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by bitxbit 7y ago
We desperately need to move away from these education systems. They worked well when resources were limited and identifying gifted students took priority. The world is a much different place now and we should focus on individualized curricu
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by bitxbit 7y ago
Paypal is not a good solution for secondary markets. I wish someone would start a payment company specifically focused on P2P where you can have escrows and third-party reviews for expensive items. Instead of sending your item directly to a
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by bitxbit 7y ago
It used to be that way but with all the data available to us now, managing fraud isn’t as difficult as it used to be. Definitely not to the tune of 3-4% both ways combined in many cases.
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by bitxbit 7y ago
All these banks and financial institutions launching digital currencies miss the whole point: FRICTIONLESS transactions. Right now you have layers upon layers of network companies nickle and diming you. This is literally someone taking a pe
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by bitxbit 7y ago
I would like to see something drag and drop from iOS/Android.
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by bitxbit 7y ago
2.8 was a game changer for Blender. I absolutely believe it will be a multi-industry standard for years to come.
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by bitxbit 7y ago
I like the idea of federated network but I’d rather see a virtual implementation.
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by bitxbit 7y ago
I sincerely hope people at FB come to the realization that they can do something powerful to dramatically change the world IF they are willing to forgo the money.
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by bitxbit 7y ago
Why would Apple pay $57B for something they can develop (a whole lot better) in less than a month? I really cringe when I see people use Shopify. But I understand why mom and pops use it. The same reason why they used to fork over hundreds
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by bitxbit 7y ago
I love Apple Pay for web. It’s seamless compared to Paypal because all you have to do is touch/faceID. It is also ridiculously easy to implement as a developer. If Apple ever goes for the Paypal/Square/Stripe market, they hav
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by bitxbit 7y ago
Thank you for that write up! I too started with Mathematica in my early days. I can still play the start up chime in my head. Then I got into econometric softwares which led me to Julia and Jupyter from closely following Prof Sargent.
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by bitxbit 7y ago
This is so much better than buying your own hardwares.
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by bitxbit 7y ago
We should really thank Mathematica for the notebook format.
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by bitxbit 7y ago
I can’t agree with you there. I would say most professionals trading these stocks in volume know more about tech than what’s being discussed here. I speak from my own experience but Wall Street has changed quite a bit in the past two decade
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by bitxbit 7y ago
This is my understanding as well. And why I believe AMD needs to either merge or be acquired to really make a run at CPU/GPU market. They’re seriously underperforming (this isn’t to say Lisa Su is a bad CEO).
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by bitxbit 7y ago
Growth is good but we are entering an economic environment where countries and companies are growing simply to show growth. It’s inorganic. In the past this type of behavior would result in boom and bust cycles, now the easy money has made
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by bitxbit 7y ago
This is great but why is it so difficult for AMD to break into the enterprise/server side of the market? Seems Intel is very entrenched in that space despite their clear exercise of market power for over a decade.
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by bitxbit 7y ago
Inflation was low because of China. Production cost could easily triple in other parts of the world at the same quality and quantity even if we can move them instantaneously.
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by bitxbit 7y ago
Companies will face cash crunch because they temporarily can’t sell (since they can’t make widgets). This will help them bridge that gap in theory.
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by bitxbit 7y ago
In a way you’re assuming no inflation which has been the case for the past decade. BUT. What happens when China goes offline and takes low cost labor with it? For the record, I believe this situation will resolve within the month but it wil
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by bitxbit 7y ago
Not at this level and this is effectively the gov’t signaling a “bank run” in my view.
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by bitxbit 7y ago
They already extended the holidays and I know a lot of manufacturers rely on pre and post Lunar production cycles. We are going to find out what happens when China goes offline which is not going to be pretty. I fully expect some products t
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by bitxbit 7y ago
It would be nice if Apple opened up OS X a bit. I _know_ that goes against brand principle etc but they also lost a lot of ground back to Windows in the past five years. I used OS X from launch but switched to Windows three years ago becaus
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by bitxbit 7y ago
I strongly believe there’s overemphasis on AI, artificial intelligence, vs augmented intelligence.
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by bitxbit 7y ago
I believe they’re making a movie with Jennifer Lawrence playing Holmes.
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by bitxbit 7y ago
Housing should not be an asset class. Financial institutes will try to convince you that securitization is what made housing affordable but that’s far from the truth.
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by bitxbit 7y ago
I think the original intent was great. And you can learn from it still. However, as the job market for data scientists heated up, Kaggle became something else entirely.
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by bitxbit 7y ago
Never understood Kaggle. The Netflix Prize was great. Now it’s just people gaming Kaggle to get a job.
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by bitxbit 7y ago
There’s a lot of sitting around and doing nothing in East Asian office work culture. It’s similar to investment banking where you are not necessarily using your brain/energy but you are still at the office for insane hours churning out
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by bitxbit 7y ago
That 95% of the workforce is there just to collect their checks and they will do everything in their power to protect that privilege.

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