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thank you divine for the temporal

thank you thales & whoever for derivatives

thank you amsterdam & whoever for stock exchanges

thank you msft for vb

thank you bell & whoever for linux

thank you stroustrup & whoever for c++

thank you darpa & whoever for tcp/ip

thank you cern & whoever for http

thank you mysql ab & whoever for mysql

thank you nscp & whoever for ssl, js

thank you goog for google, ajax, spdy, chrome

thank you stack for stack

thank you resig & whoever for jquery

thank you whoever for websockets

thank you thorson (& whoever?) for websocket++

damn you msft for .net


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Dec
8
 comment Psychopaths' Response to Expected Losses?
@Jeff Looks like I misread the study. Oh well. I'm still curious about whether psychos accept negative expected values. Re lotto always being negative, the last huge drawing was not even after taxes (I think). There was another satisfying the criterion around 2005 or so. The odds are 175M:1. The ticket costs \$2. As long as the instant payout is +$350M, it's positive. I think whether taxes should be taken into account is probably best left to the quant exchange. LOL
Dec
8
 comment Psychopaths' Response to Expected Losses?
@Jeff Totally, but I'm wondering if they're as perfectly selfish as they're "defined" to be. The lotto's a potentially dangerous example since it becomes a positive expected value every 5 years. Kelly would prevent a psychopath from lottoing though. Wait, are psychopaths now limited to prefrontally damaged?
Dec
8
 comment Psychopaths' Response to Expected Losses?
@Jeff No. That one's asking about whether psychopaths adhere to the Kelly Criterion, assuming that they prefer positive expected values. Kelly places logical limits on gambles vs risk, payoff, & "bankroll". This one questions whether just because they accept positive expected values down to nothing, they may just love to gamble.