TheLogothete

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Writers Who Spied(economist.com)
1 points by TheLogothete 11y ago|0 comments
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by TheLogothete 11y ago
What a shite article. Can somebody who upvoted explain his or hers reasoning for doingot?
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by TheLogothete 11y ago
You base your assumption on your very smart and educated friends. Unfortunately, smart and drive people are a tiny minority in the world. You cannot make policy based on how the top 10 would react
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by TheLogothete 11y ago
Saudi Arabia. Kuwait. You only need to open your eyes for the truth and you won't be searching too long. Human behavior is reliant on feedback loops. Remove the incentive and you remove the drive. Not going forward means falling downwa
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by TheLogothete 11y ago
You don't say!
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by TheLogothete 11y ago
I would have loved it better if MS chose Cent over Ubuntu.
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by TheLogothete 11y ago
I don't think you understand how machine learning works. Better not to opine on something you don't understand.
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by TheLogothete 11y ago
Go might be a complex game, but in the grand scheme of things it is a trivial problem to solve, very narrow in scope. You perform an infinitely more complex task everyday when you make breakfast. AlphaGo's achievement is that it learne
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by TheLogothete 11y ago
>World is also going through information technology revolution -- explosive increase in productivity I thought so too. But it doesn't seem to be the case. Growth in productivity has been in steep decline over the last 50 years. htt
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by TheLogothete 11y ago
I often wonder why people are more interested in replying than in reading.
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by TheLogothete 11y ago
>What difference does it make if the author is famous or not? It would explain why this jibberish is #1 on HN.
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by TheLogothete 11y ago
Bing and Bing-powered search has like 30% share in the US. Siri is powered by Bing.
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by TheLogothete 11y ago
Why is this article even on the front page (#1 even) of HN? Is this guy famous? His article is pure ramblings and defies common sense.
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by TheLogothete 11y ago
I don't think you are very familiar with how the payments industry works. Credit cards offer much more than a means to pay. Apple will need to double their headcount to compete with Visa. Or do you think that this is a feasible scenari
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by TheLogothete 11y ago
Partnering? Sure! I think this will be the way forward, but the GP says Apple is out to get VISA and MC (as companies) and will leapfrog them with one clean swoop. This will most definitely not happen.
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by TheLogothete 11y ago
Don't you need credit cards to use apple pay?
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Free Machine Learning Library for .NET(accord-framework.net)
95 points by TheLogothete 11y ago|5 comments
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by TheLogothete 11y ago
You are clearly biased against rich people. The sibling's comment are my thoughts exactly. Not every cheat is rich and everyone who is rich cheats. If somebody cheats - punish him, whether he is rich or not is irrelevant. Don't ma
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by TheLogothete 11y ago
The top 1% does not have to cheat to outperform the rest. Did you read the last paragraphs of the article?
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by TheLogothete 11y ago
Wealth does not pass a generation. http://time.com/money/3925308/rich-families-lose-wealth/ It is a very known fact, but I couldn't find better sources quickly, so this article has to do.
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by TheLogothete 11y ago
We'll just replace our heads.
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by TheLogothete 11y ago
So much this! The top 1% outperform significantly everyone else in every scenario. The app store? Twitch streamers? Youtube videos? Facebook pages? Athletes? It's a natural phenomenon. If you fight it, you are practically fighting natu
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by TheLogothete 11y ago
>Most asset management companies will not let you interview their fund managers, and most fund managers won't divulge their research strategies if asked. If you have 100k to invest, better put them in the bank and don't bother
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by TheLogothete 11y ago
This is exactly the thinking of the average Joe who goes to invest on the bourse and gets slaughtered. The github example is especially apt. Go to Vegas. Better odds.
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by TheLogothete 11y ago
You are absolutely right. This is my opinion, not a rebuttal. I don't need to collect formal evidence to leave my comment. This is the Internet, not an academic panel.
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by TheLogothete 11y ago
Many people are so desperate to convince themselves that they are very special snowflakes that they will use every opportunity to renounce the status quo. It doesn't matter if the status quo is very sensible and sound. They need, crav
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by TheLogothete 11y ago
Don't start with this condescending "nah" when you are going to make a qualification after that and exclude the very case we are discussing here.
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by TheLogothete 11y ago
>You need an information advantage Yeah, exactly my point. You need to spend >20 hours to research a single company and will chose to invest in 1 out of 10. Those are the optimistic numbers. So 5 stocks is 1000 hours. How many hours t
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by TheLogothete 11y ago
Are you serious? You need a PORTFOLIO of stocks. It is an ONGOING effort.
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by TheLogothete 11y ago
Arguing is about making solid arguments. It's not about cherry picking and twisting facts because of your political leanings.

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