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by connoredel 8y ago
It's true that Bitcoin doesn't have a lot of transaction volume, but this isn't where you'd see that. "Spot volume" (trading volume) is taking place on centralized exchanges -- not on the blockchain.
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by connoredel 8y ago
Pretty sure he meant "freshman or freshwoman"
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by connoredel 8y ago
I moved to SF two years ago after living in NYC for 4 years. When people here ask me if I miss New York, I tell them I miss aspects of it -- the bars, restaurants, nightlife, art, fashion. But increasingly it's the little things about
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by connoredel 8y ago
This is why paperweights exist. Office buildings all used to have ventilator shafts which effectively created lower pressure in the interior of the building. In order to make it work, you needed to have your office window open AND an interi
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by connoredel 8y ago
In my experience, finding a framework when you're searching for a solution is not a consolation prize. When the consolation prize is the only prize, it feels like the first place trophy -- and it is, at that time. The solution doesn&#x
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by connoredel 8y ago
Here's the way I look at it. Once your 401k or other retirement savings are on track to give you a comfortable retirement, that's like an option -- you are effectively guaranteed a minimum lifestyle. Within this bucket, you should
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Evaluating anthropogenic versus natural climate change with machine learning(sciencedirect.com)
6 points by connoredel 9y ago|1 comments
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by connoredel 9y ago
The key insight is that you are unlikely to be experiencing the thing at a special time in its life. This is the Copernican principle (which J. Richard Gott uses in his version of this that Wikipedia mentions), which was basically "we
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by connoredel 9y ago
There is an analogy to clustering (an unsupervised learning technique) here. Take the simple case of 2 dimensions (each observation is plotted in 2D space) with possible values of 0-10. Let's say the extreme (far from average) space is
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by connoredel 10y ago
That's a hilarious comment, and a good point. But you can tell when your ad blocker is messing with site functionality beyond just blocking ads (i.e., the false positives your parent comment mentions). And at a certain point, this is a
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by connoredel 10y ago
To take it a step further: Is it immoral to eat whole foods for all 3 meals a day? Research has shown we get most of the nutrients we need from our first meal (of whole foods) each day. We only need calories from that point on. Shouldn&#x27
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by connoredel 10y ago
I've always wondered why they don't use this to price discriminate even more. They always say the "actual value" of the education is way more than $55k per year or whatever, because the endowment contributes significantl
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by connoredel 10y ago
I think your point #2 is right on. This article is wondering why recent observations are not behaving the "backward bending supply curve of labour" [1]. But this curve assumes a constant return on hours worked (i.e. a constant wag
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by connoredel 10y ago
This is a really good point. Now I'm pissed that I contributed to a Roth earlier in my career. Another one that no one has mentioned: state income tax. I live in CA but would put a >50% chance that I will live in a lower tax state w
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by connoredel 10y ago
IIRC, the lead for an angel syndicate can make deal-level carry (as opposed to the fund-level carry that is described here). This leads to some incredible risk-taking: there is no consideration for how they might be harming their "fund
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by connoredel 10y ago
I feel like this is misleading without the % share of the total. These top 50 represent 2.7% of the total. OK, that sounds bad, but I'm not really sure how to interpret it. Even if we get better at this, the top passwords will still be
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by connoredel 10y ago
Don't know why you're being downvoted. You astutely point out that just as defunding can cause a move toward privatization (or the belief that only private enterprise can solve a given problem), so too can overregulation lead towa
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by connoredel 10y ago
That's not how it works at all. It's a market: there is a limited supply of impressions/clicks, and it is _buyers_ who decide the price. Buyers are rational -- I like to take that charitable view at least -- and are bidding l
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by connoredel 10y ago
I grew up a few miles south of Roebling, NJ -- a company town created for the Roebling Steel Mill. Some nice pictures here: http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2013/05/roebling_a_little...
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by connoredel 10y ago
This is in my opinion the best simple A/B test significance calculator. I like it for two reasons: 1) The multiple testing correction, which many people ignore when testing > 1 variants vs. the control 2) They display not only the p
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by connoredel 10y ago
I wonder if there was any secondary equity sold. Spiegel famously took out $10M back in 2013 and bought a Ferrari. As an investor/BOD member, I think you need to balance between giving founders a taste of something so they don't s
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by connoredel 10y ago
I've heard that the Durst family made an app for changing the lights on One World Trade Center. They guard its distribution pretty tightly, though. I have a fantasy about going on a date at some rooftop bar that has a view of the spire
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by connoredel 11y ago
This is a good point. If these are each used by 2 people, it's not very interesting. It's sort of implied by the attention these stories get that the problem is much bigger than that, but I agree the story is incomplete without th
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by connoredel 11y ago
So, is man-made climate change solved? If the whole world agrees that we will all collectively take steps to reach an agreed upon level of temperature rise in 100 years, what else is needed except to do it? The rational thing to do is stop
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by connoredel 11y ago
The idea that advertising is a consumption tax is wrong. You don't use "cost-based pricing" in advertising (i.e., you don't decide how much to charge to make sure you are covering your costs of acquisition). You decide h