Sherlock

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by Sherlock 4y ago
Agree, the book "Programming Bitcoin" by Song provides a detailed explanation of the algorithm.
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by Sherlock 5y ago
Disagree with prosecuting drones instead of people actually giving orders.
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by Sherlock 10y ago
This is the clearest signal to tell apart people who have studied applied math and people that haven't.
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by Sherlock 11y ago
Fun fact: a big chunk of the lithium produced in the world is extracted from the Salar de Atacama: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salar_de_Atacama The method is to concentrate the lithium (from <1% to 7%) via evapora
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by Sherlock 11y ago
"The Magicians", "The Magician King", "The Magician's Land" - Lev Grossman. 4/5 "Inside Job" - Connie Willis. 4/5 "Norwegian Wood (Tokio Blues)" - Haruki Murakami. 4/5 &q
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by Sherlock 11y ago
Automating the confection of clothes is VERY challenging from an engineering point of view. We need far better robots to automate that.
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by Sherlock 11y ago
Care to give some recommendations for a newcomer to that genre?
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by Sherlock 11y ago
Accounting doesn't work that way. You can have huge profits and reinvest them, but your income statement will show the profits in any case. Yes, Amazon could be more profitable with different price points, but sales would take a hit, a
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by Sherlock 11y ago
The "Original Sin" of not Governments not being able to get debt in the same currency they are able to collect taxes. So, when the main source of USD suffers in some sense (export prices, or some kind of supply shock) the Governme
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by Sherlock 11y ago
What's interesting from a game theory point of view is to have so many different parties with a FPTP electoral system. You would expect a two party system.
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by Sherlock 11y ago
The Economist published an interesting report about that some months ago. The main takeaways were that (1) Argentine was rich, but lagged behind its money-peers in human development indexes such as literacy rates and (2) The elite from Arge
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by Sherlock 11y ago
The article doesn't mention the other obvious comparisons, the non-black latin american countries, such as Argentina and Chile. For instance, Chile ranks higher than the US here, despite being a poorer country: http://en.wik
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by Sherlock 12y ago
When banks go down they take down the economy with them; that's what 'too big to fail' means. It's not worth all the human suffering caused by a depression instead of a recession just to prove that the banks should be mo
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by Sherlock 12y ago
In Chile the State pays for it. The upward limit on the payment OTOH is quite low (<US$2k/month) but most employers choose to supplement the State payment with the balance of your paycheck.
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by Sherlock 12y ago
That's a common (notation-induced) mistake. You just need to solve a linear system.
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by Sherlock 14y ago
I would really like to read about the compact cassette design history. It's a really remarkable product in which you can appreciate a long list of trade-offs made by the designer(s).
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by Sherlock 14y ago
That's strikingly accurate.
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by Sherlock 14y ago
This looks about right for any kind of business, not just software development.
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by Sherlock 14y ago
That's true. This should have two axes (at least). One with "domain specific knowledge" and other one with "programming expertise". Indeed, when domain experts reach some arbitrary level of programming expertise, many good things may happen
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by Sherlock 15y ago
This is the usual practice here in Chile, and I don't expect it to change.
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by Sherlock 15y ago
Wow, my dad bought an Apple //c when I was around 4 y.o. and it was kept at home until I was ~8, but I couldn't remember seeing a cassette port. At least I'm at peace now.
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by Sherlock 15y ago
According to my experience, in Santiago the food and general bills are pricier and housing is cheaper compared with the rest of latam (Colombia, Argentina, Peru). The most expensive city here is Sao Paulo, by far.
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by Sherlock 15y ago
The problem with Argentina is doing business there. Education could be better, and the country is gorgeous, but their business practices are terrible. And the government really doesn't help. Anyway, the problems he describes are very real h
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by Sherlock 15y ago
MS. McArdle is a journalist with strong insights in tech and finance. Her blog is a good read, if you skip the politics content, which isn't so bad either.
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by Sherlock 15y ago
That's standard practice for the mobile plans here in Chile. Such bandwidth for the first xxx Mb, 32kbps after that.
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by Sherlock 15y ago
Wow, that's surprising, I'd love to hear about some (anecdotal) evidence supporting this.
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by Sherlock 15y ago
Those are two genes that I'd love to have too, but in the reverse order.
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by Sherlock 16y ago
There is a lot of people with the "if it works, don't touch it" mentality. MS would have sold a lot less if they had broke backwards compatibility. It took me some years to internalize the benefits of "if it works, don't touch it", and I cu
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by Sherlock 16y ago
The article also has something factually wrong (attributed to MS): in the corporate world, the Ipad is useful for discussing documents o presentations around a table, between two or three people, when undocking a notebook takes way more tha
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by Sherlock 16y ago
My first programming language was C, so I became a business analyst. Some day I will figure why they keep me here working as one.

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