JackFr

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   by JackFr 14y ago

   Try the piece using 'these respondents' in stead of 'lumberjacks'. Virtually unreadable and dull.
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   by JackFr 14y ago

   Have you read much Hacker News?
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   by JackFr 14y ago

   Florida Golf Coast University?
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   by JackFr 14y ago

   I would go one step farther and say it is poorly written. It is rambling, disorganized, and lacks both both narrative structure and thematic clarity. It offers no systematic analysis, and confounds anecdotal evidence with personal rembran
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   by JackFr 14y ago

   You are a customer of your bank, not Visa. Visa's customers are merchants and financial institutions.
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   by JackFr 14y ago

   While I understand the point being made, Breivig apparently acted alone, and his actions were most similar to Timothy McVeigh. The proper comparison would be to compare changes in policy following Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing. Af
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   by JackFr 14y ago

   Some non-normalized results might be nice. If the sample size of Republican-leaning vs. Democrat-leaning are orders of magnitude different, then the diversity of taste comparison is questionable.
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   by JackFr 14y ago

   But the the manipulation was as likely in your favor as it was against you. Edit: I take it back. Looking at the data, Barclays was definitely cheating against you.
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   by JackFr 14y ago

   Seems kind of lame that an apparent competitor already owns yardsale.com. You'd think that even if you couldn't get the domain you wanted, you'd try not to drive people to a competitor.
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    by JackFr 14y ago

    You understand what the fraud being perpetrated is right? Citi passed fraudulent mortgages on to investors. That is, either homeowners or third party mortgage brokers fraudulently obtained loans to which they otherwise would not have been
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    by JackFr 14y ago

    Because they're not selling milk. The cereal has to be genuine.
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    by JackFr 14y ago

    Those aren't anecdotes, they are hypotheticals. They are useful, but statistically they occur even more infrequently than anecdotes.
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    by JackFr 14y ago

    But it's even worse than that. Because it is seemingly unfeasible for the legislative body to write the specifics into laws, they create unelected bureaucracies to implement the specifics of broad reaching policy goals.
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    by JackFr 14y ago

    It's a possible but hardly compelling: Facebook: ~ 1 billion customers Visa: ~2 billion cards out there. Facebook: ? merchants. Visa: > 10 million merchants. Facebook: potentially disruptive to the existing market Visa: 50+ years experi
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    by JackFr 15y ago

    It reads like an "Reader's respond" column on the op-ed page in a local newspaper. The guy makes utterly standard and conventional arguments and then rests on an appeal to his authority as an whiz-bang investor. Hardly too hot for TED, mor