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by DevX101 8y ago
In addition to the other cm2187's accurate observation that this may be literal survivor bias, the other potential explanation is whether the control group was well designed. Israel is currently ~50% Sephardic Jews, descendants from Mi
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Companies won't take security seriously until there are real costs to losing customer data. Right now, they can just send out an apologetic press release after getting attacked due to their shoddy security and that's it.
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by DevX101 8y ago
Just moved to Yarn this weekend strictly because npm link (used to link to a local version of a package) doesn't work the way I want it to. Everytime I install a new package my previous `npm link` references break in the node_modules f
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by DevX101 8y ago
Startup idea: Create OpenDoor for the National Association of Realtors with the NAR as a significant owner in the venture. You'd probably need to be an insider to pull this off. With their data advantage, they could kill or hobble Ope
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China has lifted 500 million people out of poverty in a generation. They're absolutely going in the net right direction, even accounting for corruption.
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by DevX101 8y ago
Thanks! That's probably it then. I guess this doesn't support my hypothesis after all.
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by DevX101 8y ago
Great tool! This site supports my suspicions that much of the activity on /r/The_Donald is the coordinated effort of a few individuals posting across multiple accounts. For those not familiar with this sub, it was created sometim
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by DevX101 8y ago
Audiobooks for dense non-fiction material is usually a bad idea. I'd recommend audio for fiction, or non-fiction with an engaging storyline (ex: Bad Blood), which this is not. Nonetheless, I'd still recommend the book.
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by DevX101 8y ago
For anyone interested in this book, I'm going through it now but it addresses an important question of how to identify causality. We've all become familiar with the refrain 'correlation does not imply causation'. This b
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QA jobs are getting outsourced to cheaper markets outside the U.S.
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The article is based on a collection of anecdotes from responses to a Facebook question: “75% of med students and residents are taking either stimulants or antidepressants or both. True or false?” Ctrl-f for 'coffee' to see some s
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by DevX101 8y ago
Many of the respondents to this informal poll classified coffee or other energy drinks as a stimulant, so not surprised by this. 64% of Americans drink coffee every day. This would have been more interesting if antidepressant usage were is
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by DevX101 8y ago
How does Oracle treat their clients badly? Honestly curious, never worked with them.
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by DevX101 8y ago
I've long been interested in seeing debate formalized. That is, a back and forth structured discussion with the end goal of arriving at a narrowly scoped truth. One strategy for winning could include attacking core assumptions underl
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Robinhood's whole business model is making money from people who think they're getting a free lunch. You're still paying money for the trade. But instead of paying a direct fee, you're paying more money via the bid-ask
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by DevX101 8y ago
> “I disagree with the statement that these funds are protected by SIPC,” Stephen Harbeck, president and chief executive officer of SIPC How the hell did this product get launched?
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What kind of keyboard do you have?
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by DevX101 8y ago
The bigger impact isn't luring U.S. scientists to China. It's keeping top Chinese scientists/students in China. Chinese grad students/postdocs are highly represented at elite U.S. universities. With recent political c
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by DevX101 8y ago
This has been a HackerNews phenomenon for years. The default stance of HackerNews is contrarian.
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> This is not a prodution worthy piece of software,it is only meant for demo purposes It's a pretty cool proof of concept ;) Go easy!
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by DevX101 8y ago
>Journalist realizes he was on the wrong side of defending a special interest group Author of the article is Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab. I wish he had spoken to the original creators of the algorithm (down the street) before
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by DevX101 8y ago
Keep in mind that a sufficiently motivated and powerful state (China comes to mind) could block any messages that appear to be encrypted. In such a case, bad state actors would not be able to decipher the message, but they could determine t
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by DevX101 8y ago
Check out relevant posts from this site: http://highscalability.com/all-time-favorites/
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by DevX101 8y ago
When's the last time you used firefox? The latest updates have made big strides in performance.
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My understanding is that legally, the contract says something reasonable, like a year. But the firm will use it's considerable resources to impede your career if you attempt to work in mathematical trading after that year's up. O
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I'm not a purist believer in the efficient market hypothesis. BUT, I doubt there's much alpha to be gained simply from looking at price data which is widely and publicly available. Also keep in mind that markets are dynamic feed
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Agreed on the regulatory risk. But the biggest defense against that isn't lobbying. It's putting the business's interests in alignment with the governments. Amazon will take a page out of ATT's playback and become the
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I'd be willing to bet Bezos knew with 90% confidence where he'd want HQ2 a year ago and put on this prisoner's dilemma game amongst states to reap the most benefit possible before moving there.
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Here is an image comparing the lethal dose of heroin vs fentanyl. https://www.statnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Heroin-F...
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The point of his presentation was how to identify real, sustainable growth before the point where it is self-evident that the company is a winner. To do that you have to go upstream of revenue. Also, you can hack revenue in the short term b

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