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by alienasa 11y ago
Uh, doesn't the water just drip from the inside then?
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by alienasa 11y ago
I think we've jumped the shark. You're pleased that you got a TL;DR for a non-clickbait, well written article, just because you despise blatant clickbait headlines? With a story like this, a barebones explanation loses something -
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by alienasa 11y ago
The dice roll question is a pretty effective method of determining if someone understands the concept of expected value. I'm not certain, but I'm guessing that's an important concept in hedge fund land. Sure, it might be a tr
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by alienasa 11y ago
> Exactly what it is: a government protected idea untested by the courts. If its still untested, it should be assumed invalid. I don't see what's wrong with that. On that assumption, why bother having the USPTO at all? If somet
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by alienasa 11y ago
That Wikipedia article on the Julian calendar is both fascinating and a great example of Wikipedia at its best in terms of attention to detail.
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by alienasa 11y ago
And rightfully so. Providing a marketplace to connect drivers to riders is not an "invention". Surge-pricing is an attempt to create well known market dynamics, but again, not an invention.
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by alienasa 12y ago
And a differentiator. Otherwise all of the functionality described is already provided by GMail (and possibly others that I don't use frequently).
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by alienasa 12y ago
> What if you have 2,000 kuna in savings, but you're still 37,000 kuna in debt? This is directly translatable to being 35,000 kuna in debt. You can't ignore savings when determining ability to pay debt.
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by alienasa 12y ago
Lest anyone get the impression that DC has terrible public transit (it actually has very good public transit), San Francisco and Alexandria aren't directly comparable. Alexandria is to Washington DC as Berkeley is to San Francisco. Non