jerry5

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by jerry5 18y ago
Shht. computer 'scientists' are the ones that didn't make it into the physical sciences. No need to stoke their inferiority complex any further.
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by jerry5 18y ago
I had to laugh when I read the quoted students reponse to the wrong output. Just introduce a simple correction that fulfills the requirement for his particular test case. Why you'd wonder what the academic standards are in a univesity that
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by jerry5 18y ago
The article complains about 'gimmicks'. People around here believe in producing tangible prototypes for $15,000 in three months, what can you expect but gimmicks?
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by jerry5 18y ago
P.S. The portals (I worked for one of those) are a step in the right direction as their convenient UI and STP lowers the cost of a transaction in terms of human effort, but other than that add little value on top of what's offered by the ba
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by jerry5 18y ago
Aims (1) and (2) are correct. If there are more 'exotics' to go around and they become more easily accessbile (i.e. low transaction fees), wouldn't there be more competition on the currency market? Online retailers could quote prices in the
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by jerry5 18y ago
Hm, I said I found FX 'inspiring', but didn't say 'inspiring for a startup'. As I mentioned elsewhere my interest is more in P2P networks, and those elude classic funding strategies. The STP I'm referring to relates to automatic roundtrips
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by jerry5 18y ago
Huh, wouldn't be able to comment on that. Of course this being Hacker News my interest lies more in changing the way things work through technology , I thought you had ideas that way. I was fascinated by "straight through processing" which
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by jerry5 18y ago
I have a vague idea what you mean by the 'inefficiencies'. I am wondering whether these would have manifested in the first place if IT had been given a more central role. It's a lot about motivation too, the 'central' people in a business a
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by jerry5 18y ago
Well go read above-linked article and tell me whether Yale does a good job in the "Human Resources Investment" idea posited by the parent comment.
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by jerry5 18y ago
> I completely agree with this. I don't honestly feel people of good faith need to deal with complicated rules or institutions. But not everyone is willing to go that route, so this is an idea which might serve the other 99%. I sometime
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by jerry5 18y ago
No one needs the reasons spelt out for them. That the current system has deficiencies is more or less painfully obvious to everyone. I may read some of your stuff later.
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by jerry5 18y ago
The karma system is a popularity contest as discussed in the various Hacker-News-is-going-down-the-drain discussions that have been popping up here a lot as of late. To any one who grew up with /. that's not a surprise. In that respect I fo
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by jerry5 18y ago
Also see this quote from this [ http://www.theamericanscholar.org/su08/elite-deresiewicz.htm... ] article: "the purpose of Yale College is to manufacture Yale alumni"
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by jerry5 18y ago
No I couldn't tell, because I stopped reading at "human resources". But since you stand corrected I'll stand corrected too and wrote a thoughtful reply above.
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by jerry5 18y ago
This is pretty much what universities do, especially the more elitist kind. Alumni don't have a contractual obligation to pay x% of their income, but in practice they end up making donations to their alma mater for the rest of their life. H
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by jerry5 18y ago
> "Human Resource Investment" Oh yeah, humans just love to be called 'resources'.
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by jerry5 18y ago
> some sort of trading system that mixed FX with a whole bunch of wacky synthetics to allow you to easily take positions on things which are normally more complicated Heh, what's this? I worked in FX at one point in time and found the w
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by jerry5 18y ago
The Wall Street Journal disses Wall Street!? ZOMFG
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by jerry5 18y ago
You are right as are the other commentors. However it seems that the difference between a 'social news' site and a forum aren't huge, i.e. forum software could be spruced up with a few lines of php and they'd be the same.
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by jerry5 18y ago
Sorry on the first 10 or so pages I saw just blah blah. Don't spam the forum here if you have nothing to offer.
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by jerry5 18y ago
I've sometimes wondered whether IT isn't becoming the 'core' part of a business. I.e. the one that's most complex and drives the competitive edge and success of a business. I have worked in IT in many different industries and often enough f
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by jerry5 18y ago
If you wan to mock someone why not mock the original post that's asking for new economic models?
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by jerry5 18y ago
With all the ventriliquists that I have seen that's exactly the sort of thing their sock puppets do.
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by jerry5 18y ago
As for my personal projects, see the answer to rms below. As for anyone else's projects, even though they promise to put you in front of the right people eventually, you have to have some small-time prototype to show before they put you thr
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by jerry5 18y ago
Just put the offer on ycombinator's - or another reputable entity's - web site for everyone to see. However the "call me" part is half joking; while I have ideas to tackle some of those problems, especially the economic foundations of them,
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by jerry5 18y ago
Well thanks for disagreeing "passionately", seems like you have evidence that I don't have. I can only hope for you that your conclusions match your reality and that you will therefore have a happy life with no bad surprises.
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by jerry5 18y ago
Hm, seems like pg & co. want to have all the big problems of business and the economy solved for $15,000. I guess if you're only funding kiddies with amounts equivalent to the allowance they get from their parents, all you get is kiddie
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by jerry5 18y ago
P.S. This seems right out of the mouth of Ron Paul, who to my amazement seemed to have developed some following on reddit. 'Amazing' because his ideas don't even withstand superficial scrutiny, the kind of scrutiny that forums like this app
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by jerry5 18y ago
I've seen reports on fuel from algae, that seems very promising.
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by jerry5 18y ago
Mister, property rights and the legal system are entirely functions implemented by a centralized government. So it's not either/or. It's just a question of which centralized government mechanism we want. Trespassing laws and the legal sys

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