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by baberuth 15y ago
Brutal title (Not OP's fault). The article basically suggests that algos are reducing market volatility. Algos don't try really hard to get VWAP. VWAP is REALLY easy to achieve, _beating_ VWAP is what most banks are trying to do when they t
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How Goldman Sachs Created The Food Crisis(foreignpolicy.com)
2 points by baberuth 15y ago|0 comments
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by baberuth 15y ago
Great idea, awful name. Grope + People = Grople ? Obligatory Grapist video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqq051BU2MY Sort of reminds me of zaarly.com
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by baberuth 15y ago
sorry, I wasn't clear. I wasn't asking WHAT velocity of money is, I was asking someone to explain the author's velocity of money argument. i.e. transfering wealth out of btc accelerates the velocity. q, m, v, and p remain relatively consta
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by baberuth 15y ago
About 25k BTC trade daily on MtGox, and that is thought to represent roughly 1/3 of USD-BTC FX transactions daily. Keep in mind thats BTC-USD trades, not "notional value spent". Apparent largest transaction was 400k bitcoins: http://www.bi
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by baberuth 15y ago
Can someone explain the velocity of money argument to me? The blog post seems to be: 1. If btc are liquid, everyone will want to move btc wealth out to some other store of wealth and btc will fail. 2. If btc are illiquid, then it fails by d
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by baberuth 15y ago
nothing. anyone can. right now its mostly inefficient to allocate cpus for mining. its just not worth it for them. as more bitcoins are mined they get harder to mine. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2265491
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Startup idea: Save people money on cell phone plans(baberuth.posterous.com)
2 points by baberuth 15y ago|1 comments
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by baberuth 15y ago
something like that. This morning I had this thought for 2 things: 1. a python filtering function I wrote 2. how to restructure an entire django project. Both (esp #2) are a little big for posting a code snippet. Bigger architecture probl
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by baberuth 15y ago
I'm not super concerned about confidentiality for my code, but then again I'm not doing anything groundbreaking. Mostly, if I cared about confidentiality, it'd be so I don't get publicly embarassed for crappy code. Rating systems for review
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Project Idea: Trade or buy code reviews (for independent developers)(baberuth.posterous.com)
40 points by baberuth 15y ago|14 comments
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by baberuth 15y ago
Lissn is blowing up with HN users right now. Its quite nice. Sort of like 2-3 person IRC chat rooms. Not sure what the real value is, but its fun for the moment.
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by baberuth 15y ago
Chill out guys. There's a balance between deliberately writing garbage and trying to start with perfection, and you choose some middle ground. Yes, write maintainable code. No, don't accrue technical debt just for the fun of it. The post
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I *heart* Technical Debt(baberuth.posterous.com)
4 points by baberuth 15y ago|7 comments
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by baberuth 15y ago
"My co founder can father a small child just by looking at a woman" Hilarious. With great power comes great responsibility...
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by baberuth 15y ago
Entrepreneurs Unpluggd was great, Tim. As far as I'm concerned, you're leading the push to put Chicago on the map as a great startup city.
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by baberuth 15y ago
to be clear, i mean a space that is heavily geared towards web based startup/technology hackers. noble tree is a coffee shop and chicago jelly meets there, but it is not a space where you can expect to go meet random hackers pumpingstationo
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by baberuth 15y ago
grubwithus (current YC class) inkling markets (first YC class i believe)
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by baberuth 15y ago
Why is there no General Assembly/Hacker Dojo in Chicago? Is there a demand for it at all? The culture in Chicago seems totally different, would there even be a demand for that sort of thing?
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by baberuth 15y ago
you didn't leave a way to get in touch
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by baberuth 15y ago
Not sure if this is supposed to be an april fools joke, but the post title statement is false, in mandarin and in cantonese. 穀歌; pinyin: Gǔgē
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by baberuth 15y ago
Don't do it. Might be a way to encourage them to pay you, but to your prospective clients who don't know the backstory behind nonpayment, you will seem petty and vindictive. Maybe you didn't deliver as promised, or the bill just slipped thr
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by baberuth 15y ago
The "in another life I could have been a spy" part of me LOVES that this can be done. I've read that with zoom lenses and consumer level dslr you can get high enough quality images to be able to copy someone elses keys without getting withi
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by baberuth 15y ago
malicious code as revenge is petty and immature. life's short. don't be a jerk.
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by baberuth 15y ago
To be a little more helpful: Basically for ACH you get charged per transaction. http://www.achq.com/lz/ach-processing-solutions.php says $.25/transaction, though I've heard that you can find as low as $0.04/transaction.
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by baberuth 15y ago
relevant: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2211928
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by baberuth 15y ago
ACH if you don't want to get ripped up on transaction fees.
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by baberuth 15y ago
Do it. Create interesting material and we will read it. The problem isn't the number of startup blogs, its the number of startup blogs that are started and then languish with no content of value. Good luck with your blog. Recommendation: Yo
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by baberuth 15y ago
Too much has already been written about how easy it is to get some sort of MVP out there, but the real gem in steveblank's article is this: "until you actually commit to them by choosing one idea, quitting your day job and committing yours
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by baberuth 15y ago
Here's my major beef with what's happening. The real metric of business success is whether you have a positive impact — on your industry, on your community, on (in a small way) the world at large. That doesn't always mean starting your own

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