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Classical control theory(en.wikipedia.org)
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Columbia Gas engineer's failures at root of gas explosions, NTSB says(bostonglobe.com)
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by alehul 8y ago
Do you have any other favorite youtubers with content that's good to have on in the background? I've been desperately looking for stuff like this :) will surely be watching Rambalac from now on
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by alehul 8y ago
In the parent comment's defense, I remember trying to price-check with Lyft and being scared about pressing 'Confirm.' They should really think about switching it to 'Confirm route' or 'location'.. somethi
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by alehul 8y ago
How can you say zero probability? I understand a hyperbole, but let's make a fair estimate. Assuming hyperbole: why do you believe that, over time, there is a low probability "DeepMind can do its thing without ever touching Google
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by alehul 8y ago
Why do we give Amazon subsidies but not small businesses, who altogether provide over 50% of the jobs in America? The reason, as I understand it, is because Amazon as a single corporate entity provides far more jobs and holds more power. Fo
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by alehul 8y ago
With 140 employees and assuming equal distribution of the 75% I believe they were giving out, it's around .5% ownership or 1/200. Not huge, but at a $100M buyout offer (didn't they have $25M in sales, and growing?), we'r
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by alehul 8y ago
> It can now only be sold if the majority of employees vote to accept the sale Maybe I'd be wrong, but I feel like it would be far easier to buy a company from a group of middle-class minority shareholders than a couple wealthy owne
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by alehul 8y ago
Here's a link with much more information on the structuring and other details: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/nov/10/wallace-gromit-...
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by alehul 8y ago
I don't believe salary will be equal-- the company will still pay out salaries; owning equity and receiving dividends from that equity is a different matter. Here's a source with much more info on the structuring: https:/&#x
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by alehul 8y ago
Facebook and Google users, for instance.
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by alehul 8y ago
Occam's razor would argue that truth should be rather easy. I think you have a valid point, but that the correlation between B and C is still very likely, even if A is a factor in the existence of B. For instance, if I have a particula
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by alehul 8y ago
I'm not sure of the Protestant's focus or lack thereof, but many popular colleges in the U.S. are Jesuit universities: Boston College, Georgetown, and Fordham, for instance.
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by alehul 8y ago
Rentech and the other more secretive top quant firms such as TGS and PDT use nearly exclusively public data. Funds like Two Sigma that haven't had as good (or scalable) returns are actually the ones that focus on novel data sources. In
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by alehul 8y ago
I respect all the sourcing and data, and I'll read the second and third articles in detail later so thank you for that. Your name is "hindsightbias", however, and you're citing "Americans who thought invading Iraq w
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by alehul 8y ago
Because intelligent people can't vote for Trump, AfD, or Bolsonaro? In the case of the US (assuming you're American): do you actually think that half of our country is stupid ?
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by alehul 8y ago
While I agree with you, and have actually thought about this same problem a ton, this seems dangerous to try and change as an individual rather than a fellow government. Additionally, removing corrupt officials will just create a power vacu
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by alehul 8y ago
If you're saying that in regards to the window washer question, I actually enjoyed it! The point of a Fermi problem is to arrive at a reasonable estimation for a fairly unknown value by extrapolating and connecting from known values (b
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by alehul 8y ago
> Apple could streamline it, and remove a layer of complexity while taking over the transaction (and gain data gold mines) While I strongly agree with your top-level comment, and I think Apple's brand is very valuable, a lot of that
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by alehul 8y ago
I'm fairly sure that he was speaking his calculations aloud in the process of reaching the dollar value when the interviewer stopped him and asked for an answer. It's a great interview question in the sense of a Fermi problem (I w
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by alehul 8y ago
I'm not commenting on the soundness of the above argument, merely trying to make sure its premises are correctly interpreted. :) I think other comments, however, did address the discussion of people who struggle to afford food at curre
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by alehul 8y ago
> If you banned the pesticides, it would do a lot of good, but now consider how many more acres would need to be farmed in order to keep the overall yields the same. How many acres would be cleared that would not otherwise be cleared? Th
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by alehul 8y ago
You're almost certainly right that the part about this being a "criminal probe" seems wrong, but there are possible legal issues from a civil perspective. While it's not enforced that tightly by the SEC, it's common
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by alehul 8y ago
Yes, exactly, and that shouldn't be a factor in the argument that wages are decreasing because the rich are capturing all economic gains. Looking at household income can (very roughly) remove that from factoring into the data.
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by alehul 8y ago
Wouldn't this be addressed by the fact that, as you said, we now have a new standard of multi-income households? If everyone in America was in a single-income household, and then we all became, for instance, two-income households, wo
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by alehul 8y ago
Uber and Tesla are dead last in self-driving tech, beaten by everyone from Hyundai to Baidu-BAIC. I don't know where you get the idea that "car companies can't even get cameras all around the body to avoid accidental scratche
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by alehul 8y ago
It depends on the curriculum. At the last place I studied Computer Science, the department was led largely by Matthias Felleisen and Olin Shivers, and the first book they require reading is How to Design Programs: https://htdp.or
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by alehul 8y ago
Small nitpick, but I believe you meant "instead going for," which has the opposite meaning of "instead of going for."
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Many companies believe that catering to the issues of the modern day often is best for itself and its shareholders. Companies do seem to be taking more and more political stances, though, than they have in the past, and personally I think
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by alehul 8y ago
He's only heir apparent, and that's because his father (and people believe MBS was involved) removed Muhammad bin Nayef. There doesn't have to be a coup against the entire family to change the line of succession.

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