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by frankc 10y ago
That's really interesting that he said he was a psychologist. I am probably giving them too much credit, but maybe they rare screening for personality with this test and not for technical knowledge. If you handle a frustrating and di
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by frankc 10y ago
If it went from 20% men to 80% men in a short period of time...no.
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by frankc 10y ago
I have found this to be an excellent tutorial: http://tutorials.iq.harvard.edu/R/Rgraphics/Rgraphics.html It explains the use but also the philosophy and design pretty well.
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by frankc 10y ago
I propose the following system for commenting on news sites: -comment period open for 3 days after publication -comments are not published until the end of the comment period, then all published at once -you can submit 1 comment per article
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by frankc 10y ago
Gawker was allowed to say whatever they wanted about the sex tape. No one has ever questioned that. They were not allowed to publish it. That is what they were sued over. I'm pretty absolutionist about free speech myself, which is
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by frankc 11y ago
No can take away the value of the education. It's only the credential that lacks value. There is no requirement that you list it on your resume.
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by frankc 11y ago
Many(most?) localities have a cap on property taxes for this very reason. For instance, look at the propery taxes for 3 or 4 million dollar brownstones in Brooklyn; it's usually 5 or 6 thousand per year.
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by frankc 11y ago
That is true, but this can be just as much an issue in 1 dimension. Consider that the average person has roughly 1 testicle. I think it's about understanding distributions, and joint distributions are a big part of that.
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by frankc 11y ago
I have a big problem with this line of thinking. It's like saying the key to not having a fever is to keep your temperature down. Maybe you have a high temperature because you just don't have the willpower stop from shaking when
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by frankc 11y ago
Another thing to consider beyond which subgroup is reproducing more is to what extent the subgroups are inter-mating. Who is to say we don't diverge into different species completely in the distant future?
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by frankc 11y ago
This is not really the point of the thread and I know what you are trying to say but your example is bad. You don't need to eat any carbohydrates at all. Your body can manufacture enough glucose for your brain on its own.
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by frankc 11y ago
I almost never hear anyone say'on accident' but If I had to guess, it comes from taking sort of a parallel antonym to 'on purpose'. Did you do it 'on purpose'? No, I did it 'on accident'. It sounds w
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by frankc 11y ago
it's better than that because social security tax will be capped four months in.
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by frankc 12y ago
It's probably not, unless you copy very specific things, which is possibly why they seek to discourage it contractually.
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by frankc 12y ago
They have then doubtlessly been told that they are unenforceable again Joe Employee who wants to work at Subway, but you seem to think that they still do it to trick people from leaving to work at subway. Why don't you think it's
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by frankc 12y ago
There are different issues being mixed up here: the fairness of the policy, the enforcibility of the policy and the motivation of the policy. I am only speaking to the motivation of the policy. Obviously we are just trying to read minds
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by frankc 12y ago
Why do you think that Jimmy Johns is concerned with the life of an average minimum wage worker? Perhaps they are concerned with the outliers and are happy to saddle the average workers with a non-compete just the same. The lack of insight i
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by frankc 12y ago
The real threat is not that fast-food worked gets job at Jimmy Johns, decides sandwich business is great, decides to open competitor. The threat is potential competitor decides he want to open sandwich shop. Already has the capital in place
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by frankc 12y ago
Of course the vast majority of them are no threat, but you should not assume every fast food employee is in it for the pay. If you are committed to opening a hamburger shop, you go and get a job at a hamburger shop for a few months to get s
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by frankc 13y ago
The innuendo that interests group and congressman switch their allegiance based on who has paid the most is pretty yucky, but also not Ackman's fault. But no, the general running of a campaign to bring down a terrible company is not a
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by frankc 13y ago
Ackman has said he will donate any money he personally makes from this.
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by frankc 13y ago
This might be the most comically wrong piece of journalism I've read in my entire life. Ackman should be given a medal for what he's doing to this snake-oil selling pyramid scheme. He has even disavowed any personal profit from h
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by frankc 13y ago
Yahoo has a good fantasy sports platform. They might be the leader there though espn may have passed them by now.
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by frankc 13y ago
Total returns versus the benchmark is not the only important measure. For instance, the minimum variance strategy visibly underperforms its benchmark but it has way lower volatility and fewer drawdowns. These are more important in the real
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by frankc 13y ago
They have thousands of apps. Maybe 10s of thousands by now. It's been many years since I worked there. It's a pretty unique setup.
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by frankc 13y ago
The way I explain is to expand it but also change the frame of reference to so its clear that the host is an adversary. Imagine we play a game called "who has the Ace of Diamonds"? I deal you one card face down and I deal me 51 c
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by frankc 13y ago
Actually, I would characterize this as the removal of dead code that brought down the system, which is basically the opposite.
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by frankc 13y ago
It's most likely a giant C++ server or set of servers. It's not really that surprising that old code is in there. One way releases are handled in these kinds of places is to roll out new features on some kind of external flag sy
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by frankc 13y ago
It is peg, not keg. Peg refers to an order where the limit price is automatically adjusted to some benchmark. For instance, you always want to be 1 penny away from the best bid. I don't know specifically what "power peg" is,
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by frankc 13y ago
It could do without the snark, but it does have a ring of truth to it, doesn't it?

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