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by bmpafa 9y ago
As someone who takes flak from literati friends for his em dashin', this is a vindicating find—(!)thanks, OP. I learned to use em dashes in the military on our performance reports (sort of like an annual resume with a grade attached).
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A report on the upswell of populism from the world's largest hedge fund [pdf](bridgewater.com)
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by bmpafa 9y ago
Former military finance officer here. I never worked directly w/ the budget shop, but in training they taught us that 'adjustment' was essentially shorthand for 'we can't make these numbers add up.' Ie,adjustme
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by bmpafa 9y ago
the PDF from which the img was made: https://community.qlik.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/1215...
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A cheat-sheet for picking the right chart / data vis(i.imgur.com)
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by bmpafa 9y ago
looks like Equifax responded to this point specifically in the terms of their 'see if you got screwed[0]' site: "2). NO WAIVER OF RIGHTS FOR THIS CYBER SECURITY INCIDENT In response to consumer inquiries, we have made it clea
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by bmpafa 9y ago
I know your point wasn't strictly pertaining to boilerplate, but for an apples-to-apples comparison, the most succinct way to change a member of an array immutably would be something like: arr = arr.map((e,i) => i === 3 ? '
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by bmpafa 9y ago
This seems a little melodramatic. And even if I bought that the 'original manifesto' was espousing 'hatred,' I'm not sure what 'normalizing it' means. This logic seems an awful lot like a book-burning ment
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by bmpafa 9y ago
> but there's obviously something more going on that indicates problematic life or business choices by multiple parties, which makes me feel less sympathetic. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't bad decisions (that is, dec
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by bmpafa 9y ago
You're right. And if anything, you're understating the conflict of interest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
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by bmpafa 9y ago
Moreover, restricting voluntary economic interactions behind a wall of regulatory licensing schemes, like hotel licenses and taxi licenses, exacerbates income inequality Airbnb was valued at $31bn after its last round. As of market close
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by bmpafa 9y ago
This is a critical point, thanks for making it. The mythology that all failure is a function of bad work ethic, etc., is a huge barrier to meaningful progress on poverty alleviation. Anyone interested in reading more on this topic, I rec. t
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by bmpafa 9y ago
When I was first learning computers I'd assumed winrar and winzip were official programs simply because of their names--that is, that they owned the file format. If others make the same mistake, this might explain 7z's market disa
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by bmpafa 9y ago
This is as specious as "well of course vaccines don't work--pharma doesn't make money if you don't get sick!" By this logic, any profession built on solving a problem can't be trusted. Car broken? Don't ta
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by bmpafa 9y ago
In fairness, by these standards, there hasn't been a day in months that wouldn't qualify as a 'good day to deliver bad news.'
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by bmpafa 9y ago
My problem with claims like these is that they imply intent, which implies a coherent (and nefarious) effort behind large social trends. Who precisely is it that's doing this?
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by bmpafa 9y ago
Then Github's up :)
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by bmpafa 9y ago
That's a good point, but would that happen quickly enough to undo whatever brain drain problems the industry creates? Nearly all hedge funds still take 2/20 for example, and their returns have been questionable for a decade, so id
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by bmpafa 9y ago
I agree that it's not a sufficiently precise term, but I think it's obtuse to suggest it's so ambiguous as to be deceptive or obstructive to discussion. How's about: an act that is socially valuable has benefits, immedia
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by bmpafa 9y ago
I think that, in terms of social value, the point of diminishing returns for market making and liquidity has long since passed, especially wrt social value for Avg. Joes & Janes. I def. don't hold Facebook etc in a much higher rega
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by bmpafa 9y ago
I got burned by firebase in a similar way. I was using their worker queue library and found my bill for a zero user app had gone from $0 to $100. Couldn't get a straight answer from support on why the worker queue was eating so much ba
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MBA programs push entrepreneurship but employers aren't buying(bloomberg.com)
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Why renters shouldn't bid on apartments(blog.wayhome.io)
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by bmpafa 9y ago
Similar experience. Tried it once last week & it was exceptions all the way down. Dunno why Babili is attractive w/ battle-tested uglify still making big moves.
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by bmpafa 9y ago
Yeah, Google made the decision at activation I think, but the helpful authors of this app helped me un-make it https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cheekydevs...
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by bmpafa 9y ago
Can you elaborate? I just did a cursory Google and it's not clear to me why this is true. They're $10/gb flat with refunds for unused GB. At what usage levels do you think they're 'some of the highest rates in the i
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by bmpafa 9y ago
Google's Project Fi wireless service prefers WiFi whenever it can right out of the box. That coupled with rock bottom prices & the ability to hop onto whichever network you like make it the best mobile provider around imo [just a u
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by bmpafa 9y ago
thanks. comments like yours are why I always check the HN thread before deciding if something's worth reading.
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by bmpafa 9y ago
til then, i wrote a script that'll let you unsub from everything at once before you close your unroll.me account. https://goo.gl/B4HLPX
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Un-rolling from unroll.me: a spiritual and inbox cleansing for the #DeleteUber age(medium.com)
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