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by dyno12345 14y ago
Is it even better than random? This anti-portfolio is so impressive it seems to suggest a strategy of investing a small amount in all but the stupidest rather than even trying to pick winners
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by dyno12345 14y ago
There is much evidence that commuting is bad for mental health http://ideas.repec.org/p/zur/iewwpx/151.html
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by dyno12345 14y ago
Sounds illegal in most jurisdictions that I'm familiar with The food service industry in the US has never had much interest in labor laws I guess
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by dyno12345 14y ago
Maybe the first floor is mostly a parking garage
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by dyno12345 14y ago
They would still call it a two story building
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by dyno12345 14y ago
I think investors think Apple has done so well it now has nowhere to go but down. Something like 50% of Apple's revenue comes from the iPhone, in a market where you're only as good as your latest product and they only release one product a
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by dyno12345 14y ago
The candidate is taking a much bigger risk. If the job doesn't work out, they lose small% of potential productivity, while you will lose 100% of your income. Companies have numerous employees, but you only have one employer. You bet everyth
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by dyno12345 14y ago
Yes, but during a trial period don't you get paid?
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by dyno12345 14y ago
There is already a Boston-DC semi-HST: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acela_Express There is a HST system under development in California, with the first segment planned for completion by 2017, with the rest scheduled in just 25 short years
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by dyno12345 14y ago
If you just look at the auctions from a year and go and click on a few of them.... almost all of them are dead. I kind of think this indicates this isn't an efficient market
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by dyno12345 14y ago
Maybe college is like secondary school because both behave according to traditions that have developed over hundreds of years, whereas online education is something very new and has very different parameters.
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by dyno12345 14y ago
It's not how they learn to act, it's what the program selects for - skill in bullshit artistry. I've met two or three few Thiel fellows - smart people who were very good at presentation and toastmasters 101 cheap public speaking tricks, and
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by dyno12345 14y ago
There are lots of studies that show this actually http://www.uvm.edu/~pdodds/files/papers/others/everything/er...
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by dyno12345 14y ago
Computer professionals in the US don't get pensions or overtime pay at all.
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by dyno12345 14y ago
Men die earlier.
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Businesses increasingly relying on internal referral candidates(nytimes.com)
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by dyno12345 14y ago
I think conditional probability is more informative than number of examples
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In Memory of Aaron Swartz(blog.givewell.org)
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by dyno12345 14y ago
The mere threat of damaging their political reputations in a hearing is probably enough to make a prosecutor suddenly change their mind given that it's all these prosecutors ever cared about in the first place.
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by dyno12345 14y ago
To be fair it's doubtful that most of that would have actually held up in court. That woman who bullied that 13-year-old to committing suicide a couple of years ago was similarly charged under a very broad interpretation of wire fraud and w
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by dyno12345 14y ago
Don't forget to factor in the savings from not needing a car.
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by dyno12345 14y ago
I'm not sure that this forgiveness vs. permission rule works well with civil or criminal law...
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by dyno12345 14y ago
I don't think it's showing emotion, I think that it's that we expect men to be self-reliant and should not need or want help from others. Men are responsible for their own outcomes. Women aren't seen as any worse for wanting help, and it's
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by dyno12345 14y ago
If he didn't think he was doing anything wrong, why didn't he just ask permission?
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by dyno12345 14y ago
You can't petition the White House to change laws...
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by dyno12345 14y ago
You need root access to his linode. Eventually something on his instance will break and take everything down with it. Even if you keep the bills paid forever, the only long-term solution is to focusing on archiving static copies of everythi
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by dyno12345 14y ago
Interesting is the discussion of this article on reddit, in which he, Randall Munroe, spez and pg make appearances http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/1octb/reddit_cof...
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by dyno12345 14y ago
It's a way of describing "depression" in a way that doesn't feel compatible with blame.
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by dyno12345 14y ago
He posted what appeared to be a suicide note on his blog five years ago, and the police were called. It's still there, but he edited it to change the name to "Alex". http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dying