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This article is sensationalism dressed up as economic reasoning. In the opening paragraph, the author fails to make the distinction between profits trending toward zero versus pric…

Yes, I contradicted your assertions that a) it is MIT and JSTOR that have primary discretion in whether a criminal case moves forward (it is the government's sole discretion) b) MI…

Strictly speaking this is not correct. JSTOR and MIT cannot bring criminal charges; only the US government may. They can bring civil charges on their own behalf in addition to the …

I just see this as an incremental development, rather than a revolutionary one. As I mentioned above, the server is still very involved with UI events and navigation. If the user c…

Well yes, now you can perform more manipulation of the page without needing a roundtrip to the server, but saving the state of the application still involves one, unless you are th…

Some things from this article just don't make sense to me. Like, why is AJAX/client-side MVC pointed out as something that overcomes the HTTP request/response cycle? No, it doesn't…

I would be curious to do this and am in Chicago. Hopefully I wouldn't hold back the group!

Should this article be retitled: Understanding Groupon Means Understanding Accounting Fraud?

Absolutely. Indeed risk is not even just about the "customer's" (in this case, the nation of Greece) inability to pay, but also counterparty risk. It's not just Deutschebank that's…

From the looks of it, the program merely learned the rules of the game by doing textual analysis of the manual, and maybe got a few strategic hints as well. As for actually learnin…

One might argue that the algorithms used by Wall Street firms to trade the stock market learned how to play long ago... ;).

I've been working on a new site in Pyramid (the successor to Pylons), and I have to say so far it's been an impressive experience. They took a bit of a different philosophy than Dj…

Not just a housing bubble but a bubble in the exact same industry sector as well! Of course, a bubble is fundamentally a gross mismatch between future expectations and actual retur…

Yeah, scaling past one machine will make your joins slow. But is that really the _only_ thing that makes joins slow? I thought the broader performance problem with joins had more t…

That was a good point in the presentation I thought, but I objected on the slide that suggested you wouldn't learn anything from it either (slide 28). How could you not learn somet…

I think a lot of conventional analysis of investments is looking more foolish than usual because the market isn't keying off what people think it is. Three major things have domina…

Touche

Am I a loser because I didn't feel like downloading a Scala compiler or translating this to a language I do have an interpreter for, so I just got the table from man ascii, counted…

I thought this was going to be another one of those benchmarking articles, but it was really a great exercise in how lateral thinking can produce clean solutions. The more I hear a…

Is this a full-on bubble? No, it's probably nothing like the 1990's. But I still think the truth is that today's monetary situation is creating an incentive to chase yields, and it…

But don't you think we're seeing those in commodities and many stocks, including but not limited to tech stocks? You wouldn't see it in real estate, because popped bubbles don't re…