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Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails by Nassim Taleb.

Yea, because that's been working great thus far.

Nice, Robinhood is a publisher now!

Thanks for the pallene link! Terra was fun to play with but I've always wanted a simple compiled Lua.

I think most "master" software engineers are a bit more idealistic than that... Not saying I am a master but I occasionally write something and consider it genuinely beautiful.

It seems like with Quora you either get very bad or very good answers. The good ones tend to be significantly older, i.e. before it got big and people started to gamify the system.…

Any time someone logs into your account you immediately get a notification on all devices with the IP address the attempt originated from.

The most interesting thing about Telegram to me is the development team: about 10 very good engineers who travel with Pavel and work from hotels.

It's not clear who made Telegram's crypto but it was probably Nikolai Durov who is a genius mathematician and engineer, so it's not like it's some guy in a garage.

I found it interesting that direct calls (just calling one of your contacts) can be peer-to-peer if you enable it in the settings. They even have a unique code at the top of the sc…

"All systems operational" What's the point of a status page if it doesn't reflect the real status... It's either the status page goes down with everything else or the status page i…

> So, if we can't stop the project from happening, what can we do? > 1. Do nothing. Assume that you will be able to grow and borrow forever. The Fed is buying individual corporate …

Glad you liked it! > does it have a distributed mode like groupcache? Not at the moment, no. Though it could, theoretically, be used within groupcache. We'll look into that as it h…

Thank you. The sync.Pool lossy ring buffers are probably my favorite innovation, especially because of how little code it is. I was worried about type casting as well and generally…

Thank you for the kind words! You're right about our rabbit holes. Our initial "why" for this project was essentially: "Caffeine is written in Java with excellent performance. Go s…

Do you have a source for their blockchain being launched EOY? I've been following their blockchain project since the whitepaper, and they've been quietly missing their launch goals…

Bisqwit?

If you need flashcards to remember syntax, you're probably not writing/reading enough code.

I think you're underestimating the cryptocurrency "hodl" hysteria...

> It certainly didn’t help that the crypto community was choke-full of conspiracy theorists, libertarians that never read anything else after falling in love with Ayn Rand as teena…

I'm curious how people still consider BCH a viable currency after the 51% attack done "in good faith" by a major mining pools BTC.top and BTC.com [1]. What's to stop them from doin…

Luke 19:26 repeats the line but within the context of money. It certainly isn't an "endorsement of the 1 percent", but more a statement of truth observed in virtually every human d…

You're right about that specific verse but that line is repeated throughout the Bible - some within the specific context of compounding money (Luke 19:26). It applies to the articl…

Thanks for writing this. I'd love to hear your input on a possible application for this. I'm not sure if you're aware, but Counting Bloom Filters are useful as space efficient coun…