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by charlief 16y ago
Direct link to the Google spreadsheet and raw source for those interested: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=rBr7dAyoDnHED9VPDTTq... http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/crimeew0910_tables_bvv.html
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What burglars steal - and how they get in [data](guardian.co.uk)
5 points by charlief 16y ago|5 comments
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Nuclear launch card was missing 'for months,' new book says(cnn.com)
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With Google TV, I May Never Leave The Sofa Again(techcrunch.com)
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by charlief 16y ago
I live in Toronto, and as the author suggests, I feel the pain. I really hope Nenshi succeeds and delivers some unequivocal, sweet results, then takes his record and runs federally. It would be awesome to have someone like Nenshi as prime
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by charlief 16y ago
If you want to populate somewhere, how about Canada and the unpopulated, beautiful plains out there to the north. It is already colonized but has virtually zero population density. The fact is people don't live there for socioeconomic, en
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by charlief 16y ago
Maybe some of the ecological aspects, but changing the atmosphere and climate sounds like a risky affair. I'm pretty sure if we were able to do some heavy handed climate modification, we would want to do it somewhere else, not in a fragile
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Moon Not Only Has Water, but Lots of It(online.wsj.com)
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DVD Purchases Slid 16% in 9 Months of 2010, Industry Data Show(bloomberg.com)
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by charlief 16y ago
Duped (related) post, or am I missing something? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1815195 Edit: just pointing out a related post as people may have missed it.
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by charlief 16y ago
The characterization of "evil" is too strong. The focus should not be on Google, but on the world's corporate tax system because it doesn't accomplish what it was set out to do. In terms of the level of fairness and for the purposes of ge
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by charlief 16y ago
Welcome to the world of tax arbitrage. More information: http://www.freshfields.com/publications/pdfs/2007/boyle.pdf http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/austan.goolsbee/research/mun... http://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/pubeco/v93y2009i1-2p142-
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by charlief 16y ago
Including others for comparison from Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_tax ), interesting to note that Vancouver, Canada, small business is taxed 13.5%, and to no surprise, there are many startups in Vancouver: Examples of
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Ask HN: Wacky or Alternative business models
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High-Frequency Trading Bashing(tradeturquoise.com)
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by charlief 16y ago
Now we can all code epic viruses on our phones just like in the pilot of the latest Doctor Who series.
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by charlief 16y ago
Mandelbrot had qualitative and quantitative insight, but I am not sure Nassim applied fractal brownian motion modeling/simulation to position himself for tail events, but more simply had the qualitative understanding of where tail event ris
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High-Level Talks Aim for an End to the Afghan War(nytimes.com)
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RIM CEO Slams Apple 'Distortion Field'(pcworld.com)
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by charlief 16y ago
"Judging by today's nip at Apple shares, I'm not the only one." Google, RIM, and Microsoft are all down today too so maybe investors are really really confused... or maybe it is simply a down day for the broader market.
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by charlief 16y ago
Misleading: "Investors punished Apple for its gangbusters quarter. The stock opened at $303.49 today, after closing at $318 yesterday" It was omitted that the stock rallied after the open and closed at $309.49. Investor reaction was not as
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by charlief 16y ago
The key is in the model, and besides general details, the paper doesn't explain much. This paper is a form of marketing if anything.
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Qwerly Alpha Launched(qwerly.com)
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by charlief 16y ago
Interesting paper, but the data set is poor, limited, and during the height of the crisis in 2008. I bet calm alert and happy were highly correlated to daily movements then. The model would have a much higher error rate if sampled from 20
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by charlief 16y ago
Nice post, but openings for awesome jobs are the scarce resource, not people to fill them.
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by charlief 16y ago
I agree with most of what you are saying, but never, ever is a long time. If I can be optimistic for a moment, I think 100 years or more from now, successive languages and IDEs won't simply be patches to awkwardness, they will probably hel
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by charlief 16y ago
I think it is a case of apples and oranges here. Yes we need to make progress on IDEs, and of course we can borrow inspiration from many sources. I've used every application the author has mentioned: Photoshop, Premiere, Maya, AutoCAD, Pr
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One way to ward off Alzheimer's: Take a hike(msnbc.msn.com)
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Canada Declares BPA, a Chemical in Plastics, to Be Toxic(nytimes.com)
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by charlief 16y ago
Mostly duped, see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1782681

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