andylei

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by andylei 15y ago
> misleading vividness what? > hasty generalization there are no generalizations here. the article says that the author of the forbes article (as well as you), as a person or privilege, does not understand poverty and thus has no id
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by andylei 15y ago
don't you have to open a new project or something contrived to do that? i don't remember; it's been a while since i've used textmate.
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by andylei 15y ago
> I’m not overly excited about this feature myself i don't understand this. how does he code only looking at one file at a time?
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by andylei 15y ago
> #1 and #2 say that you need a piece of paper to be a journalist. no, they say that if you have a piece of paper, you could be a journalist. if you have no paper, but meet other criteria, you could be a journalist. > #3 through 5 s
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by andylei 15y ago
general assemly
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by andylei 15y ago
she's not a journalist. really. the judge decided this based on the lack of "(1) any education in journalism; (2) any credentials or proof of any affiliation with any recognized news entity; (3) proof of adherence to journalistic standards
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by andylei 15y ago
how are shield laws relevant? shield laws protect journalists sources from subpoenas; they don't give blanket protection against defamation
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by andylei 15y ago
this type of thinking is just lazy. the government did something bad? government can't work! take away as many powers as possible! or maybe, we need to figure out a good solution. problem is, that's not easy and requires domain knowledge an
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by andylei 15y ago
i think there is an argument to be made that your gifted program sucked because it had basically no resources, probably as a result of budgeting decisions.
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by andylei 15y ago
if that were the case, why would they then say: "Let’s keep this quite for as long as we can." also, > they take a loss for licensing up front doesn't seem like the correct interpretation, because they say "we are achieving all this gro
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by andylei 15y ago
i'm the same way, but i'm guessing most people don't think like you and i.
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by andylei 15y ago
they don't want you to directly associate points with dollars. the dissociation allows you to spend points more freely than you would dollars
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by andylei 15y ago
> OS certificate store and proxy configuration settings these things are awesome! firefox just doesn't work with most sites on my company's intranet (particularly with authentication), but when i use chrome, everything just works.
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by andylei 15y ago
that's not my point. clearly you and i do not have enough money to start such a carrier. why do you think such no one else has started such a carrier? should we wait around for someone to start one? what if we wait 10 years and no such carr
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by andylei 15y ago
> I'm not sure it's the government's place to police the carriers > We need an Apple / Google in the carrier world if the government does not have the solution, and a major competitor to the big 4 (perhaps soon to be 3) carriers has
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by andylei 15y ago
i've heard that (on AT&T) you can get that activated for a couple days at a time (say, when you're traveling), and they'll prorate the fee.
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by andylei 15y ago
my comment doesn't assume too much about the shape of your utility curve except that it is continuous and monotonic. multiplying everything by a billion does change things, but it doesn't say anything about the rationality of the people who
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by andylei 15y ago
> I don't believe that it is rational to ignore time It's not. The question is how you factor time into your discounting. Take the $1 vs $10 example. There are several risk factors at play here, and we can discount for each of them. F
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by andylei 15y ago
> market forces at work behind compensation. this article is about hiring, not compensation. inside one firm, there's no evidence compensation is linked to which college you went to. > how insanely easy it is to game this system if
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by andylei 15y ago
this is good for overall volume, but if you're the author of the loss leader, you may get significantly less revenue
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by andylei 15y ago
you want two items that have the same result from the first hash function to have different results from the second hash function, with relatively high probability. if f1(x0) = f1(x1), you don't want f2(x0) = f2(x1) to happen very much.
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by andylei 15y ago
> the argument "if you vote for a third party, you throw your vote away" to be demolished i don't understand. your vote is basically thrown away regardless of who you vote for. the statistical likelihood that your vote has any impact ex
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by andylei 15y ago
there are lots of bonus structures that mitigate this risk. some things you can do: 1. clawback clauses. when investments underperform, you take back bonus money. this goes well with: 2. long term vesting. you don't collect the entire bonu
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by andylei 15y ago
you should have a "I give up" choice
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by andylei 15y ago
those numbers are really bad measures of risk. those are probably notionals on derivatives. if you're trading a swap, the notional may be 100B, but the amount actually at risk may be something like 10 bps, which is just 100MM. Also, its not
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by andylei 15y ago
yup, building good models is hard. doesn't mean they always produce bad results. billions of dollars of quant hedge fund money prove that.
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by andylei 15y ago
> So, even if you had a perfect model for the market without you applying your model Actually, most trader's models do take market impact into account. If you had a perfect model for the market, I'm pretty sure that you (as a participan
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by andylei 15y ago
actually, plenty of economics textbooks present alternative schools of thought and relative merits of those ideas. i think that's pretty standard for textbooks
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by andylei 15y ago
i mean, if you look at old iphones, they're pretty laggy and jittery on newer versions of ios
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by andylei 15y ago
why would you not tack on 24 years of research and the cost or large scale clinical trials? if GSK didn't pay for those, the malaria vaccine wouldn't exist; those are real costs that GSK paid. if they were always compensated on certain drug

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