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931.
by 21 9y ago
From a country which lived under an authoritative regime and who knows what censorship will lead to.
932.
by 21 9y ago
To those downvoting me, do you think CNN, BBC and all major news outlets should only report what Trump does, but never actually show a video of him speak to deny him a platform?
933.
by 21 9y ago
Many will report antifa accounts. It will be a shitfest whatever Twitter does: ban - they are pro fascists and can't distinguish between "good" violence versus "bad" violence, no ban - they have double standards for
934.
by 21 9y ago
> Nobody has ever held Trump accountable for anything. Hilariously, Twitter holds a lot of power over Trump due to controlling his popular account. They could hold him accountable. They choose not to. Insane. Trump is the elected preside
935.
by 21 9y ago
> Accounts that affiliate with organizations that use or promote violence against civilians to further their causes. Do you think twitter should ban antifa accounts because they are affiliated with an org which promotes violence against
936.
by 21 9y ago
You are right, I got the order wrong :) Updated post.
937.
by 21 9y ago
That's exactly what I'm also wondering. Given that the whole company seems genuinely devoted to increasing diversity, I would tend towards the first possibility, especially since the team manager boasted a lot that his team has on
938.
by 21 9y ago
In my team, where we have a 50-50 target goal, we were told that if we know a potential woman hire we should refer her not to the regular hiring track, but to a special "woman friendly" hiring track.
939.
by 21 9y ago
I will create a service which sends you pictures of dollars each time Bitcoin hits a new high.
940.
by 21 9y ago
I'm in London, and the day after the US elections we needed to name an internal project, so we just named it Trump. One of the team members also had for a while a red Trump hat on his desk (if he was alt-right in any way, I couldn&#x27
941.
by 21 9y ago
This is the best way to test SGX, there will be huge incentives to find a vulnerability of any kind (including hardware).
942.
by 21 9y ago
> A forecast should go bankrupt before it gets to the final event, what? Can go bankrupt, not should. He is saying that if in finance someone would make such a ridiculous forecast, his forecast would be shorted into oblivion and he would
943.
by 21 9y ago
Today: My model says that I have a probability of 98% of making money by buying this stock tomorrow. Tomorrow: I lost money. I guess I just fell into the 2%.
944.
by 21 9y ago
Taleb wrote at long on the election models. TL;DR: A proper statistical analysis should have given around even odds (50:50), not 98:2. "So back to the mechanism of the model, Taleb imposes a no-arbitrage condition (borrowed from option
945.
by 21 9y ago
To invoke a higher authority: Bitcoin: my answer to the repeated questions. No, there is NO way to properly short the bitcoin "bubble". Any strategy that doesn't entail options is nonergodic (subjected to blowup). Just as one
946.
by 21 9y ago
Sure. You will go broke first when the price first doubles. Then them will go broke when the price crashes.
947.
by 21 9y ago
For decades, economists have pointed to 17th-century tulipmania as a warning about the perils of the free market. Writers and historians have reveled in the absurdity of the event. The incident even provides the backdrop for the new film Tu
948.
by 21 9y ago
Posted it in another comment - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EdGEqbwSQ0
949.
by 21 9y ago
I would imagine streaming a song in a store is much cheaper than say putting in a TV ad. But I'm no expert. FWIW, it was this song. Sounded amazing on the store speakers. Even today, it barely has 100k views - https://www.yo
950.
by 21 9y ago
It was an article about a UK playlist selection company which had 6 millions yearly revenue doing this. Unfortunately I can't hit the right keywords now to find it again.
951.
by 21 9y ago
So last year I was in a big brand clothing shop and I heard a cool song. I Shazamed it. At home searched it on YouTube. To my shock, it was launched a few months ago and it barely had 5k views. The shock for me was how the hell a giant clot
952.
by 21 9y ago
Add a github repo with a permissible license, write a blog post, add a stack overflow answer to some relevant questions.
953.
by 21 9y ago
Because the purpose of research is to produce papers, not disseminate information or help others. See how many CS papers talk about various algorithms without also providing the source code of said implementation.
954.
by 21 9y ago
With today statistical analysis methods is trivial to track big flows through various block chains, even if some of them are totally hidden. And they only get better by the day, with your traces sitting there like a duck. And you don't
955.
by 21 9y ago
To those saying that Apple has a fiduciary obligation to maximize profits, shouldn't by that logic Apple respect the environment at the minimum required level by law? But on the contrary, Apple highlights in a lot of their presentation
956.
by 21 9y ago
So, gut feeling might actually be a thing :)
957.
by 21 9y ago
Can't help notice that three of the four are tiny countries. And the fourth, Ireland, is not that big either. I'm starting to thing that there might also be a geopolitic reason to become a tax heaven, not just an economic one, som
958.
by 21 9y ago
> If you want punish people for having more than others, there's already an instrument for that, progressive taxation Except that rich people (and companies) don't pay taxes.
959.
by 21 9y ago
Bank secrecy is dead* To imagine that bitcoin could change that or not abide is foolishness. * for poor people anyway, with poor meaning < $10 mil which affords you lawyers and offshore shell companies
960.
by 21 9y ago
When the owner of Amazon it's the richest person on the planet I would say it's fair game. Also, Amazon has amazing public perception, letting the public know how they can be so cheap and good it's worth doing, just like the

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