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by clarkm 13y ago
Though it seems like most people here are commenting on your gwern.net articles, I'd like to say that I really enjoy the links you post on your google+ feed -- it has a higher signal to noise ratio than any other information stream I've fou
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by clarkm 14y ago
Even though I use ghostery and provide unique email addresses to websites I don't trust, I still feel a bit uneasy about voluntarily providing my personal information to these companies just so I can "opt out". I know these sites are legiti
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by clarkm 14y ago
W3C's Permanent Identifier Community Group maintains https://w3id.org/ which performs a similar service.
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by clarkm 14y ago
Have you been following this since then? That's not actually Gelman's analysis. He's just relaying some criticisms that were sent to him by Janet Mertz. Ron Unz responds to this, corrects some of his own errors, and shows his claims still h
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by clarkm 14y ago
They bought it from a Grateful Dead fan for something like $10k.
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by clarkm 14y ago
What is the appeal of this when the rates are so high? The fees on most exchanges are in the .4%-.6% range for low volume. If I tried to run an exchange and had to pay a 3rd party 1% of all transactions, I'd be running at a loss. Furthermor
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by clarkm 14y ago
Here are the slides from a talk that Dan Kaminsky gave about Bitcoin at Toorcon Seattle a couple years ago: http://www.slideshare.net/dakami/bitcoin-8776098 I like his "Security Inversion" slide: > Normal Code: > * Looks like it m
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by clarkm 14y ago
While it was not the cause of today's drop[1], that is a big part of the problem. While they are frantically working on decoupling their website from the trading engine, they are still connected, and DDoS attacks are still effective at caus
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by clarkm 14y ago
That was exactly my point. Most of the bubbles on the screen on MtGox trades, not blockchain transactions.
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by clarkm 14y ago
Most of it seems to be just trade volume on MtGox, not actual transactions recorded in the blockchain.
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by clarkm 14y ago
Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal all have color schemes.
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by clarkm 14y ago
Yeah, that would provide a much clearer picture. Though I'd guess that the iOS/Android market share is highly correlated with the dominant wireless carriers in the area. Since iPhones were initially exclusive to AT&T, I'd expect areas w
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by clarkm 14y ago
The previous high of $31.91/BTC was set back on June 8, 2011. As of this posting, it is trading for over $33/BTC. Some good sites for charts and order books are: http://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/ http://mtgoxlive.com/ http://bitcoincharts
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Bitcoin hits new all time high on Mt. Gox(bitcointalk.org)
28 points by clarkm 14y ago|18 comments
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by clarkm 14y ago
Since mass shootings are such a rare events, the data is overdispersed, so a negative binomial distribution is likely more appropriate than a Poisson distribution. This, along with quasi poisson, is commonly used by criminologists to accoun
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by clarkm 14y ago
You can do all the crosstabs you want here: http://elections.reuters.com/#poll The marriage gap is much bigger than the gender gap, age gap, and any socioeconomic gap. I think it falls right below the race gap in terms of size, and is pro
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by clarkm 14y ago
The notion that rich people voted for Romney while rich states voted for Obama may also be misleading. While you can attempt to prove this by comparing the incomes of voters at the 100k+ breakpoint, I'm fairly certain the correlation di
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by clarkm 14y ago
To be fair, Uber implements the same "surge pricing" here in Boston on many busy holidays. It's their usual method of responding to increased demand -- not necessarily hurricane-specific price gouging.
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by clarkm 14y ago
Yes! And the worst part is that the "Embed Quote" box appears below your selection, obscuring text you're about to read.
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High-skill green cards get lame-duck push in Congress(mercurynews.com)
29 points by clarkm 14y ago|30 comments
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by clarkm 14y ago
I think it is important to note that the fast-food jobs with comparable pay are low level managerial positions , not entry level ones. You can start working for minimum wage at a fast-food job without any previous experience and/or skills.
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by clarkm 14y ago
Most of the anti-fracking rhetoric you see online is overblown. Sure, it might have some negative externalities (like all energy production), but domestic fracking is certainly more environmentally friendly than Saudi oil production.
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by clarkm 14y ago
> I'm not precisely sure what it is, but it seems to be the same thing that causes people to gloat when their favorite sports team wins. I disagree. Though sports fans have moments when they feel intense hatred for the other team, almos
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by clarkm 14y ago
This isn't necessarily true. It's important not to conflate "small precinct" with "suburban/rural area" and "large precinct" with "urban area", since many rural precincts might have more voters than urban ones. I wish someone would look at
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by clarkm 14y ago
The memeification of the election has been pretty interesting. The biggest examples: - "You didn't build that" - "legitimate rape" - "Big Bird" - "binders full of women" - "the 47%" - "horses and bayonets" There's a lot more context to al
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by clarkm 14y ago
I often hear people use this argument, but I'm not sure I buy it. Won't the Justices just wait until a President of their preferred ideology is in power before retiring? Justice Ginsburg is only 79 -- both John Paul Stevens and Oliver Wende
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by clarkm 14y ago
I'm still trying to figure out the point of this article. I think the author is trying to discredit Travis Kalanick and Uber by associating them with Ayn Rand, but the argument seems to backfire. Besides the fact that the article is annoyin
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by clarkm 14y ago
You act like the local Democratic party in Atlanta is the exact same ideologically as the party in Chicago, which is definitely not true.
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by clarkm 14y ago
Yeah, I think that both 'change word' and either the 'change inner word' or 'change a word' ('ciw' and 'caw', respectively) should have been included. I find myself using the last two modifiers much more often than 'change word' by itself.
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by clarkm 14y ago
I don't think that's true of the past decade or so. While DC's outlying suburbs in Virginia and Maryland are more Republican than the urban core, they most certainly vote more Democratic than the average suburban county elsewhere in the U.S

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