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by winstonsmith 10y ago
I don't know about these guys, but according to Cathy O'Neil, D. E. Shaw profited by anticipating (c.f. index front-running) pension funds in a way that sickened her to the point of quitting. https://mathbabe.org/2
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by winstonsmith 10y ago
The narrowness of career paths for highly specialized attorneys combined with the possibility of entering an altogether different remuneration universe at the law firms the DOJ is theoretically adversarial to is what makes the revolving d
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by winstonsmith 10y ago
It's the elephant in the room, textbook revolving door regulatory capture.
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by winstonsmith 12y ago
In case anyone doesn't know what you're talking about: http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-15-16 A small number of taxpayers has accumulated larger IRA balances, likely by investing in assets unavailable to most
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by winstonsmith 12y ago
> Pre-Bitcoin, the scammer would have her call an expensive foreign premium-rate phone number or mail cash to a foreign address. A foreign address is still an address, which if used to perpetrate crime on a large scale, would represent
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Internet giants wage war on pop-up ad blockers(japantoday.com)
5 points by winstonsmith 12y ago|0 comments
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Identification of the Remains of King Richard III(nature.com)
13 points by winstonsmith 12y ago|0 comments
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'Being homeless is better than working for Amazon'(theguardian.com)
62 points by winstonsmith 12y ago|24 comments
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by winstonsmith 12y ago
Submitter here. I ended up at that journal by following a link in this opinion blog at The New York Times : http://op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/26/what-if-were-wro... The author, Anna North, thinks it&#
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Reconceptualizing major depressive disorder as an infectious disease(biolmoodanxietydisord.com)
30 points by winstonsmith 12y ago|12 comments
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Algorithms Are Great and All, but They Can Also Ruin Lives(wired.com)
1 points by winstonsmith 12y ago|0 comments
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A Sign the Startup Bubble Is Maxed Out: It Resorts to Junk Mail to Disrupt(wolfstreet.com)
4 points by winstonsmith 12y ago|0 comments
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Imagination, reality flow in opposite directions in the brain(news.wisc.edu)
2 points by winstonsmith 12y ago|0 comments
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by winstonsmith 12y ago
There is also this similar thread at math overflow : http://mathoverflow.net/questions/1785/how-do-you-keep-your-...
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by winstonsmith 12y ago
There is an essay (in English and French) published last month on Grothendieck's life and work by Pierre Cartier who was a member of Bourbaki and a friend and colleague of Grothendieck's. http://inference-review.com&#x2
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Why It's Harder Than Ever for Religions to Con Their Followers: The Internet(alternet.org)
5 points by winstonsmith 12y ago|2 comments
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Steven Colbert interviews mathematician Terence Tao [video](thecolbertreport.cc.com)
3 points by winstonsmith 12y ago|0 comments
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by winstonsmith 12y ago
> I just pity Holder for mismanaging this. Or maybe there are more horrific details we haven't heard of yet. Your pity would be misplaced; there are horrific details. A large part of the problem is that there is a revolving door be
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by winstonsmith 12y ago
The solution in this century's financial crisis has been "handcuff none of the bastards", but it wasn't always so. I'm surprised you cite the savings and loan scandal as a case of criminals not going to jail becau
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The $9B Witness: JPMorgan Chase's Worst Nightmare(rollingstone.com)
270 points by winstonsmith 12y ago|107 comments
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by winstonsmith 12y ago
I don't know -- I didn't downvote you, but you might want to edit to indicate that x and y are not necessarily finite sets. (For finite sets, the result is trivial.)
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Maths spying: the quandary of working for the spooks(newscientist.com)
11 points by winstonsmith 12y ago|2 comments
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Identify mystery text, win $1000(lib.uchicago.edu)
91 points by winstonsmith 12y ago|32 comments
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Is UCC Article 9 the Achilles Heel of Bitcoin?(creditslips.org)
1 points by winstonsmith 13y ago|0 comments
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by winstonsmith 13y ago
He (the banker) didn't get rich by just holding the keys, he got rich by getting involved in new tech early (credit default swaps, mortgage backed securities, stated income loans, MERS, etc.). In fact, he helped build something he beli
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by winstonsmith 13y ago
These quotes are not just Orwellian, but straight out of Animal Farm : >He doesn't like the system we have today and wanted a different one that would be more equal. He did not like the notion of banks and bankers getting wealthy j
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by winstonsmith 13y ago
>But none of them beat this one by a Reddit admin from awhile back: Are you saying Nathanspups is a reddit admin?
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Life as a Nonviolent Psychopath(theatlantic.com)
92 points by winstonsmith 13y ago|44 comments
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by winstonsmith 13y ago
> And it's certainly reasonable to analogize contemporary attempts to level the 1% with the corollary attempts in Germany in the 1930s. It's not reasonable; it's quite perverse -- you seem to be confusing the Nazis with t
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by winstonsmith 13y ago
It's actually [n!e] - 1 where [x] the greatest integer less than or equal to x and e is the base of the natural logarithm. As nbouscal points out, the total number of heads is H=n!(1+1/1!+ 1/(n-1)!). Using the Taylor series f

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