thomaspaine

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by thomaspaine 1y ago
I work on the ledgering system at clear street and as far as I know we have no plans to do this. We evaluated it internally a few years ago and found that the account and transaction model was too different from ours to migrate over.
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by thomaspaine 5y ago
For everyone complaining about evidence citation, this is just a press release. The actual brief which includes 41 citations is here: https://world-heart-federation.org/wp-content/uploads/WHF-Po...
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by thomaspaine 6y ago
>I have worked with Indian subcontractors that have waited 20 years! And you think this suspension will help them?
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by thomaspaine 6y ago
ITT: People criticizing the H1B program for reasons that have nothing to do with why it was suspended, or considering the fate of people/families who are already here on H1Bs. This is a pretty obvious move by the administration to disc
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by thomaspaine 7y ago
>Getting caught up in the parts of a job that don’t matter is a dangerous trap and for some reason one that a lot of people fall into. Let other people play political games and avoid them as much as you can. My experience at big compani
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by thomaspaine 7y ago
You're not wrong, this headline is very poorly worded. From the article: >A recent study estimates that more than a quarter of all that waste could be pouring in from just 10 rivers, eight of them in Asia. >The 10 rivers that car
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by thomaspaine 8y ago
Law suits seem to be the standard tactic for dealing with other types of corporate negligence (for better or worse). Why aren't they employed more for these types of obvious security vulnerabilities if you can demonstrate harm?
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by thomaspaine 8y ago
> The cause? A coder had mistakenly programmed a router to send placeholder bids as live orders. If not for the good graces of the options exchanges, the bank would have lost $500 million, according to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Co
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by thomaspaine 9y ago
Why can't you publish multiple salary ranges per job post (level 1: $X1 - $Y1, level 2: $X2 - $Y2, etc) or multiple job posts (one for each level)? Neglecting to publish a salary range seems more like a negotiation tactic on behalf of
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by thomaspaine 9y ago
As someone who works in a bank, if I sent trading data off to an external service I'd be fired almost immediately. Even things like pretty printing services are monitored and blocked.
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by thomaspaine 10y ago
>I distinctly remember that most of the mean scores were between 8 and 9. One was as high as 8.7. I was told by several people that the ratings are normalized to adjust for this.
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by thomaspaine 12y ago
Markov chains have a lot of nice features you can derive from them, like convergence to a stationary distribution. It's hard to say that it's an inappropriate simplification if it happens to be pragmatic (like most simplifications
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by thomaspaine 12y ago
>neither Wal-Mart nor Jack’s nor the nursing home cafeteria have shown interest in an applicant with psoriasis and a ninth-grade education. People who only have ninth-grade educations aren't the greatest at basic math or delayed gra
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by thomaspaine 13y ago
REST doesn't have to be JSON, it's agnostic with regard to the serialization format. JSON is just a popular format but I've seen XML and YAML REST apis.
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by thomaspaine 13y ago
I have the Costco Amex too, but how often are you going to Costco that you're carrying it around everyday?
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by thomaspaine 13y ago
Why do you need to carry around four debit cards and a backup credit card? I'm not saying this works for everyone but my wallet contains $20, a driver's license, and a credit card. If I'm going to be somewhere where I might n
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by thomaspaine 13y ago
How so? "Classically liberal" is a way of differentiating oneself from the modern definition of liberal and is basically a friendly way of saying "libertarian" without invoking images of Glen Beck.
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by thomaspaine 13y ago
It's a cool experiment but not altogether surprising right? The provenance of a piece of artwork, and other rare goods, is arguably more important than the art itself. Especially in the case of artwork which is easily reproducible and
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by thomaspaine 13y ago
I don't think he's implying social networking will go out of fashion, but that social networking companies themselves can be fashionable. For instance the progression of "cool" social networking sites seems to progress p
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by thomaspaine 13y ago
You should finish the quote... >Kickstarter is amazing, but one of the hidden catches is that once you have taken a bunch of people's money to do a thing, you have to actually do that thing, and not some other thing that you thought
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by thomaspaine 13y ago
What's wrong with the library?
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by thomaspaine 13y ago
Small nominal inflation encourages investment, whereas deflation incentivizes people to just hold their money in the form of cash.
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by thomaspaine 13y ago
>in the world of calibration in macroeconomic models, the creator of the model is now testing data against theory by tuning parameters to values they think are good. It is completely backwards. This is a little inaccurate, the purpose o
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by thomaspaine 13y ago
Grok (formerly Numenta) has a slightly more technical white paper that goes into more detail on the actual algorithms from On Intelligence: https://www.groksolutions.com/htm-overview/education/HTM_Cor... There are some subtle differences
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by thomaspaine 13y ago
Is a $50,000 car a necessity? $20,000? $10,000? Is a car a necessity at all? How about food? Is a $250 dinner at Saison a necessity? $5 dinner at McDonalds? $20 per pound imported beef at the grocery store? $200 jeans vs $80 vs $20? Are gla
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by thomaspaine 14y ago
>Probable or definite atherosclerosis was noted in 47 (34%) of 137 mummies and in all four geographical populations: 29 (38%) of 76 ancient Egyptians, 13 (25%) of 51 ancient Peruvians, two (40%) of five Ancestral Puebloans, and three (6
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by thomaspaine 14y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AM09X2ZJWk It's bad, but I would say its notoriety comes more from the fact that it's so bad relative to the neighboring blocks. Walk two blocks and you're at the Westfield mall / Union Square.
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by thomaspaine 14y ago
Is incineration really the more environmentally friendly way to go? How does this compare to something like coal in terms of environmental impact? I'm imagining giant trash furnaces spewing ash and smoke into the sky but I'm guessing that t
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by thomaspaine 14y ago
The reason you see made-to-measure more so with suits as opposed to more casual wear is because suits are highly structured garments. They have to fit correctly in a lot of different places, whereas knitwear like t-shirts and polos stretch
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by thomaspaine 14y ago
What does this have to do with anything other than that both articles happen to use the word "suits"? This isn't a story about the suit making a comeback, it's about old world artisanship struggling to survive in a 21st century economy.

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