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by pgwhalen 5y ago
Most useful economic or financial markets data is some kind of time series. For example, what was the maximum price of a stock in the last year, and how does it compare to the current price? FRED ( https://fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
> An end goal of crypto is to have all financial and ownership services exist on-chain. To conceptualize the real world as somehow forever separate is going to lead to the correct conclusion that DeFi doesn't seem to affect "th
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
You can't act as an "automated market maker" in traditional finance, I'll give you that (to pick one example of something possible in DeFi). What I really mean is what can do you in DeFi that is connected with the real w
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
> They can have the exact same issues. I don't know if this is right. Traditional money transfer is not some absolute, irreversible thing. It is the product of software yes; but more importantly, it is the product of trust between
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
I think you garbled some words, can you rephrase the question?
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In all seriousness, in what way is defi interacting with the non-defi world right now to provide value? I'm not too informed about the space, but from a distance it seems like every defi innovation so far is just building on top of so
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
Surely there was a third option of keeping schools open. I’m not a parent and am not sure whether that was the right option, but that your comment doesn’t even acknowledge it is part of the problem.
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
That's a fair point. Knowing not to try to write generic code (since you don't have the tools) is the sign of an experienced Go programmer. That being said, I'm curious how much kubernetes (a large, famous, Go codebase) stil
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
This argument is getting a little tiresome though, isn't it? It isn't simply enough to call something "non-idiomatic" to gloss over a deficiency. There's a cognitive cost to all language features, but most other g
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
In my opinion, the marginal reduction in transmission of infectious disease during a pandemic is not worth the cost moving away from urbanism. Humans are meant to congregate together, and city living and everything that comes with it are th
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> The projects I depend on will have to remove such usages eventually to avoid awful UX This seems like exactly the intended effect to me.
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
There are plenty of reasons to avoid Oracle, but I’m not sure what about the previous licensing change was a failure. OpenJDK builds have always been free (and provided by Oracle). The community terribly overreacted and misunderstood the na
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
You won’t be stuck, you just need to add some command line flags when running your application, as a way of acknowledging these packages are breaking encapsulation.
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
Yeah, the removal of EE classes was probably the biggest burden for my team (completely unrelated to modules).
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
> All that work, which broke plenty of Java applications, violating main Java mantra of backward compatibility, all for nothing. How did modules break Java applications? Having recently upgraded a number of applications from 8 to 11, no
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
One of the problems with this is that there will always be trade offs. It’s hard to imagine a database understanding the appropriate compromise between read and write speeds for your specific application, for example.
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
For this reason, arguably it is the treasury that truly creates money these days, especially with a great excess of reserves. And there has certainly been plenty of “treasury printing” in the last year.
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
> I'm a software engineer, interested in crypto, and not that involved in traditional markets As you learn more about crypto and traditional finance, it'll be fun to compare the two. Your confusion about the role of an exchang
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
> They make a ridiculous amount of money doing so. I suppose it depends on how you define ridiculous, but HFTs actually make a surprisingly small amount of money these days. Probably single digit billions across the entire industry ( h
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
Rust is a great language too (I'm in the process of learning it), but I would definitely not put it in the same category as Java and Go in terms of the problems it is good at solving. It fits much more with C/C++. There is a huge
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
I use (and enjoy using) both Go and Java at work, and Go is in my opinion very much a Java replacement more than it is, say, a Python or C++ replacement. It is absolutely suitable for business logic, and I've never been quite sure wha
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
Do you have a source for the 7x figure? Haven’t heard something that precise before.
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
It sounds like you subscribe to the increasingly popular framing of money creation, which is that the fed does not create money, the treasury does. Much of my knowledge on the matter comes from fedguy.com.
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
They adjust for it in the sense that the value of the index itself doesn’t drop, but yes, Apple’s proportion needlessly changes.
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
I did some quick math and that’s about 36 weeks of round trip NY to LA. Is that really so hard to believe? My understanding is that there are jobs that are essential all travel (call it 48 weeks a year).
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> her portfolio is still underperforming an S&P 500 index fund with the dividends reinvested Can you expand on this? The article indicates her one year returns were considerably higher than the S&P 500 last year.
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I'm curious what job you're describing where this is the case. It seems like one where extensive long term planning is common, and adaptability is not required. Everyone at my company who is good at their job would have their abs
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
I also speak from experience, from an organization that has had a lot of success with kubernetes. Perhaps we're in the sweet spot where our workload is suited for it but there still isn't a huge amount of complexity in maintainin
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
> Except with the kernel, you only have to be familiar with the system calls I think it's safe to assume that any non-trivial use of linux involves non-default configuration. > you don't need a team of people just to run, ma
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The same could be said for the linux kernel, and yet we still run all of our software on it.

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