pwhelan

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by pwhelan 8y ago
It would seem that anyone who could consistently arbitrage a currency OR synthetically front run transactions would be able to capture a great deal of value extremely quickly. Further, they should have an easily identifiable and intelligibl
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by pwhelan 14y ago
In my experience, it just means that your habits have become that which you don't want them to be. Look into creating a morning routine that gets you to working on something so when you wake up you get out of bed and start something, anythi
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by pwhelan 15y ago
By nature a false positive interaction could be re-tested more easily than a false negative though, correct? Also, that fits in with medical "first, do no harm" framework more readily.
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by pwhelan 15y ago
Sorry for the delay, things got away from me for a while. How little Spanish could one speak and realistically get by? Yo sé un poquito, solamente un poquito. The website says they work in English but the general Chileans? If the idea is a
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by pwhelan 15y ago
A false positive costs much lower than a false negative in this instance so it should follow that FP should be more common. However, without the data it is still speculation.
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by pwhelan 15y ago
Could you please elaborate on your experience with them as a solo founder? Also, how would the US market being the almost sole target impact things?
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by pwhelan 16y ago
I'm forwarding your link to some friends who work consistently rotating shifts and need to be accessible. It seems like doctors, nurses, and sysadmins would be potential users. I'll ping you if they have any feedback.
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Ask HN: Selling Android apps for devs who cannot?
1 points by pwhelan 16y ago|0 comments
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by pwhelan 16y ago
I have no experience in this so be skeptical of this. It might be a good idea to bring on an adviser for this sale? Perhaps talk with a VC just to help on the sale for some flat fee -- say 5k$ + 3% of the sale - transactions fees? Use your
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by pwhelan 16y ago
There is a central limit theorem joke in here somewhere, I just know it.
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by pwhelan 16y ago
What about doing a "partial sort" where the point sum of a discussion thread starts to go lower that it is pushed lower than any zero/positive sum thread? This way discussion threads that are low quality tend to be pushed away, but the rest
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by pwhelan 16y ago
I am aware of that. I felt it warranted repeating for this conversation given what you had written up to my response.
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by pwhelan 16y ago
They do. They are also paid extrememly well for that area.
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by pwhelan 16y ago
Not everything is binary. Other people have different motivations than you. Not everyone does an Ironman for bragging rights. Not everyone starts a company for bragging rights.
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by pwhelan 16y ago
The implication, however, is that they were doing something shady that the rest of the credit rating agencies were not -- which is incorrect.
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by pwhelan 16y ago
Not only that, the BRK & GS deal was hugely publicized as were the favorable terms for BRK. Anyone who would care about it probably would have known that already. He is watched with millions of eyes for his every move. Anyone who who ow
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by pwhelan 16y ago
I hadn't seen the SECWatch site. It looks like there is a lot of potential there, thank you.
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Ask HN: Where can I find free/cheap financial data?
37 points by pwhelan 16y ago|10 comments
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by pwhelan 16y ago
One important application of course being that if P=NP and we can prove it is that encryption as we know it today would no longer be viable with public key systems. Also, if I recall correctly the protein problems that Folding At Home works
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by pwhelan 16y ago
A much better example would be technology brought us companies like LTCM and other quantitative investments that allowed people to borrow 30-70% of assets for leveraged investment (which when the funds had to de-leverage and were unwinding
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by pwhelan 16y ago
Part of it is that back then if a child was acting up, they would get disciplined at school and then disciplined ten-fold at home. It is a lot easier to teach a room filled with children who are willing to put in the work or at least not sc
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by pwhelan 16y ago
I would imagine bringing back "shop class" would be a good start. Or allowing students to take electrician, plumbing, etc classes at another school for credit would be a good start. I much rather would have taken Electrician 101 than Introd
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by pwhelan 16y ago
On the other hand... anecdote != data. That you were allowed to take APs early in your high school career is rare. That you were allowed to take higher level math/science is rare. That a university accepted a 16(?) year old student is also
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by pwhelan 16y ago
Quite frankly, we can't judge our own competence very well without the wisdom of age and careful observation & contemplation. Even then, we can only judge our competence relative to others. This is assuming we have a working, widely acc
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by pwhelan 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreducible_complexity#Response... Also, I would think that exptime-complete problems we could call irreducibly complex :) My first thoughts strayed to computability theory though.
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by pwhelan 16y ago
I think Bertrand Russell put it best when he wrote, "[t]he fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." I have found the smarter (and in the majority, not all) som
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by pwhelan 16y ago
You would probably like Linked by Barabasi -- it is similar, but Barabasi is an academic (my barabasi # would be 2!)
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by pwhelan 16y ago
'I don't get all this passive-agressive "holier-than-thou" attitude towards Gladwell being famous I've been seeing lately. Who cares if he's famous?' It reminds me of what PG said about this in his "why to not not start a startup" -- he is
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by pwhelan 16y ago
Having just read that, I wouldn't characterize it as "Pinker curb-stomping Gladwell"... at all.
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by pwhelan 16y ago
I read his book of the same title. It is entertaining, but I agree that he makes some questionable interesting assumptions. I get the feeling that he starts with a conclusion that he knows will get some attention or likes -- and then works

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