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by acslater00 11y ago
I'm of two minds on this one, but the mind that says 'glad it's being shut down' is winning. I'm a private pilot / IFR with around 250 hours of pilot-in-command time in single engine planes (I'm guessing t
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by acslater00 11y ago
I'll bet we've got a lot of "political experts" but probably not that many political experts.
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by acslater00 12y ago
This is not true. Demand for water is inelastic in the short term only. The (obvious) effect of increasing water prices over the medium and long term would be the displacement of water hungry crops such as almonds and rice, as it would no
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by acslater00 13y ago
Here is my question for OP. It seems like the image shrinking step coupled with the transformation to +/- values loses so much information that the hash would suffer from big false positive problem. I would have loved to see some data
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by acslater00 13y ago
I completely respect that, and I'm certainly not about to argue with a YC alum about the value of YC on the YC community forum. But there is a world of difference between trading equity for mentorship vs trading equity for a visa [+ me
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by acslater00 13y ago
This is a great idea, can I do this too?? The government can give me 100 visas to allocate, and I'll give them to international entrepreneurs whom I consider to be deserving and who incidentally and in a totally non quid-pro-quo fash
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by acslater00 13y ago
"Danny paid Bethany about $30,000 in various costs to have their first child while he worked a full-time tech job" I wonder what her bid was for him to have the baby.
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by acslater00 13y ago
Yeah hate to spoil the party, but this is not 'wage theft'. Wage theft is very specifically the act of withholding wages that an employee is entitled to according to the terms of his or her employment agreement. What happened here
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by acslater00 13y ago
Welcome to Berkeley, I guess. Honestly, it was only a matter of time before the dissident left decided that the software community was just another monied enemy for them to hate. The good news is that nobody really takes them seriously, so
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by acslater00 13y ago
Agree that it is the more interesting referendum. Tyler Cowen wrote about these sorts of proposals a week ago and I really think he hits the nail on the head. Like many, I'm attracted on an intellectual level to the idea of replacing t
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by acslater00 13y ago
I'm happy to see this article written, and it will hopefully start to change the attitude of evaluating central bank actions through the lens of 'high inflation bad, low inflation good'. This whole debate is an unfortunate ex
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by acslater00 13y ago
This headline is preposterously misleading. This is a link to the actual study. Page 16 is relevant. http://oceana.org/sites/default/files/reports/National_Seafo... The group tested 114 tuna samples. O
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by acslater00 13y ago
SeatGeek started giving everyone $100 a month to spend on live event tickets. It doesn't accrue -- use it or lose it. I think concert attendance in the office has increased 5x since the new policy was started. Not quite a beach vacatio
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by acslater00 14y ago
Couple things here. First, corporate profits are aberrantly high for a number of reasons, none of which are likely to be permanent. John Hussman, an analyst whom I respect deeply, has a good discussion of this from the perspective of stock
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by acslater00 14y ago
4H and ROTC are many things, but they are not "generic leadership clubs without a specific purpose". Both groups are much more akin to something like the Boy Scouts, as they demand substantial amounts of time and effort, and give achievemen
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by acslater00 14y ago
"You are correct that it is not designed to be a stable store of value. Gold shares a similar problem. Price stability is probably not going to be one of Bitcoin's strong suits, for sure. It's primary role might be simply as a highly liquid
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by acslater00 14y ago
Bitcoin seems to be in another bubble, so I'm going to wade back into this insane discussion. There are two main goals of "money". To facilitate exchange, and to store value. Bitcoin is moderately good at the first one and atrocious at the
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by acslater00 14y ago
This story reminds me a lot of this old "Hipster Animals" gag. http://hipster-animals.tumblr.com/post/5609675345/raccoon
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by acslater00 14y ago
Bad mortgages are one type of large, illiquid unhedged asset, yes. But my general point is that the main danger to large institutions is a huge asset that loses value very quickly and can't be easily sold. If you accumulate too many of thos
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by acslater00 14y ago
This is a terrible idea that for some reason keeps cropping up again and again. The major problem facing the Global Financial System(tm) is not high-frequency trading, it is large, illiquid, unhedged assets held by systemically important fi
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by acslater00 14y ago
Anecdotally, I spent 2 years at Microsoft (MSN division). I loved my manager to death, and telling him I was leaving felt kind of like breaking up with a long-term girlfriend. But MSN was a supremely depressing place to work because there w
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by acslater00 14y ago
It can be done fast enough. There is some pre-processing of the raw data at startup time, so all we store in memory is a matrix representation of our user/artist preference graph. A typical preference calculation for a new arbitrary set of
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The SeatGeek Event Recommendations API(seatgeek.com)
38 points by acslater00 14y ago|8 comments
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by acslater00 14y ago
As far as I can tell, the author breaks the universe of teachers into 5% groups and then proceeds to show that the percentile groups are ordinally stable between these two years. In other words, the top scoring group in year 1 beat all othe
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by acslater00 14y ago
That is an absolutely terrible lesson to draw from this episode. First and most importantly, Airbnb and Uber are not disrupting industries burdened primarily by consumer safety regulations; they are disrupting industries burdened primarily
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by acslater00 14y ago
Someone has invented a digital currency based on EVEN more dubious economic ideas than bitcoin itself! We did it!
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by acslater00 14y ago
Could not disagree more. Education -- especially the University variety -- is clearly at the top of a multi-decade cost cycle, and will become much cheaper as it becomes more digital. Health care will absolutely be much cheaper in 30 years
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by acslater00 14y ago
Yet another example of the "all labor is manufacturing" fallacy. A future where machines displace most of what we currently think of as blue collar workers is a future where most of the things blue collar workers currently produce are much,
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by acslater00 14y ago
I'm not so sure. Intentionally disruptive behavior by the opposition -- or even some motivated kid who wanted to cause trouble for the campaign -- would be one of my biggest concerns if I were designing this thing.
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by acslater00 14y ago
It would give me more pause if Mitt Romney were involved personally in this sort of a project.

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