wintermute42

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Smart contracts to reward humans for contributions they make conversationally(sensetoken.com)
1 points by wintermute42 9y ago|0 comments
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by wintermute42 10y ago
Have you had severe withdrawals? I've withdrawn cold turkey off of a $500/day heroin habit. It is the worst pain I have ever experienced. If I had a gun on me at the time, I am 100% sure that I would have killed my self. You have
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by wintermute42 10y ago
Why are you on hacker news?
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by wintermute42 10y ago
Yes.
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by wintermute42 10y ago
It's not a programming language, it's not turing complete and it is guaranteed to terminate. So what's the problem?
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by wintermute42 10y ago
Is this really any better?
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by wintermute42 10y ago
Well the problem, of course, is that they would test drive the cars in the dealership and then buy online.
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by wintermute42 10y ago
Who exactly?
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by wintermute42 10y ago
You have no idea what you are talking about. How exactly does GS manipulate the markets to its will? You'd think their balance sheet would look better if that was case..
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by wintermute42 10y ago
Why not use the computer to help you define and understand the problem? It will be much faster to iterate quickly at a repl and then write the cleaned up version later rather than just trying model the whole thing in your head first
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by wintermute42 10y ago
I'm not sure the fees are going to go down so much as that a ton of hedge funds are going to go out of business. There are many funds generating real alpha and have made outsized returns year after year (Renaissances' medallion fu
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by wintermute42 10y ago
A 2% fee isn't very much considering the AUM of hedge funds. If you have a 250m fund, that's only a fixed 5m fee per year. Also, investors are very fickle with their money, you can't not be generating alpha for that long befo
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by wintermute42 10y ago
There's not much that needs to be elaborated. Hedge funds don't make any money if they're not generating alpha. the 2 and 20 structure is powerful motivator to search for outsized returns. Hedge funds are in a hard place righ
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by wintermute42 10y ago
I work at a hedge fund and you have no idea what you are talking about.
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by wintermute42 10y ago
I'll give you the first 2 at least. On another note, having an impoverished type system isn't much of an ideology..
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by wintermute42 11y ago
What, exactly, do you think is going on here? How on earth would the executable on the disk get modified by pointer manipulation? (without the use of mmap, of course)
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by wintermute42 11y ago
I've only been at this place for a week and a bit but it seems most people are working about 11 or 10 to 13 hour days.
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by wintermute42 11y ago
I'm talking more like 10-13 here...
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Ask HN: Are there software companies that don't “make” you work all day long?
5 points by wintermute42 11y ago|14 comments
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Ask HN: How do I learn design?
1 points by wintermute42 11y ago|0 comments