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by vegabook 10y ago
that's not freedom of speech. Secret ballots are probably indispensible for democracy, but it is debatable (note I said "debatable") whether anonymity is necessary for freedom of speech and democracy. After all we've h
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by vegabook 10y ago
ahem...valuation / assets: JP Morgan: 9% Goldman Sachs: 7.1% BoA: 6.5% Santander: 3.5% Societe Generale: 3% BNP Paribas: 2.5% Unicredit: 1.5% Deutsche Bank: 1.0% Two lessons: US banks are much better capitalised
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by vegabook 10y ago
During the 1990s when Nigerian brady bonds (restructured 80s-era emerging markets loans) were trading at prices in the 30s on the dollar, this was routinely cited by the sales and trading operation of the dominant brady-trading investment b
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by vegabook 10y ago
fun, but what am I learning from this that I don't already know, namely that 3d scenes in OpenGL/Vulkan/D3d are made up of triangles? Haven't I seen this already 1000 times when I select a "wireframe" option on
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by vegabook 10y ago
every python programmer who has every used Numpy or Pandas, and in my opinion this is where Python shines and why it's so huge in scientific programming, is "dropping into native". So actually a large amount of people are doi
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by vegabook 10y ago
Python (Numpy/Pandas really) is our go to for all the usual reasons on exploratory with some R (but R is becoming too slow for our growing data sets). What we're really missing is a language that does parallel computing, not neces
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by vegabook 10y ago
got it - sounds like I probably misunderstood the motivation which appears to have been less about demographics than about under-representation identification. Kudos on the whole survey and this particular section, my nitpick aside, I find
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by vegabook 10y ago
Are disabled people "under represented in technology"? Just a question... I have fused wrists from a motorcylce accident. It's inconvenient and I cannot drive or play most sports, but I don't consider myself disabled. Am
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by vegabook 10y ago
Okay so you're targeting a userbase of clueless boomers who can't be bothered to upgrade or go into chrome://flags or about:config. Fine. It's time to move on. Encouraging the continued use of a stone age endpoint i
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by vegabook 10y ago
gees, even my $9 C.H.I.P supports OpenGL (ES). Talk about historyware.
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by vegabook 10y ago
So the point here, hopefully, is to allow truly talented female coders to overcome the bias against women generally, which exists because of the fallacy of averages. Hopefully, the idea is not to push the erroneous view that women are on a
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by vegabook 10y ago
this is 100% correct. It is very difficult to envisage a scenario where this rubicon can be uncrossed. From a confidence point of view, for example, the damage is almost certainly already done, because even if Brexit does not happen, the po
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by vegabook 10y ago
Yes but there are powerful forces within Europe that always felt Britain was a ball and chain, especially in the latin bloc led by France. This is not going to be simple as they will insist that a rubicon has been crossed. Recall that Charl
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by vegabook 10y ago
Small problem: the Europeans have had enough of Britains's perfidious ways and are not inclined to being patient. This pandoras box is therefore open for business and cannot easily be be rammed shut again.
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by vegabook 10y ago
That is too simple. There was strong autocorrelation in prediction market odds changes which suggests herding. You are not taking this additional important information into account.
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by vegabook 10y ago
Trade wars/tariffs go unmentioned, yet they are probably the most important single issue for emerging markets. To the extent that brexit nurtures a reversal of global integration (and Donald Trump's "America first" platf
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by vegabook 10y ago
This is a brilliant angle on an defining movie, the fairly flippant (and genuinely amusing) tone of the article belying very serious and in depth research. Indeed as a hobbyist font nut, I'm inspired to whip out Illustrator to try and
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by vegabook 10y ago
Today's Fed, led by Yellen, has become a technocratic institution blinkered by "data", unable to rise above its econometric myopia to see what really is happening in the society which it serves. It has essentially been subjug
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by vegabook 10y ago
> "The solution is not to subserviently cling to corrupt elite institutions out of fear of the alternatives. It is, instead, to help bury those institutions..." Starting with the deeply corrupt policy of quantitative easing a
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by vegabook 10y ago
but who is looking only at a single data point? We have more information than that, namely, the strongly consistent incorrect direction of the prediction markets, as the uncertainly decreased (40% to 25% in the last week, and 25% to 11% i
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by vegabook 10y ago
yes I know how sampling works. However as the uncertainty decreased, the prediction markets went in the wrong direction, rapidly on the last day and signficantly in the last week. This strongly suggests that there is an element of "her
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by vegabook 10y ago
as of 10pm in London last night, when one could reasonably expect it to be getting more accurate, it was at 11%. And 25% was in any case a very poor prediction considering these markets are supposed to be more accurate than polls.
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by vegabook 10y ago
this may be why the prediction markets were so terrible at guessing brexit. Each participant was a kind of expert in said domain - not impassionate. Not random. Moreover, it's possible that the crowd view was self re-inforcing.
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by vegabook 10y ago
baltic dry has never been anything but an "oh wow" index for marketers/salespeople to get said reaction from clients and hopefully get them to transact. It has that beautiful combination of seemingly being a leading indicator
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by vegabook 10y ago
I have to write a whole bunch of if Sys.info()["sysname"] == "Windows" even in R!
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by vegabook 10y ago
it is ironic that The DAO will then rely on something which they were trying to supplant.
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by vegabook 10y ago
question: say it is ascertained that 80% of the value of the DAO was tightly held by a small number of people all worth > 1m USD, then have those people signed away their due diligence through the explicit primacy of the code as per the
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by vegabook 10y ago
no, because the VC is ruled by law, and The DAO was ruled only by code, even if it contained exploits. As such the rules of the code - the law of The DAO - were followed. The correct analogy is that the exploiters shorted the investment aft
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by vegabook 10y ago
I am not convinced that this is actually theft. The "exploit" was simply code. And code rules, in the "The DAO"/ethereum world. Indeed, isn't it arguable that said insider(s) (and I agree it's probably an
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by vegabook 10y ago
How are there better alternatives if they don't have Ubuntu's "large number of community solutions"? Are we talking "better" for Unix/Linux old-guard purist-reactionaries? Or for people who want a server t

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