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by davidgay 9y ago
That says (nearly) nothing about the representativeness/randomness of the sample you got. And, please, when showing graphs for comparison purposes: make the Y axis scale identical, or the results are quite visually misleading.
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by davidgay 9y ago
The problem is that you don't have to just find two numbers (interest rate, tax rate) for each location and year. You have to account for: - different approaches to mortgages (fixed term vs not, different typical terms, etc) - extremel
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by davidgay 9y ago
> Gil Kalai can have his contrarian opinion on quantum computers. But we can have a much simpler argument against quantum computers. That they will remain infeasible for a long enough time for traditional computers to catch up to it. IIU
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by davidgay 9y ago
No, before git the standard was svn, and before that, cvs. The switches happened even though there was an existing standard.
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by davidgay 9y ago
> The difference of speed between cars is what causes accidents. A cause, but most definitely not the cause. There's the not-so-trivial factors of reaction time (separation / speed) and breaking distance (proportional to the sq
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by davidgay 9y ago
However this style breaks down as soon as you have to do something more complicated than thread a single value, or have to do something more complicated than pass failures through.
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by davidgay 9y ago
If you are 60 and just won the Nobel prize and you are still thinking about your skills in terms of "I can win a Nobel prize", then I have very bad news for you. There are hundreds of people ( https://www.nobelprize.org&
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by davidgay 9y ago
Well the basic thing going on is "acid + base". Baking powder contains both (baking powder is baking soda + cream of tartar - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_bitartrate ), and starts reacting when wate
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by davidgay 9y ago
On this front, and to stray closer to a topic many of us spend too much time on, how do you conceptualise programs and their structure (control, data, etc, etc)? It's clearly formalised in words (except for the occasional visual progra
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by davidgay 9y ago
Not in latency, by a very long stretch (500ns 30 years ago).
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by davidgay 9y ago
The relevant link for the "East India Company" would appear to be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company#Regulating_... The first sentence there ends with "this clearly established Parliament&
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by davidgay 9y ago
AFAICT, in many cases (e.g., history) that's just to catch up with the rest of the world's pre-university humanities' level (and that the same applies in reverse for the humanities degrees).
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by davidgay 9y ago
You are forgetting the case of when the sun is behind light clouds (which is not everywhere, but definitely does happen): http://slideviewer.appspot.com/show?tag=dgay,solar-eclipse,1... (no filter)
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by davidgay 9y ago
My understanding is that's not a wise Swiss-property investment strategy (the subject of this article after all...). There, the combination of no capital gain taxes, a tax on wealth, very-low-and-stable interest rates means that one sh
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by davidgay 9y ago
The idea that unions wanting workers to form unions is somehow underhanded says more about your viewpoint than the rather abstract disclaimer that "So while I strongly support organized labor in abstract, ..." The idea that unions
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by davidgay 9y ago
It does appear to be possible to avoid this, my frames at least come from http://morel-france.com/ (the French Jura made glasses - http://morel-france.com/history-1880/ , the Swiss Jura made watches?) a
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by davidgay 9y ago
High. EPFL: 55% ( http://sae.epfl.ch/echec-statistiques ). [I've never heard any very good arguments for either high or low pass rates]
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by davidgay 9y ago
So, the US version of Yes Minister / Yes Prime Minister? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister )
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by davidgay 9y ago
> > And no one knows how to achieve [higher status and salaries for teachers]. > They do. There are lots of ways to do that. Just none that are attractive to the pedagogic establishment. I'm curious (growing up in Switzerland)
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by davidgay 9y ago
Or, even, shockingly, because they enjoyed doing research, even if they then don't spend the rest of their life doing research in academia or industry.
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by davidgay 9y ago
I've always felt the biggest factor for dusting other vehicles is reaction time from the light going green...
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by davidgay 9y ago
You possibly didn't look enough. For instance, the following from nytimes.com: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/world/europe/macron-hacki... And in case this reads as ex-post-facto justificat
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by davidgay 9y ago
While it's tempting to look for a single, recent starting point for Western-Muslim issues, it's also worth mentioning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Martel (about 1200 years earlier). And then, >35
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by davidgay 9y ago
This is where some of us mention "Amiga", then duck ;) Same difference, but 10 years prior to BeOS...
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by davidgay 10y ago
I have a hard time taking the conclusions seriously when I compare the situation with Switzerland. The current Swiss yearly deaths are around 250, a very significant drop from the typical 1000 I remember growing up in the 80s - http:/
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by davidgay 10y ago
The context was PhD students. None of those, at good universities at least, pay for tuition (be it from research grants or TAships). So I would expect the effect on prices to be minimal.
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by davidgay 10y ago
Phonetic spelling is not a property of alphabets, eg, both German and Turkish (appropriately) are phonetically spelled.
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by davidgay 10y ago
Hmm, no. Each per-year saved amount is compounded by the same multiplier k after N years (assuming the same interest rate), so if you start with 1.5x more, you end up with 1.5x more.
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by davidgay 10y ago
You seem to be assuming that the SF and Toronto workers will retire to the same place, so the extra savings of the SF worker will go further. Conversely, if you assume that the SF worker retires to a place with a 50% higher COL than the To
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by davidgay 10y ago
I just have to ask about the corrupt pets... So?

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