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by andylei 16y ago
i agree with most of this, but i think that > When it comes to knowledge, classes are useless IMHO. i have to disagree. it's a pretty reasonable statement in intro and intermediate level classes, but in advanced classes, a lot of the ma
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by andylei 16y ago
i think a t-test is in order
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by andylei 16y ago
there are many studies that show that analysts are actually generally overly optimistic. there's no issue at play. the sample size here is one
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by andylei 16y ago
sure. not sure how this is relevant tho. if dropping h.264 is a good thing, then Google should drop it. kind of irrelevant whether it also does or does not drop Flash.
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by andylei 16y ago
i agree with the general idea of the article, but I actually got some of those exact Business Insider questions during my interviews with Google. obviously, some of them are probably fake (like the manhole one), but there are couple that de
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by andylei 16y ago
before the SEC changed its disclosure rules, firms could release earnings to a select group of investors before it released them to the open market. if you were in this select group, you were basically guaranteed trading profits. theoretica
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by andylei 16y ago
or that 365 people spend 24+ hours a day on 4chan
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by andylei 16y ago
Maybe not. From the article: >> "My personal hypothesis is this would not happen without a positive doctor-patient relationship," Kaptchuk said. >> Others agreed. >> "What seems to be the active ingredient is the wa
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by andylei 16y ago
awesome! any way you can enable this for the domain hackerne.ws?
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by andylei 16y ago
whats the difference between fuel use and fuel waste
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by andylei 16y ago
is this really that different from, say, Dell? I imagine their tech support also has a database or two.
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by andylei 16y ago
harvard's intro CS class is still taught in C. most of the CS majors there who do systems related stuff write in and enjoy C.
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by andylei 16y ago
did you even read the article? this article is about CFO's inability to estimate their own forecasting abilities. your comment is totally irrelevant.
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by andylei 16y ago
why are traders complaining about clearly mispriced stocks? if you see P&G fall 40% on NO NEWS, there's a good chance that you're about to make a bunch of money, because the stock is going to rebound. old school uncomputerized trading
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by andylei 17y ago
shouldn't this graph be controlled for traffic? if traffic has grown, that's probably where a lot of the extra comments came from.
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by andylei 17y ago
traders have to be in before the market opens. that's not really stupid or counterproductive.
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by andylei 17y ago
wait, SE results > EE results > nothing. on EE, you can just scroll to the bottom to see the answers; what's the big deal?
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by andylei 17y ago
how does this work?
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by andylei 17y ago
except that if you charged a 2% fee and reinvested half of that, you'd make more than if you just charged a 1% fee, for any time period.
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by andylei 17y ago
College newspapers don't have much money these days. Print advertising is drying up and monetizing web content is not working well. At my college newspaper, we don't pay anybody, editors included, (although we do have financial aid), yet
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by andylei 17y ago
i think they're right. even though they're much less customizable, most people (read: people who don't read HN), prefer simple operating systems that abstract away as much as possible.
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by andylei 17y ago
data mining seems like one of the least offensive things they could do with my data. as is clear in the report, since it's all aggregated information, there's no information tied to any person. i might be concerned that someone at faceboo
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by andylei 17y ago
Most people here seem to think that startups are more net productive / innovative / whatever than large corporations? Even if this is true, that doesn't mean that everyone should join a startup. Big companies like Goldman, McKinsey, and Goo
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by andylei 17y ago
there may also be the issue of credit score. if you file for bankruptcy, it's harder to get a loan in the future. the prospect of future loans may be more valuable than the difference between what you owe the bank and the value of your ho
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by andylei 17y ago
The difference is that Disney functions in a market environment, where the CCP functions as a governing body. In a market environment we give exclusive control of intellectual property to certain parties because we want them to develop that
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by andylei 17y ago
it's possible that the market has already priced in their innovativeness. if this is the case, then the subsequent stock dips indicate that their innovations did not pan out.
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by andylei 17y ago
wait; has anyone considered this: college is fun.
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by andylei 17y ago
that sounds nice, but in this case, it's precisely the process that's important. the goal of the act isn't necessarily to decrease fraud, it's to increase transparency. you have to fill out more (and better audited) paperwork so that your
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by andylei 17y ago
we actually had it for a little while. they disabled it b/c of some security issue, but it'll be back soon. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=29086#c5

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