MarkMc

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by MarkMc 10y ago
And a 4x murder rate
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by MarkMc 10y ago
Just keep trying. You have just been unlucky so far. A lot of success comes down to dogged persistence. Here's a great book on the subject: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B010MH9V3W/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
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by MarkMc 10y ago
You don't care about discrimination? So it's OK for a restaurant or landlord or private college to post a sign saying, "Whites Only"?
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by MarkMc 10y ago
I have more respect for Warren Buffett than any person outside my family. He's smart, honest, humble, generous, witty and a great communicator. And he's the best investor in the world.
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by MarkMc 10y ago
I think he's saying that Berkshire's insurance is so large and diversified that even something like a earthquake in California would not have a big impact on its cash position. I'm surprised it would be capped at 3% though.
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by MarkMc 10y ago
That statement must have given Cloudfare's lawyer an aneurysm. Seems to me that management's attempt to downplay the problem exposes the company to as much risk as the original technical mistake.
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by MarkMc 10y ago
The line between 'advocacy' and 'research' is not as clear as you suggest. There are plenty of people who will label any form of gun research by the CDC as advocacy: "Timothy Wheeler, director of the group Doctors
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by MarkMc 10y ago
> Clearly, I'm not an expert in algorithms. There is no point in giving me binary-tree-traversing questions; ...I'm trying to be an expert in something else, like object-oriented design, for example. I've always been surpr
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by MarkMc 10y ago
This is a very interesting comment for someone like me who has little knowledge of statistics. The stack exchange answer shows how stupid Bayesians can be, and the XKCD shows how stupid Frequentists can be. Yet I find this particular critic
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by MarkMc 10y ago
Actually the PC market has stopped shrinking and is now about steady: http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3468817 'Running' can be pretty good, even when it's not a native app - there are plenty of
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by MarkMc 10y ago
'Most' apps do not get used even once [1] so their user experience doesn't really matter. Most popular apps are designed for both tablet and phone. The ones that haven't specifically been designed for tablet are usual
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by MarkMc 10y ago
I'm not saying that the app would have exactly the same UI on a phone and a desktop computer - the developer is free to customise the UI for the device.
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by MarkMc 10y ago
"Write once, mediocre everywhere" was a problem with Sun's implementation, not with the concept of cross platform code. There are tons of webapps which are very successful, despite being written 'once'. In any case
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by MarkMc 10y ago
Sun's execution was poor. Google's doesn't have to be.
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by MarkMc 10y ago
It bothers me that Google does not seem particularly interested in doing the one thing that would make their Android platform absolutely dominant: Allow Chrome to run Android apps on Mac and Windows. Google has already done 90% of the neces
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by MarkMc 10y ago
That's a good question. I suppose I'm arguing for ethical framework in which I'm not the sole judge of costs and benefits. I think the pug will suffer so much that its life is not worth living. But if the pug feels differ
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by MarkMc 10y ago
I'd say the desire for the dog to live should be considered. That is, even if (b) has zero weight, (a) can outweigh (c)
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by MarkMc 10y ago
No, were not obliged to euthanize all these brachycephalic dogs immediately. The reason is that the (a) desire for the dog to live and (b) emotional bond between dog and owner usually outweighs (c) the suffering of the dog. But in choosing
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by MarkMc 10y ago
Isn't voting in India already anonymous? I suspect that even with anonymous voting people's psychology will compel them to vote for the party who gives them a gifts.
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by MarkMc 10y ago
In 1995 the real median US household income was $52,664. In 2015 it was $56,516 [1]. US Hourly Wages for nonsupervisory workers has certainly grown over the last 20 years, but not in the past 40 years [2]. [1] https://fred.stlou
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US patients who see immigrant doctors live longer(qz.com)
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by MarkMc 10y ago
Wow, that's basically a 5-year loan. I'm surprised that Canadian home buyers accept such risk. I wonder why the mortgage market in Australia and UK is so different to Canada.
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by MarkMc 10y ago
What are 25-year mortgages with 5 year terms? Do you mean the interest rate is fixed for only five years? If so, people will not need to refinance as long as interest rates stay low.
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by MarkMc 10y ago
Then I can avoid the tax by using a timer device to switch the lights on and off
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by MarkMc 10y ago
This article seems to be missing an obvious point: The top 1% earn most of their money from investments rather than salary. And since rich parents will often give their assets to their children (in the form of trust funds or inheritance) i
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by MarkMc 10y ago
Basically, yes. What is the counterargument? Note also that there are plenty of tariffs on goods from rich countries to poor countries. For example, India's tax on vehicle imports means cars are manufactured in labour-intensive India
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by MarkMc 10y ago
If India were to ban the use of microchips wouldn't that create "a lot of new, local jobs"? It seems to me that technology and free trade have similar effects. If you like one you should like the other.
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by MarkMc 10y ago
> He believes in companies that pay dividends, yet BH does not No, he believes in companies that correctly value the capital they employ. He's happy for a company to use its profit to repurchase shares or expand its business so long
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by MarkMc 10y ago
I'm not claiming that a bank account is a better investment, just saying that "all-time record quarterly revenue" is pretty meaningless. And yes, a thorough analysis of Apple's performance would offer more insight than j
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by MarkMc 10y ago
Meh. A bank account earning compound interest will achieve "all-time record quarterly revenue" every single quarter. Apple's quarterly profit is only up by 2.4% per share. Let's look at earnings per share for each calen

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