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by princeb 11y ago
won't be surprised if affected banks started selling deposit swaps if this comes to pass. would be pretty interesting if cash funds picked this up so that the everyday man can have a little bit of exposure to what is the bread and butt
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by princeb 11y ago
children have penmanship work in the earlier years of learning the chinese language but that stops within a few years. what about all the characters that they pick up after penmanship work ends? there is some intuition to the stroke order t
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by princeb 11y ago
for some reason, nokia's 930 has much nicer curves than this one. there isn't a whole lot of that in either model, but this one somehow looks like a lame htc. I have a Lumia 930. I love it enough to not notice that there aren&#x27
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by princeb 11y ago
No doubt city centres are walkable but this comment begs the question though - why are city centres 2x as expensive as suburbs? If the density and land scarcity is the reason then why do developers want to build on more expensive ground in
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by princeb 11y ago
i had this problem a week ago- ended up building an ultra-low-frills low-dependency one in an afternoon just a few weeks ago. Seems silly - i am pretty sure with sufficient time investment i am better off learning how to use popular framewo
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by princeb 11y ago
city life is amazing. 20 minutes commute is the only way I can work 12 hours a day and still have time for friends, family, and hobbies.
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by princeb 11y ago
a single agent's preference might not be normal, but the average agent's preference is surely asymptotically normal! (as the number of agents tend towards infinity) [edit: of course not everything is asymptotically normal. a seque
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by princeb 11y ago
why do autopilots keep turning off every time the planes run into problems? like the air france and the air asia indonesia crash turning control over to pilots is a recipe for disaster.
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by princeb 11y ago
not related but I noticed this website is ridiculously fast to load.
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by princeb 11y ago
i noticed that running arithmetic loops tend to be the popular method of benchmarking these three languages. I don't know how many folks who use MATLAB care that much about loop performance that they will be inclined to look at Python
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by princeb 11y ago
I am trying to think of companies that should rightfully repatriate cash back to the states, and companies that should not. Why is it that it is repulsive that Google or Apple chooses to keep their cash overseas, whereas it is fine for Budw
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by princeb 11y ago
you first need to make the link between toxic managers and psychopaths, rather than throw out this trope without a second thought.
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by princeb 11y ago
I was about to write a long economic essay on why this can't always work out, but I think the main thing here is that he is talking about a distributed team. in which case, (I presume that) the location has very little advantage unlike
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by princeb 11y ago
there are a number of features in machine learning that seem to have counterparts in statistics - stuff like m-like estimators as kernels (I think - correct me if wrong), information criteria for feature selection, that have existed a long
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by princeb 11y ago
the service providers: the florist, the pizza restaurant, the community depending on civic services are all victims in this spat also. i can't imagine family owned flower and restaurant businesses enjoying losing thousands and thousand
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by princeb 11y ago
diapers.com sounded like a silly pets.com kind of business - turns out amazon bought it together a few sibling companies like soap.com for $550m. so this guy seems like he could actually make it work.
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by princeb 11y ago
some of the other countries in the region should simply move their defensive forces over and annex the island of Sumatra. the Indonesian government has simply run out of resources and that island is completely without any semblance of organ
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by princeb 11y ago
very few people are going to be playing anything for five years or ten years. few games last that long. activision's world of warcraft has defied all expectation. by all standards the graphics look extremely dated. ea has been making s
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by princeb 11y ago
I remember seeing their "Never a stranger" ad runs on tv. thought it was unusual that they promote the idea that hosts stay with guests. i've used airbnb twice too and both times the host was an employee of a property managem
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by princeb 11y ago
a doctor also wouldn't have to invest any money into a clinic, equipment, staff, marketing when working for a hospital... so no, the first 400k is not the same.
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by princeb 11y ago
US citizens benefit from the passport and the effects of American foreign policy on that passport.
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by princeb 11y ago
maybe the knee jerk reaction on HN is to think 'HFT' but this really isn't. although i have to say 400ms to place an order, cancel it, and place a new order in the opposite direction (or 2 actions using the cancel-if-cross -
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by princeb 11y ago
> does it represent the real world When you are done with the game the stock ticker appears in the top left of the chart - that was the real world price you were trading.
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by princeb 11y ago
that's because these are ambiguous layman descriptions of the state of the economy.
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by princeb 11y ago
even more pedantic... modern refers to the early 20th century period, the period we live in is contemporary. so modern classical: stravinsky, contemporary classical: john williams... same applies to design and architecture.
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by princeb 11y ago
haha and chichi are more formal.
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by princeb 11y ago
japanese falls completely outside this generalization. edit: on further investigation mama and baba are used very informally but it appears these are loanwords.
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by princeb 11y ago
>cozy relationship between too-big-to-fail banks and their self-created bureaucracy don't know who is cozy but almost everyone in the sell side is being saddled with endless amounts of compliance requirements and unless you enjoy st
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by princeb 11y ago
think I did "unlearning object oriented programming" in university - it was called "programming in matlab with other applied mathematicians"
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by princeb 11y ago
this particular headline seems fine though - there is a question for which most people have existing opinions about and some rationale for believing so. and then the article engages some of these notions. conversely if this article were to

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