andylei

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by andylei 15y ago
> It is nonsense then why did you say > Fortunately when I interviewed at Google they let me use pencil and paper
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by andylei 15y ago
>> I wouldn't be able to remember my own name if you made me stand at a whiteboard to program in an interview situation. Fortunately when I interviewed at Google they let me use pencil and paper. i don't think the top comment means
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by andylei 15y ago
>> Over time, oil and gold have tracked each other extraordinarily well. you're just wrong. here's prices over the last 6 years: http://imgur.com/a2mMZ (CLH is crude oil) >> They're priced in junk dollars. you're confusing
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by andylei 15y ago
actually if you adjust oil prices for inflation, you'll see that oil prices (in real terms) has gone up. http://inflationdata.com/inflation/inflation_rate/historical... > It's not paranoia or speculation primarily driving the price in
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by andylei 15y ago
> in an inflationary environment, stocks get murdered in real terms. is there any evidence to back this up? is a logical reason why this would be true? i certainly can't think of any > Gold does not go bankrupt, and it will not go
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by andylei 15y ago
> Gold is up 87 fold over 90 years or so Inflation adjusted, its closer to being up 3 fold: http://inflationdata.com/inflation/images/charts/Gold/Gold_i... Meanwhile, inflation adjusted, the S&P500 up more maybe 5 or 8 fold: http
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by andylei 15y ago
> printing + shipping + retailing, and any other middle-man involved > printing they're going to murder you on cost here. you'll print maybe X things a day. they're going to print a million times that. they'll for sure have more eff
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by andylei 15y ago
its not inaccurate GAME X sold 50,000 licenses.
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by andylei 15y ago
> everyone is perfectly happy with carrying their chargers around. Maybe in a few years, people would get used to the idea of planning for charging their cars. that's because new mobile phones with crappy battery lives offer a lot more
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by andylei 15y ago
makes references ambiguous to anyone but the interpreter let's say you have from a import foo from b import * what does 'foo' refer to? 'b' could contain 'foo', which would overwrite your previous reference to 'a.foo'. its hard to figure o
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by andylei 15y ago
that's not the argument. no one thinks that when twitter does business in germany it shouldn't be bound by german laws. people think that twitter shouldn't do business in germany.
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by andylei 15y ago
> it's hard for me to think of a better scenario that doesn't infringe on the rights of people to assemble as a group and voice their opininon exactly. i'm not even clear on what behavior people are referring to when they say they want
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by andylei 15y ago
> > If they are guilty of the charges against them > And what is that? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3487808
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by andylei 15y ago
this an absolutely ridiculous position. if you are charged with a crime, police absolutely do and should investigate for evidence, which includes breaching your privacy. the entire of idea of finding evidence is to breach your privacy. wit
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by andylei 15y ago
do people here honestly believe that its not okay for cops with warrants to search someone's encrypted hard drive because they might find something that's not illegal?
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by andylei 15y ago
> The problem here is what are they going to find that ISN'T Illegal? This isn't really a problem. Cops can get a warrant to search your house, and I'm pretty sure they'll find some things that aren't illegal, but are very personal. If
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by andylei 15y ago
i'm no libertarian, and i don't believe that every government intervention causes problems, but i don't understand why you think this is a case where government intervention did not cause problems.
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by andylei 15y ago
> there's obviously a really big incentive to the government and everyone that's not living in rural areas to not have the cost of food increase > would've just had the government pay to install rural phone lines you didn't decrease
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by andylei 15y ago
> maybe try to use "onstar" gps data maybe, but probably not necessary. they'll just get warrants. its not really that hard to get a warrant. if they have basically any reason to suspect that you're doing something illegal, they can get
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by andylei 15y ago
all they need to do is get a warrant. they actually had a 10 day warrant in the case in question. they just tracked the guy for 11 days and wanted to use the evidence.
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by andylei 15y ago
what are you suggesting? banning contracts for distribution agreements? what exactly is a law that makes "copyright an unalienable right"?
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by andylei 15y ago
actually, you're looking at the wrong parts of the analogy. he's comparing guns to copying files and online piracy to murder. but i'll take the bait and show why online piracy is like shooting someone. first: they are both "unavoidable side
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by andylei 15y ago
the actual question is wrong. to illustrate the framing effect, which underlies prospect theory, the question should be: 1. choose a) 90% for $1000 or b) 100% for $900 a. you just got $1000. choose a) 10% chance to loose $1000 or b) 100% ch
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by andylei 15y ago
the term "rational" for economists has a very specific meaning. an actor behaving "rationally" has a utility function that satisfies some set of properties, and when confronted with choices, chooses in a way that maximizes that utility func
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by andylei 15y ago
they are afraid that people will cancel their HBO subscriptions and buy just the shows they watch
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by andylei 15y ago
the real world is more complicated than you think it is. it's not a binary choice between p2p networks and command and control economies. bring your analogy back to the real world. the fact that government funds research does not preclude
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by andylei 15y ago
unless you're a state politician. then he doesn't care what you do.
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by andylei 15y ago
> "why are we spending so money on NASA, when we've got problems on earth?" > doing [...] cool stuff with the money is that the best reason you have? i think the money would be better spent curing diseases
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by andylei 15y ago
> shouldn't a jury of his peers find him not guilty that depends on whether or not he is guilty of jury tampering. wikipedia says that it is "attempting to influence the composition and/or decisions of a jury during the course of a tria
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by andylei 15y ago
> a large (20-40%) of embedded developers he surveyed reported using no version control software. that's obviously bad, but is it higher than developers across disciplines? i'm sure you guys all use version control, but if you surveyed

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