I find the environmental criticisms here bizarre; do the communication mechanisms the rest of us use suddenly have no environmental costs?
In fairness, that sounds apocryphal. If it were really common then there would be no money in doing it because the market would have factored in days before the event the fact that the price were going to fall.
It might be the reason that Apple are infringing on the patent is that they are selling, not just using, a product which contains something which infringes the patent.
Thanks, that's an interesting article.
Do you have a link to what you consider to be a good description/definition/tutorial of "Data Oriented Programming"?
If the two larger circles had that ratio then it would imply that the two circles in the bottom left and bottom right would have the same radius. Which they don't appear to. So the ratio between the two larger circles…
I'm not really sure what you mean. If company X allows customers to pay for goods/services with bitcoins then they would be able to pay the wages of their employees using the bitcoins.
> Can someone else explain, why i'd take time off of work to do this job interview? Why not take a day off and interview with Google/Apple/Microsoft instead? Surely it depends on the job. Maybe it's paying twice as…
Wouldn't the geometric mean of 1 and 3 be sqrt(3) ?
But that's precisely the point, if they're all "highly logical" then in the island-wtih-3-brown-and-1-green case the person with green eyes can't correctly know their eye colour so can't kill themself. But they are in…
Suppose instead of being 900 brown eyed people there are X brown eyed people. Suppose X is one, then the brown eyed person appears to be stuck, all the blue eyed people are dead so he knows he doesn't have blue eyes,…
You originally said that the people with brown eyes would commit suicide after 900 days. Can you explain to me how any of them can know for sure that they don't have green eyes?
> It's only a short reprieve though; because either the browns know that only two colours exist (and so on day 100 immediately know they are brown) or they face the same conundrum as blue, and commit suicide on day…
I wouldn't really agree that it doesn't work out in practice. For the systems that I work on, the concept of privacy is extremely useful, perhaps we're doing things 'the wrong way' to believe that but I don't think…
I'd have to politely disagree; if your class has mutable state and you want to maintain some invariant relationships amongst the elements of your class then as far as I can see you really need to be able to specify that…
I haven't followed the story that well, and only skim read this article, but there was a four-ish hour outage in the morning last week. I think the LSE came up OK for about half an hour but then went down (although it…
So they're not falling over themselves to fix a bug which no one has noticed for 10+ years, and which hardly anyone is going to hit in actual use. Maybe they're spending their time fixing problems which are actually…
Have you done any research on this? Assume for a moment that the exam results of students follow a bell shaped curve and that the mean and standard deviation of exam results in the state and private sector are the same,…
Only some UK universities have a collegiate system (Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, St. Andrews(?)). Most do not (I believe) and I imagine are roughly similar to US universities. At collegiate universities there is a split…
Although you then have to solve two problems; optimizing the constraints, and then optimizing within the constraints. If I applied the arbitrary constraint that x must be an odd multiple of pi, then I'm not going to get…
I think you're generally right that people would normally choose the better prices. A few hypothetical reasons why someone might not could be: once fees/commissions are included the exchange with the worse price could…
I'm not really sure what you're talking about. A market participant will choose which exchange to execute a trade on based on their analysis of those exchanges. If for a particular trade they decide that out of all the…
There are markets outside of the US though, where it would be possible to buy on the more expensive exchange.
They're not shafting anyone, no one will be obliged to trade on this market. People are only going to trade on it if they believe they'll gain some advantage through doing it - so conversely you could argue that by…
Well, here's a situation where it can't happen: Exchange A: Price you can BUY ACME Co. = $34.50 Exchange B: Price you can BUY ACME Co. = $34.45 Exchange B: Price you can SELL ACME Co. = $34.40 Exchange A: Price you can…
I find the environmental criticisms here bizarre; do the communication mechanisms the rest of us use suddenly have no environmental costs?
In fairness, that sounds apocryphal. If it were really common then there would be no money in doing it because the market would have factored in days before the event the fact that the price were going to fall.
It might be the reason that Apple are infringing on the patent is that they are selling, not just using, a product which contains something which infringes the patent.
Thanks, that's an interesting article.
Do you have a link to what you consider to be a good description/definition/tutorial of "Data Oriented Programming"?
If the two larger circles had that ratio then it would imply that the two circles in the bottom left and bottom right would have the same radius. Which they don't appear to. So the ratio between the two larger circles…
I'm not really sure what you mean. If company X allows customers to pay for goods/services with bitcoins then they would be able to pay the wages of their employees using the bitcoins.
> Can someone else explain, why i'd take time off of work to do this job interview? Why not take a day off and interview with Google/Apple/Microsoft instead? Surely it depends on the job. Maybe it's paying twice as…
Wouldn't the geometric mean of 1 and 3 be sqrt(3) ?
But that's precisely the point, if they're all "highly logical" then in the island-wtih-3-brown-and-1-green case the person with green eyes can't correctly know their eye colour so can't kill themself. But they are in…
Suppose instead of being 900 brown eyed people there are X brown eyed people. Suppose X is one, then the brown eyed person appears to be stuck, all the blue eyed people are dead so he knows he doesn't have blue eyes,…
You originally said that the people with brown eyes would commit suicide after 900 days. Can you explain to me how any of them can know for sure that they don't have green eyes?
> It's only a short reprieve though; because either the browns know that only two colours exist (and so on day 100 immediately know they are brown) or they face the same conundrum as blue, and commit suicide on day…
I wouldn't really agree that it doesn't work out in practice. For the systems that I work on, the concept of privacy is extremely useful, perhaps we're doing things 'the wrong way' to believe that but I don't think…
I'd have to politely disagree; if your class has mutable state and you want to maintain some invariant relationships amongst the elements of your class then as far as I can see you really need to be able to specify that…
I haven't followed the story that well, and only skim read this article, but there was a four-ish hour outage in the morning last week. I think the LSE came up OK for about half an hour but then went down (although it…
So they're not falling over themselves to fix a bug which no one has noticed for 10+ years, and which hardly anyone is going to hit in actual use. Maybe they're spending their time fixing problems which are actually…
Have you done any research on this? Assume for a moment that the exam results of students follow a bell shaped curve and that the mean and standard deviation of exam results in the state and private sector are the same,…
Only some UK universities have a collegiate system (Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, St. Andrews(?)). Most do not (I believe) and I imagine are roughly similar to US universities. At collegiate universities there is a split…
Although you then have to solve two problems; optimizing the constraints, and then optimizing within the constraints. If I applied the arbitrary constraint that x must be an odd multiple of pi, then I'm not going to get…
I think you're generally right that people would normally choose the better prices. A few hypothetical reasons why someone might not could be: once fees/commissions are included the exchange with the worse price could…
I'm not really sure what you're talking about. A market participant will choose which exchange to execute a trade on based on their analysis of those exchanges. If for a particular trade they decide that out of all the…
There are markets outside of the US though, where it would be possible to buy on the more expensive exchange.
They're not shafting anyone, no one will be obliged to trade on this market. People are only going to trade on it if they believe they'll gain some advantage through doing it - so conversely you could argue that by…
Well, here's a situation where it can't happen: Exchange A: Price you can BUY ACME Co. = $34.50 Exchange B: Price you can BUY ACME Co. = $34.45 Exchange B: Price you can SELL ACME Co. = $34.40 Exchange A: Price you can…