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by ptero 6y ago
Once a company is so big that its refusal to support a small business is a major hit, that company cannot operate in a wild west style. That's why most countries have anti-monopoly laws; and it's long past the time when those laws
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by ptero 6y ago
There are different models claiming free stuff. One is a google-style lock into an ecosystem of free apps that a company can monetize at any time. Stay away if possible: the users will be milked sooner or later. The other is openstreetmap-s
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by ptero 6y ago
I do not think that those outflows necessarily indicate problems (they might, but they might not). China for many years had a huge current account surplus, which means that the country exports way more than it imports, so it accumulates dol
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by ptero 6y ago
There are benefits to dictatorships in software, which can help avoid fragmentation and give customers "the one right choice". However, such dictatorships tend to falter and fail as the desire to serve the masses with a simple, ye
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by ptero 6y ago
Patent does not protect a product, but a specific technology. If 1 technology out of 10 in a product is under patent protection the competitor (and the public) cannot copy the product as is, but is welcome to use any expired technologies an
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by ptero 6y ago
If something is in research phase it should not be patented yet. And once invented, a 5-year protection still gives the inventor a 5-year advantage. If it cannot leverage it effectively, sorry but too bad. No method is perfect, but I think
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by ptero 6y ago
I have pretty low faith in USPTO (or, to be fair, any other organization), making reasonable predictions on the technology value. And even if they did, I think inventors would feel low-balled: "those idiots did not understand the revol
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by ptero 6y ago
Agreed, I would not consider it HFT. But I would still say that if the execution is time critical (that is, if delaying the execution an hour or two is important), Robinhood is not the right platform to use. But even with this caveat, RH sh
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by ptero 6y ago
Robinhood does not have the same weight as larger brokerages, like Schwab, ETrade or Fidelity, so I would definitely expect it to perform worse on time-critical trades. By the same token, those large consumer and pension-fund focused broker
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by ptero 6y ago
I have no objection to your example, but it is a very different case; it is convincing vs forcing. In your example the teacher is arguing to convince you, the final decision maker, that something is long term worthwhile even if near ter
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by ptero 6y ago
First, kudos for answering and not avoiding a group that you expect to hold (based on the linked post) adverse feelings. Good information, too. Education greatly benefits from more options; best of luck! Now for things that I think need wor
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by ptero 6y ago
> AI is going to dramatically alter this competitive landscape and John Deere’s DRM is not going to to stop it. I would love this state, but getting there is not simple. DRM is just one facet of it: companies selling machinery have worke
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by ptero 6y ago
I agree with your points. Another defense of RH (from an unusual angle): Just for inversing, $7 trades are not a big deal, as others said (if it looks they are, stop trading as much). Also, free or super cheap trades encourage people to par
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by ptero 6y ago
Very well written overview of the problem and the solution approach for a non-biologist. Thank you!
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by ptero 6y ago
Thank you for the data point, but I do not think the issue is with rendering of the dots on screen (although I am not sure). In fact, I have done some real-time, frame-by-frame video processing using OpenCV and had no issue processing 1920x
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by ptero 6y ago
I gave a more involved example in a sibling comment, but I need fast, interactive plotting for large datasets; not necessarily the prettiest. And as another user mentioned, MATLAB currently has a lock on fast scientific plotting. It really
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by ptero 6y ago
This (individual non-commercial license) is my current approach, too. I wonder though, why do we have such a lack of fast scientific plotting, as you wrote? Is it due to the fact that few people really care or is there some inherent set of
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by ptero 6y ago
I often need to visualize data and unfortunately, plotting and working with many millions of points is a key capability. For example, we might have an expensive piece of hardware that we are using and need to understand if an issue we are s
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by ptero 6y ago
Your point is perfectly valid. I do separate my computation and visualization (sometimes both are MATLAB; just separate). For me the MATLAB is primarily an interactive visualization tool, although the main use case for most engineers I am s
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by ptero 6y ago
Agree completely -- MATLAB is slow to start and is a memory hog. The language itself is horrible (which is why I prefer to use another language for complex back-end computation). Libraries for reading and writing formatted data are a joke (
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by ptero 6y ago
It probably is, but new vs old is not a big decision driver for me. The things that matter to me for scientific computing languages are visualization tools (most critical to me, by far), libraries for standard functionality like optimizatio
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by ptero 6y ago
I wish Octave the best of luck, but it faces an uphill battle against MATLAB (established engineering projects) and Python (new starts). The biggest issue with Octave for me is the slowness of its plotting compared to MATLAB. A major use ca
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by ptero 6y ago
In many domains of science I will agree with you: success in physics is unlikely if you don't have a strong physics background. But many modern technologies are much less mature. For example, a good general background in software engin
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by ptero 6y ago
And if such persecution flies (which I doubt and really hope it does not), do not forget sweeping in as suspects for involuntary manslaugter those folks who, in the years past, came to work sick. Flu complications are deadly and kill many
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by ptero 6y ago
> Uniting the country is definitely a commendable goal This is hard and may backfire in a deeply divided country. To me, instead of trying to achieve a common ground (which, in the current situation often means forcing 49% to the positio
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by ptero 6y ago
Even in consumer devices it's not new. Hobbyists pulled lidars from roombas for a while to wire into arduino-driven toys. Nowadays you can just buy inexpensive (and not very good) lidar hardware on aliexpress and such.
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by ptero 6y ago
Interesting. Is this professional conversations or in stores / restaurants / on the streets? I thought English is not spoken by many folks over there, at least outside the IT/tech scene.
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by ptero 6y ago
How do people respond to imperfect Finnish? In the US I (as a non-native speaker) was very pleasantly surprised that accents do not matter and mistakes that do not kill the meaning are universally tolerated. People would still gladly chat w
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by ptero 6y ago
I second this. In my limited experience (2 at universities) they are frequently run by very well meaning and very incompetent folks. Like really incompetent, from storing cleartext passwords to messing up simple payments. My 2c.
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by ptero 6y ago
Since they effectively banned you from Chase service, what other retaliations were you worried about? Honest question. You might want to consider fighting it, though. It seems that it was a decision done at a pretty low level, or even autom

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