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> you allow for subjective speculation

Don't you need to speculate at one moment or another to improves physics?

Of course you can only do that once you studied physics a lot, but if you want to be creative in physics, don't you have to "speculate" that work with the data?
> Assuming the Brexit works for the UK, I am just waiting to see who's next.

Given that the indications so far is that the Brexit vote has made attitudes towards the EU far more positive so far, it'd need to be amazingly successful for the UK for anyone else to leave at this point, and I don't anyone here that don't expect it to be a massively painful experience, even if they voted to leave.
> So, rather than try to eliminate the arbitrage opportunity, put reaction times into a human time scale and let every actor share.

Why? We don't need a minimum wage for market makers.
> your main goal should be to do things that make your boss satisfied

Yes, but only during those working hours. Outside of the work, you can have another goal which could be even more "main".
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You manage a German bank. You follow strict capitalisation rules, are careful about the loans you make and operate your business according to the highest principles.

You clients start doing more and more of their business with an Italian bank that has poor capital reserves and a shoddy loan book and is losing money, but offers better terms to customers. The bank looks like it's going to fail, so the Italian government props it up with cheap credit and buys it's bad loans at above market rates so that it can stay in business - and keep winning business off you because it's still offering better terms to customers. Plus now those customers know the bank won't go bust and they can rely on it because the Italian government will support it no matter what.

The customer's business is being indirectly subsidised by the Italian government through below-market banking fees. Why should they ever do business with you again?
You're not the only one: http://www.hortidaily.com/article/20364/Germany-Only-Dutch-t...
Welcome to the wonderful world of quality control :)

Making something is easy, making something with a high repeat accuracy and very low fail percentage is super hard.

I learned this the hard way myself with an IO expander for the Atari ST that I designed. I needed it to drive the lathe/mill controller, the ST simply had too little IO capacity so with a bunch of decoders and latches I was able to drive a much larger number of motors and relays.

The first one worked like a charm. So did the second and the third. But the fourth, we couldn't get it to work no matter what. Part variability led to some signal arriving just that much earlier causing the latches to remember data that was still stale. The reason was - in retrospect - quite simple, the design had assumed that the input to the latches had long stabilized before the latch pulse was sent. But because on the ST the latch pulse took a different route as well there could occur a tricky situation where the output of the buffer driving the data bus on the far side would still be rising. To make things worse, this would not happen repeatably, only with certain patterns of 1's and 0's. In the end, a single buffer in line with the latch pulse caused enough delay to stabilize the input to the latches and that solved the problem.

(Of course not with every board...).

Anyway, that was electronics, this is mechanics but the same principles apply.

Something funny is happening in youtube land, classical music.

There are a whole pile of 'youtube wonders' that can play an enormous variety of material but that have never in their lives done a live concert. It took a long time before one of those miracle people owed up to the recipe: record hundreds, or even thousands of times. Pick the best.

That's the difference between an actual pianist and youtube miracle workers: a pianist can do what they do repeatably, youtube miracle workers would end up being booed out of actual performances.

Repeat accuracy is very hard, mechanics, electronics, playing the piano, the subject hardly matters.

I've been reading all kinds of books and articles about quality control last year and I believe that in a mature market it is the only absolutely critical element in any production process. If all your competitors are doing good QC and you don't you're dead. Everything else can be fixed but without repeat accuracy you'll be fighting a lost battle.

Another way to look at this is that for real world stuff where there is a whole company dependent on the output of the 3D printer the cheap one is too expensive, and the expensive one probably is cheap.

That's because if you were allowed to make a million parts with each and you could take the best part from each set of parts they'd be very close. The 'best' part of those two might even be from the crappy machine. But if you needed just 50000 parts that would simply work your cheap printer (or even a small army of them) would wear out long before completing the order, and that's what makes them expensive.
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Not always. An onion marketed as a Vidalia onion can only come from Vidalia, Georgia (and a few counties around it [1]). Vidalia onions are different because of the soil used to grow them; they are sweeter and milder than normal onions (and if you take seedling Vidalia onion plants elsewhere, you'll end up with regular onions).

Now, does this make Vidalia onions a different food from onions? I don't know.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidalia_onion#Legislation
Compare https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_whats_broken.htm...

Perhaps even allow orders at arbitrary random numbers? (More precise numbers take more time to transmit anyway.)
In this particular case, as with the Champagne example, the name of the product indicates its origin. Bleu d'Auvergne means "Blue from Auvergne" (a region in France), where blue is short for "blue cheese".

If someone outside of France (Auvergne, more specifically) can concoct a product with similar quality, let them label and market it under their own name.

If you fork an open source project, wouldn't it be convenient to come up with a new name for your project?
> would we need to do genetic testing or is there something cheaper?

I would assume that DNA sequencing services are pretty cheap nowadays. You would need to understand basic genetics to be able to request them to sequence sites that suit your needs, and then you would need to interpret the results yourself when you get the data.

23andme does a pretty comprehensive profile for $199, and to figure out the species of a fish, much less sequencing would be needed.
Alternative review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23570025-flash-boys
> I don't want to call you out for exaggerating, but you are approaching exaggeration by orders of magnitude. A mars bar is under 300 calories.

I was making a general point. It is easier to stop eating than to lose weight by exercise. Much easier. Also mars bars have been undergoing food inflation. It's another sinister conspiracy we can actually prove is real. They used to be about 1/3 bigger. The world around you seems a little darker now doesn't it.

> For me? a 6', 210lb man? bicycling for one hour at 14-16MPH is gonna burn well north of 900 kcals.

I should warn you that those machine counters are kind of optimistic. The human body is really good at holding onto calories. We walk and run very efficiently, I think we may even be the most efficient at long distance running in the animal kingdom.

I'm not trying to stop you running or cycling around. I approve of it. It is very good for your health even if it doesn't lose many calories. I think there is also a multiplier affect indirectly coming from exercise in that it elevates mood and this makes you less likely to binge on food. It is however probably not the calories you burned per se that are causing you to lose weight, not unless you're the 1% that actually exercise seriously and continually.

Maybe this is subjective. I don't consider 500 calories a lot of food, but to me it's a significant amount of running. A mouthful of food vs half an hour on a treadmill.

> I'd bet money that the increased caloric intake of our ancestors is entirely explained by their increased physical activity.

I'm not denying our ancestors were very much more physically active than we are. Probably that accounts for at least half the results despite us also eating half or less of the calories we used to.

I think there could be confounding factors. Like a slightly warmer world would presumably mean the inhabitants burn less calories on an ongoing basis. Less obvious factors could invisibly add 50 or 100 calories per day and that would add up over time.

By the way I am not fat! This isn't an attempt to avoid guilt :)
People need to be given incentives to become more productive and that's the only right path in the world's prosperity.

I don't think that's even remotely true, because even if the financial incentive is removed that doesn't mean there's no incentive. Rich people still do productive things.

The incentive doesn't have to be money. Incentives such as of respect, good will, or fame could work just as well as money as a way of motivating people. Once society is productive enough that the cost of goods is essentially zero we'll find other ways of proving status to one another.
Bringing in "diversity" actually causes loss of diversity.

Suppose we let dogs breed randomly. Soon, there would be no poodles. There would be no golden retrievers. There would only be mutts.

Suppose we let bison and cattle breed freely. Pure bison would soon become extinct.

Invasive species all over the world are forming hybrids. Many pure original native species are being lost to these hybrids. Do we care? I think many people do care. It makes just as much sense to bemoan the loss of people who look Irish or German. Genuine light hair and eyes are going away. As recessive traits, they may pop up rarely, and much more rarely in combination.
Interesting. Around what time was that?
The Spanish cooking oil scandal (2001)
Currently discussing with friends best way to crack it and make it seem like there's a rare pokemon just up ahead - for all those people who slowly clog up the sidewalks and stations staring at their phones.

Ideas welcome!

(For the official record, since you have to say this these days - I'm only joking)
These are good talking points when you want to debate climate change; it is necessary to gather scientific evidence to back each of these points. Everyone knows that 97% of scientists believe in climate change, 84% in an anthropogenic version; that's not news, but I didn't know what to research earlier.
During the winter, most fresh vegetables in Canada are imported from Mexico and the US. These are mostly breed for shelf life and usually bland. In the summer, local fruit and vegetable can be quite tasty if you know where to shop. The public markets of Montreal are very good (http://www.marchespublics-mtl.com/). You can also subscribe to get weekly organic baskets from local farms during the harvest season (http://www.paniersbio.org/en/).
GPS plus atomic clocks.

And, boy, do the off-the-shelf commercial offerings suck. The vendors are not really used to dealing with the stress that Google puts these things under.
> there are laws saying banks cannot receive state aid
> every rule is meant to be broken if the situation warrants it

Why did anyone bother with the rule in the first place then? Wasn't this exactly the kind of situation it was supposed to cover? It's not like an Italian financial crisis was off the radar when this rule got written.

> Does that really mean we should let a massive bank (or multiple banks) go bankrupt?

We've let pretty much everything else go bankrupt in the past eight years. Maybe we should try a it with a bank or two?

> Given the global financial system is so interconnected, only a fool...

That's exactly what the banks said last time to get their bailouts. I think only a fool would believe them again.

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Probably by a higher percentage actually paying the 16%. I bet there are all sorts of tax doges that become worthwhile at 41%.
No different to the UK.
For strength of co-occurrence please use pointwise mutual information (or its function), see https://github.com/stared/tagoverflow#methods-and-tricks. I explored quite a few, and only this one gave reasonable results, including when there was a big difference in the number of counts of A and B (see: http://p.migdal.pl/tagoverflow/).

Also, PMI shows up in many contexts, including word2vec. Your measure is at best hacky (no direct interpretation, leaves many small nodes without links).

Otherwise, a nice work! But it would be great if visualized more interactively and aesthetically (yeah, I can be biased here).
Awesome, thanks. Elasticsearch changes a lot between versions (at least the query and filter api), so that will be very valuable.
Why? He can argue that insider trading is good. Which is actually a pretty easy argument to make.

(And places like Germany only recently tightened laws against it.)
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> EU now requires all member nations to enforce bail-in so ordinary depositors carry same risk as creditors of banks.

Not true. Even on the one occasion this did happen, Cyprus, the bail-in only applied to value above €150k, hardly the ordinary depositor.
In which case, the junk can be tossed and tried again.
I would be very interested to hear also stories about when/why people decided to drop their single founder company/side project
Food is not like building a car in a factory. It's not a formula like chemistry.

The milk matter, cereal matter, where cow live matter. The whole supply chain. it's really difficult/impossibile to replicate that.

You can have something similar, but call it with the generic name.

In Italy you can get really good food everywhere. But i can assure you, you can feel the difference between location.
For that we get DOC, DOP to certify location, tradition, etc.
Sounds awesome. I'll check it out.

Hmm, it says:

> An SQL-generating DSL targeting PostgreSQL. Allows Postgres queries to be written within Haskell in a typesafe and composable fashion.

Genering Postgres queries sounds very different from using relations as a datatype inside my program. Or is that feature buried somewhere deeper?
When I had a kid, this definitely happened to me. While he's awake, there's a lot of time spent watching/minding him, however, while you're not actively doing anything it gives you time to plan. When I next get some free time, I find myself working at 100% without having to put much mental effort into it.
Previous submissions of this story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12068073

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12067774

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12067526

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12067422

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12067200

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12066749

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12066134
shutterstock picture to illustrate article about fake food. Irony at its best.
oh come on, just use firebug or developer tools and the html tree tab: you have an entire inbrowser IDE for the webpage including even deminified JS
It seems to me that almost every other app is about to or has surpassed Twitter in Daily/Monthly active users. Twitter seems to have some pretty big problems keeping its users engaged.
Shutterstock photo to illustrate an article promoting a book warning us about fake food. Best kind of irony.
Can you name a banking or finance system that has ever existed that wasn't? Are there non-western banking systems that are better?
Can only speak for myself, but as there is no really objective way to measure that kind of equivalence, we as consumers are left with the rather blunt tools of traditions and establishing brands when it comes to food. Some of the product types which are protected are several hundred years old, predating all trademark laws which would otherwise have had a similar effect.

There are also some products in EU which are sold as '<something something> style <fooditem> because of the reason you state, but with that said: They rarely reach the quality of the 'real deal'. Apparently it is not very easy to create similar quality products?
Does anyone with single-person company have sold it and can share experience?
For that to happen, Europe would need to go federal. You can't have a legislative parliament in the current system because it'd violate the constitutions of a large proportion of the member states to delegate sovereignty somewhere else.

This is the big challenge. People complain about the lack of powers for the EU Parliament, but largely aren't willing to support a model that'd make it possible.

This is also why the EU does not pass laws, and the Commission does not propose laws. It proposes directives, which can then be passed. It is still the national parliaments that passes laws, implementing the directives. This is because no EU organ has the power to legislate directly - to give them that power would require constitutional changes all over the place.
Even without looking it up, I can say with certainty that his arguments have been debunked. Nobody should believe that 97% of scientists are wrong, or be trapped in an echo chamber.
Worm farms can be made fairly rat proof. However I have found mice. The cat dealt with them pretty fast.
and the like

Currently under EU regulations it is a requirement that GM be declared, so it is wholly appropriate.
This is hard to respond to without resorting to cultural reductionism, but there are many societies in which economic advancement beyond the means of a comfortable middle class life is not highly valued by everyone.

Australians talk about the "tall poppy syndrome" -- that there is an Australian cultural tendency to cut down anyone who has been very successful.

In developing economies in general you often have a lot of people who have just gotten out of absolute poverty -- in a few generations their descendants may think differently, but they are often grateful enough that they can feed themselves and advancement beyond that is a pretty distant concern.

Then there is the Japanese proverb that "the nail which sticks out will be hammered down" -- the meaning is nuanced but is meant to convey that envy is an outcome of success and caution people against being ambitious or nonconformist.

These are all reasons why UBI might encourage some people not to work. And while these lines of thinking may be stronger in certain cultures than others, inevitably there will be some people thinking like this in any culture. Those people probably just won't work.
He makes a good case that humans are responsible for a lot of the increase of CO2, which is exactly what mainstream science is also claiming.

He goes on to say that this is a good thing, since high levels of CO2 are necessary for plants to develop. He also claims that we are in a long-term downward spiral, and that the fact that humankind is intervening is a lucky coincidence to avert mass starvation in the medium term (geologically speaking).

I like this, but I have a couple of questions:

- what is the mainstream science critique to this theory?

- how come that, even though CO2 cycles have happened in the past, we are now in a final CO2 crisis? The Earth has done great without massive intervention from humankind, why is this needed now? We even have fungi now to break down lignin!

- how can he foresee the effects of an externality (release of CO2 by non-natural means) massively affecting the environment?

Basically his argument is that the Earth is, right now, in need of terraforming, and that we have arrived at the right moment to do it. Isn't this too much of a coincidence? Sounds too good to be true.
I really doubt you only pay 16 % of taxes in Switzerland. When talking about taxes, especially comparing between countries, you need to be very careful about what you are talking about.

FWIW, income taxes are 40 % for income above ~32k, and the UK are not considered heavily taxed in Europe.
You have to keep in mind that the mentioned sub-microseconds are the _reaction time_.
HFT can't beat the speed of light either.
Therefore if your orders are synchronized to better than the speed of light distance to the next exchange, HFT traders won't be able to profit off them (-> you have milliseconds).

With GPS receivers or very good network connectivity to your ntp server (ie. not home dsl) you can easily get down to below 1ms.
I don't think you can say that just because rules are being broken, that is a case for them being repealed.
> You manage a German bank. You follow strict capitalisation rules, are careful about the loans you make and operate your business according to the highest principles.

Like Deutsche Bank? They were chock-full of bad derivatives, Greek bonds, and whatnot.

Most of Italy's big banks are fine. They went just fine through the subprime crisis and the Greek bond crisis, and the government never had to save them.

It's the smaller banks that have problems.
Using different material and different infill is a bit of an unfair comparison. Using 100% infill causes more problems with warping due to shrinkage, thus increasing the difficulty. Using 25% avoids this, but decreases stability a bit.

Regarding the print quality in general, I think an Ultimaker 2+ would give you better results (also at a price of 2500$).
It's funny if you think if it. Economy of scale used to be delivering better product for cheaper.

Now it delivers worse product for more money, but in such fashion that you can't escape.

It seems that here, some regulations should put an end to their fairy tale.
Id love to see that study repeated a few times. It just seems so very very easy to mess it up as a participant.
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Here's another interesting comparison: $20,000 vs $600: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/3DPrinterShootout600PrintrbotV...
Get local oil.

I know that here in New Zealand, NZ produced olive oil is actually made from olives. I could even drive up to the olive farm (plantation? orchard?) and have a look myself to make sure.

So I guess getting New Zealand oil would work in the USA as well, if you could find any. It's a bit of a cottage industry here, so I don't think much makes its way overseas.
You claimed:

> The same problem was posited for China. Yet, as their quality of life improved, the problem had, essentially, resolved itself.

It does not make sense to say the problem "resolved itself" when there was a 35 year period where the One Child Policy was in effect.
Unrelated, but I was just debating GMO labels on "change my view" on reddit.

I admit I was trolling that if GMO are healthy, then ultimately there is no harm in a neutral label. My comments got downvoted very hard. It boiled down that those labels would essentially be a form of misinformation, or that the uneducated public would make uninformed decisions. I don't know if I'm right or wrong, but the post got 400 comments.
But presumably there is more than one brand of Blue d'Avergne? I'm not suggesting one should be able to steal the trademarks of any of those brands.

And if someone from a different place makes a product that is compositionally identical then probably their ability to market it will depend on the customer's recognition that it is exactly the same thing.
Honestly this is not surprising. The homebrew developers seem pretty much unable to accept any possible criticism.
> You are being needlessly pedantic.

I assure you I am not pedantic needlessly. The claim was "vi has some issues
with arrow keys". Now tell me: which vi clone was elsurudo talking about?
Because those are different projects. And Vim doesn't have a smallest issue
with arrow keys (unless with "compatible" option set, I think, but I didn't
use it for years and I may remember wrong).
I'm thinkin of a masterplan...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6aAFkP0BGU