barbie17

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by barbie17 18y ago
Ah, clever! Thank you.
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by barbie17 18y ago
Dosn't email clients such as gmail automatically block images though? How do you track it?
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by barbie17 18y ago
Seconded. Wouldn't the results of the prediction market be calculated into the current value of the DOW? I mean, sure, there could be distress selling right now, but even assuming that people are somewhat rational...
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by barbie17 18y ago
They should be grateful that the Amazon Kindle, a complement good to ebooks is so popular. How many books were purchased because of the Amazon Kindle? How many books will be bought because of the extra usefulness of the audio feature? Inste
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by barbie17 18y ago
Now that it's known, it will be arbitraged away. The guy who discovered this should have kept it a secret ;).
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by barbie17 18y ago
Where's the incentive for me to work my butt off and risk getting fired all for my Big Dumb Corporation?
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by barbie17 18y ago
No, I don't think we are talking about the same kind of complexity here. Complexity Theory is exactly the opposite of real world pragmatism. It is about the asymptotic behaviors of algorithms and the resources need to solve certain class of
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by barbie17 18y ago
Why those three types and not others?
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by barbie17 18y ago
I would argue that for most entrepreneurs studying machine learning has greater marginal utility than studying complexity theory, but to each his/her own I guess.
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by barbie17 18y ago
I would change the look and feel of the site a little. It looks like those spammy domain squatters. I would tweak the font a little, at least.
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by barbie17 18y ago
How about if you allow them to import their postings from Craigslist and other places? Craigslist wouldn't like it but when you are small they probably wouldn't even notice. Just do it from multiple IP addresses or something.
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by barbie17 18y ago
This is a good point, but I would expect (the more evolved) human beings in the future to be closer to being fitness maximizers.
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by barbie17 18y ago
Morality is an evolved adaptation . The ultimate purpose of morality is to maximize your own utility. There is no reason why any human being would care about a bunch of crystalline insect-like aliens. Practically, human empathy circuits wo
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by barbie17 18y ago
Why is the doubly linked list circular?
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by barbie17 18y ago
Since it appeared before "Little Brother", maybe Doctorow was inspired by this extension instead of the other way around ;).
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by barbie17 18y ago
Is what Jeff Atwood doing even legal?!?! You can't just "quote" 80% of someone's work and then publish it as your own! In the article I counted only 6 sentences that Jess Atwood wrote himself. Can I just, say, "quote" a best seller, add a f
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by barbie17 18y ago
We are not even close to there yet. If that does become a problem, if min-wage causes 30%+ of the workforce to be unemployed, the government will lower it. They are stupid, but not that stupid. Besides, housing prices are also shaped by sup
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by barbie17 18y ago
Um, according to standard economic theory in the long-run equilibrium the unemployment rate is the rate of frictional unemployment and that is more-or-less of a constant. What we have is cyclical unemployment, which is temporary. http://en
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by barbie17 18y ago
This is perhaps one of the most astonishingly vacuous article I have ever read in my entire life. What was is about, exactly? A funny function name? Not to mention that 70% of it is quotes from other people. Pure link bait.
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by barbie17 18y ago
Something like this already exists: TopCoder. They are pretty well known and have a good reputation, so they will be hard to compete against. With that said, however, there are a lot of things that can be improved: (like what you hinted at)
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by barbie17 18y ago
You should check out Macroeconomics by Mankiw. It's very short and sweet. You really shouldn't judge economics by a few articles aimed at lay audiences just as you wouldn't try to learn about quantum mechanics from the NYTimes. Economics is
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by barbie17 18y ago
"Hint: consider what would happen in a real economy with hard currency by allowing the price of baby-sitting to fluctuate..." You are confusing two different types of analysis. If you had taken a (more rigorous) macroeconomics course you wo