kirillseva

Just want to point out that once Azure launches their submersible datacenter units Azure Functions may literally become dead in the water.

the whistleblower gets some significant % of settlement

and perfect vs imperfect information - the policy network has to forecast enemy positions and deduce enemy goals. At least in Go you know full game state

He was daring a human-managed fund to outperform S&P500. I don't think Warren is an authority on market's microstructure and quant trading, which these companies exploit.

Basically on very quick trades machines outperform humans. For long term investment a prediction market (stock market index) outperforms humans and machines.

Could you give some examples of how dplyr-based data cleaning code would look in modern julia?

I think it was in f.lux's blog that while f.lux does reduce amount of blue light, apple's built-in night mode (the one on your iphone for example) didn't.

Can't find source now.

> You still have to trust whoever created the rules and wrote the code (from maliciousness and errors).

100% agree with you. Seems like a bunch of people are neglecting this factor or misunderstanding what they are buying into.

Blockchain is not 'distributed trust'. In practice, blockchain centralizes trust. You trust your bitcoin wallet to correctly send money to the addresses that you supply, and correctly generate receiving addresses.

There is only one thing to audit/trust now - the bitcoin protocol and its implementation - instead of studying how modern banking and legal systems work. You trust one thing instead of trusting dozens of middlemen. While this sounds like a non-issue to those who live in "first world" countries like USA and only transact internally, it is a big deal for international transactions and some of the less developed economies.

Blockchain conferences.

Blockchain!

The only solution is to take the unwritten rules and write them down

Great! Have some WINE.

you can't easily make a million from a single dollar that you can double spend. having lots of crypto surely helps reduce the time it takes to satisfy your greed.

This is exactly the point. A risk averse strategy is optimal for areas of a business that you do not have expertise in. If hiring isn't the thing you do best (supposedly your strengths are writing and selling software) then it makes sense to pick a hiring strategy that doesn't cause disruptions.

You have just equated hiring a coder for a job to finding a spouse.