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by washedup 13y ago
So is the embedded chat in Gmail.
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by washedup 13y ago
How to celebrate Pi day: http://www.wikihow.com/Celebrate-Pi-Day
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Video games are weird again(theverge.com)
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by washedup 13y ago
Without hostages, if they can override the piloting, they have a bunch of cargo with no lives attached.
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by washedup 13y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if that's the goal!
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by washedup 13y ago
My biggest question is how they plan on securing these ships. Pirates would likely see this as a huge opportunity.
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Barons of Broadband(nytimes.com)
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Our Internet Empathy Problem(giantbomb.com)
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by washedup 13y ago
Whether you agree with this article or not, it makes no difference. NASA is an extremely small portion of the US budget. If you want to cut waste, look at defense spending. It's OK to spend a small fraction of available money on resear
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by washedup 13y ago
There is one thing I know for certain: all of life, including humans, are going to use up resources available to it until they are gone. We like to think we will eventually reach a point of awareness about the importance of sustainability a
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by washedup 13y ago
I have no idea what is going on in Kiev, but these images are amazing.
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by washedup 13y ago
GMAIL WORKS
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by washedup 13y ago
Down: Chicago, IL
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by washedup 13y ago
Everyone's gmail in my Chicago office is down.
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by washedup 13y ago
His point has always been to cut off the tails. The MAD actually allows you to cut off the tails sooner, and that moves outside of your chosen confidence interval will be seen as tail risk much sooner than if you use STD. For example, think
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Northern Lights may expand south tonight(npr.org)
1 points by washedup 13y ago|0 comments
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by washedup 13y ago
I can confirm this. I have watched the cycle happen from ~877 to ~829 ten times now, with a bid size of 729 at 850 every single time. As soon as a price around 829 is filled, it shoots back up to 877. Each time the cycle lasts roughly 5 min
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Bitcoin-Gold Parity(businessinsider.com)
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by washedup 13y ago
That's great! If this can match RStudio as an IDE, then Python is heading in the right direction. Thanks for showing me this.
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by washedup 13y ago
The first line: "Nowadays Python is probably the programming language of choice (besides R) ..." Personally I am not ready to hand the title "langauge of choice" to Python, although it is trending that way. We should giv
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by washedup 13y ago
Different types of people thrive in different types of environments.
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by washedup 13y ago
Brings up a great question: What are the alternatives to Winamp? (No iTunes please)
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Ask HN: Python or R?
14 points by washedup 13y ago|9 comments
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Ask HN: What is your favorite gmail alternative?
12 points by washedup 13y ago|12 comments
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by washedup 13y ago
As a HFT, I can safely say that you are correct. Volume and volatility (At least in the futures markets) have been drying up. My firm has gone from 40 to 20 employees over the past 18 months. I know a similar thing is happening at other HFT
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Live Stream of Proton Launch 2:08PM EST(siriusfm6.imgondemand.com)
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by washedup 13y ago
Societies will always succeed for a while and then fail. It is the cycle of life and energy in the economy. There is "value" created by HFTs that is used by HFTs and their families. It helps them survive and reproduce. This does n
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by washedup 13y ago
Truth! Something that creates value for a certain form of business or life most likely does not create value for society or the ecosystem. It simply is another niche.
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by washedup 13y ago
I couldn't agree more. It creates value for the firms that are able to extract energy/money/information from the market environment.
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by washedup 13y ago
There already are trading fees. Each exchange charges a small fee for every trade. It's how they make money and is why they have an incentive to increase volume. For example, on the CME futures exchange the fee per energy contract is u

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