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by acslater00 14y ago
Well I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm surprised that in a centrally-managed, state-controlled, corporatist economic system, the family of the most powerful individual in the nation would have managed to amass great personal wealt
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by acslater00 14y ago
I have several comments. 1. We're talking about literally 400 years between the height of Venetian power and the creation of the Libro d'Oro (1315) and its decline (17th to 18th century). Forgive me if I'm not quite ready to accept the auth
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by acslater00 14y ago
Fair enough.
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by acslater00 14y ago
The future of energy is natural gas. End of story. Alternative natural gas production -- "fracking" generally -- has been researched, prototyped, implemented, and grown over the past 15-20 years to the point where one can reasonably envisio
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by acslater00 14y ago
There is a moderately interesting point to be made here that automated candidate screening software is not a panacea, and while it can do a good job of filtering through the hundreds or thousands of applicants that might materialize for a s
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by acslater00 14y ago
For the record, I use sqlalchemy 0.6.6 regularly under fairly heavy load, and have never had a problem with it. Any 'sqlalchemy bugs' are inevitably coding mistakes on my part.
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by acslater00 14y ago
"But the biggest reason for the site’s success is the use of game mechanics." No. No no. No. It isn't. The biggest reason for the site's success is that it provides a really broad range of useful and detailed content in a useable (and searc
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by acslater00 14y ago
I don't know why I keep bothering to point this out, but the notion that "America no longer makes things" is absolutely, empirically, unassailably false. See this: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/OUTMS And a prior discussion o
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by acslater00 14y ago
Are they also launching a time-machine to bring us back to last October when anyone cared about them?
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by acslater00 14y ago
That's great. If apple makes $1b, if the bulk of the money is held by a foreign SUBSIDIARY, my stock will go up, and I will pay capital gains. If they give it to me as a dividend, I will pay taxes on that. If they reinvest it in the company
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by acslater00 14y ago
The actual appreciation of their investments would be higher if you eliminated corporate income tax. And you would still get to defer payment until you sell the actual investment. Properly designed, it all evens out.
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by acslater00 14y ago
There is a really important lesson from all of this, and it is not that Apple is wrong for rationally exploiting global tax laws to avoid paying US taxes. The fact that California has no tax jurisdiction in Nevada, and that the US has no ta
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by acslater00 15y ago
They don't pay "transaction fees" in the way you think about them. The way it generally works is you pay when you "remove liquidity" from the book and you get paid when you "add liquidity" to the book. What does that mean? Suppose the bid/a
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by acslater00 15y ago
TL;DR Nearly half of the word occurrences in Harry Potter are prepositions, so if you learn a small number of them you can claim that you "understand half of Harry Potter". For example, you can absorb sparking dialogue like the following: "
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by acslater00 15y ago
That's a myth. The US has a huge and growing manufacturing base. We make airplane engines, medical devices, computer chips; all kinds of complex, high-tech manufacturing. We have the highest manufacturing productivity per worker in the worl
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by acslater00 15y ago
Wow this article couldn't miss the point by a wider margin if it tried. Unionization reinforces seniority hierarchy, which hurts young people. The current social security and medicare system reinforces a young-funds-old mentality, which hur
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Startup War Story: When The Team Falls Apart (Profitably)(venturebeat.com)
68 points by acslater00 15y ago|24 comments
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by acslater00 15y ago
As it happens, I studied traffic flow back when I was an undergrad in the context of "agent based modeling". Agent-based models are basically computer simulations where you throw N 'agents' into an environment with pre-defined rules and the
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by acslater00 15y ago
Yo dawg, I heard you like javascript.
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by acslater00 15y ago
Pandas is literally in my top 3 favorite open-source projects. I use v0.6x regularly and it is absolutely fantastic. Highly recommend. Can't wait to try some of these new features as well.
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by acslater00 15y ago
Let's say I earn 100K a year, steady. When I move into the 25% band after I hit $1.3m in lifetime earnings, do I have to pay back taxes on the rest of my income that I've been paying 10% on the whole time? If so, then I'm going to owe about
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by acslater00 15y ago
Sorry, the 32 of you (as of this moment, out of 152) who claim to never have had a facebook account. I call shenanigans. I don't believe for one second that 20% of a sample of hacker news readers never, ever had a facebook account.
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by acslater00 15y ago
Nail on the head.
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by acslater00 15y ago
As a stanford CS grad myself, I basically concur. I took this class as a refresher for things I learned back in school. It was perfect for that. But the rigor and difficulty of the class was clearly tailored towards someone like me, who wan
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by acslater00 15y ago
The term you're looking for is "survivor bias." We remember the startups that were mocked but became breakout successes. We don't remember the 1000 startups that were mocked because they were terrible ideas, and failed because of it.
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Did Apple patent all pads and smartphones?(thebigquestions.com)
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by acslater00 15y ago
"Meanwhile real performance was declining. From 1933 to 1976, real compound annual return on the S&P 500 was 7.5 percent. Since 1976, Martin writes, the total real return on the S&P 500 was 6.5 percent (compound annual)." Hmm...wher
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by acslater00 15y ago
Actually, there's a very good explanation for how net exports can increase substantially even though official GDP measures decrease; it represents less than 5% of the japanese economy. Japan's GDP is about $4T right now. Net exports have in
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by acslater00 15y ago
If I organize a protest of Time's complete lack of journalistic credibility, does that make me person of the year???
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by acslater00 15y ago
Honestly, this is probably the best possible thing. The reality is that under the Patent Act, things which are not fundamentally "inventions" -- such as software algorithms, genes, and in this case, data correlations -- can legally be gran

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