ConfuciusSay02

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   by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

   I agree that people in the startup world do undervalue proper planning "on paper". But let's not kid ourselves, DoD projects are low risk because when they inevitably go over budget, the tax payer is always there to keep pump
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   by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

   What you describe are not honor killings. In North America, statistically speaking, the mother is more likely to kill the children than the father.
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   by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

   > The line between people sending death threats on twitter and the person who strangled his sister for posting selfies is very thin. Umm no, it's not very thin. There's a gargantuan difference between posting something on Twitt
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   by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

   Can you please pass me the salt? What??? You manipulative bastard!!!
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   by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

   Thanks for the info. I guess it's simply nationalistic window dressing for run-of-the-mill corruption.
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   by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

   It's also due to, in the case of the Quebec government, nationalistic sentiment. It's a difficult balance to strike - keeping and supporting high tech manufacturing, while trying to remain competitive. I think at the moment, the g
7. 97.▲
   by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

   That won't happen, because the Quebec government will not allow it.
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   by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

   The paper uses "fake" data to develop a baseline for their model, which they then compare to real data to test its accuracy, which they claim is 90%. Furthermore, the study is based on the premise that there is lots of spoofing go
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   by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

   http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/4555.html summarizes a study here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1955965 Key quote: "This manipulative practice [spoofing] is illegal under th
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    by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

    All of those charges relate to the flash crash, so not sure why you would omit it. Since most everything we do today involves computers and the internet, wire fraud has become a catch-all charge that can be selectively enforced (see Aaron S
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    by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

    You should consider a career in comedy.
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    by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

    Ahh, right. A few old people misread those poorly designed ballots, therefore let's use a poorly secured system that is hackable by foreign governments. Or, we could design the ballots to not be confusing? It's funny how other wes
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    by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

    If the problem is people getting access to voter databases, it's really much ado about nothing, since many of those databases are already public, and besides you can pay a data warehousing company a few bucks and get much more data abo
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    by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

    Thanks to fMRI and other brain scanning technologies, we now know that when we learn, our brains physically change. This fact is the basis for the claims of the "brain training" industry. The reality is that our brains are constan
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    by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

    Is it any wonder people don't trust the establishment media when the they push narratives like that of the impending "mushroom clouds" if we don't invade Iraq? With nary an ounce of critical coverage? It wasn't long
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    by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

    It's bizarre that these people are so intent on changing an interface, seemingly just it's been around for a long time and/or because it was used in a movie once and it "looks cool". When you actually try and use fu
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    by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

    Elon's statements here add fuel to the already burning fire of suspicion over this event, given the fact that the sale of the company that made the AMOS-6 satellite to a Chinese military controlled company was contingent on this succes
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    by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

    It's all about funding from the government: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/health/zika-virus-budget-e... More media hype means an excuse for giving away tax payer dollars to crony pharma companie
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    by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

    There are hundreds if not thousands of diseases that cause vastly more harm to humans than Zika, but the absurd level of fear-mongering and media sensationalism about Zika is really off the charts. We can be sure that once the pharma compan
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    by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

    I presume seeing somebody very close dying from an unintended consequence of such an attempted eradication would change your perspective.
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    by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

    Great, we can all look forward to lower salaries as a result.
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    by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

    Sounds like they're intolerant of Trump's opinions - the definition of bigotry. Furthermore, the wall (something Hillary has also supported in the past) is meant to keep illegal immigrants out, not legal immigrants. Never has Trum
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    by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

    Until Congress acts, we can expect the Zika Media Scaremongering Pandemic to continue. Once the funds are dispersed, Zika can go off into the night like SARS, Swine, Bird flu etc. Why hasn't Congress acted to give away billions of taxp
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    by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

    If by good publication you mean establishment propaganda then you'd be right. You just need to look at what the Economist was pushing in the lead up to the Iraq war and the 2008 meltdown.
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    by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

    If companies staying in business was related in any way to what they "deserve", plenty of large companies would be out of business.
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    by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

    What? Hillary is totally promising jobs, it's one of the core planks of her "platform": https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/jobs/
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    by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

    Widely reported? It was just the opposite.
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    by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

    Those independent economists were not the ones being trotted out on the media talk shows back then, and there's no reason to think the independent economists would be trotted out now for this Brexit debate.
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    by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

    The top American "neutral" economists told us that everything was great in the real estate market right before 2008. Sterling is up against USD since March. Besides, a low pound can be good for exports/manufacturing. The idea
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    by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

    Well if a change in the patent system would have negatively affected cloudjacker on HN, then we obviously can't make any reforms to the system. Sorry guys!