I have a problem with my trades being cancelled when the algo's screw up.
If they sell me a $100 stock for $10, that should be their loss. If they buy a $30 stock for $120, that should be their loss.
I have much more problems with the US government changing fundamental rules.
If I were going to do anything about algo's, I'd charge them 1 penny for each cancelled trade.
But Algos trading creates similar waves and cycles as humans.
When the government changes the rules, the market trades goofy for several weeks. It's without warning. And the changes can be extreme because they basically just changed the fundamental values everything cycles around with a penstroke.
The avengers was a good example of both CGI done right (supporting the story but not trying to impress us since we know it isn't real) and done sneakily... (okay it turns out some scenes I thought were real were actually completely CGI.).
Sometime over the last 5 years, the CGI has gotten so good that they can render humans convincingly for short periods (by mapping them down to the individual pore and nose hair level.)
I always go flying when I lucid dream but FTLing would be cool.
I used to have to use other objects and it was fairly slow but I pushed my flying speed until now it can be quite good. I usually lucid dream for a couple minutes before I wake up tho one time I was able to avoid waking up for a little while and go back into a deeper sleep before continuing to dream.
Dreams always make sense while we are in them. We don't question why there are roses the size of sunflowers in our backyards- why three are modern roses and one is a historical five petal rose or why someone has a horse in our house or why the lawnmower is up on the roof.
The question about Recall was actually quite similar to the question in Inception. Did it end with the protagonist stuck in dreams?
Do you really think climate science is settled as much as gravity?
Come on.
The models they were certain of only 8 years ago turned out to need large corrections. The extra storms were were supposed to see are lacking. This is a theory which is undergoing large adjustments in real time.
It takes a long time for science to really settle down. At best, we've been looking at this about four decades. Prior to that there was serious consideration of the cooling trend. it wasn't until the early 70's that the majority of climate papers shifted around to warming and cooling papers pretty much stopped by 1978.
It's the insane certainty and the constant mistakes and misstatements and the excessive certainty which is a problem.
And it's a problem that several people who oppose climate warming are in bed with the oil companies and pretty skeevy. It gets some people emotionally invested in climate change. And people exploding and over reacting and making extreme statements always makes me a bit suspicious.
I'm not in a position to affect things in any way. and my votes generally go to the pro-climate change politicians.
But seriously- there is probably nothing we can do on this one. If it's humans, the 50% population increase we'll see during our life times is going to break all kinds of ecological systems. If you are serious- talk about getting the population back down to 4 to 5 billion. Otherwise, climate change people are really just pissing into the huge wave of oncoming humanity.
That's what I was talking about when I said 10' of flooding. Yet I read stories of multiple businesses with lots of expensive equipment on the waterfront.
Large groups of scientists have believed very wrong and goofy things for long periods of time.
I'm not saying that's the case this time. Just saying that using the argument form that 9 out of 10 doctors agree "Brand X Cigarettes are good for your health" isn't the best argument.
I suspect the climate is going to cool down (as it did after 1945) and then it will go on to new highs. That cool down is going to be seized on when it's really just natural variability around the generally rising temperature.
I can agree with your other points but "the amount of damage it caused" is really more a function of unwise building techniques. The fact that a hurricane was going to hit New York and cause damage and at least 10' of flooding was certain- it was just a question of when.
It's sort of like the Tsunami in Japan. There were stones saying "Tsunami water gets this high". And they were ignored.
I have that same issue. And my sleep cycle drifts to 26 hours a day now that I'm retired.
When I get 6am- I go to sleep that night at 11 and reset. I don't want to drift through the day.
My longest was 40 hours (in college). I said, "I'm going to take a nap" before the database test and laid down on a hard plastic bench- immediately someone was waking me up. I'd fallen asleep instantly.
Last job before I retired worked us 72 hours (and more) per week. Two times, that was 4 weeks straight tho most the time it was 6 days.
I think with normal working conditions i would have stayed on the job a couple more years.
I agree. Group think is a risk for group activities.
I've worked successfully with people from a dozen countries. But we had a common standard of using english; microsoft documents; standard business and functional requirements documentation; and clearcase change management software.
I'm no fan of Microsoft but if we had used several different word processors and presentation packages; multiple languages with tons of local idoms and slang; multiple change management systems; and everyone went their own way on functional requirements, it would have been a mess.
The communication is the medium- not the ideas. You can be nonconformist while communicating in shared agreed upon methods.
A friends company had a great package developed in "D"-- different than all the rest of the software. When the programmer left- that package was dead. My company had one piece of software developed in C. When the sole programmer left (at age 70 after they said he now should work over 50 hours a week) - they lost several multi-million dollar customers before they could get a replacement C programmer up to speed.
And the 70 year old had a completely custom style of programming C which made it difficult for other programmers to come up to speed (and the company wasn't offering sufficient pay to get in the top quality programmers and they probably wouldn't come to work for a shop that only had 1 C program anyway for any reasonable amount of money).
how is it that common standards make so much sense for html, programming languages, engineering but not for human communication?
HTML and other standards do change but usually to add clarity or features.
I can see the value of changes to language which increase clarity or make it more concise (for example sharing a common vocabulary of "patterns" can increase your teams design and programming effectiveness. )
But arbitrary slang which the other person is unlikely to understand or which doesn't have a clear and common meaning- not so much.
They've repeated lied in the past and will continue to lie in the future.
Understand if you post on Facebook, you have no privacy. Even if other people post about you on facebook, your privacy is going to be impaired.
Understand *you are the product being sold*.
It's a challenge for me. I finally withdrew from facebook. It's taken a while for people to start emailing me. At first they were annoyed that I needed special handling and they couldn't just set the event up on facebook. But now there are more of us avoiding facebook so email is coming back.
I wouldn't have withdrawn if they hadn't been such weasels about privacy settings.
Say there was an earthquake; the pool was breached; and all the water was lost for 24 hours.
How bad could that get?
Most likely just a raised cancer risk for all but maybe 500 square miles.
But it's getting worse and we don't know what's still undiscovered or unreported.
From WSJ:
[...] Tepco said it doesnâ(TM)t think that water has flowed into the sea but canâ(TM)t say for sure. Some of the flooded reactor basements are similarly too hot to approach, and it is still not clear where the melted fuel cores are, or in what state.
âoeIn the future there might be even more heavily contaminated water coming through,â said Atsunao Marui, head of the groundwater research group at Japanâ(TM)s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and a member of a blue-ribbon panel set up in May to figure out ways of managing the radioactive water. âoeItâ(TM)s important to think of the worst-case scenario.â
Mr. Marui and others say the biggest reason for the scramble now is that Tepcoâ"and the government bodies that oversee itâ"werenâ(TM)t planning far enough ahead and waited too long to respond to problems they should have seen coming long ago.
Fukushima Daiichi was built some 40 years ago on the site of a river that was diverted in order to situate the plant, Mr. Marui says. It should have been clear that lots of groundwater would be rushing through the site, he says, and that any walls or barriers built on the seaward side would soon be overwhelmedâ"something that, indeed, has happened in recent weeks. [...]
The Chernobyl exclusion area is about 700km from tip to tip. Varying from about 300km wide to 100km wide.
Total "lost" area is 2,600 km.
If a similar area were lost in Japan it would be.6% of their total land mass, concentrated in important areas (potentially including tokyo as noted above).
Just keep in mind that outside of smoking them, the nicotine and THC/Cannibinoids are relatively modest in their effects.
You can deliver nicotine or THC/Cannibinoids as food, drink, heck- even chicken with dumplings or chocolates.
Just as with all drugs, some percentage will abuse them. It may be because of their genetic background (like native americans with alcohol), their upbringing, self medication for depression. But a large majority can use them without abuse.
I'm a bit fuzzy on this but I looked it up once and the percentage difference between tobacco and nicotine was 11% and 13%. I think cocaine was about 15% or 17% (but not sure).
I watched british documentary where they gave the reporter straight cannibinoids and she just had tons of fun, couldn't stop laughing, and had no ill effects.
If you recurse that one step back, you get to the people subverting mother nature and manipulating the genetics of peanuts to make them better for sale and harvest.
Why do we care?
Because today it's them, but tomorrow it might be us. So we all help each other out. Altruism from self interest.
The house was built in 1955 and is extremely over-insulated. Something like 2' of cellulose in the attic and the walls are also filled with insulation. Someone apparently took care of that already.
It also has double-paned windows. There's no need for awnings. The house was built before there was air conditioning so it has a deep shady porch and awnings. In fact, I put in a sun tube and some other features to bring light into the house.
3. is interesting but given a maximum savings of $400 per year, I don't think it would pay off.
Similar size houses that are not well insulated run $240 to $300 per month.
I think the biggest change I made was the LED lights. They are low energy PLUS don't pump nearly as much heat into the house.
I have one solar panel (as an experiment) but the cost/benefit isn't there yet (take a long time to pay off $400).
I've wondered about putting a shadecloth roof over my regular roof (6" up) to block all the parts not covered by trees from radiant heat. But very little of that heat gets through the attic insulation into the house.
Anyway- my point is that Germany compares more with the northern united states than the entire united states.
It's 357k km vs 9.83 million km2; its about the size of three Tennessee's.
A very large proportion of US population is in Texas which is very hot.
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I have a problem with my trades being cancelled when the algo's screw up.
If they sell me a $100 stock for $10, that should be their loss.
If they buy a $30 stock for $120, that should be their loss.
I have much more problems with the US government changing fundamental rules.
If I were going to do anything about algo's, I'd charge them 1 penny for each cancelled trade.
But Algos trading creates similar waves and cycles as humans.
When the government changes the rules, the market trades goofy for several weeks. It's without warning. And the changes can be extreme because they basically just changed the fundamental values everything cycles around with a penstroke.
The avengers was a good example of both CGI done right (supporting the story but not trying to impress us since we know it isn't real) and done sneakily... (okay it turns out some scenes I thought were real were actually completely CGI.).
Sometime over the last 5 years, the CGI has gotten so good that they can render humans convincingly for short periods (by mapping them down to the individual pore and nose hair level.)
I always go flying when I lucid dream but FTLing would be cool.
I used to have to use other objects and it was fairly slow but I pushed my flying speed until now it can be quite good. I usually lucid dream for a couple minutes before I wake up tho one time I was able to avoid waking up for a little while and go back into a deeper sleep before continuing to dream.
Dreams always make sense while we are in them. We don't question why there are roses the size of sunflowers in our backyards- why three are modern roses and one is a historical five petal rose or why someone has a horse in our house or why the lawnmower is up on the roof.
The question about Recall was actually quite similar to the question in Inception.
Did it end with the protagonist stuck in dreams?
Do you really think climate science is settled as much as gravity?
Come on.
The models they were certain of only 8 years ago turned out to need large corrections.
The extra storms were were supposed to see are lacking.
This is a theory which is undergoing large adjustments in real time.
It takes a long time for science to really settle down. At best, we've been looking at this about four decades. Prior to that there was serious consideration of the cooling trend. it wasn't until the early 70's that the majority of climate papers shifted around to warming and cooling papers pretty much stopped by 1978.
It's the insane certainty and the constant mistakes and misstatements and the excessive certainty which is a problem.
And it's a problem that several people who oppose climate warming are in bed with the oil companies and pretty skeevy. It gets some people emotionally invested in climate change. And people exploding and over reacting and making extreme statements always makes me a bit suspicious.
I'm not in a position to affect things in any way. and my votes generally go to the pro-climate change politicians.
But seriously- there is probably nothing we can do on this one. If it's humans, the 50% population increase we'll see during our life times is going to break all kinds of ecological systems. If you are serious- talk about getting the population back down to 4 to 5 billion. Otherwise, climate change people are really just pissing into the huge wave of oncoming humanity.
Whate quinoa food is that?
That's what I was talking about when I said 10' of flooding. Yet I read stories of multiple businesses with lots of expensive equipment on the waterfront.
Large groups of scientists have believed very wrong and goofy things for long periods of time.
I'm not saying that's the case this time. Just saying that using the argument form that 9 out of 10 doctors agree "Brand X Cigarettes are good for your health" isn't the best argument.
I suspect the climate is going to cool down (as it did after 1945) and then it will go on to new highs. That cool down is going to be seized on when it's really just natural variability around the generally rising temperature.
I can agree with your other points but "the amount of damage it caused" is really more a function of unwise building techniques. The fact that a hurricane was going to hit New York and cause damage and at least 10' of flooding was certain- it was just a question of when.
It's sort of like the Tsunami in Japan. There were stones saying "Tsunami water gets this high". And they were ignored.
I do a lot of internet discussions and search all kinds of random data to support arguments.
I also block a lot of the data gathering sites with noscript.
I have that same issue. And my sleep cycle drifts to 26 hours a day now that I'm retired.
When I get 6am- I go to sleep that night at 11 and reset. I don't want to drift through the day.
My longest was 40 hours (in college). I said, "I'm going to take a nap" before the database test and laid down on a hard plastic bench- immediately someone was waking me up. I'd fallen asleep instantly.
Last job before I retired worked us 72 hours (and more) per week. Two times, that was 4 weeks straight tho most the time it was 6 days.
I think with normal working conditions i would have stayed on the job a couple more years.
Now put that in terms of how many days in a row you've done it.
My sleep pattern used to be 12,6,6,7,6,6,7 due to everquest.
The 12 was involuntary.
Sometime it was 15-18.
I'm a male or female or a cat who makes between $21,000 and $250,000 dollars
I'm between 16 and 79.
I apparently like boobs.
I'm either unemployed, self employed or work for others as a manager or employee.
I may have good credit.
Unless you sell the rights to another person or corporation.
"Non-profit" is usually charity as is royalty free.
is it 75 years now?
I agree. Group think is a risk for group activities.
I've worked successfully with people from a dozen countries. But we had a common standard of using english; microsoft documents; standard business and functional requirements documentation; and clearcase change management software.
I'm no fan of Microsoft but if we had used several different word processors and presentation packages; multiple languages with tons of local idoms and slang; multiple change management systems; and everyone went their own way on functional requirements, it would have been a mess.
The communication is the medium- not the ideas. You can be nonconformist while communicating in shared agreed upon methods.
A friends company had a great package developed in "D"-- different than all the rest of the software. When the programmer left- that package was dead. My company had one piece of software developed in C. When the sole programmer left (at age 70 after they said he now should work over 50 hours a week) - they lost several multi-million dollar customers before they could get a replacement C programmer up to speed.
And the 70 year old had a completely custom style of programming C which made it difficult for other programmers to come up to speed (and the company wasn't offering sufficient pay to get in the top quality programmers and they probably wouldn't come to work for a shop that only had 1 C program anyway for any reasonable amount of money).
No actually we didn't. We validated our pages against the W3C validator. I'm certain others do too.
Then once the standards were met, we would selectively make whatever changes we had to make to get things functioning where there were bugs.
God you must have produced an unmaintainable mess.
Effective communication is the foundation of productive work by groups.
I think it gives you a very good sense of how and why facebook will default to decisions not in your interest
how is it that common standards make so much sense for html, programming languages, engineering but not for human communication?
HTML and other standards do change but usually to add clarity or features.
I can see the value of changes to language which increase clarity or make it more concise (for example sharing a common vocabulary of "patterns" can increase your teams design and programming effectiveness. )
But arbitrary slang which the other person is unlikely to understand or which doesn't have a clear and common meaning- not so much.
They've repeated lied in the past and will continue to lie in the future.
Understand if you post on Facebook, you have no privacy.
Even if other people post about you on facebook, your privacy is going to be impaired.
Understand *you are the product being sold*.
It's a challenge for me. I finally withdrew from facebook. It's taken a while for people to start emailing me. At first they were annoyed that I needed special handling and they couldn't just set the event up on facebook. But now there are more of us avoiding facebook so email is coming back.
I wouldn't have withdrawn if they hadn't been such weasels about privacy settings.
I think your graphite point is valid.
However, we don't know what we don't know.
Say there was an earthquake; the pool was breached; and all the water was lost for 24 hours.
How bad could that get?
Most likely just a raised cancer risk for all but maybe 500 square miles.
But it's getting worse and we don't know what's still undiscovered or unreported.
From WSJ:
[...] Tepco said it doesnâ(TM)t think that water has flowed into the sea but canâ(TM)t say for sure. Some of the flooded reactor basements are similarly too hot to approach, and it is still not clear where the melted fuel cores are, or in what state.
âoeIn the future there might be even more heavily contaminated water coming through,â said Atsunao Marui, head of the groundwater research group at Japanâ(TM)s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and a member of a blue-ribbon panel set up in May to figure out ways of managing the radioactive water. âoeItâ(TM)s important to think of the worst-case scenario.â
Mr. Marui and others say the biggest reason for the scramble now is that Tepcoâ"and the government bodies that oversee itâ"werenâ(TM)t planning far enough ahead and waited too long to respond to problems they should have seen coming long ago.
Fukushima Daiichi was built some 40 years ago on the site of a river that was diverted in order to situate the plant, Mr. Marui says. It should have been clear that lots of groundwater would be rushing through the site, he says, and that any walls or barriers built on the seaward side would soon be overwhelmedâ"something that, indeed, has happened in recent weeks. [...]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chernobyl_radiation_map_1996.svg
The Chernobyl exclusion area is about 700km from tip to tip. Varying from about 300km wide to 100km wide.
Total "lost" area is 2,600 km.
If a similar area were lost in Japan it would be .6% of their total land mass, concentrated in important areas (potentially including tokyo as noted above).
I agree, it's unlikely. But it's not impossible.
I get that, but if your speedometer is pegged to the maximum reading at 150mph, the thought might occur to you that you are going faster.
Just keep in mind that outside of smoking them, the nicotine and THC/Cannibinoids are relatively modest in their effects.
You can deliver nicotine or THC/Cannibinoids as food, drink, heck- even chicken with dumplings or chocolates.
Just as with all drugs, some percentage will abuse them. It may be because of their genetic background (like native americans with alcohol), their upbringing, self medication for depression. But a large majority can use them without abuse.
I'm a bit fuzzy on this but I looked it up once and the percentage difference between tobacco and nicotine was 11% and 13%. I think cocaine was about 15% or 17% (but not sure).
I watched british documentary where they gave the reporter straight cannibinoids and she just had tons of fun, couldn't stop laughing, and had no ill effects.
If you recurse that one step back, you get to the people subverting mother nature and manipulating the genetics of peanuts to make them better for sale and harvest.
Why do we care?
Because today it's them, but tomorrow it might be us.
So we all help each other out. Altruism from self interest.
The house was built in 1955 and is extremely over-insulated. Something like 2' of cellulose in the attic and the walls are also filled with insulation. Someone apparently took care of that already.
It also has double-paned windows.
There's no need for awnings. The house was built before there was air conditioning so it has a deep shady porch and awnings. In fact, I put in a sun tube and some other features to bring light into the house.
3. is interesting but given a maximum savings of $400 per year, I don't think it would pay off.
Similar size houses that are not well insulated run $240 to $300 per month.
I think the biggest change I made was the LED lights. They are low energy PLUS don't pump nearly as much heat into the house.
I have one solar panel (as an experiment) but the cost/benefit isn't there yet (take a long time to pay off $400).
I've wondered about putting a shadecloth roof over my regular roof (6" up) to block all the parts not covered by trees from radiant heat. But very little of that heat gets through the attic insulation into the house.
Anyway- my point is that Germany compares more with the northern united states than the entire united states.
It's 357k km vs 9.83 million km2; its about the size of three Tennessee's.
A very large proportion of US population is in Texas which is very hot.