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by elbigbad 11y ago
I was interested in some of the mechanisms that they use specifically. Here are some examples from the article: 1. Mr. Loeb, for example, has invested in a Bermuda-based reinsurer — an insurer to insurance companies — that turns around and
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The Financial Benefits of Buying What You Love(nytimes.com)
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The question I haven't seen answered that I'm intrigued by: Assuming I put my 2015 pretty-normal-specs (i7 processor, 8gbs ram) laptop to work bitcoin mining 24 hours a day, how long before I have a single bitcoin?
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How Austin Killed Ridesharing(medium.com)
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Additionally the book Lawrence in Arabia is a fascinating historical account of the events that led to this empire dividing. http://www.amazon.com/Lawrence-Arabia-Deceit-Imperial-Making...
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As a former regulator of that sector, they were nearly as bad as BP, which was well known for a laundry list of violations long before Deepwater Horizon.
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Huh? Because of the order of the names? Maybe they did it in alphabetical order. Or because it sounds better. When AOL and Time Warner merged, it was called AOL Time Warner, but Time Warner was clearly the driver as history shows, for examp
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Fundrise Makes Investment History by Opening World’s First eREIT(crowdfundinsider.com)
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And then suddenly one day you notice that Facebook now has access to your phone logs, microphone, and camera without your knowledge.
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Agreed, mesh networks are awesome and could be very interesting in this space. I think the downvotes are because the poster basically handwaved a complex problem by saying that THE solution is mesh networks.
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Fred Smith on the Birth of FedEx (2004)(bloomberg.com)
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Putting aside the merits of allowing or disallowing refugees, this comes across as incredibly smug and juvenile. It's this kind of disingenuous "anyone who disagrees with me is a bigot" logic hiding behind the stated intent o
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by elbigbad 11y ago
I don't think specifying exactly which school, or even which "group of three" schools is really germane to the point being made. Probably "Ivy League" wasn't even especially relevant, but is a way to quickly st
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To be fair, this isn't "my" example. I selected it from the book above as a pretty good example from the book targeting p-value, the subject of this thread. It is part of a larger scheme of examples and explanations in the bo
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P-Values can be pretty unintuitive to people unfamiliar, but can readily be explained I think. I do think that this book did an excellent job of explaining it: What Is a P-Value Anyway? http://www.pearsonhighered.com/vickers
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I know this is in jest, but I think one of the biggest problems with this would be the security implications. I wouldn't put my name on a stranger's bag if I didn't know them. Next thing you know, TSA finds illegal substances
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This is really interesting, the full story is told here: http://www.wfnmc.org/mc20101.pdf During the years 2002–2004 I was visiting Princeton University with its fabulous mathematics department, a great fixture of which was
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by elbigbad 11y ago
Maybe more aptly, an empty soda can is always difficult to compress vertically but easy to compress horizontally.
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Please, please, please don't make me regret coming over here from Reddit thinking the conversation would be at a higher level.
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But, to the public who elects the representatives who control the budgets of the agencies that make the investments, it does matter. It can be critical. We have people elected congress who don't believe in things like evolution or clim
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Well, to be fair, you did say "[what the article talks about]. . . is why you disable flash," not "it's generally good advice to disable flash."
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Square was doing the thing where they opened up their IPO to select "loyal customers," which are just normal people. Could this be part of it?
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2 hours later... :)
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So, if I understand this correctly, they're essentially casting the H1Bs as commodities? "Purchasing" them for X salary, and then "selling" them for x + y salary? If this characterization is correct, isn't this
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by elbigbad 11y ago
Thank you for pointing this out. I am at work! Luckily I always check comments before clicking on the articles (seriously, this isn't a joke). :)