dsjoerg

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   by dsjoerg 9y ago

   I'd say about as similar as football and soccer. Both involve getting the ball thingy into the opponent's end-of-field thingy. Indeed lots of common skills.
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   by dsjoerg 9y ago

   I was hoping to find a comment about how terrible the writing was, thank you. The writing is terrible.
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   by dsjoerg 9y ago

   It should be called "Reputation Theft". Because what the criminal is doing is harming _your_ reputation with companies that _you_ want to do business with in the future.
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   by dsjoerg 9y ago

   Not so; on many issues, the country as a whole (its citizens) knows what it wants but the parties and duopoly can't deliver it because of how they're structured. For example there are improvements to healthcare, taxation and finan
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   by dsjoerg 9y ago

   A collection of what specialists think generalists should know
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   by dsjoerg 9y ago

   Why should I believe what you say? It sounds truthy and has plenty of logic to it, but I've come to ask for more before believing something.
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   by dsjoerg 9y ago

   It's easy to be dismissive, but the project becomes more tractable when you think of the task of "explaining" as yet another classification task. The goal is not necessarily to explain _exactly_ what's happening inside t
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   by dsjoerg 9y ago

   Thanks for sharing your painful journey!
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   by dsjoerg 9y ago

   I tried to rewrite the headline to address your criticism, here's my first attempt: "S&P 500 to exclude stocks without voting rights, starting with Snap." However it's longer and headlines need to be short. And it
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    by dsjoerg 9y ago

    PDF: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
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    by dsjoerg 9y ago

    I had exactly the idea of OP's title but never bothered to write an article around it. 100% agree.
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    by dsjoerg 9y ago

    You haven't had many friendships with diverse income levels.
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    by dsjoerg 9y ago

    Thanks for this — I've been thinking about doing the same thing and this is super helpful.
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    by dsjoerg 9y ago

    Delightfully context-free
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    by dsjoerg 9y ago

    Cute but false, in each of those scenarios they would tell me "five minutes" and then when I'd call back 15 minutes later to ask & complain, they'd say "oh there was traffic, now he's five minutes away&quot
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    by dsjoerg 9y ago

    Arecibo is awful. They would always tell me "five minutes!" regardless of how long it would take for the car to arrive. Their attitude and customer service were not good. I am so happy to never have to call Arecibo again. And n
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    by dsjoerg 9y ago

    I don't see what in the article gave you the impression that Whole Foods lost. Or that Amazon won.
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    by dsjoerg 9y ago

    I remember reading that in aluminum smelting, compared to other industrial processes, the energy cost is an especially large part of the overall costs. So when energy costs are abnormally low, smelting aluminum could go from bad to OK to
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    by dsjoerg 9y ago

    Those 75 data points are not independent observations, because the windows overlap so much. Remember that using "year" as the granularity is arbitrary anyway; if we had daily, hourly or by-the-minute data going back to 1913, then
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    by dsjoerg 9y ago

    you win the prize for asking the right question. the answers are like with AI, where once it's done in a certain domain, then that's not AI anymore. that is, with visual programming, once it's done in a particular domain, p
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    by dsjoerg 9y ago

    that's effectively only ~4 observations then (100/24). i wouldn't want to make a very important life decision based on data from only 4 observations. with only 4 observations, "common sense" and other forms of firs
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    by dsjoerg 9y ago

    This article doesn't explain why we should believe that stockmarket performance, going forward, will be anything like the S&P's performance from 1993 to now. It's also not clear why we should believe the Payscale College
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    by dsjoerg 9y ago

    another? what is the other one? the yo-yo?
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    by dsjoerg 9y ago

    Any idea how much of the Consumer Price Index for Rent of Primary Residence consists of rent-controlled housing?
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    by dsjoerg 9y ago

    I found the prominence of the agent's name noteworthy. Compare to the NYT Bestsellers list where the agent name is missing: https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/?_r=0 Is Amazon doing this because Amazo
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    by dsjoerg 9y ago

    but whyy
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    by dsjoerg 9y ago

    There's a zero-sum game in the war for attention. Each person only has 16-17 hours a day of attention to give. There is also a zero-sum game in the war for how I choose to stay in touch with my friends. For each person, they are goin
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    by dsjoerg 9y ago

    I had to google tripsitter.
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    by dsjoerg 9y ago

    Needs (2009) tag in title please.
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    by dsjoerg 10y ago

    Arpad Elo's rating system has no single defined reference pool of players. The way it works is that you take a pool of players, establish the rating that unknown new players will receive (1500 in some cases) and then the system evolves