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by wjnc 11y ago
I'll just relay my thoughts. It's a bit sour, but me and Excel we go way back. Perhaps you can find something in it: 1. Anyone who can get an add-in pasted corporate software security can also use a better tool outside Excel. In o
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by wjnc 11y ago
International perspective from a different country: In the Netherlands there is quite a large tax on kWh. When producing for your own consumption you don't have to pay that tax. As soon as you are 'distributing' (or, sharing
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by wjnc 11y ago
Can you draw the link from central bankers operations to the inflow of cash to VC's? Because most CB operations are either setting rates (where I understand they at least have to stay in between some bandwidth the market will appreciat
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by wjnc 11y ago
(big imho-post) Oh, I wish someone could explain to me how I can practically short many of these bubbles that come around HN daily. China, the many tech-unicorns, the housing market in Canada. Enough chances to short something succesfully.
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by wjnc 11y ago
Thanks, you're right. Did not know that US GAAP is adopted by the SEC. I'm more familiar with IFRS and Dutch GAAP which (at least partly) matter for any corporation that is registered in the Netherlands.
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by wjnc 11y ago
Are that kind of practices legal under US GAAP, or any accounting regime? Or are there just no accountants on board? (Got around the paywall: C-level execs are taking huge compliance risks by giving unauditable statements before and during
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by wjnc 11y ago
I am enamoured that geeks can find amazement in computer generated content. I wonder if Shakespeare scholars felt the same with the recent neural net creating Shakespeare-like content. What is to come, when cgc starts to become even more am
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by wjnc 11y ago
-Against fuel subsidies in Indonesia [1] -.. and in general [2] -For carbon tax [3] (all imho: ) They are traditional liberal, and / but with a realist approach to economics. Massive market failures exist and need work. Market failures
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by wjnc 11y ago
VCs have some sort of superstar economics going. The highest potentials hit the superstars VCs first, and get picked up. Second tier goes to second tier VCs and so on. The market sorts itself out. So when a first tier VC disses lower tiers
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by wjnc 11y ago
Reporting tasks are done no more than monthly. Once the job takes longer, management often moves to quarterly or semi-annually especially if the risks involved in not-knowing are limited. For many types of information, real-time calculation
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by wjnc 11y ago
Technically: sure. But I think you are touching some different skill sets going on a continuum from (1) 'sequential simulations on regular machine' to (2) 'parallel simulation on very high end, regular machine', all the
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by wjnc 11y ago
The gap that firms are trying to bridge is _huge_. I work in finance (slow finance: insurance), but finance technical enough to have our own PhD-level quants building code. They are running simulations taking hours, so scaling up on # cores
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by wjnc 12y ago
True. And a natural (economic) consequence as well. Although 'legalize everything and advertise what works' seems even more politically unfeasible, than 'only unban what's safe'. It came from an argument (in my head
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by wjnc 12y ago
Welcome to the world of designer drugs [1]. If its molecular structure is changed, you can't really call it synthetic marijuana anymore. The 'solution' is simple, but politically unfeasible. (Ok, if it's unfeasible, it&#
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by wjnc 12y ago
I have the same experience in trying to read the classic English philosophers. The language feels the same, but isn't. Funny thing is that you can find 'the Greeks / Germans / ..' in a side by side translation to mo
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by wjnc 12y ago
Love the idea, and hope that it grows into something bigger. For any book of historic, literary or intellectual interest you often need notes, perspectives and connotations. Especially the older a work gets, for even things as the meaning o
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by wjnc 12y ago
I think you underestimate the value of culture in code quality (or any operational quality for that matter). More vague words can certainly help, when coupled with a culture where regular discussion of key values is part of operations. So t
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by wjnc 12y ago
I tried the other languages as well. All the same authors, same pieces rehashed. Nothing like a source to base your opinion on, imho. I'd even trust Krugman at this point ;) I don't read French easily, but even Google Scholar seem
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by wjnc 12y ago
Googling 'pacte colonial' and other terms does not get me far outside the blogosphere. No wiki, hardly anything on Google Scholar. The World Bank never seems to have written an opinion about it. Hard to believe, at least in this f
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by wjnc 12y ago
It's awesome to read about use cases in countries I know little about. Viber, Telegram for direct marketing? Wow. How do people decide to join? How do you do ad's? Just like in Argentina in '11 I was amazed that all SME had F
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by wjnc 12y ago
Economic growth and the resulting distribution of wealth / capital is not a zero sum game. So the fact that the top 1% owns more than the rest, is not a problem per sé. Who cares what 'they' own, if I / we can live happi
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by wjnc 12y ago
Perhaps the etymology of the word will help with the connection to the taste. In Dutch (another Germanic language) mealy = 'melig', which is close to 'meel' (: flour). There you have the connection to the sawdust-taste.
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by wjnc 12y ago
The thing that resonates in this story for me, is that these monopsonies mostly harm producers (writers, musicians), not consumers. The monopsonists keep prices quite low and service quite high, compared to monopolists. It really feels like
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Dr Stephen N Henson's home page(drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk)
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by wjnc 13y ago
I see his main point as being that the few closed mobile ecosystems (Apple, Google, Microsoft) do not offer the same checks and balances we have gotten used to in the public domain. You pretty much sign away your rights (or, better: expecta
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by wjnc 13y ago
Good answer on stats.stackexchange [1] regarding k-means, standardization and discrete or categorical data [1] http://stats.stackexchange.com/a/58920
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by wjnc 13y ago
In Seven things to know about kickstarter it is stated pretty clearly that A. you fund creative projects, B. you are supporting someones dream and C. a project might take longer than expected. That all signals 'risk!' to me. The g
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by wjnc 13y ago
The scary thing of these kinds of witch hunts is that law enforcement is listening / reading / conducting hunts of their own. And they will be prone to the same mistakes as these readers. That brings the frontrunners of Bitcoin in
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by wjnc 13y ago
Socio-economic status was not used as a covariate in this study. They report that this issue is smaller than in other studies because only health-professionals were in the study. Well at least for the economic part, there are pretty huge di
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by wjnc 13y ago
Someone testing automated trading systems with that title? Or, why would anyone enter the Nasdaq-ticker so prominently?

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