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by zzleeper 11y ago
Quite interesting post. I feel that a lot of the numerical Pythonistas are in the same spot: They tolerate most languages, but find R's syntax a bit unnatural, Matlab lacking when trying to go beyond pure matrix stuff, and are waiting
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by zzleeper 11y ago
It depends how often you get the pager, no? If your calls were often at 4am and you had to work a normal schedule, it certainly does no good. Also, you are saying that nearly broke you, as if it's a badge of pride or something good..
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by zzleeper 11y ago
YMMV but it's less rewarding that what you would think (5th yr PhD Fin here)
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by zzleeper 11y ago
What would be the equivalent for cellphone use? Because the biggest threat for me while biking is not drunk drivers but those texting and fiddling with their phones.
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by zzleeper 11y ago
> I was busting my buttons today when I found out that a well-known security researcher in a particular area of technology reported a bunch of alleged security issues to us except – we had already found all of them and we were already wo
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by zzleeper 11y ago
Are there any limitations I should be aware of before trying to switch to Telegram?
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by zzleeper 11y ago
Completely OT but was that the reason they divorced? Video was from 2007 and Wiki says they broke up in 2008
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by zzleeper 11y ago
Given that UY has 1% of the US's population, 3,000 visas is actually a lot (equivalent to 3.6 million visas per year in the US)
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by zzleeper 11y ago
Same here but in the US. I can actually spot them as they drive like faux drunk drivers. Driving at weird speeds, swerving a bit, etc. and then when they get close enough, "yep, just texting!". I hope in 10 years people using thei
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by zzleeper 11y ago
The only reason the Euro had any credibility was fue to Germany and the other conservative/prudent countries. A pigs euro would fail instantly.
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by zzleeper 11y ago
Well we can do inception and go one level deeper: Most of the banks that loaned the money were akin to Credit Unions or similar. EG: La Caixa in Spain, the Landesbanks in Germany [1], etc. So they had to give in to the banks, because one
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by zzleeper 11y ago
The low Euro has not been courtesy of the Greeks. They are a tiny fraction of the Eurozone, with the population of Georgia and the GDP of Louisiana. And yes, it is ideological. Multiple Greek governments cheated their way into the Euro and
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by zzleeper 11y ago
At this stage there is no market involved. Almost all Greek debt is from other EU governments, and in several cases the governments raised the bailout money with extraordinary taxes (Portugal comes to mind) so voters are well aware that it&
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by zzleeper 11y ago
True, but on the Greek case a lot of that money was used in transfers to voters to prop up their income (pensions, early retirement, unemployment benefits, etc.) In a way, most of the austerity discussion is a red herring. The key problem i
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by zzleeper 11y ago
Why? They should have never been in the Euro. Any econ major knows that you can't have monetary union without either fiscal union or prudent governments. Check this prescient article from 18 years ago by one of the best macro minds o
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by zzleeper 11y ago
> Oh well, it was great while it lasted. Also an eight-year user; couldn't agree more.
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by zzleeper 11y ago
True. But there is a large overlap between those that do care and those that create content, vote, comment, and are mods. Thus, you are alienating exactly the class of users that you don't want to.
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by zzleeper 11y ago
Well if 8 comes up the correct solution is to click the smaller number, so you can just do the math for 2-4-6
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by zzleeper 11y ago
One of the top posts there right now: Ellen Pao Fired Reddit Employee Because He had Cancer "...Because of our discussion, you are too sick to properly fulfill your duties as Community Manager" https://np.reddit.com&#x2
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by zzleeper 11y ago
Amazing story! Also thanks for the video, I can't believe it has only 1000 views..
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by zzleeper 11y ago
Agreed. I recall people went from not knowing who was the CEO to cheering for him.
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by zzleeper 11y ago
That was a bit what Digg tried, to forget about their current users and think about their potential ones... (and foursquare, etc.)
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by zzleeper 11y ago
Something related I saw posted today is the news that the guy in charge of community at Digg ( /u/LordVinyl ) when the fallout occurred was hired to be in charge of shadowbans , something that has seemingly increased a lot (maybe
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by zzleeper 11y ago
Your comment was the most informative and yet it's the second least upvoted. Syntax files are those things that get really annoying if buggy and are really easy to fix (compared to adding features to the C++ codebase). The fact that th
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by zzleeper 11y ago
I see a very similar mechanism in economics. Many fields (macroeconomics, IO, etc.) write models that end up with some type of calibration which is implemented in thousands of lines of code. Those lines are written by RAs with almost no pro
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by zzleeper 11y ago
Well you have the legal/civil marriage and the religious marriage. You can call it "civil union" or whatever you want, but the important thing are the rights attached and that's what this ruling is about. Nothing to do w
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by zzleeper 11y ago
You could apply that to a lot of other situations. What about the right to own slaves? Southern states certainly preferred if that was handled at the state and not federal level. Sure, marriage is a "license" but you could make &q
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by zzleeper 11y ago
Agreed with the last bit. I wrote a few plugins and it drove me insane. Maybe it's the lack of tutorials or sparse documentation. That said, the new features (.sublime-syntax files instead of TM files, etc.) look very refreshing.
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by zzleeper 11y ago
I'm not sure if that's true. Pick Spain: Madrid and all surrounding cities (Toledo, etc.) are a big shade of red. Barcelona and in fact the entire densely populated Mediterranean coast (Valencia, etc.) is also lipstick-red. Sure,
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by zzleeper 11y ago
True.. I see the big blue shades between Portugal and Spain and imagine those areas growing, but that region is basically rural

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