Dilpil

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by Dilpil 17y ago
Ironically, he made the same assumptions that killed many CDO players- that past data was sufficient to predict future data.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
18, selling knives for CUTCO, commission only. And I freakin loved it.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
If Bill can get 8% returns on his money every year, he might wanna start a hedge fund. Or at least borrow as much money at 5% as he can and invest it all.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Can anyone explain in technical detail how the phone book problem works?
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by Dilpil 17y ago
I accept your first argument, and reject your second.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
This is indeed the problem: newspapers have no understanding of the business they engage in.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
I'm not sure that is actually such an inefficient method of cooling your place- water is after all, famous for its high heat capacity.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
The appropriations act? Someone needs to explain modularity to lawmakers.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Won? They've won legal battles, yes. Rather hollow victories if you ask me. The real battle is fought in the court of public opinion, which they are losing horribly. Hulu is not a win for the television industry, it is damn near an admis
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Using Russia as an example against the value of democracy is a bit absurd.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Is there a financial news site that gets high tech? Everything here seems perfectly reasonable if your talking about a company making widgets and doodads, but not so much for intangible computing based products.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Perhaps the downvoting icon should be one of those old 90s toy trolls, and the upvote icon a light bulb or something similar.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Yes, but even one commercial will completely break your flow.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Is there a link to a more technical version of this somewhere? That might settle alot of the debates going on (on this website that is).
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Or if your accountants are clever enough, amortize it over 200.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
To answer your quest: no, not really- but it is still important to name and shame.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Penniless? He worked at Morgan Stanley. And then quit for an even higher paying job.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Interesting, they note that the university has 60,000 employees. I'll leave the jaw dropping math to you.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
The great irony is, Germany spends so much time combating anything related to Nazism out of paranoia of a return to totalitarianism. And they don't see the massive contradiction here.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Hmm, I don't see anything in Mozilla.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Harvard isn't "revealing the truth" so much as pointing out a few interesting correlations between variables.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Yeah, as many have pointed out, I meant per year. Still a fantasy.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
How exactly does one make six percent a month from safe investments?
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Fair enough, he does have previous experience running an unprofitable business off of government money by appealing to morality.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Twitter will go the way of facebook, which of course will go the way of myspace, which of course is about to go the way of friendster, which went the way of pets.com, and so on and so forth all the way until we get back to tulips.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
I would recommend 'Life: the Science of Biology' by Sadava Heller Orians Purves and Hillis. Absolutely massive book, starts with basic chemistry, goes on to biochemistry, then cell biology, and gradually works its way up in scale through
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Turns out free doesn't work, and neither does dirt cheap. I am amazed that people will go into an area like video games, where you are free to make a truly unique, non commoditized product, and compete on margin.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
200 Years from now we'll all have a good laugh at how ridiculous it was that videotaping sex and tricking kids into seeing it used to be thought of as an intensely evil crime.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Any other interesting applications of topology to physical phenomenon? I can only seem to find applications to other areas of math.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
I should append that, Ninja Gaiden Black is the one you want. The AI was vastly improved, and the flying swallow trick (you know the one), was nerfed intensely.

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