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by ackbar03 7y ago
I guess we should have given fyre festival a chance?
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by ackbar03 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17771096 This was pretty big
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by ackbar03 7y ago
I'm not sure if I can speak for everyone but sometimes I do this in the hopes that it could lead to a connection with the author or potentially deeper insights and discussions on the topic with someone more knowledgeable. Usually I go
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by ackbar03 7y ago
You have to wonder how twisted you can really get though in the name of increasing shareholder value. How do these top brass justify to themselves what they're doing
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by ackbar03 7y ago
This reminds me of the ansible machine in Orson Scott cards Enders Game.
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by ackbar03 7y ago
I've read somewhere that mturk was never profitable for Amazon. I wonder if this is still the case since there are now a plethora of labeling service companies out there
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by ackbar03 7y ago
Totally agree and glad this comment is at the top, so many western commentators don't understand this. The Chinese people are aware they live in a autocratic regime but they didn't build up their country into an economic powerhous
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by ackbar03 7y ago
If we're comparing jobs to gates, I think it's also fair to say that gates doesn't compare as well on the 'business' aspect since his family connections helped him get that meeting with IBM. Jobs on the other hand w
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by ackbar03 7y ago
I find this strange too. I think they're trying to reduce risk. This basically transforms what would otherwise be an equity investment into a debt investment which lowers overall risk
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by ackbar03 7y ago
I agree this is the better solution. A lot of the western commentators on this issue tend to take a ivory tower perspective. I think China could very well just ignore them and let them burn. It doesn't necessarily make xi look weak. A
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by ackbar03 7y ago
I'm guessing some on the hacker news crowd already know this but the author neal Stephenson also wrote Crytonomicon which was the prerequisite reading book for the PayPal mafia back in the days. I've personally only read his book
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by ackbar03 7y ago
I think it only works for this particular use case though. Anime visuals are much less complicated then real world pictures. The fact that they are (mostly) created digitally in the first place means a algorithmic solution is likely to be a
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by ackbar03 7y ago
Are stocks still the best asset during negative rates and contracting growth?
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by ackbar03 7y ago
Yes I agree. That's partly why for me, despite living in Hong Kong and having worked in finance I don't really mind if some of these people get washed out in the process.
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by ackbar03 7y ago
I think hks importance is extremely arguable. Hks gdp is barely 3 percent of china's with a stalling growth rate. I've worked in both Shanghai and Hong Kong and I can say a lot of the large cities are much much nicer in China now.
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by ackbar03 7y ago
Oh man they absolutely cannot come into Hong Kong, it would be a totally stupid move. Honestly in the grand scheme of things they can afford for Hong Kong to just descend into chaos and completely collapse economically or whatever. The minu
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by ackbar03 7y ago
No I don't agree with the police beating the protestors here but neither do I agree with protestors throwing bricks at police and setting off petrol bombs or breaking off a policeman finger. You can't exactly expect them to be sit
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by ackbar03 7y ago
Maybe if the protestors werent so intent on disrupting everyday life and kept things peaceful in the first place the police wouldn't have to clear them out using such means. These protests are a serious nuisance and everyone is paying
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by ackbar03 7y ago
Cause the investors are going, "that's not what I'm giving you money for! shut it down! SHUT IT DOWN for the love of god!"
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by ackbar03 7y ago
I used to read zero hedge a lot, but then they started getting a bit extreme with the "down with the establishment" theme and I stopped reading which is a bit of a shame cause they do have some good analysis. You sublimaly get inf
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by ackbar03 7y ago
https://pandaily.com/def-con-and-baidu-security-nurturing-ch... https://www.defcon.org/html/dc-china-1/dc-cn-1-venue.html I wish they had more photos of the thing. And don't confuse it with d
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by ackbar03 7y ago
Honestly I think people should go to the one in Beijing if they have the means to, they held the first one in China this year and it was f'ing amazing. It was held in a old oil storage tanker and had a evening session with live djs and
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by ackbar03 7y ago
I don't see anything wrong with that. Photosynthesis procedure within plants is essentially what is taking co2 out of the atmosphere
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by ackbar03 7y ago
As a pre finance guy, I feel like the funding landscape change has more to do with the massive liquidity post QE just sloshing around. I feel like a lot of the financial trends can all be traced back to this single factor. It's the rea
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by ackbar03 7y ago
Huh, interesting, thanks for sharing. Maybe they're just using it as an address to open up accounts for other stuff?
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by ackbar03 7y ago
Whats the service fir? I know game miners and some other niche services that attract these kind of actors. Do you know what they want from your site?
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by ackbar03 7y ago
If you give me a captcha generator I can give you a captcha solver. You have no idea
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by ackbar03 7y ago
Wow I didn't even know janestreet even posts these kind of articles. i always assumed they were super secretive
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by ackbar03 7y ago
I'd imagine it'd be hard to avoid? There isn't exactly a lot of text on these cards, with so many parameters in the model it wouldn't be surprising that it overfits
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China enforcing trash sorting for better recycling, starting with Shanghai(scmp.com)
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