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by ddeck 13y ago
This is one of the downsides of living in a heavily populated area. It's quite visible once you get away from the light pollution around cities.
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by ddeck 13y ago
Yelp, Facebook and Google are members of ALEC. Hopefully this latest development will provide the public attention needed for them to drop their support, although I'm not particularly hopeful. For those who are unaware, ALEC is well kn
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by ddeck 13y ago
The problem with this approach is that given a sufficient population of contributors, a random distribution is going to give you individuals that consistently out/under perform purely by chance. This can be seen in the professional ass
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by ddeck 13y ago
As someone who's spent most of their career in professional finance, my strong advice would be to avoid the proliferation of "contributor" sourced sites. These sites typically allow anyone to write financial articles, trading
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by ddeck 13y ago
For those interested in this area, I find The Whole Street's "Quant Mashup" reasonable. It aggregates blog posts from a broad group of quant oriented blogs: http://www.thewholestreet.com/ For a more academic
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by ddeck 13y ago
Another vote for Banker News. Three syllables vs six. That, and Financier News might attract pastry chefs in addition to your target audience... As a member of your target audience, I'd suggest focusing on the discussion side since tha
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by ddeck 13y ago
>Being in Hong Kong and having lived through the SARS era, I'm happy when someone brings us back to reality and doesn't play the OMG-we'll-all-gonna-die scenario. I couldn't agree more. Even SARS, concerning as it w
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by ddeck 13y ago
If it is in fact purely an academic exercise, I'd recommend doing this using a paper account. Many brokers will allow you trade on a paper account to satisfy your curiosity without putting your wealth at risk.
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by ddeck 13y ago
Good advice. One of my favorite articles on the persistent mistaking of luck for skill in the investment management industry is "Track Records are Rubbish (or Why Managers are Factors in Drag)" [1]. A short excerpt: ...most manag
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by ddeck 13y ago
This is the basis of well known - potentially hypothetical - scam. Send 2^n emails out, half stating that stock X will go up tomorrow, half stating the same stock will go down. The next day, split the addresses that received the correct pre
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by ddeck 13y ago
Another Android option is Fastwiki [1]. No images, but provides a conversion tool to convert native Wikimedia dumps. Also works with older Android versions. [1] http://fastwiki.qwrite.info/en/index.html
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by ddeck 13y ago
The Kiwix Android app is great. Unfortunately (for me), it requires Android 3.0+. I spent some time trying to port it to 2.1 for an old large format device I have, but could only get it working on 2.2.
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by ddeck 13y ago
Perhaps not the main market, but prisons. Since March 2013, inmates of the Bellevue prison in Gorgier, Switzerland can request access to an uncensored offline copy of the French Wikipedia, based on the Kiwix software. Internet access is se
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by ddeck 13y ago
That's okay for some, but many people use the built in apps for Netflix, Livefilm etc.
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by ddeck 13y ago
Reminds me of the wikitravel article on Azerbaijan: Don't smile at an Azerbaijani in the street, because if you do they most likely will not respond in kind and they will regard you as odd. Smiling in Azerbaijan in public is not done
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by ddeck 13y ago
Yes, gross margin is (revenue - COGS) / revenue. But per your parent comment, Amazon is not accounting for their AWS costs in COGS. Instead, it is primarily included in the technology and content expense line, which is below the gross
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by ddeck 13y ago
These are spread over an enormous number of machines. OT, but for truly impressive single machine performance, check out the LMAX FX trading platform, which can handle 6 million orders per second on a single core on commodity hardware.....i
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by ddeck 13y ago
Perhaps, but discussing profitability of AWS in gross margin terms is somewhat pointless. At 100%, that means not a single cost of operating the business has been accounted for. No computers, no engineers, no data centers, no electricity, n
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Swiss referendum proposal: Legally capping highest salary at 12x lowest salary(ft.com)
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For those unaware, Richard Branson (Virgin founder) made a bet with with Tony Fernandez (AirAsia founder) in 2010 regarding whose formula one team would finish ahead that season. The terms were such that the loser had to serve as a flight a
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by ddeck 13y ago
It's a long video (with an agenda), but despite the somewhat conspiratorial tone, there's some really interesting stuff in there. For example, Thomas Peterffy (founder of Interactive Brokers) talking about how they built a robot t
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by ddeck 13y ago
I'm curious, do they advertise in the US? In Asia (HK/Singapore at least), LINE have TV commercials and various promotional efforts with bricks and motor stores (e.g. soft toy versions of their stickers after $x of purchases at 7-
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by ddeck 13y ago
I'm regularly amazed at how poor Google are at getting this right. Both of the following have occurred to me in the last week alone: 1) Friend and I both have nexus devices, both setup in English with Google accounts signed in, both re
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by ddeck 13y ago
This makes me wonder how confusing it must be for Bassant's Removals & Storage to explain their website URL over the phone...[1] [1] http://www.doubleyoudoubleyoudoubleyou.com/
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by ddeck 13y ago
It's not just you. I get the same behavior. Logged in with default shipping address (Hong Kong), but only find out on proceeding to checkout as you described.
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As am I. I really hope they don't phase them out. The current 16x10 24" ultrasharp (U2412M) is a great monitor at less than $300.
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by ddeck 13y ago
Not restricted to New Balance it seems: Nike Complaints & Reviews - Shoes smell like cat urine (2009) [1] [1] http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/nike-c255626.html
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by ddeck 13y ago
Not sure about barbaric and abusive, but in gender equality terms, Japan was most recently (2012) ranked 101 out of 135 countries by the World Economic Forum [1], compared with 18 and 22 for the UK and US respectively. The index purports to
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by ddeck 13y ago
I don't find it disingenuous. Per the article's title, it is refuting Apple's claim that it "cannot" access iMessages, and on that basis, I think it's entirely valid. Apple put out a statement earlier this year
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by ddeck 13y ago
Agreed, and that's how I do it also. But I'd recommend checking the rate. I have a few accounts and the difference between the cheapest and most expensive is significant (e.g. one bank taking 4% margin, another only taking 1%).

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