siliconviking

Haha! Got me there. Yes I did like those :) good to know the favorites are public!

I must be having problems with my vision today...! Now I see it! Thanks for flagging.

Hmm. I don't see that on mine... Maybe only if you have certain karma?

What is the root cause in your view?

I'm surprised people aren't connecting all these layoffs with their root cause: the increasing cost of capital. Naturally, projects that were economically profitable only at a very low cost of capital could turn unprofitable at a higher cost of capital, destroying value instead of creating value. Shifting resources away from such projects is the logical thing to do, but if you end up with a surplus of resources, the only other possibility is to trim those resources. Discussions about how much cash Google has on hand are completely irrelevant in my view.

You need to adjust for the $5B EU fine from last year.

Its ad revenue growth rate decelerated, is what I believe you meant to say...

Been hearing about it but must admit I don't fully understand it. Would you mind a sentence or two on why the concept is so amazing?

You knpw the saying "can't beat something with nothing"?

Don't regulate! Come up with something better.

Could this result in ETH splitting up into two currencies again, like it did last year? If so, there will be tax consequences / realized gains for those who sell out of the version they don't want to hold... further complicating things.

Source for the $43 claim? I thought it was closer to $6 a month.

Doesnt matter if we are skilled or not, we sld be able to make our own decisions.

Are you saying the SEC would have prevented the depression?

The degree to which most people in here have faith in our institutions bothers me.

Detrimental to long term success -- how do you know? I am inclined to believe the opposite.

Philosopjically, why not let people make their own decisions?

It's not the government's business to decide what people do with their money.

EOS is the likely successor in my opinion.

(eos.io)

In development now, but a development environment will be up and running by the end of the summer; testnet coming in the fall. Full release next summer.

You mean just like they have forced millions of websites to show the "Warning: This site uses cookies" message (which arguably cost a fortune in compliance costs and user annyoance, but made no difference in the end)?

I would encourage a "follow the money" train of thought when thinking about this.

My question then becomes: if this money (the $2.7bn) did not accrue to the EU, or was not levied at all, do you still think the EU would still pursue this as ferociously as it has, just to protect the consumer?

What rock do you live under Sir, may I ask?

I believe I've spotted a typo:

"Hillary makes mistakes"

was probably meant to read

"Hillary jeopardizes the security of an entire nation by leaking top secret information to our enemies and then denying everything under oath before getting caught by the FBI".

Let me know if that made it clearer, just here to help. Thanks!

I think a better way to come at this is to assume that on average, most people have given this decision a reasonable amount of thought, young people as well as old people. The debates have been going on for months, and pros and cons have been discussed at great length.

Further, I don't think it's fair to underestimate the experience and historic perspective old people have, that young people don't. After all, many of the older people who voted yesterday where around before the EU came about, and are able to factor in that extra information, plus their historic perspective in their decision, which, by definition, makes for a more informed decision.

You are right that older people tend to be more conservative, but you yourself may end up being more conservative when you are 90, vs. how conservative you are today, and you may only realize the reasons for it once it happens, and perhaps you will think those are actually quite good reasons, who knows.

The bottom line is that if you just attribute the older population's decision to "bad taste" and "shortsightedness", you may not realize the true reason behind their decision, which diminishes your ability to understand and influence others.

Lol! Don't sell yourself too short here!

It is my understanding that reacting to what other people write is one of the main points about a discussion forum, but we can agree to disagree here!

I do agree with you that democratic decisions are not always optimal.

I wouldn't assume the UK "doesn't want" people like you there. I think they just want better say over who comes into their country.

It's very possible, and perhaps even likely, that they will look to implement a similar solution as the US has -- visas for skilled workers, to the extent they have a need for foreign labor, and there might even be direct relationships with high-tech hubs like Scandinavia.

But yes, there will be added bureaucracy, and some people will choose not to go because of it.

"Unfortunately, whatever the motives, in democracies decisions are respected."

Do you actually lament the fact that democracies respect the choice of their peoples?

Well said. Though here in the US a significant (sometimes) portion of employee costs lies in stock based comp. And many times, co's present non-GAAP numbers that strip out this part from their income (which inflates their income, and sometimes that can be the difference between making a profit or a loss). The stock based comp gets reflected in increased share count over time, so it will show up in the stock price, just not in the presented non-GAAP income.

Why not just contribute a few designs or some open source software and join OCP?

http://opencompute.org/

Last time I checked, Apple was not in the business of making data center equipment, so it's not like they would give up IP that is central to their business model.

Just wanted to make sure I got the dates right -- today isn't April 1 right?

As for massive - something like daily options data for 3000 stocks, spanning a number of years, with information down to the tranche level (let's say 60 million rows if stored in a relational database fashion). In my case the analysis can be done on the stock level though, which means that only a 3000th of the dataset needs to be loaded into memory at any time.

First question - do you even need a database right now? Have you for example considered using CSV files and simply loading those files into Pandas or R on demand?

I am currently working on a project analyzing massive amounts of options data and have found this approach to be both quite easy as well as flexible to work with... and as my project matures I may move select parts of it into a database.