that is) to do. But why is it that more/most people don’t commit suicide? Because it’s genuinely hard to do. Every evolutionary
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by mruts 7y ago
Well, fortunately, doors have peepholes.
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by mruts 7y ago
Seems to me that the farmers will need to charge a premium to make up for theft, assuming that the total amount stolen is greater than the cost of someone sitting there. For rural areas where turnover is low and where there’s more trust, th
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by mruts 7y ago
How often does anyone care in the first place?
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by mruts 7y ago
I mean, sure, but how are you going to protect the one time key? What might make more sense is if they gave you a usb drive that was good for a thousand transactions or whatever. Then you could get it replaced in person after the pad was us
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by mruts 7y ago
Have you been to Japan? People don’t make very much money and work very very hard (or atleast pretend to). They have very small houses and are so risk adverse that most are totally unwilling to even take a small chance to make their lives b
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by mruts 7y ago
You could make the same argument about helping someone change their tire on the side of the road. Or helping a blind person cross the road. Life is full of risks but constantly worrying about them isn’t worth it, especially if it comes at t
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by mruts 7y ago
I mean, having someone die on your doorstep because you didn’t help them seems like a large downside to me.
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by mruts 7y ago
Hasn’t really helped Japan get out of their 30 year depression, though.
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by mruts 7y ago
I think I’ll trust the Sherpa from the article instead of you. The article is literally about how Everest is very hard and dangerous and that how tourists are being convinced it’s not.
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by mruts 7y ago
Maybe it wouldn’t work if you are starting today, but I hsve enough returns built up that I should be able to experience a major depression and still beat the S&P. Assuming that the market doesn’t go down more than 33% in a day.
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by mruts 7y ago
A 60/40 equity/bond portfolio is going to underperform the market pretty significantly most years. Historically, 60/40 has outperformed the market slightly looking back 40-50 years. Risk parity is probably a better idea and s
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by mruts 7y ago
The structure of the arab funds are quite opaque. The distinction between single and multiple funds isn’t meaningful for them.
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by mruts 7y ago
I’ve played it! Still have my HP48 though I only use the 50g anymore (the Prime is terrible). Unfortunately they didn’t feel like porting RPL to ARM and instead went the Saturn emulation route. When I was younger I tried programming a simpl
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by mruts 7y ago
A large part of the Vision fund is arab money. For Americans, the investment strategy pursued by most of the Middle East can seem counterintuitive, or even stupid. But let me tell you a story. I worked as a quant at a portfolio analytics fi
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by mruts 7y ago
Options are going to affect the returns so much in good times rhr insurance probably isn’t worth it. A better idea would be to go long short, 30% short, and 100% long has always been popular. The leverage from the shorts lets you juice the
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by mruts 7y ago
I’m prescribed them and have been taking some form of anphetamine for over 10 years. If it matters, I remember discovering this because I ended up taking a lot more because I wasn’t feeling them. Only afterwards did I notice they weren’t na
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by mruts 7y ago
I’ve taken and still take quite a few psychoactive drugs and have clearly noticed a lack of quality control and potency in generic drugs. I wouldn’t say they are poison, but in my experience they often don’t work as well. One of the best ex
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by mruts 7y ago
That says a lot more about you than the interview question.
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by mruts 7y ago
I don’t think I would want to hire someone couldn’t code: a linked list, hash table, and binary tree. If you can do a AVL or RB tree from memory, that would be a bonus as well.
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by mruts 7y ago
I mean, you could use \ and / for type parameters. Or even parens (Julia doesn't support Scala like double parameter lists as far as I know). What makes Julia so unique that it needs to make different choices than virtually every
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by mruts 7y ago
It seems like the core of the issue has to do with array indices vs function application. Julia uses curly brackets for type parameters because it can't use brackets because they are taken for array notation. But what's wrong with
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by mruts 7y ago
Is it? The asymmetry of function definitions seems really ugly to me: f(x) = x * x function(x) x * x end function f(x) x * x end f = x -> x * x If Julia just used curly brackets instead, we wouldn't need all of these differe
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by mruts 7y ago
Maybe you wouldn't but tons of labs, research groups, etc would shell out for one. Allows people to use Unix tools but doesn't makes the biologists unnecessarily scared. I'm only half-joking. I've seen a lot of wasteful
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by mruts 7y ago
Of course the entire curve will move, but then inflation will just go up a similar amount. This means that everyone will effectively be making the same amount of money. Because of this, I think minimum wage is unnecessary and just manages t

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