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autokad
7y ago
not sure why you are being down voted, its true. assume home prices go up 5% and the stock market goes up 7%. If I want to buy a house for 100k and put 20k as a down-payment and live in the spot for 5 years, I can make 8051$ off the stock m
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7y ago
> "capturing carbon is critical. Healthy land is vital in that fight." The oceans represent something like 93% of carbon capture.
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autokad
7y ago
it will be more interesting if we ever get down the costs of energy, then we can focus on really fast tech. its also worth noting that trains between philadelphia and nyc (Acela Express) go ~135-165 mph. if it takes 6 hours and ~ 450$ to g
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autokad
7y ago
that doesn't conflict with anything i said.
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autokad
7y ago
people forget Bush was fighting an energy recession, and those were a godsend to many. my brother used the money to apply for college and buy books to give college a go and see how it is, he's an MD now. I disagreed with almost every
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autokad
7y ago
> "Why would anyone ... care to do more than the most basic job requirements?" They are called promotions or achievements for your next role. That's a terrible attitude to have above, and as someone who started out workin
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autokad
7y ago
we dont need to have a pro market or pro socialist conversation. we all agree robocalling needs to stop. Make it illegal, make it illegal for telecoms to allow it.
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autokad
7y ago
why do you assume Comcast wants to sell NBC Universal? As a former Comcast employee, it feels like they have no intention of doing that.
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autokad
7y ago
thats only one issue, there are many others. there are also a ton of people who just dont save/invest any of their money, even those making 100k a year. furthermore, we are in a bit of bull market for stocks, which networth overly f
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7y ago
> "The video states that 60% of the wealth in the U.K. is inherited" I hate statements like this because they are completely misleading. other similar ones like "top 1 % controls ~50 % of wealth" etc. This goes by ne
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autokad
7y ago
I dont think it has anything to do with puritan, as its not related to religion at all. well for one, sex in college is extremely dangerous. the Obama administration basically threatened Universities to treat male students as guilty (not e
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7y ago
> "Once housing -stops- appreciating in value in an area, people stop building additional housing in that area." Philadelphia had experienced this for a time, homes not appreciating in value and roughly 10% of the city became v
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7y ago
from paper: "However, the rental yield component is typically considerably higher and more stable than the dividend yield of equities so that total returns are of comparable magnitude" my take away was that equities produce a lot
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7y ago
one of the life lessons that online games taught me was that when angry or otherwise highly emotional, stop playing and walk away until I am level headed again (no matter how much I think action is needed to fix something). Otherwise, I&#x
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autokad
7y ago
its my understanding that "Blue blood" comes from the fact that most of them were pale and you can really see their blue veins, not that they were all poisoned by their silverware. its my understanding that silverware is very safe
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autokad
7y ago
this has nothing to do with feature engineering and generation. I never added or changed any features in the example. It is exactly in the realm of automl, you run a model, -because- you are missing data, your model is making wrong assump
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7y ago
> "Can you please elaborate more on what kind of critical mistakes a machine can make, while someone with math background would not make. I am building a competing tool" the short answer is, go study stats and fundamentals of M
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autokad
7y ago
one of the authors discovered prions, so I am not so quick to discount their work.
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7y ago
could that be interpreted as the ones with trash balls (NFTs) might actually be the ones handling it 'better'?
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autokad
8y ago
> "Reverse engineer the paths of famous people" would have been better written as successful people, or people in positions you want to be in. I find reverse engineering how people got to where they are quite useful, and with l
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autokad
8y ago
I agree, interesting but pretty weak theory. Other events, like north and south america coming together changing global currents and weather systems, seem much more likely to cause catastrophe for marine life.
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autokad
8y ago
and then there is coffee that is from africa but south america grows the most (I think, I know brazil is the leading grower).
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autokad
8y ago
those are some good points, I been wondering if they are doing things like that myself. I also wonder how much of it is also #1 data gathering, #2 advertisement, and #3 slightly counter to what you are saying - bad tools/people using s
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autokad
8y ago
thats why I double downed on my DIS and do not own NFLX; though I wouldn't call someone a fool for owning NFLX. I actually think both have room to grow, just that DIS @ 110$ seemed like a catch
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autokad
8y ago
it seems like a bad choice for a content producer to let netflix stream their material. as a content provider, you have an edge in that your library is larger than theirs. by allowing them to stream your content, you make profit today, but
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autokad
8y ago
in fairness, when netflix spends money on developing new content, they are building up a library. viewers in the future viewing that content will be very high margin. Thats sort of a huge advantage for one of the long time content producer
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autokad
8y ago
same for me, but that's beginning to get tiring. most tv shows I am already caught up on or dont want to currently move forward in, and I do not want to commit to a new tv show just yet. sometimes I just want to watch a quick movie a
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autokad
8y ago
doesn't NYC have more foreign born immigrants (3 m) than all of Japan (2.23 m)?
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8y ago
hmm, maybe entropy is a better measure then total count
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8y ago
capitalism probably was not the cause of the depression, its also worth noting that arguably none of those "from rich to poor" things worked, and arguably it was the end of WW2 that ended it. i myself am in a rare camp that believ
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