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by seliopou 11y ago
I've been using OCaml to build a language and runtime system for cloud orchestration[0]. As part of that, I've developed an AWS library whose code is generated from the service descriptions published by boto. It will be open-sourc
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Banks and Greece's bailouts(interfluidity.com)
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by seliopou 11y ago
This article[0] describes how it went down: oddly-priced currency swaps. Note that the article is from 2003, and makes clear that other member states such as Italy, at the very least, were using similar practices as far back as 1996. Most p
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Revealed: Goldman Sachs' Mega-Deal for Greece (2003)(risk.net)
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by seliopou 11y ago
In either way it could have gone back in 2010, the profligacy of the Greek state would not have been ignored. Had it defaulted to the private creditors at the time, the country's borrowing costs would have shot through the roof. People
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by seliopou 11y ago
Interfulidity is one of the best economics blogs out there. Last year he did a five-part series on welfare economics[0] that, while quite lengthy, was very well-done. Anybody that's interested in political economy, but has a more tradi
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by seliopou 11y ago
Back in the 1980's there was a group of punk rockers in Cuba called "Los Frikis" that Radiolab did an episode about[0]. Back then, it was prevalent amongst this group to inject themselves with HIV virus as a form of protest a
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by seliopou 11y ago
> On a global market a country IS a business. In order to be successful it has to operate at a profit. Period. This understanding is what seems to be lacking in many electorates. So if countries are businesses, and they all have to opera
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by seliopou 11y ago
Jane Street's Async library is a great example of backpressure (or as they call it, pushback) done right. Specifically, their Pipe module[0] is what implements this concept very nicely. In essence, a Pipe is a stage in a pipeline. You
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Linux is obsolete – A debate between Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Linus Torvalds(ibm.com)
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Science, Now Under Scrutiny Itself(nytimes.com)
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by seliopou 11y ago
I think he meant to imply that React is slow.
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by seliopou 11y ago
Note that this post is from October 2010, and it appears that the magpie repo[0] hasn't been committed to in over two years. In addition, the static type system was ripped out of the language about six months after this blog post was w
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by seliopou 11y ago
> The article did not convince me that CAP-centered thinking is itself harmful or counterproductive. It's true that C-Consistency and A-Availability are relatively blunt definitions in a landscape of diverse and subtle possible sema
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by seliopou 12y ago
I assure you, it's an international standard. In fact, this is almost certainly ghostwritten by the finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis.
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by seliopou 12y ago
No politician ever writes their own Op-Eds, for any publication. That's what their staff, freelance ghostwriters, and political think tanks are there for.
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by seliopou 12y ago
Depending on which funds you are referring to, this may or may not be accurate. If you're talking about investment from the European Investment Bank (EIB), then yes, those funds were meant to bolster the economies of all European count
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by seliopou 12y ago
Not to justify the practice, but pretty much every periphery country fudged the numbers in order to be admitted to the Eurozone because none of them had a strong enough economy then to be let in. One did it, then the next looked at the last
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by seliopou 12y ago
From this talk he gave, entitled "Confessions of an Erratic Marxist": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3uNIgDmqwI
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by seliopou 12y ago
Good video, but quite long. If anybody wants a more compressed summary of the policy points, check this one out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytXgMnm9tHs Note that he is a mathematical economist with a PhD (focusing on g
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by seliopou 12y ago
> Bitcoins are volatile, but if you wanted $10 of bitcoins to stay $10 of bitcoins, you could make deals with people to help you do that. Bitreserve and Coinapult Locks are two products that are dedicated to making those deals. You send
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Should markets clear?(interfluidity.com)
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by seliopou 12y ago
How does this compare to Irmin[0][1][2], a similar system written by the guys working on Mirage? On first glance the one major difference I see is that Irmin supports merges, while Pfs does not. Also, what exactly is specific to Docker here
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Corporate Open Source Anti-patterns(youtube.com)
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by seliopou 12y ago
Nominal GDP, as the name implies, aims to be a measure of production in an economy. This means that shuffling around assets should not count towards nominal GDP. As no real production is happening through the use of Bitcoin (and there isn&#
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by seliopou 12y ago
To add, what you're touching on in your response is the "Impossible Trinity" of monetary policy[0][1], which states that any two of the following three options are compatible, but it's impossible to have all three at the
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by seliopou 12y ago
In case you missed it, the name of the group is Guardians of Peace, whose initials are G.O.P. These guys are comedians, too.
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by seliopou 12y ago
Repost. I heard about this a while ago.
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by seliopou 12y ago
> Yellow taxis in New York also face competition from new green “boro taxis,” which may pick up fares only in the boroughs outside Manhattan and in northern Manhattan. That program has been in the works for three years, including during
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Netheads vs. Bellheads (1996)(archive.wired.com)
19 points by seliopou 12y ago|4 comments

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