CompelTechnic

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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
Advertising for charity has some funny game theory implications. A given charity often observes that every dollar of advertising increases contributions by 2 dollars. They the justifyably continue increasing their advertising budget until i
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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
GP probably was referring to legendary Toyota quality, as opposed to (good but not known in popular culture as remarkable) Nissan quality.
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It's interesting that the mortgages in Switzerland can go that low. I remember that in the eurozone banks are earning negative interest on their reserves due to european central bank policy. I doubt that you would see 1.25% mortgage r
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Which brings up another benefit of using an online eyewear vendor: they let you type your own prescription in. If you are personally fine with using a two-year-old prescription, do it. When I ordered glasses a year ago, I also played around
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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
It may be that he thinks of overhead as fixed costs (as opposed to variable costs). If you have very low fixed costs, your business can scale up and down on a whim, without terrible consequences.
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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
You are making two false dichotomies. Even if Harley's have other safety compromises, loud pipes can make them safer. Even if you ride with awareness, loud pipes can make you safer. There is generally a lack of hard evidence, but it
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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
Interesting, judging by the other replies, that the opponents in your debate have not agreed to disagree, despite the fact that the underlying differences are deep-rooted enough that any action on their part, especially on an internet forum
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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
Here's a bit: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/fusion-360/learn-expl... It's nice that even if you are a commercial business, if you have <100k in revenue per year, the license is free as well.
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Even considering the recent meltdown, the S&P500 is up 34% over the last 5 years, before even adding in dividends and up much more than that (200%+) if you want to start at the very bottom of early 2009. These returns are big, not mode
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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
To continue the dice analogy- I can imagine a world where gambling sharks arrive at the roulette wheel in casinos, wearing hidden google-glass-ish devices, and place bets while the ball is in motion. Unbeknownst to everyone else, their devi
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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
There is one point you haven't considered: Even though a pure indexing strategy is appropriate, it is not appropriate to use Vanguard for this. At the billion-dollar level, assuming that the index funds had an expense ratio of .05% (a
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Watching this now. It is great!
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It is not mandatory to be in a certain income bracket to get a high score on your SAT or on your AP exams. If the universities want to help low income students, and are only able to help a certain number of them given the resources they hav
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The article does a good job of mentioning small likelihoods but large stakes, and is intellectually honest in doing so.
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Well said. I would also argue that concerns over crops taking up too much land are somewhat misplaced until we reach a point where we at risk of not having enough farmland to feed the population. When we reach that point, only food that can
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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
>The last generation of Americans who will enjoy anything approaching financial security in old age could spend the Golden Years we’ll never have golfing, going on cruises, driving RVs, or watching The Price is Right. They could choose t
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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
>It will be available as open source starting Monday, Dec. 3, under the simple BSD-3 license. Doesn't the repo saying it is copyrighted contradict the BSD-3 license? https://developer.nvidia.com/physx-sdk-home
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What are you implying?
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Yeah, I've still rarely seen honest discussions about what damping means in terms of structural materials. If you made a bell out of cast iron instead of bronze, it would still ring, but it would ring for a shorter duration. This is b
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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
>>Over the past century we’ve vastly increased the time and money invested in science, but in scientists’ own judgement we’re producing the most important breakthroughs at a near-constant rate. On a per-dollar or per-person basis, thi
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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
The constant raging is a consequence of the fact that outrage is much more viral than honest debate. One of the things I like most about hacker news is the fact that its culture supports decent debate. A small fraction of this is from the t
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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
Do the mood-changing effects of the TRT medication have any resemblance to the mood-changing effects of exercise? I often notice that in the days during/following good exercise, I not only feel happier, but also more "virile"
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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
You are arguing that 100% percent of the lost demand will be replaced. In reality it will be some fraction that is smaller than 100%.
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I'm relatively certain that I (in the U.S.) have never purchased any oil labeled as "vegetable" oil that gave any indication it may contain palm oil. Is there oil labeled as "vegetable oil" that contains palm oil?
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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
Question for you: at most national/state parks, there are available campsites that cost in the range of $5-$20 per night. These are advertised on their usual websites. These are sites for car camping. However, the couple times I'v
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I disagree about efficiency. I remember living in the dorms, where the communal kitchen was present, less than 100 feet from my room, and well-stocked with equipment. To use it, you have to transport your ingredients there, trust that the
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I agree with the principal that encryption should be a human right, and I agree that I can construct thought experiments that "prove", or more correctly, show sound reasoning for, the principal. However, nation-states do not run
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If you check out Matthias wandel's YouTube channel, he does some experiments with hours-long recording of room particle counts. This is in a woodshop (sawdust) setting with a similar diy filter setup.
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I think both connotations are valid and context usually determines the underlying meaning. For a third connotation that is close to the GP's, think of a coach telling his players to hustle on the basketball court. To me, that means the
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I agree that gitlab appears to be down at the moment.

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