N_trglctc_joe

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by N_trglctc_joe 7y ago
one commonly used measure of inequality is the Gini coefficient, which isn't perfect but is great for getting a "big picture" view of things. The increased exposure of the rich to the vicissitudes of valuations doesn't
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by N_trglctc_joe 7y ago
That formula won't work with compound interest. I'm not sure if most spreadsheet packages have an exponential function, but the formula should be money_in_account * exp( interest_rate/12 )
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by N_trglctc_joe 7y ago
This is a really good point. Direct evidence of Satoshi's identity can only be in the form of someone claiming to be him, and that just wouldn't be credible. Circumstantial evidence is all we're going to get; even somebody
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by N_trglctc_joe 7y ago
There's a difference between a "conversation" and an "internet exchange". In person, I agree completely. Skepticism towards your friends/ family/ acquaintances can easily poison the discourse and ruin rel
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by N_trglctc_joe 7y ago
>Now that I have shown you the evidence about how people in the city are more likely to have attempted to reduce their meat consumption, are you willing to admit that your initial skepticism was completely and totally wrong? Regardless o
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by N_trglctc_joe 7y ago
Without knowing more details about your resources, your skill set, and the other company, nobody here can possibly provide a helpful answer to that question. And even if all that information had been provided, you would run the risk of som
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by N_trglctc_joe 7y ago
I came here to ask something along these lines. Sometimes I'm baffled by what percolates up to the first few pages of HN. I've seen more than a couple Wikipedia pages about random scientific trivia, and that sort of thing just d
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by N_trglctc_joe 7y ago
> But 84+33>100...? I know you have sources there, but something doesn’t as up. There's only a contradiction if the two groups are mutual exclusive. Retirement accounts belonging to those in the top 10% will be counted in both c
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by N_trglctc_joe 7y ago
well, the first thing you do is ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ a ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ to ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ your ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️, and after that it's all pretty ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️.
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by N_trglctc_joe 7y ago
Big if true. If not though, nearly a million out of 17.6 million bitcoins seems like a huge number to be out of circulation, and that's a lower bound (other bitcoin owners have almost certainly died without being able to pass them on).
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by N_trglctc_joe 7y ago
There's no way for me to phrase this while coming across as civil, but I'm genuinely curious: does anybody actually believe Musk? If so, why?
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by N_trglctc_joe 7y ago
Honestly? Nothing. I think I would get more from investing in something boring-yet-reliable and finding another job. Do you really think that an idea someone gave you on the internet is likely to provide more happiness than having a cushi
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by N_trglctc_joe 7y ago
> The overall goal of the Boring Company is to substantially decrease the cost, and increase the speed of building tunnels. Good for it, but in the mean time a car tunnel would still have worse throughput than public transportation (less
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by N_trglctc_joe 7y ago
Homer's a bit of an unusual case. The Illiad was the first written work produced after a long dark age (or close to it; I'm not sure where the consensus is right now on whether Hesiod came earlier), so Homer was drawing on a few
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by N_trglctc_joe 7y ago
Just because most users use their devices for entertainment doesn't mean that entertainment is a valid reason to need more bandwidth. Most users couldn't give a good gosh dang whether the resolution is higher on their 6" pho
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by N_trglctc_joe 7y ago
Hey jobson, fair point. Please read my reply to exabrial below. There's a couple other commenters with salient links there, too.
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by N_trglctc_joe 7y ago
People can already steam music and Netflix (or whatever) and be happy with it. You don't need 4k revolution (or lossless music) on your tablet. If you cared that much about quality, you'd watch $whatever on an actual monitor (whi
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by N_trglctc_joe 7y ago
While cable boxes could be replaced by subsidized smartphones, my question is "Why?". A wired connection will always be less capricious than a wireless one [citation needed], so if your TV is in a fixed position there's no
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by N_trglctc_joe 7y ago
That's a completely fair point. I'd read a little on it, nothing conclusive, and as md224 pointed out, there's been some back-and-forth, and the science isn't settled. I figured that including "possibly" in m
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by N_trglctc_joe 7y ago
> While 5G Will be a great boon This is something I've been having trouble with. Lately I've become more aware of the secondary effects of 5G- on weather forecasting, on the radio spectrum, possibly on bees- and it's got m
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by N_trglctc_joe 7y ago
Not at all, and autoplay is way too difficult to completely prevent. Even on Firefox with media.autoplay.default set to 1, noscript, and UBO some sites still play video without my interaction. News sites are the worst about it; I'm co
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by N_trglctc_joe 7y ago
It's not as though Linux is the only Unix in town. There's also MacOS and BSD. edit: and probably a whole bunch of other Unixes (Unices?) that I don't know about.
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by N_trglctc_joe 7y ago
I'm guessing that everybody's going to lose for a while. When Netflix began offering streaming services, the major studios weren't certain enough that it would take off to develop their own, but they were willing to loan out
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by N_trglctc_joe 7y ago
Question related to this: I'm applying to jobs in data science (straight outta grad school), and I'm not really sure how to market myself. The problem I keep running up against is that data science is such a broad term that it&#x