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by argonaut 7y ago
Academics (pure academics) don't have a good track record predicting valuations/prices, period. The people who actually have the ability or to predict valuations/prices (better than the market) are busy making millions, if
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by argonaut 8y ago
This sounds like a misleading / high-pressure sales call, but if you read into it carefully there's nothing that indicates to me anything illegal, scammy, or even anything that would back up the claim that Yelp penalizes businesse
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by argonaut 8y ago
Do people in this thread not realize that Facebook users have been able to delete old posts for years already?
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by argonaut 8y ago
That's just a coupon. There is no doubt Trailfinders kicks back some of your purchase $$ to AMEX.
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by argonaut 8y ago
You're forgetting the tax credits on the Model 3, which probably won't exist when the Model Y is released. This is also an important factor for the future because the price of the Model 3 will likely be lowered as the credits expi
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by argonaut 8y ago
I think you've got it flipped. A CS/math degree, and/or STEM graduate work, are very strong indicators of generalist skills and exposure to breadth. And graduate work is a strong signal about someone's ability to learn
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by argonaut 8y ago
From the article: "In this nighttime video, posted to YouTube by Brian Kaufman on Wednesday, the scene of the crash can be seen around 0:33" "Black says in the video as he drives past the point in the road where Herzberg was
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by argonaut 8y ago
Minor correction: the area was actually very well lit with street lights. The Uber dashcam video was just poor quality so it gave the impression it was really dark. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/03/police-
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by argonaut 8y ago
AOC's tweet about Uber was posted a year ago. Before the study was retracted.
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by argonaut 8y ago
Except they literally are numpy arrays (but on GPU).
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by argonaut 8y ago
The paper was written in 1970. The car market today is drastically different to the market then.
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by argonaut 8y ago
Amazon is clearly not a lemon market (and by clearly I mean it's a textbook case). Amazon is a company that guarantees/warrants the products (buyers have effective recourse to return products). In the paper's model this preve
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by argonaut 8y ago
But the amount of vitamin D synthesized is proportional to the amount of UV radiation received.
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by argonaut 8y ago
You're agreeing with me. Tesla in all likelihood does not freeze development of a chip model for 4 years before releasing it. So you cannot compare Tesla's current chip with a Google chip that is 4 years old.
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by argonaut 8y ago
Everything we know about how Tesla operates as a company indicates that they do not freeze development of a technology or component and then spend four years testing and verifying it before deployment.
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by argonaut 8y ago
My own theory is that everyone else is thinking the exact same thing: looking for a "great deal" 1-3 year old used car. So demand for these cars is quite high. Modern cars are much more reliable than before, and that is reflected
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by argonaut 8y ago
That's not necessarily true anymore, and is pretty inconsistent. Most crossover "SUVs" (which are the best selling segment of cars in America), for example, are classified as cars.
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by argonaut 8y ago
Just know that the Costco price will always be higher than the price you could achieve by negotiating, simply because dealers pay Costco a referral fee for each sale made through the program. It's great for getting quotes though.
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by argonaut 8y ago
There have been at least 5 different breaches (of varying impact) at Equifax in the recent past several years. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equifax ) Another set of 5 data breaches at Equifax dating back to 2013 (some
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by argonaut 8y ago
They don't. They're all qualified for machine learning or data scientist roles in any area of tech. That's a huge field. Most of them are also qualified for general software engineering roles; some of the people with more the
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by argonaut 8y ago
For new cars today, though, automatics are almost always more fuel efficient.
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by argonaut 8y ago
The CAFE rules explain why SUVs emerged in the past, but over the past decade many SUVs have been classified as cars under CAFE standards. Most crossovers are now classified as cars.
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by argonaut 8y ago
The classifications are not consistent and often don't mean anything. For example, the Niro is not classified as an SUV by the CAFE standards the OP is talking about. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety also calls it a small car
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by argonaut 8y ago
I also found your anecdote odd, as a lifelong resident of the Bay Area. People everywhere in Oakland will have generally seen and interacted with many South(east) Asians before, (and without a doubt Asians in general, and also without a dou
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by argonaut 8y ago
Ashlee Vance is a general technology reporter, not some autonomous car expert. The article was pretty obviously arranged for by Zoox and meant for PR. I'm not affirmatively saying they faked the demo, but it is still a demo for a jou
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by argonaut 8y ago
Only having a month of testing (or otherwise only having barely tested things) is a glaring negative , not a positive like you're framing it as. The self-reported California metrics themselves cannot be relied upon since the companies
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by argonaut 8y ago
It's an adverse selection problem. There absolutely are predictive models in finance that work. The people who make them will never publish about or describe them in detail, as they're too busy making billions of dollars on them.
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by argonaut 8y ago
As a millenial myself, I've seen Snapchat usage stay roughly the same, but I've seen an explosion in Instagram usage. So IMO it's really just that Snapchat is stagnating relative to Instagram, and stagnation is death for a
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by argonaut 8y ago
Whether something looks "good" is subjective. But you can't deny that the REX looks different from typical cars.
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by argonaut 8y ago
A trade-in is not the same as an actual sale for cash. If you indeed got a great deal on the trade-in it just meant you got less of a great deal on the other components of the sale.

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