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It would seem that anyone who could consistently arbitrage a currency OR synthetically front run transactions would be able to capture a great deal of value extremely quickly. Furt…

In my experience, it just means that your habits have become that which you don't want them to be. Look into creating a morning routine that gets you to working on something so whe…

By nature a false positive interaction could be re-tested more easily than a false negative though, correct? Also, that fits in with medical "first, do no harm" framework more read…

Sorry for the delay, things got away from me for a while. How little Spanish could one speak and realistically get by? Yo sé un poquito, solamente un poquito. The website says they…

A false positive costs much lower than a false negative in this instance so it should follow that FP should be more common. However, without the data it is still speculation.

Could you please elaborate on your experience with them as a solo founder? Also, how would the US market being the almost sole target impact things?

I'm forwarding your link to some friends who work consistently rotating shifts and need to be accessible. It seems like doctors, nurses, and sysadmins would be potential users. I'l…

Any thoughts on if it is a good idea to sell the apps on Android Marketplace for those who cannot? Essentially a small LLC middleman service that just takes a small % of sales/ad r…

I have no experience in this so be skeptical of this. It might be a good idea to bring on an adviser for this sale? Perhaps talk with a VC just to help on the sale for some flat fe…

There is a central limit theorem joke in here somewhere, I just know it.

What about doing a "partial sort" where the point sum of a discussion thread starts to go lower that it is pushed lower than any zero/positive sum thread? This way discussion threa…

I am aware of that. I felt it warranted repeating for this conversation given what you had written up to my response.

They do. They are also paid extrememly well for that area.

Not everything is binary. Other people have different motivations than you. Not everyone does an Ironman for bragging rights. Not everyone starts a company for bragging rights.

The implication, however, is that they were doing something shady that the rest of the credit rating agencies were not -- which is incorrect.

Not only that, the BRK & GS deal was hugely publicized as were the favorable terms for BRK. Anyone who would care about it probably would have known that already. He is watched wit…

I hadn't seen the SECWatch site. It looks like there is a lot of potential there, thank you.

I am doing a side project on investing need financial statements: balance sheets, income statements, cash flows. The SEC's EDGAR tool is terrible and Google & Yahoo have a lot of c…

One important application of course being that if P=NP and we can prove it is that encryption as we know it today would no longer be viable with public key systems. Also, if I reca…

A much better example would be technology brought us companies like LTCM and other quantitative investments that allowed people to borrow 30-70% of assets for leveraged investment …

Part of it is that back then if a child was acting up, they would get disciplined at school and then disciplined ten-fold at home. It is a lot easier to teach a room filled with ch…

I would imagine bringing back "shop class" would be a good start. Or allowing students to take electrician, plumbing, etc classes at another school for credit would be a good start…

On the other hand... anecdote != data. That you were allowed to take APs early in your high school career is rare. That you were allowed to take higher level math/science is rare. …

Quite frankly, we can't judge our own competence very well without the wisdom of age and careful observation & contemplation. Even then, we can only judge our competence relative t…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreducible_complexity#Response... Also, I would think that exptime-complete problems we could call irreducibly complex :) My first thoughts strayed to…