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by dbs 8y ago
I just uploaded an image with some portuguese custard pies and the model went bananas.
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by dbs 8y ago
How to set yourself to failure by starting with "one of the most widely known techniques". You can't outperform the average by using the same tools as everybody else.
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by dbs 8y ago
Large scale agriculture will add up, until someday it doesn't. This fable told by Jeremy Grantham explains it quite well. <i>My favourite story is about the contract between the farmer and the devil. The devil says, "sign th
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by dbs 8y ago
Demon Haunted World (Sagan). The art of baloney detection and scientific thinking. Letters from a Stoic (Seneca). The pursuit of happiness is meaningless, focus on the pursuit of wisdom. Poor Charlie's Almanac (Charles T. Munger). A li
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by dbs 8y ago
I fail to see your point. I too keep travel pictures with stuff like tickets, flyers etc. The purpose is not to build a brand or show off but to better remember the experience later.
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Fastmatch Founder Sues Euronext for Unfair Dismissal(apacnewswire.com)
1 points by dbs 8y ago|0 comments
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by dbs 8y ago
You get at the door of companies in the healthcare space that need to get up to their game and tell them what you can do for them. That's what I did.
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by dbs 9y ago
Define "terrible public intellectual".
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by dbs 10y ago
I don't agree with the question, especially if we are talking about de facto traders. There is a high level of worry because commission margins and returns per unit of risk are the lowest ever. I would say there is a high level of calc
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by dbs 10y ago
Bill Gates.
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by dbs 10y ago
Because it just works, year after year. I moved to Linux solely because I was tired of dealing with new interfaces every other year and lack of file version compatibility every new release. Maybe the solution for LO is not adding a new inte
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by dbs 10y ago
I use both Python and R for analytics projects. Python falls quite short on statistics and time series, especially if one is doing exotic/advanced stuff. By the end of the day I just want to get my job done, and I select the best tool
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by dbs 10y ago
Latest governments have no incentives whatsoever given that a large chunk of tax revenues is coming from the sale of fossil fuels.
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by dbs 10y ago
Talk about flowery language. 1. This is a tragedy of a death of a human being and the loss for a family of a beloved one - all caused by a disease , not by a "suicide". 2. Those statistics are for overall suicides, not medical as
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by dbs 10y ago
I don't know how is the situation in GS but in Europe many investment banks are under serious trouble, even if we exclude the effects of periphericals debt crisis. Turnover in primary markets has stagnated due to excess credit capacity
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by dbs 11y ago
I'm not saying it is the best. I've done BJJ, judo, karate, sambo and krav maga. Each one has its own strengths and weaknesses. English is not my mother language and my comments weren't intended as marketing. I don't car
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by dbs 11y ago
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is less about the show and more about a philosophy of life. Being trained in the arts many years ago, things like "a body is as strong as its weakest link", have served me well in life and business. I don'
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by dbs 11y ago
Securities and exchanges professional here, although based in Europe (no affiliation with T0 or any related platform). Settlement is the process by which securities are delivered against payment, from one counter-party to another (the selle
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by dbs 11y ago
Strange fact: changed my master password a few min ago. But there's a message saying it was changed 23 hours ago.
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by dbs 12y ago
I'm pretty sure some modern guys are already planning to do it again in the Mediterranean http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/0...
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by dbs 13y ago
I guess if toshiba lies in the warranty and does not assume its errors, it should also lie in other things. Not a good company to do business with.
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by dbs 13y ago
Gotta love the story: A story, that had been told to my brothers, and me since we where small, also helps explains my strong connections to Portugal: In the 1960′s my father, a journalist, was in the Congo covering the war after it’s indepe
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by dbs 16y ago
As someone who successfully overcome depression, I would humbly suggest to read "letters from a stoic" by Seneca. After that you may think twice before taking some time off as a way of fighting you depression. You can also try to travel to
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by dbs 16y ago
Buffett has said before that he doesn't invest in tech because he doesn't know how to evaluate the pricing power of these companies and because they are more prone to industry change.
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Exporting highlights in documents
1 points by dbs 16y ago|0 comments
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by dbs 16y ago
Actually the market is saying that MSFT has 10 to 14 years left (bloomberg data), using trailing and normalized (ie cyclically adjusted) earnings, respectively. For the market in general the median "life" expectation is lower between 8 and
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by dbs 17y ago
Read Seeking Wisdom by Peter Bevelin.