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by drited 8y ago
I do recall thinking that Kahneman moved too quickly over his own comment in that book that over 50 percent of studies in psychology had been found to be under powered from a statistical standpoint. He didn't then follow with 'so
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by drited 8y ago
Yeah Pichai came across as sneakily dishonest in in the recent congressional hearing. He implied they weren't currently planning to enter Chinese search with a filtered search tool but then admitted they had 100 engineers working on dr
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by drited 8y ago
Doubly true in a neurorehabilitation facility given sleep is critical to brain repair. Stayed in with someone in that situation before and was blown away by the frequent interruptions of sleep of the patients by staff checking stuff that co
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by drited 8y ago
It would certainly be laudable if they could. The article was fascinating, thanks for answering questions!
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by drited 8y ago
'It's ludicrous to think good ideas only come from North America and white males' That's a straw man argument because I did not assert that (and obviously wouldn't because it would be a stupid thing to think). Maybe
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by drited 8y ago
I'm curious about why you included this sentence: 'The startups announced by BEV so far are all North American, and most of their leadership is also largely white and male' I mean, isn't it enough for BEV to help fund a
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by drited 8y ago
It's an audiobook but if you're interested in Chinese history I thought The Fall and Rise of China was fascinating. It is available on audible.
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by drited 9y ago
Thought you needed an Uber email address to join the Uber Blind app conversation?
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by drited 9y ago
Agreed! Bring back the X-Wing franchise! The X-Wing VR video clip in the Disney app in the Oculus store makes me think an X-Wing game could be the blockbuster that brings so many people into the VR fold that it becomes mainstream. A bit lik
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by drited 9y ago
Could you please link to the website of China's Cargurus that you mentioned? I would like to see which site you were speaking about because I follow Autohome and Bitauto.
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by drited 9y ago
Loved Brain rules, and Brain Rules for baby is also wonderful :)
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by drited 9y ago
Here's some: with why I like them Thinking, problem solving related: Superforecasting by Philip Tetlock: accurate forecasting Thinking fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman: how to avoid bias Misbehaving: like thinking fast and slow but mor
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by drited 9y ago
Couldn't it just reflect the base rates? I wonder if the explanation could be found from making a comparison of the statistics from when the respective presidents entered university on how many people in upwardly mobile families stud
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by drited 10y ago
Adobe connect allows participants on desktop to enter in the browser without software downloads aswell ( http://www.adobe.com/products/adobeconnect/meetings.html ).It's expensive though. Anyone know any more i
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by drited 10y ago
Are Transferwise profitable and earning at least their cost of capital? While I hear your startup vs big guys point, I looked at the public companies in this industry before and was amazed at how much they do spent on compliance systems (mu
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by drited 10y ago
In addition to cost overruns on new plants, estimates on the cost of decommissioning are balooning on the other end. Sellafield: 2005 estimate: $59 billion. 2015 estimate: $155 billion. German utilities set aside $45 billion but an addition
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by drited 10y ago
I'd guess he's talking about this: http://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/ets_en P.S. I agree about the comment regarding negative externalities not being accounted for unless something like this is in place
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Efficiency of solar PV technologies – past and present [chart](nrel.gov)
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by drited 10y ago
For those with babies on the way like the author and reading material to get through for business, I found that a text to speech app like @voice with a good sounding voice like the AT&T voices, plus a Bluetooth earpiece helps a lot. Bab
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by drited 10y ago
An interesting bit of computer history trivia is that Claude Shannon co-invented the first wearable computer with Ed Thorp to beat roulette in Vegas in 1961. It used a button in the shoe as an input device for the user to record the speed
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by drited 10y ago
I should explain what I meant further: I wasn't suggesting that bit.ly prevent people from shortening links, rather I was suggesting that they filter for links like the one mentioned in the article which are clearly intended to trick p
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by drited 10y ago
If email filters can detect that the ultimate long URLs are malicious (hence the use of bitly shortened links), couldn't bitly detect those malicious links using the same techniques to cut down on these types of attack? Their respons
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by drited 10y ago
It means the cost of buying the options will eliminate the profit. Iv is implied volatility. The higher the IV, the higher the option cost (premium
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by drited 10y ago
I was illustrating another situation where the only viable path forward was an acquisition in response to the parent comment. I was not suggesting that there would be comparable hardware cost savings at Twitter. The comparison which I did
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by drited 10y ago
Same way as Youtube. 1. Make advertising massively more efficient by using adwords 2. Cut IT costs dramatically by leveraging existing infrastructure and knowledge 3. Make search more effective to increase user engagement 4. Continue to use
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by drited 10y ago
Youtube had massive free promotion too but according to the book 'In the Plex' by Steven Levy, Youtube's founders and VC backers knew the only viable path forward was an acquisition. In that case Youtube's massive fees
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by drited 10y ago
Misbehaving by Richard Thaler. It's like Thinking, Fast and Slow except more hilarious.
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They didn't entirely have their heads in the sand. --They invented the world's first digital camera Source: http://petapixel.com/2010/08/05/the-worlds-first-digital-cam... -- They developed a mas
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by drited 10y ago
The article was written in 2011 before many of the follow up studies questioning Jaeggi's initial findings were published. While I think the evidence available today had muddied the water relative to what people thought after Jaeggi wa
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by drited 10y ago
"Android 4.0, obsolete and out of any form of support since late 2012. I hope you don't plan to connect this to the internet." I'll ignore the snarkiness of this comment. There aren't any other 13.3 inch e ink read

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