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by czr80 13y ago
Tangentially, so could Google.
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App stores, portals and discovery(ben-evans.com)
2 points by czr80 13y ago|0 comments
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by czr80 13y ago
That's a great article, thanks. I actually had the coin example in mind when I wrote the comment, but was too busy to write out the full argument!
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by czr80 13y ago
I don't think the (strong) version of the efficient-market hypothesis is defensible but Warren Buffet's track record is not proof that it is wrong - in a random market, given a large number of investors, some will do well purely b
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White House denies intel chief will lead NSA surveillance review(thehill.com)
79 points by czr80 13y ago|29 comments
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by czr80 13y ago
Copy what? The idea of showing context aware information?
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by czr80 13y ago
Large brick and mortar retailers also usually have negative working capital, it's nothing to do with being an online company, rather it's about bargaining power vs suppliers.
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by czr80 13y ago
Medical care is not unequivocally a private good.
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by czr80 13y ago
Well, it does show a certain historical awareness... :)
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by czr80 13y ago
The only correction I'd make to their sentence is change "showed" to "appeared to show". And his paradoxes did appear to show all those things. Of course empirically you (and the ancient Greeks) could see that they
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by czr80 13y ago
Seems okay to me - what precisely do you think they got wrong?
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by czr80 13y ago
A large part of the response is irrational fear, true, a good example of salience bias. That said, there is a rational argument as well, and that is that terrorism has two special features: - High variance : Even though deaths to date are l
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by czr80 13y ago
FTA: "What makes the experiment most exciting is that this experiment has proven to be an extremely long term method for storing quantum information, which has traditionally been a major hurdle. Normally a quantum computer (such as th
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by czr80 13y ago
> Photons are responding to the curvature in space-time, not directly to the gravitational field In general relativity, space-time curvature is the gravitational field, so I'm not quite sure what distinction you're trying to
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by czr80 13y ago
Light does have mass (it has zero rest mass, but it's always moving at c , and as we know m = E/c^2...)
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The Internet Is a Surveillance State(schneier.com)
17 points by czr80 13y ago|1 comments
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by czr80 13y ago
You need to wrestle with three issues: - Preventing the emergence of warring factions [1] - Enforcement of rules underlying market transactions (e.g., contract law, property rights, policing, etc.) - Underinvestment in public goods, such as
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by czr80 13y ago
So, let me get this straight: we abolish taxes, eliminate governments, and then ... paradise?
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MIT Moves to Intervene in Release of Aaron Swartz's Secret Service File(wired.com)
5 points by czr80 13y ago|0 comments
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by czr80 13y ago
Depends what the alternative is, I guess.
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by czr80 13y ago
I'm sorry - did you not see the recent election where the Republican candidate ran on a platform of forcing 12m people to "self-deport"?
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by czr80 13y ago
But this avoids the central issue - how can we know if a paper helps people make progress on solving problems? Citation counts are just a proxy for exactly that - to move away from them you have to come up with a better proxy or evaluation
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by czr80 13y ago
Good != Popular
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by czr80 13y ago
Yes, I'm sure the license costs were killing them.
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by czr80 13y ago
He hasn't been exiled.
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Why Microsoft's reorganization is a bad idea(stratechery.com)
19 points by czr80 13y ago|1 comments
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by czr80 13y ago
"Through what technique did they discern the difference between mere correlation, and a correlation with exploitable causality?" Evolution - that is, assumptions that are accurate are favoured since they are more likely to lead to
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by czr80 13y ago
Wow, re-organising the company by function. They're going all in on copying Apple. Who knows if it will work, but it's a fascinating experiment.
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Friction(stratechery.com)
1 points by czr80 13y ago|0 comments
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by czr80 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error

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