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Those are both good articles that express much better than I the trends I am seeing. Particularly, in the Vox article, when it talks about G.W. Bush being a "dumb hick", you can see shades of this with Trump and his rhetoric today
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This article is massive clickbait, but I'll comment anyway. Trump and Sanders are manifestations of a long-term trend that has been building at least since the 2008 Financial Crisis. People are dissatisfied with the options they are pr
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Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine(1989)(longnow.org)
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Google took our property–and our opportunity, Oracle tells jury(arstechnica.com)
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I agree that term describes the foundational data structure these services provide, but in common parlance that is not really what it means at all and it is confounded by a common(and boring) use case being to synchronize processing of actu
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Yes I like that, much more accurate descriptor than "log", though it is more verbose. In the end it is really just nitpicking I guess, but the discoverability of calling these systems "log services" is very low compared
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You put events in one end, and it distributes them, reliably and consistently, to distributed end-points that can consume them. That is far more powerful than simply being used to log events for later retrieval, though it can be used for th
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Christianity also has the very convenient line "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's"[1] in the New Testament that basically codifies separation of church and state into
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This could be an interesting competitor to Apache Kafka, which is singularly unique in this space as far as I'm aware. On another note, I find it somewhat funny that these are called "log" services, logging is probably the le
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Vanguard is so large that I could imagine that re-balancing their portfolios probably adversely selects even the internalizers so heavily that they won't pay for it, but at the same time gives Vanguard better execution than they could
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I agree, this is definitely a double-edged sword. Hopefully the outcome of this investigation is more transparency and fairness for retail traders, without completely destroying the execution cost reduction that has been made possible by th
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I'm not sure how paying for order flow is still legal. At this point it is basically brokerages offloading their fiduciary obligations(for money!) to legalized front-running operations. As the article says, these operations are basical
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There is more to safety than simply violent crimes, non-violent crimes are a worry as well. I agree modern urban cores in American are just as safe in terms of violent crime as any suburb, but I would be interested in seeing how non-violent
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You shouldn't have a problem if you have a normal employer with a technical culture. Everywhere I've worked has had flexible working hours(within reason), so getting in between 9-10 shouldn't be a problem, and the culture in
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AMD chips have almost always had a lead over Nvidia from a per-flops perspective, and AMD's architecture is definitely ahead of Nvidia as far as supporting integer operations and bitwise ops efficiently(see their dominance of cryptocur
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It is possible with good motivation and caffeine. It is not sustainable long-term but you should be able to get a good 4-8 years out of it while you are young and in good health. See: college students at high-workload universities.
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FAA chief to impatient drone industry: “Sorry we’re so slow”(arstechnica.com)
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I didn't actually read the analysis, but to find two arbitrary inputs that hash to the same value for a 128-bit hash, collisions would follow the birthday bound, so it would take 2^(128/2) = 2^64 effort. Definitely not out of the
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YouTube could debut “Unplugged” digital TV service in 2017(arstechnica.com)
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It's also a first-class lesson to a lot of young technologists as to how financial regulations and the modern banking system came to exist in the first place. Thankfully bitcoin was so well designed that we can ultimately trust the mat
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The worst part about this is he is playing so loose with words that it gives no closure at all. For years there will be people, especially newbies, that will believe Craig and will treat circumstances surrounding the whole affair, like the
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Watching this unfold is simply fascinating to me from a sociological point of view. The number of scammers, liars, and pure weirdos that have gravitated to Bitcoin is incredible. I am simultaneously entertained, and saddened that people lik
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As already stated I don't believe Wright's claims at all, and I find the whole thing pretty silly as we already have quite a few viable candidates/teams for Satoshi in the public record. I simply stated an interesting observa
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I meant a fraud more in the sense of the fake doctorates and his specious resume.
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Not that I think Craig Wright has presented any evidence that he is Satoshi, but if the anonymous creator of Truecrypt can be an international drug lord and weapons dealer, why can't the anonymous creator of a cryptocurrency be a seria
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I prefer to think of it as clock hands that move in a specific direction, one that is mostly uncorrelated with the direction everyone else's clock hands move, but sometimes it reaches the destination everyone else arrives at first, som
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They post things like this all the time. I would take it not as them editorially advocating the position, but rather getting information otherwise censored by other media out there. Sometimes the information is not reported for good reason,
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Yeah, because Beats has been working out so well for them. If they could get something to improve their cloud services competitiveness vs Google, maybe something like Dropbox, I could see that helping them long-term. Otherwise I don't
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Buy their way out of it? How? They obviously don't have anything profitable to invest their excess cash in, since it is either sitting in the bank or going to stock buybacks or dividend increases.
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It isn't really lack of growth that's a problem, there are tons of companies out there that post a very consistent profit quarter after quarter that are doing just fine - negative growth, especially in a few of a company's co

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