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by andylei 15y ago
on the question of credentials: ootachi's comment is spot on. big companies like google, microsoft, and goldman sachs get way too many applications to not care about degrees. yeah, if you filter by college degrees, you're going to miss out
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by andylei 15y ago
just because someone is biased does not mean they are wrong
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by andylei 15y ago
why are people downvoting this comment? do people think that khan academy provides the same level of networking and credentialing that harvard does? or that networking and credentialing have no value?
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by andylei 15y ago
what are these activities? producing GMOs? high yield crops have enabled the feeding of hundreds of millions if not billions of people who would otherwise died of starvation.
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by andylei 15y ago
> ... and have an increased risk for all sorts of disease. See #1. What odds do you give that GMOs do not cause an increase in disease? In light of that number being non-zero, would you like to take back this statement? GMOs, herbicides
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by andylei 15y ago
no one is making you buy seeds at all. non-GMO seeds don't come with "no save" agreements. if you are a farmer, just do what farmers have done for thousands of years: get your seeds from this year's harvest.
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by andylei 15y ago
> Genetic manipulation by Monsanto has relied on herbicides/pesticides and monocultures. This comes with averse effects and risks. The use of herbicides/pesticides must be reduced. We need pollinators, we need genetic diversity and biod
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by andylei 15y ago
i'm seeing literally dozens of comments saying that it monsanto is the most evil company that exists, and literally, not one comment giving a single concrete reason why it is. why is hitler evil? i can tell you in 8 words. he ordered the de
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by andylei 15y ago
uh... he lost: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Canada_Inc._v._Schmeis...
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by andylei 15y ago
> advances due to Monsanto in recent years cannot be made up for by their completely unjust business practices as others have mentioned. people deal with monsanto voluntarily. nobody is making you buy their seeds. the fact that so many
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by andylei 15y ago
the difference is that right now, you or anyone else in the thread can convincingly list a bunch of bad things they have done. so far, there is not a single convincing (and barely any substantive) comments about the bad things monsanto has
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by andylei 15y ago
from what i understand, seed cleaning is part of a process to extract seeds from a harvested crop. monsanto did not sue that man for cleaning seeds, they sued that guy because he marketed his services to farmers using monsanto seeds, claimi
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by andylei 15y ago
> Why is it that food production has gone up, yet the number of starving and hungry individuals throughout the world hasn't changed significantly? Care to back that up with evidence? The Global hunger index ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by andylei 15y ago
so let's say it's world war ii and i'm a us citizen. i get on a boat to germany and join the german army. do you think a us soldier is not allowed to shoot me because the constitution allows me a trial before "execution"?
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by andylei 15y ago
an enlightening quote from Gilmore v. Gonzales: "Moreover, Gilmore had actual notice of the identification policy. He alleged that several airline personnel asked him for identification and informed him of the identification policy. They to
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by andylei 15y ago
actually, empathy is pretty great for our species as a whole. the lack of empathy is what allows psychopaths to ignore the impacts of their actions on other people. if you knew for a fact that you wouldn't experience any negative effects (l
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by andylei 15y ago
> Unlike its rivals, Sprint also will almost certainly offer unlimited data plans for new iPhone buyers, since it is a clear competitive advantage, one person familiar with the matter said. The company believes the combination will allo
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by andylei 15y ago
> The point is that Sony is disclaiming responsibility for anything it does wrong. nope. you can still go to arbitration or small claims.
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by andylei 15y ago
efficiency = output / input you can't measure efficiency by only looking at time spent. if the 80 hr a week guy produces twice as much as the 40 hour a week guy, their efficiency is the same. if the 80 hr a week guy produces 3 times as much
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by andylei 15y ago
> Nickle and diming retirement investments does not, in my perspective, contribute qualitatively to society actually, study after study shows that algorithmic traders improve things for "retirement investors". more algo trading leads to
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by andylei 15y ago
actually, if you read the next sentence, you'd see how they measure liquidity: > For large stocks in particular, algorithmic trading narrows spreads, reduces adverse selection, and reduces trade-related price discovery. its not just a q
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by andylei 15y ago
> For large stocks in particular, algorithmic trading narrows spreads lower spreads means you pay less when you trade, simple.
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by andylei 15y ago
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1100635 "Algorithmic trading has sharply increased over the past decade. Does it improve market quality, and should it be encouraged? We provide the first analysis of this question. The N
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by andylei 15y ago
it'd be interesting to see these heatmaps in some sort of normalized way. for example, 'e' is the most common letter in english, so its the most commonly used letter in these programming languages. it'd be very interesting to see, for examp
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by andylei 15y ago
i tried to learn git and hg and i found that hg was so much more friendly to work with. when things go wrong in git, cryptic error messages are spawned and i have no idea what to do. when i do things in hg, error messages are actually helpf
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by andylei 15y ago
>> Isn't overspending what got us into this financial mess in the first place? Nope, it was overborrowing. One of the reasons that the economy is sluggish is that consumers are underspending. >> it has reached its maximum of
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by andylei 15y ago
the next headline is gonna be "did a basic usb drive take out iran's nuclear program?"
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by andylei 15y ago
> Brainfuck. I'm not kidding. Brainfuck is to Turing machines as Lisp is to lambda calculus. Knowing how to program Turing machines with pen and paper is also useful. ... why? when was the last time that turing machines were useful to y
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by andylei 15y ago
> If Samsung's Android phones have differentiated user experiences that aren't evident from the home screen, then I applaud them. That doesn't, in my opinion, negate the fact that their home screen and phone design looks entirely too si
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by andylei 15y ago
> says something about the kinds of employers that look at people who have spent upwards of 100k to obtain a piece of paper great you're an employer. for fun, let's say you're google, except you just ignore the 'education' line resumes

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