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by TDL 10y ago
Not sure what service your friend uses for gifting his electronics to African countries, but I believe most electronics are sent to Ghana then burned for various metals. http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/gh
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Zombie Moore's Law shows hardware is eating software(theregister.co.uk)
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by TDL 10y ago
I wouldn't avoid opportunities because of the complexity of the tax system. Ask around for good accountants, they won't be as expensive as you think. Consider paying an accountant as a necessary cost of doing business.
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by TDL 10y ago
In the U.S. there aren't 13 fiber ISPs in any market. These are the markets grahamburger is talking about. Here, stateside, there is not a lot of competition among ISPs.
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by TDL 10y ago
You are confusing speculating with investing for retirement.
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Chicago’s predictive policing tool just failed a major test(theverge.com)
1 points by TDL 10y ago|0 comments
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by TDL 10y ago
That is due to the amount of leverage used in retail FX trding. Most people don't understand how leverage works, let alone the negative impact it can have on a trading account.
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by TDL 10y ago
Effectively enslaving people to prove a point won't help and will probably make people resentful to the point that was trying to be made.
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by TDL 10y ago
This is very neat, I hope I will have time to dig into this at some later date. Great job!
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by TDL 10y ago
Aren't some BigCos a good place to do research? Have you tried that approach?
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by TDL 10y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: Chicago Remote: Yes Email: t.lekkas[at]practalis[dot]com Happy to help non-technical founders solve their problems. Experienced Python/Django developer focused on web application development and data p
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by TDL 10y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: Chicago Remote: Yes Email: t.lekkas[at]practalis[dot]com Happy to help non-technical founders solve their problems. Experienced Python/Django developer focused on web application development and data p
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by TDL 10y ago
"If you're right 51% of the time when you invest you're going to get rich." I completely disagree with this statement and I've seen it (or a variation of it) many times over the years. You can have a win rate of 99
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Mating Hemophiliacs Seldom Turns Out Well (Tesla Merger)(streetwiseprofessor.com)
1 points by TDL 10y ago|0 comments
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by TDL 10y ago
Agreed
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by TDL 10y ago
There are other accounts/instruments that can replace public pensions. The reality is that politicians over promise on pensions and create unsustainable obligations for future generations.
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by TDL 10y ago
I agree with you. I think pensions are a mistake in general, however, many municipalities, counties, and states are locked in to existing pensions schemes. I am for doing away with pensions in the future, but the existing obligations need
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by TDL 10y ago
Being from Chicago I say it's a good thing to pay down the pension obligations. Pension obligations can cause a lot of problems in the future. Although I don't believe governments should be growing their budgets aggressively, sq
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by TDL 10y ago
Just curious, how far did you get into the UW specialization? The first course is certainly rudimentary. Also important to note, after the intro course you don't have to use Graph Lab Create and you can use pandas, numpy, scikit. I
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by TDL 10y ago
I'm sure others in this thread will have some good advice on the math front. You will want to be comfortable with statistics (as it seems you already are aware), but you will also want to be comfortable with linear algebra as well. A
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by TDL 10y ago
"There are many, many positive software cults in our world today." Care to name some? I don't believe cultivating religious fervor over anything and rejecting information that disconfirms or challenges your beliefs as a posi
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by TDL 10y ago
Not sure where he got his data, but you might want to try https://www.quandl.com/ They have a free, community, curated data set of ~3200 stocks.
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by TDL 10y ago
Radley Balko has been writing about asset forfeiture for about a decade. He has done more to bring this issue to the medias attention than John Oliver has. It is completely unfair to claim that no one knew what was going until someone fam
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by TDL 10y ago
My belief why many people are calling this cycle a bubble is because they experienced two big bubbles almost back to back. I think much of the bubble calling over the past few years reeks of recency bias and people have been burned, not ju
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by TDL 10y ago
I said we have overvalued the certifications/diplomas, not that they don't have value. I also never implied that schools were meant to be perfect. My point is that we have zeroed in on the certification/diploma too much and
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by TDL 10y ago
If I was in your position I would begin looking for a position in another company in a similar role (it's not clear what type of projects your are taking on.) It's great that you have been provided with mentorship & support,
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by TDL 10y ago
Reading some of the comments here makes it clear that we (the global we) have way overvalued the piece of paper that we get upon graduation and have largely ignored the process, habits, & knowledge that said piece of paper once stood
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by TDL 10y ago
Good to know Keith Richards isn't dead yet, didn't realize he was a startup. http://iskeithrichards.deadyet.lol/
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by TDL 10y ago
This is absolutely false. The Tea Party coalesced after the bank bailouts.
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by TDL 10y ago
The movement coalesced around the bank bailouts. There was growing dissatisfaction with the Bush neo-cons, more around economic policies then foreign invasions (I would characterize the Tea Party as confident in American power, but ambival

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