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by sseveran 11y ago
It should always be a prerequisite to have a proof before one begins an implementation. If one cannot construct such a proof then they have no business trying to design new distributed algorithms. Fortunately there are a few algorithms for
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by sseveran 11y ago
You might be able to find someone to create a derivative on it. You would probably need a non-trivial amount of money to make it happen.
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by sseveran 11y ago
If applied universally there would be significantly fewer professors. But I don't really think that would be a bad thing.
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by sseveran 11y ago
allard, muglia, mundie, and lots at the baby VP level. The path windows 7 was on was largely sets before him. Windows 8, which was his baby led to him leaving the company.
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by sseveran 11y ago
Ballmer's greatest failure was betting on Sinofsky. Elevating him forced a number of other great execs to eventually leave the company. It was bold and it was wrong.
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by sseveran 11y ago
He is describing a discreet intraday cross. For traders who prefer to use them they already exist.
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by sseveran 11y ago
You do realize that there are discreet intraday crosses already right?
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by sseveran 11y ago
It is absolutely true in the case of both medicare and medicaid for certain things (not everything). My dad ran business and R&D for pathology ta state level hospital at a major university and he often had to figure out how to continue
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by sseveran 11y ago
Pfizer's PE with morning was 22.28. Gilead's was 10.21.
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by sseveran 11y ago
i agree, but it does remove the landlord ;-)
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by sseveran 11y ago
You could also build/buy your own office. Then there would be no landlord.
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by sseveran 11y ago
Haha. You should become a developer. You would be rich in weeks.
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by sseveran 11y ago
> Like synthetic credit default swaps? You mean a synthetic CDO? CDS don't need to be synthetic. >Tell that to Greece people that got into the Euro because of clever CDS from Goldman Sachs The people of Greece (and their politica
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by sseveran 11y ago
Well it was found to legally correct. Similar findings have been found in other cases involving websites that can be publicly accessed.
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by sseveran 11y ago
This will start shortly if it hasn't already.
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by sseveran 11y ago
You have done an awful lot of speculation here.
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by sseveran 11y ago
He could be saying but if so its not true. RegNMS trading is a thing. Latency arbitrage is also a thing. There are also a wide variety of strategies that may exploit the idiosyncrasies of a specific exchange. Multiple venues, while useful a
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by sseveran 11y ago
Yeah, I found a great one in .net. If you used HttpWebRequest to fetch a url that had an invalid GZIP header the app would hard crash. This is because the request and decompression was being handled on a threadpool thread. An exception woul
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by sseveran 11y ago
In fact AWS will sign a HIPAA business agreement for medical data ( http://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-compliance/ ).
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by sseveran 11y ago
Radio Shack made many legally binding contracts. They promised that they would pay back their creditors. The promised suppliers sales volume. Radio Shack is in bankruptcy and all those contracts are (or have been) torn up. It's not jus
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by sseveran 11y ago
That's cause he won.
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by sseveran 11y ago
If you have ever watched CNBC or Bloomberg I am sure you have been whenever an analyst talks about a stock a disclosure screen pops indicating whether the analyst, their family or their firm have an financial stake in the company. It would
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by sseveran 11y ago
The issue is that zookeeper is broken by design. The assumption about TCP reliability is not a valid one.
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by sseveran 11y ago
It would probably be difficult to prove that senior leadership knew about it unless there is an email trail.
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by sseveran 12y ago
I agree. I watched the first Formula E race and didn't think much of it. The really interesting work is with the current F1 hybrid power units. I will be surprised if Formula E ends up as anything more than a side show like GP2 F3000.
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by sseveran 12y ago
I wonder if he has mixed feelings for students who take jobs getting people to click on ads...
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by sseveran 12y ago
I would submit that these venues are not doing an adequate job. The Nature case and the Duke cancer case are examples of how even the most reputable journals can be scammed with fabricated data. We weren't even talking about questionab
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by sseveran 12y ago
Fakes don't work for luxury items. Wealthy people still prefer mined diamonds to their synthetic counterparts. The whole point of buying a real one is to demonstrate your wealth.
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by sseveran 12y ago
Paxos is really a family of similar algorithms. You could have classic paxos, full byzantine paxos( http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/tla/by... ), multi-paxos, or fast-paxos ( http
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by sseveran 12y ago
Uh...Yes there is. I don't have a facebook account. I did for 8 years. Its possible my life would be different if I used it, but I suspect not.

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