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by yomly 10y ago
Not to mention the tax revenue that would also be raised by legalised drug spending or the reduced costs of maintaining prisons or the economic uplift / value creation of having people back in society working and spending rather than
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by yomly 10y ago
As an aside to your great post, the government's stance is also ridiculous when you consider that the former Prime Minister David Cameron almost certainly took drugs given his affiliation with the Piers Gaveston society[0]... [0] htt
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by yomly 10y ago
Thanks - I like the idea of strategies being an extension of the trader. Until we have fully independently trained NN-based trading algorithms, I guess there will always be domain knowledge being applied. (Even with NNs the domain knowledge
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by yomly 10y ago
So if you went in with an "algorithm" which baked in your own rules for trading and left it for a year, would it have performed better? Does a greater proportion of non-HFT bots make money?
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by yomly 10y ago
The music came out quite fun sounding. I could almost imagine hearing at least passages within the music in videogames. Perhaps some old-school zelda/jrpg game which would suit the folky quality of the music. The bass line was generall
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by yomly 10y ago
This is a fantastic guide / insight for how Chinese characters work, and does a great deal to dispel the myth that Chinese characters are virtually random - that each individual character requires independent memorization. As someone w
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by yomly 10y ago
It's a shame we see it this way. Fewer people would resent paying tax which goes towards roads and healthcare even if they never travelled much and were healthy - they appreciate this as a basic right for people (sure, some will even d
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by yomly 10y ago
Seems like we are trained to scan tablets and monitors differently[0] but that eink is similar to paper[1][2]. Personally I find the tactile experience of reading a hard-copy helps me focus and generally enjoy the physical experience of int
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by yomly 10y ago
>So I guess I'm saying if you want print books, you should make that known by buying physical copies of books. Cos if the trends I see continues, I can't imagine it'll be practical to do print tech books too far into the f
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by yomly 10y ago
Some people have connections with download limits. I.e. You can only download 4 gigabytes of data before having your connection throttled or being charged. Some people also tether to mobile internet, which very definitely has download limit
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by yomly 10y ago
This is the talk [0]. It was interesting, although in the talk he only addressed the issue of erosion of jobs quite briefly. He spent more time how AI was augmenting/disrupting a variety of industries. It was more of a penny drop momen
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by yomly 10y ago
This is pretty cool research, from what I can recall hypoxic tissue is hard to treat for three reasons: 1. It is hard to detect 2. Hypoxic tissue is hard to access as there is little blood supply 3. Hypoxic tissue is hard and physically rob
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by yomly 10y ago
Can't upvote this enough. I was recently at a talk by Kenneth Cukier from the Economist and he discussed how our economic climate is similar to the early days of the industrial revolution - inequality is increasing as jobs are being er
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by yomly 10y ago
Yeah haha - the concept of people not using WhatsApp is as alien to me as people who use WhatsApp is alien to the parent comment. In the last 4/5 years, the only time I've met people not on WhatsApp were Chinese (WeChat) or Korean
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by yomly 10y ago
Totally understand your viewpoint, with your level of experience it's borderline offensive to ask you to jump through similar hoops as a recent graduate. Arguments of standardization/filtering and homogeneity of candidates aside,
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by yomly 10y ago
I feel wearables - IoT could be the next big thing (...who isn't saying this...). Putting privacy concerns aside, imagine having contact lenses + voice and/or gesture control augmenting your life. Combine that with real-time healt
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by yomly 10y ago
A lot of valuable points have already been made, but I think it is as much a chance of timing. I think the main factor is economics: post-war Japan was well placed to export its culture. Around the 70s/80s Japan, in being the most econ
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by yomly 10y ago
From the link within the parent link[0]: >Facebook commissioned research firm Ipsos to investigate why reports say 70 million Americans and nearly 200 million people worldwide use adblockers. Americans are less than 10% of the online pop
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by yomly 10y ago
Love the posts - "Indian-net" is a classic, as an aside man that scene in money no enough really blew me away - it's crazy to believe that my laptop (not even a desktop, mind you!) has a thousand times more RAM... to say te
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by yomly 10y ago
Maybe we can be grateful for Apple spurring the movement, having no flash whatsoever (in contrast to even "flash-lite" on Android) was really painful on the iphone back then...
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by yomly 10y ago
You're right in that linguistically its roots did not come from Chinese, but I don't agree with > except for the borrowed words, spoken Japanese and Mandarin are as far removed as Mandarin and English. That's a bit of an e
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by yomly 10y ago
During the cultural revolution, the complete romanization of Chinese was explored. The idea was ultimately abandoned much for a similar reason Japanese will probably struggle to go character-free: there would be too much ambiguity in the wr
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by yomly 10y ago
>Language is very different when there are literally tens of thousands of characters to learn. Yes and no. Chinese-character based languages are conceptually different to languages employing Roman letters/an alphabet to the point wh
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by yomly 10y ago
Call me a sceptic but a hail-mary acquisition of this kind is not going to save Walmart. Amazon is built through and through as a tech company. The people running it all have tech backgrounds so they're all able to get behind the Bezos
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by yomly 10y ago
That's pretty true - quality of food in HK and SG really is at another level for certain cuisines (though options for decent European food are naturally fewer). From what I've noticed, Asians seem to be more prepared to queue for
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by yomly 10y ago
This is pretty astute. Theoretically, the owner could probably get away with charging quite a lot more. If he were a cynical man/short-termist he could double/triple his prices (possibly even 10x his prices) and still be turning a
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by yomly 10y ago
Agree it's more about the individual dishes rather than the entire menu, but their prawn dumplings (har gau) are also spot on.
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by yomly 10y ago
Really fantastic achievement and a really down to earth take on food - good to see Michelin not adopting a stuffy elitist stance on their awards. I shudder, however, when I think of the queues to try this tasty goodness. For reference, queu
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by yomly 10y ago
I can understand the sentiment of the parent post but I disagree. The recent UberXPostgres articles are an insight into the engineering challenges that go into solving these business problems at scale. The projects probably started as some
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by yomly 10y ago
Fine - that's fair enough, there have been some questionable actions (or lack of actions) especially from the PR front, but these aren't things the average dev can influence and the lack of a PR head is absolutely nothing the devs

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