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by pash 15y ago
The author's vague assertions that suburban development in America represents an enormous unfunded liability are supported in part by a considerable body of recent research suggesting that suburban lifestyles are far less efficient than the
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by pash 15y ago
> ...and how would that be better than the problems of democracy that he rails against? I can't speak for the author, but the general idea is that because anarchy ("no rule") precludes the monopoly on violence that exists in state syste
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>What's your justification for calling their concerns "thorough nonsense"? 1) Currencies are not securities, and this is plain in definitions of the Securities Act of 1933 and following; 2) The Stamp Payments Act was enacted at the end
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by pash 15y ago
> So when is a currency a currency? What is the difference between an apple and a pound note? (Assume the apple never decays) There's no difference. Currencies are just goods whose primary use is as a means of exchange. The usually enu
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by pash 15y ago
If you're in the United States, "Use the exchange rate prevailing when you receive, pay, or accrue the item." http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=130524,00....
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by pash 15y ago
You're right. The "next number" test (under the natural ordering) makes the concept of density obvious, not countability. So I think I've given credence to the notion that those who claim to find something obvious might not fully understa
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by pash 15y ago
"Bitcoin raises untested legal concerns related to securities law, the Stamp Payments Act, tax evasion, consumer protection and money laundering, among others." No it doesn't. Accepting donations in Bitcoins is no different than accepting c
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by pash 15y ago
Canceling trades disincentivizes traders to fill the dry side of the order book during a liquidity crisis. That alone makes cancellations bad policy. If you're worried about so-called erroneous trades, you should disallow market orders; ma
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by pash 15y ago
Funny you picked those examples, because I recall them both seeming quite obvious to me when I learned them. And I'm no great mathematician. It's, um, obviously quite hard to explain why you find something obvious, but I think in the first
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by pash 15y ago
John von Neumann once told a confused young scientist, "Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them." I don't think that's quite true, but developing familiarity with a difficult concept is tantamount to
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by pash 15y ago
Glossed over in the video, and in the discussion here so far, is that even when a court rules a derivative work to infringe a copyright , there's no need to obtain a license so long as the derivative work is "creative enough" to qualify as
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by pash 15y ago
> 1.Mkt isn't like BM. BM permits -ve values & any market index say SPY must be non-negative. That's one reason everybody models log-returns, which map non-negative prices onto the whole real line. > 2. We (quants) model market
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by pash 15y ago
Neat app. I had no idea transit agencies were publishing that kind of data. Lots more applications are just waiting. Cool as it is, Mapnificient really needs to incorporate expected waiting time into its isoline calculation. Public transi
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by pash 15y ago
Think Python is a fantastic intro-programming text. After mucking about with bits of code for a couple of years, I picked up Downey's previous version of the book, and that's when I became a programmer. I highly recommend it to the handf
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by pash 15y ago
You have completely missed the point. Because the network can observe transactions, using a Bitcoin account as a ballot box, and Bitcoins as the votes, is a transparent, verified mechanism for determining the community's aggregate will. Th
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by pash 15y ago
With some exceptions, yes, it will work, so long as you live in a jurisdiction that allows individuals to trade with limited liability. (The United States and every member state of the European Union do.) Limiting liability is the prudent
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The question was how to allow clients to form a new consensus. I did not suggest using Bitcoins to verify transactions; rather, I suggested using verified transactions to verify the will of the Bitcoin community.
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> If you can think of another way of defining "a majority" without needing a lot of CPU resources, a lot of people would be interested in hearing your solution. Let Bitcoins equal votes. Set up a Bitcoin account for each option in the v
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by pash 15y ago
Illinois generally follows the more permissive Cali-style model. The IEEE put out a publication that gives a solid overview of the differences in state laws; it mentions Illinois law specifically in a few places and includes a citation to I
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> The problem with healthcare is not that progress is being ruled out but that healthcare is highly labor-driven. So far there's no machinery that can replace a doctor. As a matter of policy, the FDA will not approve any device that mak
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I used to work at a firm that paid gobs of cash for just this sort of data. The trick, of course, is that you need to be well versed in the needs of potential clients before you can even think about staking your claim. But if you know what