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by shasta 13y ago
The blackout scheme is a very secondary thing. If you make interval 1 hour, then the rapid response advantage only applies to data made available in the seconds before the trading event. Rather than having a millisecond advantage on every
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by shasta 13y ago
I don't understand. So you can make side bets in real time with others who choose to do so. The point is that those who choose not to do so don't have to compete on millisecond scale response times to news postings.
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by shasta 13y ago
Why don't we just have turn based trading with turns of 1 or 24 hours and then have a blackout period near turn ends when relevant information should not be divulged?
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by shasta 13y ago
Not brainscrew, please. I find that offensive.
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by shasta 13y ago
This is ridiculous. The real maps in these games didn't include even a hint of this kind of branching nonsense, so this kind of result says nothing about the actual difficulty of these games. And yet I sadly suspect "Zelda is NPC" is now
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by shasta 14y ago
That guy is an asshole.
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by shasta 14y ago
Not as good of a title as "What I've Been Thinking About", apparently.
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by shasta 14y ago
You mean 2,000 barrels = 84,000 gallons.
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by shasta 14y ago
Citation?
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by shasta 14y ago
That's just the number that were lost. A much greater number died.
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by shasta 14y ago
I can understand vegetarians who boycott meat because the animals are being treated inhumanely in captivity. But in my ethics, killing an animal quickly isn't inhumane. It's not like the other cows sit around all day worried about whether
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by shasta 14y ago
The time you spend past 25 hours a week is making you less productive anyway...
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by shasta 14y ago
Now they spend €150 million a year on bags.
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by shasta 14y ago
Ah, I see what happened. You responded to my initial comment with: > Firstly, although it is proven that there is an optimal (game theoretic) strategy to play (Nash) [...] The reference to Nash here made me think you were claiming ther
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by shasta 14y ago
> you cannot lose (beyond your share of the rake) playing a GT strategy, regardless of what your opponent is doing. This is the basis of what GT is. What does GT mean here? Not game theoretic, since general Nash equilbria don't have th
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by shasta 14y ago
I'm not sure which part of my post this refutes. Nash equilibrium isn't an optimum in the same sense that there is an optimum in the two player game. If you're playing the Nash strategy and everyone else isn't, you can still lose. But the
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by shasta 14y ago
I'm not an expert, but I believe the difficulty with Texas Hold'em is modeling the other human players. "Heads up", where there is an optimal strategy, is essentially solved.
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by shasta 14y ago
Black box abstractions that allocate memory are a problem. Presently, if you want to prove you will not run out of memory, you do it by not allocating memory or using a special purpose allocator.
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by shasta 14y ago
...in theory...
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by shasta 14y ago
This is exactly it. Hughes writes: > Similarly, modern theorists imply, the multiverse has necessary being even though any given universe does not. No. What's implicit is that arguments of necessary being will not ever be found. As I'
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by shasta 14y ago
Olympiad programs are pure algorithms, which I agree are more math intensive than most "normal" programming done today (though I wouldn't dismiss math as "riddles"). But that's my whole point: most problem domains have some mathy parts, wh
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by shasta 14y ago
Does not follow. Holding stuff in our heads is not the only bottleneck in programming. For example, it's not the bottleneck when solving almost any Olympiad style problem, and yet those exams seem to do a good job of stratifying people.
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by shasta 14y ago
Are there any programming languages/environments that allow localization of code? I mean where you can give multiple strings to each declared symbol, for multiple languages.
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by shasta 14y ago
Here's what Google should have done instead of Google+. (As for the OP, Google+ is a ghost town. It doesn't matter much how often people pass through and see the tumbleweed blowing around if they're not staying and contributing.) First, t
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by shasta 14y ago
And even if it is "raining", the water droplets only comprise a vey small percentage of the air volume.
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by shasta 14y ago
Yes we do. In 50 years a decent programmer looking at your code will think it's crap.
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by shasta 14y ago
Books have been around for quite some time. The major change isn't that the marginal cost is now zero. The incentive and techincal ability to use copyrighted works without a license has been present for a long time. The difference is the
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by shasta 14y ago
10 in 10, the way you've phrased it
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by shasta 14y ago
I used to drag windows around in a similar manner... until windows 7 decided two or tree back and forths indicated "minimize everything else".
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by shasta 14y ago
I like to talk the guy on the other end of the phone through computing a secure hash of my personal data, by hand.

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