mad_tortoise

Thank you for your post write up. I'm going to go through that first as my main intro to quant trading and programming for trading, and then will check out your later blog posts. But so far a few pages in and I'm hooked, this should be a great and fun exercise to get into a new field of programming.

From personal experience of being a South African, I have never ever heard of anything like this, unless you're in Joburg and paranoid about every second of your life.

Get Slack and check out ZA Tech slack: https://zatech.github.io/

A really great community, also the look for the #tech-for-good channel which is in conjunction with Codebridge SA is a really great resource.

Capetonian here. Crime is generally relative to where you live. Bad crime mostly happens in the extremely poor townships in Cape Town. That said it does find it's way into the suburbs and the city. But if you're a relatively street smart person in Cape Town city and suburbs, petty crime probably won't affect you.

In terms of my personal experiences with crime I was mugged once when I was a teenager, and had a friend killed when he tried to stop a mugging. But neither have made me want to leave, the murder made me consider it, but this is still my home, and once you experience a Cape Town summer you'll understand why so many people come for a few weeks and end up staying a few years...

In terms of crime in Joburg, that's a whole other ball game. It can be wild up there, and for that reason I wouldn't move there. Although the pay is far better than Cape Town, it's nowhere near as idyllic place to live as Cape Town is.

You are totally wrong as another commentator pointed out. Mckinsey knowingly incited and spread racial hatred for their personal gain, and pushed the idea of "white monopoly capital" so that the ANC could leverage that as a political point. The result being highly inflamed racial tensions on their part, not only this but they were paid by Gupta linked companies and organisations. The Gupta's, an Indian billionaire family, have been responsible for corruption of the previous president Zuma, and even had a term 'state-capture' defined to explain what they have done. Through corruption they have literally come to own large state entities, however this was stopped and they and former president are being charged with corruption.

Mckinsey was pivotal in enciting racial tensions, among many other things, to try to obfuscate what the president and Gupta's were responsible for in terms of corrupting the state, by blaming other parties namely "White captial".

Government is only inevitable, only if you believe in these sets of prerequisites for constructing a government. These all can be managed without government should the people want it. It's called anarchy, not the neo-modern destructive type, but the real ideology actually sets this out very well, that government is not needed. It is to everyone's own opinion whether or not you need government and what each of us want from government. But to outright state that we can't exist without it, I think is wrong.

I support the people who do these things, as I think they should live in the same amount of fear as those that they unfairly persecute. They are all complicit in the acts of violence and oppression against innocent civilians. The capitalist system, especially in the USA is designed to oppress the poor and protect the rich. It does this through the use of agencies like ICE. Pretend it's not true, but the facts over the past century overwhelmingly speak for themselves.

If you sign up to be in the police, or ICE, or any such governmental arm used to jail the poor and protect the rich, and are passively accepting these policies you are supporting them. As such by supporting these despicable policies those enforcing them are scum in my books, and if they are doing these things I see nothing wrong with publishing their information. Maybe now they will be as afraid as the people they persecute.

An article on the most secure messaging apps, but no mention of telegram? Why was it left out?

A problem today for Anarchism, is that it has been painted as the neo-west version of Anarchism. One of Black Blocs, and teeming with destructive youths. While the real system of Anarchism is not really about destruction of property, but collective ownership of it. It is about destroying the institutions which control our lives, not physically but ideologically and practically, so that it is the people who are in control. Not unelected elites with masses of unseen power.

It is truly a brilliant political ideology, and really hasn't been properly tested as one. It came close in the Spanish Civil War, but this conflict had too many competing ideologies on one side against the fascists, that it was undermined by the communists when it was just starting to show its worth.

Facebook and being ethical generally are mutually exclusive.

You should look at kodein, a DI library for kotlin. Works brilliantly.

I only know my siblings and cousins, that have the same grandmother. We hang out when we see each other and are in the same country.

Weirdly, when I was a kid there was some sort of royalty money that someone messaged my father about.

Bach is my ninth great-grandfather for what its worth.

Guess I'm never moving to the US then.

Yes that's the one.

Cape Town, South Africa. SABMiller, which was recently bought for £69 billion by Anheuser-Busch InBev.

So where I'm from we have a similar problem yet no end in site. After last years summer we had one of the worst droughts this region has ever had, but then it went into winter. It didn't rain much this winter and now we're back in summer... With water restrictions starting the summer as bad as they were when we ended it.

To the point of this though. One of the worlds largest breweries is situated in my city. My country has a horrendous alcohol problem, to the extent where paying farm labourers in booze only got outlawed just over 20 years ago.

Anyway this brewery makes most of the beer in the Southern Hemisphere, yet it was able to get so large because it is right on top of one of the biggest springs, and they claimed riparian rights many years ago.

My problem being is that up until this year, for the past 3 years, the public was allowed access to the spring on their land. Now they are denying the public access while we go through a drought and they continue to produce beer for next to nothing as they don't pay a cent for their biggest ingredient. Now I want to stop them making beer while we are in a drought, but in a country run by alcohol makers that will surely either be an impossible task or end up getting me killed.

Rad, this is a very interesting rabbit hole for me I stumbled upon today. Keen to combine my programming and poker knowledge for some minor profit and fun mroe than anything else.

I sent this article to my brother and he also misread that paragraph. The games he collects data from are as he says, "a small fraction of the hands he plays" So as a pro I'd expect he's earning a lot more, but for the cases of this blog post and probably personal preference he doesn't show the real totals of all hands across all games.

Thanks, well holdem is my preferred game and doesn't bore me at all. I'll definitely be checking out Holdem Manager.

Great thank you, that will have a lot of what I'm looking for.

As someone who has played poker my entire life as well as a programmer, and have drifted passively into playing online poker recently over the real game. I found this fascinating and hadn't really considered taking the data science route to playing until I read this article as it's more of a hobby. I always have a minimum I'm willing to walk away losing should I do badly, however this approach has changed my view.

Does anyone else on HN have more resources like this, applying data science to poker. I will google, but on forums like this one, I find personally recommended resources to be very helpful.