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I work on the ledgering system at clear street and as far as I know we have no plans to do this. We evaluated it internally a few years ago and found that the account and transacti…

For everyone complaining about evidence citation, this is just a press release. The actual brief which includes 41 citations is here: https://world-heart-federation.org/wp-content/…

>I have worked with Indian subcontractors that have waited 20 years! And you think this suspension will help them?

ITT: People criticizing the H1B program for reasons that have nothing to do with why it was suspended, or considering the fate of people/families who are already here on H1Bs. This…

>Getting caught up in the parts of a job that don’t matter is a dangerous trap and for some reason one that a lot of people fall into. Let other people play political games and avo…

You're not wrong, this headline is very poorly worded. From the article: >A recent study estimates that more than a quarter of all that waste could be pouring in from just 10 river…

Law suits seem to be the standard tactic for dealing with other types of corporate negligence (for better or worse). Why aren't they employed more for these types of obvious securi…

> The cause? A coder had mistakenly programmed a router to send placeholder bids as live orders. If not for the good graces of the options exchanges, the bank would have lost $500 …

Why can't you publish multiple salary ranges per job post (level 1: $X1 - $Y1, level 2: $X2 - $Y2, etc) or multiple job posts (one for each level)? Neglecting to publish a salary r…

As someone who works in a bank, if I sent trading data off to an external service I'd be fired almost immediately. Even things like pretty printing services are monitored and block…

>I distinctly remember that most of the mean scores were between 8 and 9. One was as high as 8.7. I was told by several people that the ratings are normalized to adjust for this.

Markov chains have a lot of nice features you can derive from them, like convergence to a stationary distribution. It's hard to say that it's an inappropriate simplification if it …

>neither Wal-Mart nor Jack’s nor the nursing home cafeteria have shown interest in an applicant with psoriasis and a ninth-grade education. People who only have ninth-grade educati…

REST doesn't have to be JSON, it's agnostic with regard to the serialization format. JSON is just a popular format but I've seen XML and YAML REST apis.

I have the Costco Amex too, but how often are you going to Costco that you're carrying it around everyday?

Why do you need to carry around four debit cards and a backup credit card? I'm not saying this works for everyone but my wallet contains $20, a driver's license, and a credit card.…

How so? "Classically liberal" is a way of differentiating oneself from the modern definition of liberal and is basically a friendly way of saying "libertarian" without invoking ima…

It's a cool experiment but not altogether surprising right? The provenance of a piece of artwork, and other rare goods, is arguably more important than the art itself. Especially i…

I don't think he's implying social networking will go out of fashion, but that social networking companies themselves can be fashionable. For instance the progression of "cool" soc…

You should finish the quote... >Kickstarter is amazing, but one of the hidden catches is that once you have taken a bunch of people's money to do a thing, you have to actually do t…

What's wrong with the library?

Small nominal inflation encourages investment, whereas deflation incentivizes people to just hold their money in the form of cash.

>in the world of calibration in macroeconomic models, the creator of the model is now testing data against theory by tuning parameters to values they think are good. It is complete…

Grok (formerly Numenta) has a slightly more technical white paper that goes into more detail on the actual algorithms from On Intelligence: https://www.groksolutions.com/htm-overvi…

Is a $50,000 car a necessity? $20,000? $10,000? Is a car a necessity at all? How about food? Is a $250 dinner at Saison a necessity? $5 dinner at McDonalds? $20 per pound imported …