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by t_mann 4y ago
> Will that distinction make a difference to international investors? It does make a difference because the questions that the investors have to deal with now are completely different to a "normal" default. Normally, there simp
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by t_mann 4y ago
Wikipedia: " On 17 August 1998, the Russian government ... declared a moratorium on repayment of foreign debt. " Unilaterally declaring a moratorium may be considered a default event, but ultimately it depends on what exact defini
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by t_mann 4y ago
'Pro: saves X amount of coding hours. Con: may silently return wrong results.' is a terrible philosophy. It's like saying 'well, the surgeon messed up, but at least the surgery was cheap'.
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by t_mann 4y ago
I remember Julia being pitched as a competitor especially for Matlab, but also R,... much more so do than for C or Lisp. So it seems like a fair comparison, and those are definitely to some extent seen as identical with their package ecosys
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by t_mann 4y ago
> Also depends what you count as correct I feel that should be the job of the authors to think about what correctness means for their application, and under what circumstances they can give a correct answer. Ideally, also warn the user w
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by t_mann 4y ago
Thanks for the explanation. Yeah, that is an interesting feature. Sounds like you'll have to do a lot of reading documentations and testing other packages yourself then. A typing system that allows defining accepted, rejected and &#x27
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by t_mann 4y ago
Well, it's also not like Boeing didn't have some major engineering f*ups in recent years, but we're going on a tangent here.
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It seems like the author isn't really defending against the bulk of the criticisms, which revolve around correctness and reliability, and instead highlights 'cool' language features. If you can't trust gradients or proba
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Julia was originally pitched as 'C-like speed with Matlab-like syntax', which explains 1-based arrays.
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Well, I was playing devil's advocate to some extent there, I am 'guilty' of lots of seemingly random interests too (in several cases with certifications that took years to acquire), and even multiple academic degrees in &#x27
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A lot of comments seem to (correctly) focus on the fact that this does not appear to cover anywhere near 90% of Bloomberg's data. So I'd just like to throw out that this still looks really useful! Just not sure who'd be payin
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Being focused and having lots of random interests are mutually exclusive, that should be obvious. Having lots of unrelated certificates signals the latter. If it's the case for you, only mention what's relevant for the job or what
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If your CV looks like that, you're better off omitting 80% of that stuff entirely, and putting another 15% in the 'interests' section.
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CFA and CPA are not really comparable (even though they're both 'finance'). A CPA charter is closer to a JD degree / bar exam in that it is the necessary entry requirement for a legally defined profession (with quite ste
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by t_mann 4y ago
Only half-joking use case: active communities like this one on HN make sites attractive to human visitors. A new site could use bots to fake activity. Not sure it would work in the long run though.
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by t_mann 4y ago
I'm wondering whether we've reached a point where we need to tell people that quantum computers might one day be able to "break" their public keys (ie retreive the corresponding private keys) whenever we tell them to use
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> The US has, without a doubt, the most accessible and open democracy in the world. Without a doubt, you are both extremely arrogant and ignorant in your US exceptionalism. What you think makes the US system unique (anyone can get electe
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by t_mann 4y ago
Great example of a 'no true Scotsman' argument. Such idealizations are of little to no practical relevance, we need solutions that work in the real world, with all its flaws.
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By your definition of decentralization (a central entity could theoretically be replaced) everything from the Roman Empire to North Korea is decentralized - nothing is guaranteed to have its place forever. A definition that applies to every
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by t_mann 4y ago
Yes, but from a technical perspective immutability leads to some interesting problems again (formal verification, standards, audits,...).
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This is written with the idea in mind that a lot of HN users are both informed about and highly skeptical of crypto/web3 (my impression). I actually understand much of the critique, but I think it's not giving credit for a few thi
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by t_mann 4y ago
Great idea with the subdomain! May I ask how you do it? Also, one idea for you: how about using created20220621@company.example.com?
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Could you share practical tips on how to implement this with reasonable effort? Email providers that let you create aliases on-the-fly? Tools and workflows for automatically creating them on your own domain? For different OS (Windows, Linux
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Why not use the numbers to encode the creation date?
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What tools do you use to create so many email addresses/aliases on the fly, and to keep a check on them?
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My explanation would be fairly trivial: those videos were currently being pushed more broadly by the YT algorithm (propably based on some rough demographics that you two share - age, gender, location, broad interests...). You two probably s
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One thing makes me wonder: supposedly the fancy simulation models are supposed to make the game feel more realistic - but then the player still seems to have an extent of control that no mayor or other single individual would have (in democ
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Checking accounts are included in the money supply, without subtracting mortgages (what's considered 'as good as cash' are the balances of the buyer/seller, not the assets of the 'holder' of the mortgage, which
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You are right that they seem confused about monetary economics and also don't seem to have heard about monetary policy transmission channels. But fyi, mortgages are indeed money - the new money shows up as a balance on an account of
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Positively surprised that you are reacting, so I want to offer some constructive feedback: one thing you could do would be to describe various points on a 'Pareto curve' of privacy vs useability. Starting with a low-effort setup t

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