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by rortian 16y ago
Indeed. Money laundering, for example, usually has to go through people that fit this description.
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by rortian 16y ago
To start out free, google app engine is a good way to go. It is a little quirky and different from most solutions, but it's great to start paying nothing.
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by rortian 16y ago
I'm semi-intrigued, but I'd like to see a sign of life beyond a page from '98. Not trying to be cruel, just saying that'd I'd like to see what's going on now.
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by rortian 16y ago
Indeed. It'll be interesting to see if people use Maxine VM a lot to run Java stuff on a xen/micro-kernel environment.
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by rortian 16y ago
But not at all as a general computing environment. It makes sense once you have your application finished that you could move it to a kernel that has just what you need. However, it makes no sense when you start development to try to guess
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by rortian 16y ago
>I am a would be undergrad >Sociology, Psychology, and women studies do matter, but the way they are currently taught is nothing but intellectual fraud. At some places but not in general. If you had started reading when you were two
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by rortian 16y ago
I personally don't have any. Imo, the article doesn't add very much to anything and its title is misleading. If I would suggest a change it would be not submitting in the first place. This is hardly an article that I would flag though.
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by rortian 16y ago
Since you gave the link, I presume he meant the original was the bait.
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by rortian 16y ago
Don't liberals hold... I really hope you learn that saying things like this points out to people that you are willing to stereotype a huge number of people of whom you are completely ignorant. Also, there wasn't really an issue here. It
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by rortian 16y ago
On the last question give me a little time to look up a paper. I'll post it. Essential it shows how the strategy of most long-short hedge funds work. I'd have to look again, but one of the major high frequency strategies uses a version of t
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by rortian 16y ago
Cool, definitely get back to me. Kinda random but I am very interested in complex networks as well as some finance stuff.
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by rortian 16y ago
An interesting post. I'd be interested hear what kind of background you've got. I think your remark on finance professors is quite wrong. It takes quite a lot of dedication to do a Phd. I'm not great respecter of academic prestige, but its
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by rortian 16y ago
Links linkified: http://imgur.com/GPsy9.png http://github.com/rortian/Retinex/blob/master/src/org/pseudo... http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/tree/plug-ins/common/contra...
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Ask HN: Anybody interesting in a Sunday afternoon puzzle?
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by rortian 16y ago
I'd love to see you produce so data for any of these claims. People in Japan get access to MRIs for much cheaper than Americans. How is that a bad thing? The median real income has been hardly been growing at a fast rate. You'd need it to g
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by rortian 16y ago
>because those systems force the price down below what people would be willing to pay on their own This is very far from the truth. Worry not, rich people can spend to their hearts content in single payer countries. They still spend les
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by rortian 16y ago
Bringing murder up to justify a moral scheme that few subscribe to is a bit silly. Everyone finds murder wrong, in most circumstances, hardly everyone finds taxing the rich immoral. These things are complicated. Wealth can be generated in a
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by rortian 16y ago
Just show me where the US excels, especially on per dollar terms, on health care on any metric relative to any other modern industrial economy. We spend more on health care in large part because we have way too much surgery going on. There'
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by rortian 16y ago
>not capitalists advocating efficient trade, they're Keynesians or something. Keynesians are capitalists and I've never heard of them being opposed to efficient trade. One thing that inspires people to spend money is feeling that they w
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by rortian 16y ago
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2007/feb/15/who-was... >Milton Friedman played three roles in the intellectual life of the twentieth century. There was Friedman the economist’s economist, who wrote technical, more or less apo
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by rortian 16y ago
>This PG essay is a good refutation of the notion that (progressive or, at least, non-regressive) taxes are a "win" for the poor in a zero sum game: This is a straw man. I cannot think of anyone (and I'd love to see you find a progressi
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by rortian 16y ago
I'm down with what you suggest. The problem with the economy now though is that we have excess capacity. I'm down with going around and blow up factories to solve this (only kidding fbi) but I think it would be easier if we could stimulate
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by rortian 16y ago
>Immoral too. Classic. Moral claims don't get you too far. I could start going on about gentiles eating shellfish, but I'm one of those gentiles. >They do by producing Sometimes. These things are complicated. But if you've already g
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by rortian 16y ago
Wow. Libertarians are here, sure. However, I'd love to see how many people would really march in lockstep with doctrinaire libertarianism. I'm not ignorant of libertarian views. Nor, am I unused to tantrums such as your own. I'll leave the
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by rortian 16y ago
Fascinating definitions but this has more than a whiff of crack pottery. Few things encourage economic activity (and productivity) like a rich person coming with an open wallet. How are people to work more when there's not money to pay them
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by rortian 16y ago
Marginal tax rates being high is a great idea. I'd be with you if people with high salaries spent all, or virtually all, of their salary. But they don't. In this economy we need more money being spent. When things are doing well again, you
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by rortian 16y ago
You don't have to search hard to find that everything Apple makes, he will assert that it is the best in the world.
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by rortian 16y ago
I'd have to look into it further, but I think getting a summary judgment is pretty damning. There are cases that get a summary judgment that do go onto getting overturned by the Supreme Court, but statistically those are, of course, quite r
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by rortian 16y ago
I'm not so sure this is right. They want a high quality file and hopefully one that is trojan-free etc. Thus, there are several 'name brand' ripping groups.
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by rortian 16y ago
The bill is in conference committee because they passed two different bills. They have to try to craft a bill that synthesizes the two and (crucially given the filibuster) that can pass both houses.

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