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by fixxer 11y ago
From the title alone, I knew it was going to be Gelman. I guess I have strong priors.
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by fixxer 11y ago
Yup, agreed. For the uninitiated, this refers to your account showing a positive balance based on a sale that occurred but has not settled. Seems like a great app... just have to get some money in there without telling them my bank creds...
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by fixxer 11y ago
Does anyone else have concerns about the linked bank account? I refuse to give up credentials.
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by fixxer 11y ago
Yeah, I thought this too. I pinged them for API access; I get the feeling they are looking for application partners and building an ecosystem. Kind of an interesting biz model.
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by fixxer 11y ago
Not saying you don't have a point, but there are a lot of ways to lose your ass in this world and I don't see Robinhood as a particularly egregious case that requires any more warning than Fidelity (which will jam fees). Unless yo
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by fixxer 11y ago
Meh. I'm not from Philly and I'd be pretty damn tempted to decapitate it as well (if I wasn't so busy that I passed by without even noticing it).
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by fixxer 11y ago
"Boiled down - can people who are part of such a skewed system really produce unbiased studies and theories about the system?" Those who are part of the 99% exhibit a bias as well. This is the nature of political economy arguments
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by fixxer 11y ago
A devastating loss indeed. Has cause of death been released? She was so young. EDIT: Surprised by the downvotes. I'm leaving it, regardless. The question does not imply any lack of respect for the deceased. Those who think it does are
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by fixxer 11y ago
Neat. Congrats! I'm going to have to learn me some ConvNets.
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by fixxer 11y ago
So, Snowden uncovered the government's willingness to violate civil liberties, yet should have still expected his civil liberties to not be violated if he blew the whistle? Ugh. Bunch of assholes we got running this place.
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by fixxer 11y ago
Still active: https://www.kaggle.com/c/diabetic-retinopathy-detection Looks like a fun problem. I've never had much luck with NN for anything other that feature extraction.
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by fixxer 11y ago
Kinda funny. I was about 10 and after the button was hit, it went on speaker and dispatch was listening for ~10 minutes trying to figure out what was going on. Second time was less funny.
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by fixxer 11y ago
When I was growing up in LA in the 80s, several family friends were cops in rougher areas like Hawaiian Gardens, etc. I recall hearing multiple times that engaging with violent force was discouraged because they never knew what kind hellfir
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by fixxer 11y ago
Respectfully, I think your comparison is false. There are always new libs with awkward dependencies on platform X.
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by fixxer 11y ago
After Lehman, I learned not to say such things.
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by fixxer 11y ago
Maybe we should lobby for change ;P
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by fixxer 11y ago
Replace "profitability" with "growth" and you get the dual problem.
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by fixxer 11y ago
From the comment you're replying to, that was a "b" for "billion".
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by fixxer 11y ago
Sure, but first you go put all your wealth into AMZN for the next ten years and don't touch it. Think you're any better off from Walmart over that time frame? Valuations are fickle at best. At some point, money needs to be made.
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by fixxer 11y ago
If consumers were insensitive to that hike, yes. Problem is they aren't, which is why Amazon has to keep reinvesting and operating on that razor thin margin. That strategy is as bad for individual companies as it is for the macroeconom
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by fixxer 11y ago
Let me know when they can shuffle the books and make 16 billion fall out and I'll stop laughing.
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by fixxer 11y ago
Call me old fashioned, but I "value" profitable companies more than unprofitable ones. Amazon had a net loss of $241m last year[1], while Walmart had a net profit of $16b[2]. [1] http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?
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by fixxer 11y ago
While I do like the ease of deployment for MKL binaries, I told my students "do it from scratch and learn sysadmin skills as well". As a data scientist, admin/dev skills are a huge plus.
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by fixxer 11y ago
He's 20. Legal action might be sensible if there was something to gain ($). Overall, I'd say this is a relatively low risk public statement and I thought it was pretty neutral in tone.
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by fixxer 11y ago
I have learned to never underestimate the proclivity of large corporations to pay for things that they could otherwise get for free.
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by fixxer 11y ago
So, an activist dies in Texas and the video is fubar in not one, but two separate situations and that does not impress the potential for foul play on you? Combine with the fact that she was pulled over for a completely minor infraction that
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by fixxer 11y ago
Nothing about this adds up. The video is flawed during both the arrest and around the time of death. Given her activities, saying this warrants further investigation is a gross understatement. The willingness of police to label death a suic
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by fixxer 11y ago
Really enjoyed this. Great applications to both cost reduction and privacy. I've seen pooling strategies like this for monitoring cars.
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by fixxer 11y ago
I heard they sold it recently; supposedly, they're going to remodel. I like the natural prairie landscaping (weeds) by Von Mauer ;)
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by fixxer 11y ago
> different kinds of commercial space. And different uses for existing space. I'm not a big believer in any economic theory, but I see supply-side drivers abound. Case in point, there are so many vacant ex-Dominick's you can re

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