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by 30thElement 12y ago
To expand a little, most container ships use bunker crude, which is borderline sludge. It even needs to be heated before being pumped out. But it's cheap and at the size, pressure, and speeds these engines run at they get most of the e
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by 30thElement 12y ago
Vim kinda has this. You can spend your entire time in insert mode, and then use <CTRL>-O to run an individual command.
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by 30thElement 12y ago
Well of course you're getting a speed difference, look at how much extra work you're doing in the std::string code! The char[64]s are allocated once but you reallocate the std::strings every time. By pulling the declaration of s1,
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by 30thElement 12y ago
Carrier attack groups have a refueling ship along with all the cruisers/attack ships. It probably makes sense, just going by the size differences the carrier would use more conventional fuel than all of its escorts combined, so having
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by 30thElement 12y ago
Is this comment real? You made this comment on a site that most people use to waste time, and where one of the top posts is an Assembly implementation of Flappy Bird. Fun fact: HFT has an annual revenue ~1/50th[1][2] of Google's.
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by 30thElement 12y ago
They are teams competing for trophies, though; the trophy is your money/market share. But beyond that, artificial competition could be a good thing. The large companies have a lot of advantages over the smaller companies, like economie
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by 30thElement 12y ago
That's not entirely true. The salary cap is because if teams paid the fair market value, the teams with a larger budget would be able to run away with it like the Yankees did in baseball (with over twice as many World Series titles as
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by 30thElement 12y ago
If that's what made him your favorite, you really need to read his earlier post that really blew up in popularity. It's a great read. http://stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
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by 30thElement 12y ago
No, there is no downvote for posts. Flagging is supposed to take the place of that, but only for posts that violate the rules. From the FAQ There are no down arrows on submissions. They only appear on comments after users reach a cert
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by 30thElement 12y ago
Photons have no rest mass, but one of the key points in GR is that mass and energy are interchangeable by E=mc^2. Mass-energy equivalence is how Fission bombs work.
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by 30thElement 12y ago
You're right, the period was "hand picked", but that's because I was looking at a 5 year graph with the high and low marked, and just used those numbers. The movement before/after 2008 wasn't the 40 percentage
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by 30thElement 12y ago
The second point is actually a point for hedge funds. The S&P 500 went from a high of 1576 near the end of 2007, to a low of 666 in the beginning of 2009 (October 07 to March 2009, specifically). Commodities had similar losses. If hedge
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by 30thElement 12y ago
While the other answers about Sabre are probably right, I've heard that banks intentionally have stupid password policies to prevent password reuse. If one bank says "no special characters but most contain a number", another
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by 30thElement 12y ago
When this originally came up people were saying that, they use it as a reminder to keep using the site. But you can get the same benefit using a login link or something, no need for all the security issues.
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by 30thElement 12y ago
A kill switch wouldn't have saved them. What killed Knight wasn't the $400 million loss, it was the lack of confidence all other firms had in them afterwards. Brokers can't just shut down in the middle of the trading day. The
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by 30thElement 12y ago
Related, Google built their own water treatment plant at one of their data centers. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/helping-hooch-with-wa...
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by 30thElement 12y ago
They should do it only in situations where it doesn't change the program behavior. I use memset frequently in C just to be safe, but if it's written to later on before it's ever read from, the compiler can optimize that away.
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by 30thElement 12y ago
The NYC equivalent is losing money because everyone got a annual pass and not many tourists are using it. The tourists are the real money makers, as only 10 daily passes or 4 weekly passes will be the same cost as an annual pass[1]. If I wa
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by 30thElement 12y ago
You completely missed his point about the difference between non-public information and new analysis on public information. Anyone can go and count the number of cars in a WalMart parking lot. This is new analysis on public information, not
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by 30thElement 13y ago
Except you completely missed the point where Ackman isn't making any money off this. > Mr. Ackman has said he will donate any profits he personally earns to charity, calling it “blood money.” And that's ignoring the fact that
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by 30thElement 13y ago
Quite honestly, I'm surprised it's that low. 37% of households in Manhattan make over 100k/year[1]. Take into account that taxis are mainly concentrated in the high income areas (read: not Harlem) and the "nearly half&qu
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by 30thElement 13y ago
Going along with what someone said earlier, your last question can be "Were you born after someone who answered the previous 32 questions the same as you", which works to identify twins as well as people in general. Although I don
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by 30thElement 13y ago
You misunderstand the point of the FSF. It's free as in freedom, not free as in no money. The whole thing started because rms wanted to modify a printer driver to give functionality their last printer had. He wasn't being stingy,
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by 30thElement 13y ago
If I remember correctly, the most efficient algorithms have a ridiculously large constant factor, to the point where you don't have enough RAM to even store the matrix, let alone do anything with it.
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by 30thElement 13y ago
I hope everyone learned their lesson after all the panic over Italy/Greece/whoever defaulting and when senior MBS bonds took losses way back in 2009 and the code can handle defaults. I think the bigger risk would be from the portf
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by 30thElement 13y ago
There's also what's called prepayment risk (or in this scenario I guess late-payment risk, but they're 2 sides of the same coin). For prepayment risk, essentially an investor thinks "OK, I put a lot of effort into this i
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by 30thElement 13y ago
The kicker is located in the middle, > The median 401(k) balance for households headed by people aged 55 to 64 who had retirement accounts at work was $120,000 in 2011 The 77 year old highlighted is just an easy way to personalize the la
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by 30thElement 13y ago
Ratings are done at a bond (tranche) level, not a collateral level. Rating them at the collateral level would be incredibly stupid as some bonds are specifically designed to take loses in order to bolster the ratings of the senior bonds. Al
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by 30thElement 13y ago
If you want to be understood, you have to make sure your point is clear. Throwing in an unnecessary controversial point, especially about someone as divisive as Jobs, just muddles pg's main point.
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by 30thElement 13y ago
Lowering the interval makes the effect less pronounced, but it's still there. When you have fixed intervals the order book will keep increasing in size until the trades execute on the 1 second interval or whatever it is, and the book w

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