acchow

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   by acchow 7y ago

   These mean different things. You can have a 1% increase (which is not a "significant" increase) but with a large enough sample size you can be quite confident in it (statistically significant).
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   by acchow 7y ago

   I lived most of my life in Toronto and now live in San Francisco. I can't corroborate your observation that "people are generally a lot happier" in Toronto. I agree homelessness is dramatically less in Toronto.
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   by acchow 7y ago

   I'm seeing a different page from yours. Headline for me is: "Most Canadians Are Now Better Off Than Most Americans" With a subheadline: "Middle-class people in the U.S. are losing ground to their peers in other rich coun
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   by acchow 7y ago

   Can you explain your logic?
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   by acchow 7y ago

   I meant 59 cents/mile is generous for estimating your Uber driving costs. The AAA average includes pickup trucks, which hopefully you wouldn't be using for Uber. Edmunds puts the TCO for 5 years (includes insurance and gas) for a
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   by acchow 7y ago

   "The National Hurricane Center says cones will contain the path of the storm center only 60 to 70 percent of the time" Sounds like the communications fix is easy. Increase the uncertainty to 90-95% which also increases the cone si
7. 1687.▲
   by acchow 7y ago

   Exactly. Illicit drugs are easier to acquire than legal drugs when you're underage.
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   by acchow 7y ago

   The IRS numbers are very generous.
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   by acchow 7y ago

   This is about a California policy. San Francisco makes up 2.3% of California's population. It's not even relevant to this discussion.
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    by acchow 7y ago

    Who is the author of that book?
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    by acchow 7y ago

    I hope this is the right description because it would make such intuitive sense. But superconductivity is also a quantum phenomenon so it probably defies intuition.
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    by acchow 7y ago

    There have been significant reforms in banking since the 2007 financial crisis. The next recession will probably be more similar to the early-2000's recession (post dot-com boom) than the financial crisis - shallow and short. Don'
13. 1693.▲
    by acchow 7y ago

    What brokerage are you using? That sounds incredibly expensive for stock trading.
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    by acchow 7y ago

    > it'd stink to buy a beefy Mac Pro and not be able to edit 8K REDCODE RAW as well as they could on other OSes I don't think this lawsuit will have any bearing on REDCODE hardware decode on Mac OS. Especially since it would li
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    by acchow 7y ago

    > - They didn't just patent an idea. They built a whole system around it. REDCODE is not just a compression algorithm. It is a compression algorithm optimized for a certain type of professional movie camera, one that they invented.
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    by acchow 7y ago

    Anyone know what percentage of their employees are programmers?
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    by acchow 7y ago

    Fish can't scream.
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    by acchow 7y ago

    4000 miles per year is much lower than the US average of 13k, or 12k km/year in the EU
19. 1699.▲
    by acchow 7y ago

    Yes, sustainable population growth is based around a fairly high population density and dropping a car-centric lifestyle.
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    by acchow 7y ago

    how do you know this?
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    by acchow 7y ago

    Need cash flow for mortgage payments. Need down payment. Price are inflated by increased demand due to zero interest rates. How much will they drop when they rise?
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    by acchow 7y ago

    I remember 3 years ago all my pools and lines in SF were $2.50. Now it is usually $6-7. I think these companies have changed our habits.
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    by acchow 7y ago

    Uber Pool and Lyft Line opened up a new product price point for a huge number of consumers that taxis couldn't hit.
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    by acchow 7y ago

    The problem is that this is basically all that behavioral economics is good for.
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    by acchow 7y ago

    How would they do that without working computers?
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    by acchow 7y ago

    Wall Street Bets follows this philosophy - it's only a loss if you sell.
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    by acchow 7y ago

    In the first photo, it seems more like the glass facade camouflages with the sky which gives an illusion of more nature and less artificial construction.
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    by acchow 7y ago

    MacOS supports remapping caps lock to escape. No hacks needed!
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    by acchow 7y ago

    What you're saying essentially boils down to "we don't get it... ergo god"
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    by acchow 7y ago

    The issue is with the terms: “You grant FaceApp a perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully-paid, transferable sub-licensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works f