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manipulate foreign equity markets

That one took me back to high school art history. Agree, as much as I dislike AI generated art, it still is art. An Andy Warhol of today would could be making his screenprints usin…

Yea agree, I worked at a bank during covid and helped do some work that tangentially helped relief/social security payments go through. Warmed me heart it did

Don't feel left out, big data architect in NZ and didn't even hear of this.

the flood!

NOAA is fantastic, I was alpine climbing in the very bottom of south america near El Chalten and NOAA is pretty much the only place to get a reliable forecast down there. Fantastic…

computational reducibility/irreducibility is a big topic in computer science and is incredibly interesting. It allows us to prove that certain "computers" are the same through proo…

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subtle off green PCB, my god, that's really nice

I wonder why no one has introduced a hybrid of the two, for example, you have a private key on your Gov ID, you turn up to the polling station, sign your paper with your ID, bob's …

I work in finance and it's great having big historical datasets, even if the figures are far lower in previous years it's good to see system 'shocks' and these can be used at a dif…

Amex isn't very popular in my country but they meet a really good intersection between the old school white glove service and an easily usable hassle free modern service

I imagine the "talks" amount to one of them (probably ghostface) telling them to go f themselves

I grew up lower middle class, which gave me a good hunger to go to college, get a degree and make some money. VCs are trying to incentivise that same mindset except by making with …

It's a great thing to do, I get the warm fuzzies when I help someone on a mailing list,even on big projects like Apache Spark, I'm not the smartest guy and can't help write a query…

that's such a sad statistic, people in the prime of their life, mainly caused by being out enjoying life at the wrong time

My computer programs always crashed in my first year of college, clear sign computers fail spectacularly

you took on the settlement risk and got paid for it, if you look into financial markets and central clearing and OTC contracts, central clearing/exchanges effectively get rid of th…

I somehow think the ccp might look favourably and ignore some liabilities if someone else becomes the new bag holder, you know, saving their RE industry and stuff

seems you missed a vital step of selecting something after your search

I was being a bit naive/non-descript in my first comment but I'm a pretty firm believer they already had some secret sauce that could do the same job of summarising the information…

Haven't we been in that era since the Patriot Act and Five Eyes?

Cambridge did a great study on how 'real' these credits are https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/carbon-credits-hot-air

I really really like partitioned data formats like Parquet/Delta etc that allow this for this reason. Often do stuff like this in our data warehouse but hadn't thought of 'psuedo p…

What do I care if the King of Sweden does the math problem or the guy at the desk next to me? Only knowing the answer is correct is what matters to me