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by rrrrtttt 14y ago
Refereeing papers is an odious chore that you only do to get your back scratched in return in the future. (They call it "giving back to the community", but it's really a protection racket.) You can't replace this with a voluntary system.
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BitCult(ftalphaville.ft.com)
2 points by rrrrtttt 14y ago|0 comments
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by rrrrtttt 14y ago
Saying that value is subjective is tautological, it's like saying pretty girls are pretty. What's the base case of the recursion? With stock certificates, you have expectations of future dividends. With stamps, they're nice to look at. What
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by rrrrtttt 14y ago
I'd like to hijack the daily Bitcoin thread for a tangential discussion. My dad used to have a stamp collection. Back in the day most people would give you a funny look if you told them you collect stamps, but it was pretty cool to browse t
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by rrrrtttt 14y ago
Banning short selling removes the profit motive from price discovery. So maybe the price will eventually reach the equilibrium point, but it would be much slower.
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by rrrrtttt 14y ago
You're incorrect about me. I live in a country that went through hyperinflation a few decades ago, and I was born in another country whose currency was wiped out in the late 90's. In both of these places society responded by converting de f
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by rrrrtttt 14y ago
You're presenting a strawman. The choice for Lybians and Syrians isn't between their local currency and Bitcoins, it's between the local currency, Bitcoin and one of the first-world currencies. And people in the third world have been choosi
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by rrrrtttt 14y ago
If the crash will happen it will lead to a drop in trading volume, making prices unreliable. You will not be able to sell substantial quantities of Bitcoin without crashing the market further.
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by rrrrtttt 14y ago
Reiterating the GP's point, I don't see anything concrete about speed and stability. Let me throw in my 2e-2 USD. I've been running BTRFS on my laptop since Ubuntu 12.10 came out without any troubles. Installing Ubuntu on BTRFS was effortle
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IARPA forecasting experiment(nytimes.com)
3 points by rrrrtttt 14y ago|0 comments
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by rrrrtttt 14y ago
I think it's good enough for writing a journal paper. The journals would probably need to stay with LaTeX for the powerful typesetting and layout features, but converting from this MathML-Markdown mix to LaTeX should be trivial for them.
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Supreme Court Permits Resale of Copyrighted Imports(nytimes.com)
2 points by rrrrtttt 14y ago|0 comments
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by rrrrtttt 14y ago
Personally I think it's time to retire LaTeX. There's been a few solutions based on MathML and Markdown, which offer the power of LaTeX formulas without the convoluted language. A notable example is notepag.es ( https://github.com/fivesixty
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by rrrrtttt 14y ago
Presumably, when you tell people you're doing research in math they imagine you're multiplying long numbers all day.
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by rrrrtttt 14y ago
Email is prone to misunderstanding so you have to be verbose. If I would have gotten a "no thanks" that would have left me guessing "Why?". Possible reasons which are ruled out by this message: 1) I don't trust YC anymore; 2) The guy you re
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by rrrrtttt 14y ago
Here's what I gleamed from the message: 1. Taggar doesn't want to invest in the company. 2. He wants Graham to keep referring other companies to him. 3. He may want to invest in the company in the future. 4. He introduced the founder to som
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by rrrrtttt 14y ago
I feel that the only relevant factor in hiring should be competence. How do you define being well rounded, and how do you measure that when you're interviewing? Is that just a code word for being someone like you?
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Is Bitcoin a bubble?(themoneyillusion.com)
3 points by rrrrtttt 14y ago|0 comments
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by rrrrtttt 14y ago
Sure, but I still have my doubts. Apparently merchants like Namecheap accepting Bitcoin don't name their price in Bitcoin, they name their price in USD. Again, if you believe in Bitcoin, shouldn't you name your price in Bitcoin?
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by rrrrtttt 14y ago
That's exactly what I'm saying. If it's deflationary then it should be worth your while to give me a loan at 0% (assuming I am low default risk). The fact that we don't know where Bitcoin is going to be in one week means that we don't reall
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by rrrrtttt 14y ago
Let's say I think that in one year's time Bitcoin will be gone. And let's say I want to put my money where my mouth is and want to short Bitcoin. Presumably there's a lot of people who think that Bitcoin is going to appreciate and thus shou
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by rrrrtttt 14y ago
Getting the theoretical peak performance requires either extensive manual tuning on each architecture or exhaustive search. To read on the former see http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/28/technology/28super.html?pa... , and the latter is done
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by rrrrtttt 14y ago
The company's stock has been falling because investors think the PC is dying. His taking the company private means he thinks investors are wrong and the stock is undervalued. I never said this is a cynical exercise, but I think his incentiv
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by rrrrtttt 14y ago
So actually Dell is going to have much less control of the company than he has now. Shareholders are patsies and CEOs are the guys who effectively control the board. Now that the company goes private he's going to answer to his lenders, and
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by rrrrtttt 14y ago
I don't think Dell is going to innovate post-LBO. It's going to be saddled with debt, most of it bank debt. The new owners are going to sell off all activities that don't generate cash and milk the remaining parts until the debt is paid off
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by rrrrtttt 14y ago
There's a public company in Israel called Babylon whose business model is giving away a popular translator software in exchange for installing spyware. They're huge and are planning an American IPO this year. Some people here are saying tha