omellet

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by omellet 1y ago
You seem to be ignoring the most important factor, which is cost.
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by omellet 4y ago
If it's TCP then there's an uplink implied.
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by omellet 5y ago
It's a way to fraudulently pump the price (or lower the price) of a security. One person with two accounts can keep trading back and forth with themselves, and since crypto exchange know-your-customer measures are trivial or nonexisten
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by omellet 8y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/11/china-legalise...
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by omellet 9y ago
It is a huge premium. In reality it should only be the future value of the current spot, given the current interest rate. For other types of futures (oil, grains) that have storage costs or seasonality there are other factors that affect th
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by omellet 9y ago
Most people think it's a bubble, and nobody thinks they're the greater fool.
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by omellet 9y ago
It's tidally locked, so you couldn't you put the settlement on the Earth-facing side and not have to worry as much about meteors?
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by omellet 9y ago
Don't cryptocurrency transactions take a lot more time & energy than, say, a credit card transaction?
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by omellet 9y ago
Or you can thank the English for figuring out how to measure longitude.
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by omellet 10y ago
I use VsVim in Visual Studio, highly recommended.
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by omellet 10y ago
I guess C++/CLI doesn't count as a .NET language? Shame it gets so little attention, it's a fantastic interop language.
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by omellet 10y ago
Local tv channels have the broadcast rights for the home team area - like SNY in New York has the rights for the Mets. Their contracts specify that they have exclusive rights to the broadcast for their coverage area, so internet coverage mu
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by omellet 10y ago
Why don't they just build taller buildings?
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by omellet 10y ago
The problem isn't locking so much, it's that you have to dispatch to a kernel thread when you're requesting and sending data, paying the cost of that context switch every time. In userspace you can spin a polling thread on it
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by omellet 10y ago
Now they'll just be held back by lack of a widespread charging infrastructure.
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by omellet 11y ago
Do glaciers move continuously, such that they can be measured like this?
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by omellet 11y ago
Welcome to the surveillance state in your head: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-surveill...
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by omellet 11y ago
He's not a fan of two's complement, I guess.
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by omellet 11y ago
Bicycles aren't allowed on the sidewalk, either.
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by omellet 11y ago
This should have linked to a blank page.
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by omellet 11y ago
It's not an especially high barrier if your strategy doesn't require you to build physical infrastructure (most strategies don't require this). You have programmers, hardware, colocation costs, direct exchange connection cost
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by omellet 11y ago
This piece is an excerpt from the longer Radiolab episode.
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by omellet 11y ago
I agree that it's a waste of talent and money, but how is it evil?
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by omellet 11y ago
That would create a corrupting incentive for the USPTO to encourage and accept more patent filings, which is the opposite of what they should be doing.
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by omellet 12y ago
A better measure would be deaths per driver decision, if you could estimate such a thing.
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by omellet 12y ago
Perforce is not Git-style, it's got a single central repository.
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by omellet 12y ago
The article lists several other fusion approaches that are also in development. Does anyone have a real sense of the likelihood of any of these actually working? I'm optimistic, but also naïve about the engineering challenges.
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by omellet 12y ago
For any amount of time less than it would take a human being to make a decision and take action, it doesn't really matter the latency. Even if the website and newsfeed release were guaranteed simultaneous, the mom & pop investor ty
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by omellet 12y ago
Can't you do the same thing with vimscript (or python, if you're using +python builds)?
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by omellet 12y ago
If you watch the George Bush segment, it shows the reconstructed video from a different angle (straight-on, eliminating the head movement).

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