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by MarkMc 9y ago
From the article: "Yes, the time spent on Facebook in the quarter declined by 5 percent, but it was by Facebook’s design, executives said, in order to promote a higher quality experience. Yes, there was a dip in North American user num
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I'm awed by the educational quality of Grant Sanderson's videos. No wonder he was a Khan Academy talent search finalist: https://www.khanacademy.org/about/blog/post/125876900000/mee...
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OK, but it seems likely that Tesla will have a second factory by 2021: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-07/tesla-pla...
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If it's primarily a tax dodge, why is it so uncommon? Seems that most CEOs get paid very well even if they underperform but Musk will get paid nothing.
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Similarly I did not want to sell my shares in Google to buy shares in the Facebook IPO (even though I felt Facebook would generate better returns) because I would have to pay capital gains tax. This shows why a simple model for capital gain
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by MarkMc 9y ago
How many vehicles do you think Tesla will sell in 2021?
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The standard metric for social media is average monthly users. Sounds to me like The Guardian is shoehorning the facts to fit their narrative.
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Also, what if Hotmail is associated with a 1.15 relative risk for both black and white users, but a black user is significantly more likely to have a Hotmail account than a white user?
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What if insurer asks for the applicant's passport photo and then uses artificial or human intelligence to classify the applicant by race?
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I don't see what is so cynical about 'surveillance-powered convenience store's. Having surveillance in a store doesn't have any negative connotation for me, and 'surveillance-powered' is a good way to describe
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The problem is that the test procedure is then too far removed from the 'real emergency' procedure. I can envision a situation where the test works fine for 20 years, then in a real emergency the envelope cannot be found or the so
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Well Steve Ballmer deserved to be more heavily criticized - any random MBA graduate would have produced as much value as Ballmer in the same position. That's not true of the others.
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2008 was an exception - most of Buffett's investments have been in the open market where he was simply the highest bidder at the time. The problem with a Winklevoss put is likely the credit risk, not the price
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I don't have an FT subscription. Can someone tell me whether the article suggest an alternative measure of wealth?
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This Cat Sensed Death. What If Computers Could, Too?(nytimes.com)
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Springbok Solutions Ltd | C++ Developer | London, UK | Full-Time or Part-Time | REMOTE | £50-60K I’m looking for a C++ developer with at least 3 years experience to help me port a large macOS Objective C++ application to Windows. You must b
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Ask HN: What are your goals for 2018?
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The basics of chess can be taught in 1 hour but learning to be an expert takes many years. I see OOP in the same way. Most software today is written in an object oriented language, and for large software systems the quality of your object o
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by MarkMc 9y ago
> You can go to virtually any corner of the Earth, walk in to a shop and find that roughly 50%-80% things in there are made in China. My iPhone was made in China, yet the bulk of the purchase price goes to pay Apple (US) shareholders and
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by MarkMc 9y ago
> If one is willing to use their hand to provide abrasion, merely poured water enables far superior waste removal than toilet paper. Trouble is, you then have excrement on your hand. So perhaps there is a trade off between having a clean
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Of the additional 80% gold I'd guess about half represents profit for gold miners or tax or mining royalties. So 40% of the gold supply has come at zero marginal cost. Also keep in mind that a technological breakthrough could produce a
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In the next 100 years the amount of gold above ground will triple or quadruple. Growth in Bitcoins will be far less.
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But in the real world women don't judge men by looking at photographs of their bodies. They interact with them and make an assessment based on many dimensions like handsomeness, physique, wealth, education, personality, etc.
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Their active user count increases in every region every year. Their revenue is growing 50% per year. They are not dying.
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Does that offer any real protection? I could try each possible character until I find the hash.
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NatWest is also guilty of storing passwords in plain text: their login page says 'enter the 5th, 8th and 12th character of your password'
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> I am no marketing expert but it seems the non-awkward one will be only 20% Fat I agree, but that doesn't really alter the author's point: Saying '80% fat free' is likely to sell better than 'only 20% fat'.
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> to the east in China or to the west in California? To the west in California. In China, Foxconn makes very little profit (ie. adds little value) for each iPhone they manufacture. > I think we can spend years discussing where that v
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I found the Putty .exe wasn't signed by the developer. This was a few years ago so maybe things are different now.
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And a keyboard that doesn't feel like I'm typing on a rock. And inverted T arrow keys

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