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by alexilliamson 6y ago
The Saudi government bankrolled 9/11 without consequences. Seems logical to not expect consequences now.
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by alexilliamson 6y ago
This feels only slightly more legitimate than recommending the 538 blog as a statistical authority.
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by alexilliamson 6y ago
Honestly I've been seeing that ROI from HN for quite a while. Sometimes a wife per day! I would say to spend more time on the wife threads.
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by alexilliamson 6y ago
Quick she's been canceled! Get her a book deal!
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by alexilliamson 6y ago
"The real power these structures espouse is to get us bickering over children's books, rather than devoting our energies towards things that actually matter." Took a while to find a comment that sees to the heart of the issue
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by alexilliamson 6y ago
Bingo. I worked for 4 years as a data scientist for city governments, and there is so much low hanging fruit to be captured simply with better data management. The analysis/modeling almost feels perfunctory once you have the data sys
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by alexilliamson 6y ago
This was my impression too. It's literally just chopping the sample, no?
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by alexilliamson 6y ago
Reasonable term limits?
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by alexilliamson 6y ago
+1 for ice baths. I used to do them regularly when I ran cross country. Invigorating.
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by alexilliamson 6y ago
Agree, except when I gave up coffee all my coworkers were extremely incredulous and unsupportive. Caffeine is also super ingrained in culture but arguably less dangerous.
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by alexilliamson 6y ago
Ken Burns Jazz Series has essentially an entire episode on the concept of swing. Definitely worth watching.
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by alexilliamson 6y ago
I think tilted is better, unless you can somehow be titled towards center. The BS they've published attacking Bernie and AOC should feel familiar to their attacks on the right.
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by alexilliamson 6y ago
Well said.
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by alexilliamson 6y ago
His conclusion that minorities are more likely to experience police use-of-force is well-supported.
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by alexilliamson 6y ago
That's interesting because Ken Griffin started Citadel and has made huge investments in Melvin. Feels sketchy.
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by alexilliamson 6y ago
What does marketing have to do with genius?
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by alexilliamson 6y ago
Didn't know pycharm would do that... thanks for the info! Yeah the best things about dplyr in opinion are 1) less verbose than pandas 2) much better autocomplete.
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by alexilliamson 6y ago
As opposed to the last 4 years of... what exactly?
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by alexilliamson 6y ago
How has the experience been getting a PhD after so long out of school? I'm quickly approaching 14 years in industry but still haven't ruled out a PhD.
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by alexilliamson 6y ago
Then why tweet at all in the first place?
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by alexilliamson 6y ago
Don't know what the "costume of destroy and set fire" is, but the MAGA folks yesterday had actual weapons.
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by alexilliamson 6y ago
Now you do what they told ya
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by alexilliamson 6y ago
The book "Debt: The 5000 Years" laboriously debunks the idea that early cultures bartered, then realized they needed money. I don't have more details unfortunately because it's been a while since I read it (and it'
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by alexilliamson 6y ago
Yes! RStudio is an amazing product, and you truly can have the best of both worlds by using python in it.
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by alexilliamson 6y ago
I've been a heavy user of all 3, and pandas syntax is a nightmare compared to dplyR or data.table in R. That being said, I still use pandas because I prefer python for non-analysis.
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by alexilliamson 6y ago
+1 for the community. Ruby was my first language, and I think the Ruby people were a big reason I kept going with programming. There are welcoming... but also very goofy/ whimsical at times!
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by alexilliamson 6y ago
A machine could perhaps learn to do it!
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by alexilliamson 6y ago
Just curious, have you checked the congressional record? It's free text, but everything that is said in congress is recorded there. I think Bill Amendments are included, but not sure.
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by alexilliamson 6y ago
What's your favorite such example?
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by alexilliamson 6y ago
Can't say I agree, but it's cool to see Kissinger commenting on HN. Welcome!

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