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by domdip 12y ago
It's the same author. There's a pretty big overlap between plagiarists and fabulists, so it's hard to put much stock into a subjective article like this.
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by domdip 12y ago
The relationship between drugs and environment is so strong that (in mice, at least) you can trigger an "overdose" simply by changing the latter. http://people.whitman.edu/~herbrawt/classes/390/Siege
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by domdip 12y ago
The increase in robberies at non-participating stores is a bit concerning. This might deter in a similar manner to The Club, which did a good job of preventing your car from being stolen but didn't drop the overall crime rate.
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by domdip 12y ago
Is there anything stopping a standby passenger from being given a seat on the second leg?
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by domdip 12y ago
I don't know of any competent financial planner that would seriously advise hanging onto debt at 6% and investing that money in equities. Even if this turns out to be a good idea in retrospect, it's terribly risky.
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by domdip 12y ago
There's a similar game in which you ask "what is the smallest positive integer that doesn't have a dedicated Wikipedia page?" And then you can ask what happens when that number gets its own Wikipedia page...
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by domdip 12y ago
I found this really fluffy. Not even sure how I'd tl;dr it. Some people are more aware of their heartbeat than others, and that correlates with a few arbitrary things that seem to line up with our sentimental understanding of 'h
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by domdip 12y ago
IANAL. The linked cases are probably more relevant than yours, courts will have different standards if the other party is a (presumably unsophisticated) consumer vs. a corporation. Also unclear if there was other communication b/w QV
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QVC Sues Shopping App for Web Scraping That Allegedly Triggered Site Outage(newmedialaw.proskauer.com)
27 points by domdip 12y ago|33 comments
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by domdip 12y ago
Median posted rental prices may not be a great metric. Some comparisons don't pass the smell test - West Oakland should not be more expensive than Glen Park or Berkeley. Berkeley should not be cheaper than Fruitvale or Lake Merritt.
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by domdip 12y ago
They do. tDCS isn't exactly the first thing that's been attempted here.
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Inside Apple’s Broken Sapphire Factory(online.wsj.com)
20 points by domdip 12y ago|20 comments
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by domdip 12y ago
Nobody has agreed to send your traffic the 'shortest way' to the target IP address (despite your demand). They routinely send it whichever way is cheapest for themselves, which leads to hot-potato routing among other things.
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by domdip 12y ago
Yeah, the speculation that nitrates in bacon fat would somehow be unhealthy was a bit weird too.
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Notation as a tool for thought: Wavelets in J(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
42 points by domdip 12y ago|0 comments
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by domdip 12y ago
Well, in principle you can divide one transmitter's attention to several devices over time. (Either by changing the direction of the antenna, or more sophisticatedly via beamforming.) Otherwise I agree with you. Even the tone of this
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by domdip 12y ago
> There are more gut bacteria than human cells in our body "[That] is technically true, in the sense that Vin Diesel is outnumbered by a small bag of crickets." http://carcinisation.com/2014/08/14&#x2F
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by domdip 12y ago
Well, the original article makes a claim that this was caused by a margin call feedback loop (thanks pash for finding the right term and some analysis). There could be other causes. It's hard to untangle whether BitFinex caused the ot
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by domdip 12y ago
This is not called a liquidity trap. That's a concept in macro econ, it has nothing to do with trading or (this kind of) finance.
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by domdip 12y ago
Be careful, stop orders only help if there is a reasonable amount of liquidity when you reach your stop price. If it's not there (and often isn't during a flash crash) you may get terrible execution.
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by domdip 12y ago
Airports involve a ton of extra regulatory hassle.
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by domdip 12y ago
The annoying thing is that some of them are commonly-abused statistics (such as the SMB export statistic). Seeing that early on immediately marks this as low-quality political editorial. Look elsewhere for a history lesson.
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by domdip 12y ago
Funny thing about that random comparator shuffle - Microsoft used it for their browser selection screen (part of the EU antitrust settlement). Oops! http://www.robweir.com/blog/2010/02/microsoft-random-browse
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by domdip 12y ago
Neither. You can add a leering guy to the picture and it will still be offensive. There are probably pictures with beautiful women that would not be offensive. The 'issue' has been described several times in the comments and in
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by domdip 12y ago
As far as business in Russia goes, this sounds like a fairly normal course of events. Almost every large company has someone Putin-connected at the top, and when the Kremlin wants more control that's how they exercise it. (Either tha
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by domdip 12y ago
TL;DR: blurby article from last year that confuses the academic job market in general, the private job market for an average PhD, and one person's bizarre experience looking for a private job despite graduating from an elite CS PhD pro
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by domdip 12y ago
Something went terribly, consistently wrong in his job search for a Stanford CS PhD in that economy to fail to land. I've always found his article to be an odd piece of self-antipromotion. He's publicly admitting he landed a ton
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by domdip 12y ago
Why not, it worked against TJX, right? Orders of magnitude more likely to find an open WiFi in a bank's parking lot than you are to find a WAN-facing consumer-grade router. Any employee in the company could screw up the former ("
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by domdip 12y ago
The parent specifically mentioned Nigeria. Africa is not a country, and his comment may not apply to say, South Africa or Morocco. You're the one generalizing about 3rd world countries, not him. If you think LLE or even the FBI is go
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by domdip 13y ago
1906 was somewhere between 7.8 and 8.25. Pretty far from 9. "8 or 9" is a huge range at that scale.

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