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Code.org: Students wrote 500,000,000 lines of code in a single week(venturebeat.com)
1 points by aliston 13y ago|0 comments
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by aliston 13y ago
You also have to also ask why it is that these arbitrage opportunities exist in the first place. It seems to me that the fact that these folks exist is essentially the market arguing that there are inefficiencies in government regulation o
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by aliston 13y ago
Unless you're planning on applying to grad school, GPA really doesn't really matter for anything after about 6 months out of school.
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Planet Money Makes a TShirt(planetmoney.com)
3 points by aliston 13y ago|1 comments
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The Fair Price of a Bitcoin is Zero(neweconomicperspectives.org)
38 points by aliston 13y ago|62 comments
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by aliston 13y ago
The Loma Prieta was not "the big one." http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/seismologists-say-bay...
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Lincoln’s handwritten Gettysburg Address on the Google Cultural Institute(googleblog.blogspot.com)
2 points by aliston 13y ago|0 comments
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by aliston 13y ago
Yeah, that's just a bizarre thing to say.
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by aliston 13y ago
Wouldn't it be possible to change the hashing algorithm if SHA-2 wer compromised?
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by aliston 13y ago
For a number of reasons, the people voting in San Francisco are generally not representative of the people living in it.
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Where is the Inflation?(alexmedearis.com)
12 points by aliston 13y ago|0 comments
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by aliston 13y ago
Well, if you want to be 100% accurate, I think the section talking about how the high notes aren't important could be clarified. The really high "notes" have already been lost when you recoded the wav file digitally. The lo
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by aliston 13y ago
Well, sort of. If you have a wav file and an mp3 file, both of which have a sample rate of 44kHz, they will both be able to represent the same maximal frequency of 22kHz. The mp3 wouldn't necessarily discard the high frequency inform
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by aliston 13y ago
This is a great post, but it's a little bit misleading when talking about MP3s and lossy compression and conflates analog fourier analysis with discrete analysis. When you're talking about a digital signal, it is the sample rate t
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by aliston 13y ago
As I understand it, this isn't really a money loop. The 6:1 exchange rate really only applies when you're a tourist going to pesos from dollars through a bank. You could also go to pesos from dollars at 10:1 on the black market.
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by aliston 13y ago
I think you're definitely on to something here. If you look at housing starts in the US over the past year, they're way up, but they're also predominantly multi-family. This generation has delayed forming families, but at s
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by aliston 13y ago
It's not just foreign money. Private equity firms, wealthy speculators and cheap Fed money are a big part of it as well.
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by aliston 13y ago
Yes, I meant that it hasn't increased in the way that it "should" relative to the monetary base.
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by aliston 13y ago
"This money printing adds to the money supply. This excess money can ultimately lead to high inflation with excess money chasing the same amount of goods and services." I'm in the process of writing a blog post on this. For
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by aliston 13y ago
Why the downvote? I was responding to the claim the impact of a Chinese bond dump is "misunderstood" because most bonds are held in the US by retail investors and mutual funds. In fact, most treasuries are not held by retail inve
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by aliston 13y ago
It would be a crisis so long as China remains an export-driven manufacturing-based economy. But, as China becomes wealthier, knowledge-based economy, it won't be as big a deal. With 1/6th of the world's population, I would
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by aliston 13y ago
30% of treasury bonds are owned by the Fed, and in some recent auctions, the Fed has purchased as much as 90% of the new issuance. We would have a major problem if China were to dump their bonds on the market because there aren't too
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by aliston 13y ago
The reason we haven't seen inflation is that, despite all the printing, the money supply has not increased since 2008. This is because the velocity of money and the money multiplier have both decreased significantly since the financ
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Silicon Valley Trailer Park Residents Fight To Stay(npr.org)
3 points by aliston 13y ago|0 comments
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by aliston 13y ago
It's interesting that the affordability is calculated relative to median income. If SF is the most expensive, relative to household income, doesn't that imply that either San Franciscans are living above their means, or there are
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Updating for iOS 7 is Kind of a Pain(alexmedearis.com)
1 points by aliston 13y ago|0 comments
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by aliston 13y ago
Great visualization, but it really needs labels or some other means of figuring out what city the columns are referring to. What is the third large spike on the East Coast? I assume the two more Northern spikes are Boston and New York.
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by aliston 13y ago
"... a significant uptick in the number of parties, hot girls roaming bars trying to chat with any guy that looks like he might be an engineer and looking for a job..." Is anyone else noticing this phenomenon? Apparently I'm
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IOS 7 and XCode 5 GM release for Developers(developer.apple.com)
1 points by aliston 13y ago|0 comments
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by aliston 13y ago
The article you linked to in [1] doesn't explicitly say that generalized 1024-bit RSA is dead. They found a way to exploit a special case key (Mersenne number keys). Searching around the internet, I found a bunch of articles about su

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