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by scott00 8y ago
One important thing to know is that allocating memory in C or C++ has high and/or unpredictable latency relative to the target latency of HFT code. So for critical paths, you end up needing to do the same kind of pre-allocation tricks
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by scott00 8y ago
The way the brand and scale turns into a moat and/or pricing power is through lower customer acquisition costs than less notable competitors. If everybody who wants shared office space googles WeWork to find it, it's going to be a
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by scott00 8y ago
Meez Meals works on an opt-in basis. Their food's pretty good I think. Only available in the midwest at the moment.
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by scott00 8y ago
Sous vide with no sear maximizes that: 24 hours at 57C on both sides. It yields 100% medium rare.
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by scott00 8y ago
To do this type of business legally, you have to comply with both federal laws and state laws. The federal laws basically say you have to register with FinCEN and comply with anti-money laundering laws, which mostly means you have a duty to
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by scott00 8y ago
> Getting a surprise $100M is different from managing your portfolio. It's really not that different. All of the advice out there concerning how to prudently manage a portfolio of $100K applies pretty well to $100M. Going up to the
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by scott00 8y ago
Taking the lump sum is not at all indicative of a lack of good investment advice. Going with the installment payments is equivalent to taking the lump sum and then investing it all in US treasury bonds. That's an extraordinarily conser
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by scott00 8y ago
What provider? That behavior deserves a name-and-shame. As far as what happens with a full sync: it's not really doable outside of the LAN for several reasons. One is I have a data cap from Comcast of 1 TB/month. Another is the up
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by scott00 8y ago
You are correct. However I think in practice you can get away with it if you keep bandwidth low. I've been running a OwnCloud/NextCloud server from my residential Comcast account for years with no issues.
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by scott00 8y ago
Bare metal in this context typically means your servers are actual physical servers, not virtual machines.
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by scott00 8y ago
They frequently pair the word "Unlimited" with a bandwidth related word. For instance: "Unlimited 4G LTE Data"[0]. [0] https://www.verizonwireless.com/plans/unlimited/
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by scott00 8y ago
What you're describing is a different attack vector than phishing. I would describe it as malware. The classic phishing attack is to convince a target to visit a web page with a subtly different URL than the real thing, where they ente
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by scott00 8y ago
Wouldn't that also invalidate your backup token after first use?
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by scott00 8y ago
Reactions from a non-Indian (who loves Indian food): * I really had to dig to find descriptions of the dishes. * The emphasis on pre-built combo packs turned me off somewhat. You've only got ~10 dishes, I'd rather explicitly pick
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by scott00 8y ago
Dropbox may come through for you in the end. They've got a feature called "Smart Sync" that is a network file system implemented as a kernel driver. See https://www.dropbox.com/smartsync and https:/&#x2
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by scott00 8y ago
There are three related decisions in how software can be constructed in relation to linux, and it sounds like you might be confusing them a bit. They are: user space vs kernel space, base kernel vs kernel module, in tree vs out of tree. Use
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by scott00 8y ago
Your source does not support your claim.
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by scott00 8y ago
Don't know anything about the Google Titan keys, but they are most likely Feitian hardware with custom firmware, and you can buy unlocked versions of Feitian security keys by contacting them. On unlocked keys you can install your own j
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by scott00 8y ago
As a business decision this seems incredibly odd. Being vegetarian or supporting vegetarianism does not seem like it would have disproportionate representation among either their target clientele or their target employees. As such it seems
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by scott00 8y ago
If you haven't talked to your landlord, talk to your landlord. If they sent you a summons after three days, I don't have high hopes, but it's worth a shot. Explain your situation and see if there's anything they can do f
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by scott00 8y ago
The fact that girls outperform boys academically is relatively well known. The article is about the (lesser known) fact that the math gender gap is correlated to the socio-economic status of the district, while the English gender gap is not
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by scott00 8y ago
I'm guessing substack is a high volume email sender, do you guys use an API or in-house tech for that? Any interesting stories about keeping your mail out of spam filters/your IPs off blacklists/Nigerian princes from starting
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by scott00 8y ago
What's the best way to discover substack content? substack.com doesn't have search or browse functionality as far as I can tell.
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by scott00 8y ago
One benefit caught my eye, but was not explained: "Much easier to manage platform dependencies in project files and with self-contained application publishing." Anybody know anything about this? I frequently deal with applications
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by scott00 8y ago
The right description for most networks in finance isn't really private, but rather semi-public. NYSE's matching engines aren't routable over the public internet, but they'll give access to anybody willing to pay the pri
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by scott00 8y ago
I thought LTE worked on a timeslice schedule as well. I remember hearing that was one of the problems with carrier plans to start running LTE on unlicensed spectrum, because it doesn't play nice with listen-before-talk wifi.
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by scott00 8y ago
I think this is the price Microsoft offers to its largest partners. The defendant wasn't selling direct to consumers, he was selling to used computer dealers, so I think the OEM comparison is decent. To be clear, I think the overall re
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by scott00 8y ago
There's two stages of the legal process that are important to understand here: what was the illegal act, and what is the sentence for that illegal act. The illegal act was a copyright violation: he made and distributed copies of copyri
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by scott00 8y ago
Their category "alpha capture" probably incorporates this sort of thing. I think the article gave the example of proprietary survey data being in that category. I think that's probably what they call anything that doesn'
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by scott00 9y ago
Netflix offers SMS password resets.

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