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by drats 14y ago
It matters in terms of statistics and machine learning. If, and that's if , these guys are correct then the data collection, pre-processing and normalization can have a large effect on the end result when you are trying to predict a trend
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by drats 14y ago
Flagged for the stupidest headline and "problem" I've read in a week.
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by drats 14y ago
Please don't use URL shorteners outside of tweets.
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by drats 14y ago
I disagree, it's a horrible service. I have a powerful up to date ICS android phone and their website totally denied me access to a document the other day due to incompatibility and crapness. Just give me the pdf, or even the ppt, I don't c
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by drats 14y ago
Yes, it's always struck me that many 37signals posts are lathered in passive-aggressive envy regarding other businesses rather than just getting on with their own. The only good 37signals post I can remember that wasn't of that kind, or jus
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by drats 14y ago
This is pretty trite nothingness, even for 37signals. I am not sure why it's been upvoted either as it's not even recent either.
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by drats 14y ago
Another point here is Amazon Silk caches/records a huge amount of your browsing, it's between the user and the web, and so does Opera Mobile (not opera desktop as far as I know). Facebook in this way will capture even more than they do thr
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by drats 14y ago
I also like "essage" and "assigned smart people" instead of "assign smart people" in a sentence talking about intelligence and spelling. He's probably not a native speaker but that only excuses the second bit, and only partly.
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by drats 14y ago
Even Parisians often flee Paris because of red tape and taxes, so if you add a foreign accent, or poor to no French, into the mix you are likely going to be going at a snail's pace. Berlin is cheaper, friendlier to business, friendlier to E
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by drats 14y ago
Nice work, would be nice to see some kind of average for a weekday.
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by drats 14y ago
That page had a totally obnoxious in-page pop-up which half-loaded and took a full 15 seconds to load all the parts (background image of popup and importantly the close button).
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by drats 14y ago
If he's so upset he can always adopt some of their policies.
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by drats 14y ago
I like how they are saying he shouldn't have said it in public but have their contact information or real names in their profile while stating they agree with breaking contracts and screwing employees.
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by drats 14y ago
>Maybe you're right and Paul Krugman is wrong Indeed (btw. where is Chile on the chart? can't seem to find it). http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/05/04/paul-krug...
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by drats 14y ago
>It depends how you measure quality. Aggregate stats across a number of areas plus opinion is a reasonable measure, albeit imperfect. Again I have provided many stats and figures and nobody has provided anything contrary other than asse
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by drats 14y ago
Wikipedia gave me those stats, but I checked the spreadsheet from the ITU they are based on and it's accurate.[1] Given the Chileans are richer it makes sense that they have 1 in 10 more people connected. Although I concede that the stats o
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by drats 14y ago
Anecdotes are not data. The whole of South America is fairly mediocre vs. the world in education but Argentina doesn't seem to be ahead of Chile in a relative ranking. Chile has two unis ahead of your university, which is top in the country
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by drats 14y ago
Who's correct on the inflation figures? The commentators saying it's about double what your government claims or your government? I am sure "a lot of business" gets done there, just not as much per capita as in Chile and far less than tons
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by drats 14y ago
I said the chance was "small", you are saying there is no chance but let's examine that a little more closely. First of all there is no country on earth that doesn't have some chance of descending into tyranny in a fairly short timespan if
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by drats 14y ago
I'll be the first to admit I am not an expert but to be frank from the outside you simply don't hear about people from either country, or the research records of their universities. Unless you can provide some metrics regarding the IT indus
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by drats 14y ago
But a lot of those factors apply to Chile and it's even quite close if friends and family are a factor. They are 88 places better on the corruption index and about 151 places better on economic freedom index, plus the government has an inno
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by drats 14y ago
Argentina seems to be ranked as among the worst places in the world, besides actual war zones, in terms of economic freedom and political corruption type rankings. The currency isn't stable either and the government is appropriating privat
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by drats 14y ago
The poor results on the map line up a fair bit with the cotton industry lines of the 19th century in this article http://bigthink.com/ideas/21383 Industry (dots) lined up with Obama voters from the article: http://strangemaps.files.wordp
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by drats 14y ago
This is silly linkbait. Suffice to say a host of multi-billion dollar companies beg to disagree.
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by drats 14y ago
Only in the hyperventilating startup bubble world can tracking people around a shopping mall with wifi be cooler than tracking your position anywhere on earth with satellites that were put there by huge rockets.
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by drats 14y ago
Impressive but fake. It looks like it's a textured object before take-off. Inconsistent dust when taking off the first time. His piloting of it is too good. Needlessly fake distortions on the video feed. No recoil on the vide
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by drats 14y ago
My favs from the "your programmer" comments: "oDesk— Its work diary feature tracks the hours your programmer is working for you and takes screenshots of the programmer’s desktop at certain time intervals." and "Below is a screencast on how
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by drats 15y ago
It's obvious that scarmig is parodying the comments Ruslan makes in the article and thus using the term "Orientals" to criticise and not in his/her own voice. Well perhaps it's not obvious to hyper-ventilating PC police so intent on keeping
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by drats 15y ago
Given what this is ranking I am surprised they are so high, this has nothing to do with market cap, cash on hand or the devotion of fans.
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by drats 15y ago
Presumably the horse has a human on its back which is a fairly significant encumbrance. "Man vs Horse+Man" might be a better name in that case.

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