elberto34

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Keep getting downvoted and it sucks
2 points by elberto34 12y ago|12 comments
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by elberto34 12y ago
agree..and then there is the fact that the human body cannot properly digest vitamins. Most of the time the vitmins are excreted intact
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by elberto34 12y ago
but regular business takes work and risk of total loss of capital. I can double my money buying Snapchat and then do nothing but watch TV and eat Cheetos for the next 6 months as VCs bid it into the stratosphere
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by elberto34 12y ago
I can name: hilbert, marcel grossmann, Tullio Levi‑Civita (all at least on-par with Einstein). They all helped develop GR
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by elberto34 12y ago
That's the way you get rich. Make apps, social networking..stuff like that. Or invest in already-successful, viral app companies like Uber, Snapchat, Tinder, etc. Why anyone would go the brick and mortar route is beyond me. I would ra
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by elberto34 12y ago
no need to be a condescending about it
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by elberto34 12y ago
yeah, same here. Einstein, through a combination of skill, connections and luck, rose to prominence at a pivotal time in science coinciding with the discoveries of both quantum and macro physics theory, as well as the advanced mathematics n
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by elberto34 12y ago
The problem is that this oversimplification is wrong. Curvature in general relativity cannot be expressed merely with a 2-d matrix. It's actually a hypermatrix a
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by elberto34 12y ago
I would much rather be an investor in whats app than spacex. It may be decades before spacex develops anything beyond the prototype level, whereas whats app can quickly scale and become the next Facebook or Google with a few years.
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by elberto34 12y ago
but the debt...market cap is meaningless in these situations
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by elberto34 12y ago
Sounds good in theory, but nowadays what happens is companies go public when they are fully valued, making them ripe for collapse when insiders take advantage of the liquidity to exit positions. When companies go public early, opportunities
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by elberto34 12y ago
How is the cloth demo done? Is it with partial differential equations
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by elberto34 12y ago
Garfield, Dilbert, Foxtrot and Calvin and Hobbes is about the extent of my comic repertoire Taking a 7 year old to a comic store is like tasking her to a pg 13 movie.. . Not too surprised it didn't work out. Comics tend to deal with ad
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The generation of non-humanities majors who can't write(businessinsider.com)
2 points by elberto34 12y ago|0 comments
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by elberto34 12y ago
i'm sure most of those visits are from random search results, not users genuinely interested in the site
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by elberto34 12y ago
I have found that the best math teachers were from community college. One teacher explained the solution to a calculus problem I had developed out of curiosity , and it wasn't even on the curriculum. He didn't have to do that, but
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by elberto34 12y ago
I can understand refusing the money on principle, but it's always nice to have money for a rainy day. Healthcare ain't cheap
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by elberto34 12y ago
Until they get rid of that annoying endorsement system, I submit to SSRN. The endorsement system is a major hurdle for unaffiliated publishers and it still doesn't keep nonsense and wrong stuff from occasionally appearing on the site.
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by elberto34 12y ago
i think at some point everyone is one of those in life
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by elberto34 12y ago
maybe this can be fixed by requiring some mouse over action before the hit is registered
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by elberto34 12y ago
does this use the navier stokes equations? How are the ripples generated?
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by elberto34 12y ago
she is 16..not like she skipped out of HS completely
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by elberto34 12y ago
I am of the opinion that instead of spending $10k at a bootcamp, you can learn the coding yourself with books and free information readily available online
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by elberto34 12y ago
at the end of the article he does express some doubt about the thoery
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by elberto34 12y ago
Just trying to get itunes to work on a PC was enough to make me swear off Apple products . Like windows 8, too much clutter and other annoynces
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by elberto34 12y ago
End of science? Hardly. just because we may be in a multiverse doesn't mean we should stop trying to figure out how our particular universe works, and this info may yield insight into the other universes. There is still so much to lear
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by elberto34 12y ago
making money is almost never a problem. Everyone says it is and then the said company blows the doors off expectations . Facebook did it with mobile in 2012 when all the experts said it couldn't be done. Mobile engagement is higher tha
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by elberto34 12y ago
This talk of bubbles reminds me of 2007 when everyone, including all the experts, was certain Facebook was a bubble at a valuation of $15 billion after Microsoft invested; now it's worth $200+ billion. Then in 2012 after Facebook'
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by elberto34 12y ago
I think they were right to reject it. I have done plenty of math but I still couldn't 'grasp' the significance of the scheme system, and while I'm sure it is very important to the few people who understand it, I doubt t
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by elberto34 12y ago
The way you improve test scores and increase America's economic competitiveness is to understand that higher IQ students will learn faster and more efficiently than lower IQ ones, and then by grouping the students accordingly. Instead

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