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by andylei 13y ago
interesting that television predicts "conduct problems" but video games do not
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by andylei 13y ago
and having a no bitcoins law would prevent at least one person from making a bitcoin transaction
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by andylei 13y ago
> I don't understand this one at all. Shouldn't the truck owner have testified on his behalf? Declined to press charges? in most cases, i think details are pretty important. here, not really. let's say he straight up stol
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by andylei 13y ago
sounds like you want government...
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by andylei 13y ago
its not. people just like talking about HFT
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by andylei 13y ago
what's the alternative? are specialists offering liquidity in markets that HFTs aren't?
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by andylei 13y ago
copying isn't the same as stealing.
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by andylei 13y ago
did you even read the article? the whole point is that sites like lavabit should exist, and that more data security is better
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by andylei 13y ago
only if success (here defined as creating what becomes a billion dollar company) is iid. its probably not. if you've failed at starting 5 companies, the probability of succeeding at the next one is probably less than 0.00006%
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by andylei 13y ago
> Levison offered multiple times to write a specific script for the single user ... A pretty clear indication they wanted unfettered access to his client base and his network i don't think this is the correct interpretation. in a c
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by andylei 13y ago
what really happened is that the court then ordered him to turn over the key on a CD, or continue to face the $5k / day fine. so he eventually did turn over the key on a CD
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by andylei 13y ago
in the US, Hersheys controls the branding for KitKat, not Nestle
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by andylei 13y ago
> A few minutes of daily hand/wrist exercise will completely protect you from RSI, no matter how much typing or mousing you do this is a completely false statement
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by andylei 13y ago
hammers are really good at pounding nails into walls. hammers are not good for turning screws. free markets are really good at efficiently allocating resources in certain types of markets, and not so good in other types of markets
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by andylei 13y ago
its actually easier! there's no block chain for paper money
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by andylei 13y ago
1. the correlation is 0.3. that's not a high number. 2. the correlation for facebook likes is 0.27. that's lower, but not by much. 3. its possible the causality runs the other direction: high quality results get more +1s
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by andylei 13y ago
anybody can sue anybody for anything. it doesn't mean they'll win.
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by andylei 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_(law)
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by andylei 13y ago
i'm pretty sure this article is just wrong about what the judge ruled. what does the first amendment have to do with anything?
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by andylei 13y ago
the courts always rule in favor of the executive branch. every single ruling. don't even bother reading the opinions; there's nothing useful in those. if you see "United States" at the top, you'll immediately kno
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by andylei 13y ago
if i'm in the US, how do I actually buy one?
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by andylei 13y ago
they COULD have, but why WOULD they? > During the year we stored the servers and the data, we received no request for access nor any request to retain the data
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by andylei 13y ago
> Interesting contrast to the patenting of crop genes by Monsanto: their crop cross-pollinates with yours, and now they own the seeds of your crop! no court has ever ruled this.
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by andylei 13y ago
there is a known (great) benefit of donations towards preventing malaria. a ~$2,500 donation prevents about one death. there is a unknown (probably small, maybe great) harm in being a small part of the high frequency industry. seems like a
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by andylei 13y ago
> this whole pseudo-utilitarian premise is just a nice way to ignore the harm your day to day activities may have on those you are donating your money to because any harm is spread out among the entire industry and has so many levels of
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by andylei 13y ago
or maybe, as fossil becomes more scarce and prices rise, we develop more efficient means of harvesting solar and wind energy. malthus thought the same things about food that you think about energy. but instead of global food wars, the gree
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by andylei 13y ago
xbox doesn't charge you a monthly fee to play offline games
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by andylei 13y ago
good luck getting 'color' to work out of sample
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by andylei 13y ago
> a search warrant on every single American's internet activity? As far as I understand it, that is, in effect, what CISPA proposes. no. no. not at all. please read the bill. it says nothing of the sort.
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by andylei 13y ago
limited supply of bitcoin means that the value of bitcoin will probably inflate. equivalently, prices of goods and assets denominated in bitcoin will probably deflate.

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