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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
The US manipulates the value of its currency, exactly as do 100% of the countries on this planet. That you're repeating an attack that applies exactly to you means you're either ignorant or dishonest.
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
Or... both can be true.
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
That aside I think there's something bigger here. I think learning is really hard work, and so most people's first reaction to hard work is to say No, and then go and construct an a posteriori rationale for why actually they shoul
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> I imagine these promotions wouldn't exist if they didn't make money That was my point.
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
HN continues to confuse me to no end. Mention some mathematically advanced idea: out come the pitchforks about how you don't need that, all you need is code/market size/scalability/product fit/investment/execut
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> In the course of an hour on a Wednesday afternoon, 22 hopefuls fill out the digital form. Lets take this hour to be an average hour. Over 12 hours in a day that the mall is presumably open, that's 22*12 = 264 leads. > the mall
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
This is really good news.
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
I quit because A) I realized that the academia is a bit rotten in some specific aspects (the linked article and the post by peterburkimsher are not instances of what I have in mind; I think both are mostly wrong and/or pointless), and
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> A lot of them have student debt, multiple mortgages, multiple kids, a stay at home wife, and so on. I don't pride myself of being a highly moral person, but even to me this seems pretty weak. I think I'm less shocked by &quot
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
On the other hand, it is also true that some people who reject this out of hand just have never been offered any substantial compensation to do anything. In any case, OP wasn't claiming that "everyone has a price", he was ask
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> Trying to do the same with a data-driven model is a hard sell Ex-physicst here. JumpCrisscross is absolutely right. It's a hard sell and it should be. Saying "I want a better machine but I don't know what I'm lookin
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
Seems to me that between GDPR (which is neutral at worst) and this, that's small negatives compared to the many positives of the EU.
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
Trump Campaign to Discredit Michael Cohen is Underway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f-NToq6NW8
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
Trump is in trouble now. EDIT: It is suspected that Michael Cohen, being a long time Trump friend and personal lawyer, is familiar with Trump's money laundering. If Michael Cohen believes he's at risk of being sent to jail for man
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> (...) why governments let advertising become such a big business (...) > Nowadays advertising mainly tries to sell things that people don't need. (...) Free market fundamentalists (I'm not one of them) would tell you that
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
Done, what now?
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
Can't open this website.
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
To be clear: I'm asking about what HN thinks is the real reason, not the officially stated reason.
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Ask HN: Why has Telegram been blocked in Russia, but WhatsApp hasn't?
4 points by fwdpropaganda 8y ago|3 comments
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
This chronic downvoting on HN is getting boring. This is an excellent comment because it explains Stallman's accuracy (vs his opponents) not in terms of the fundamentals of their reasoning but in terms of their heuristics for judging m
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> I presume that the context of those accuracy numbers is prediction for the next period (i.e. 8 minutes, 10 minutes, 1 minute). That's not a context. That's the statistic they're calculating. > To me 60% sounds good, b
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
Interesting. I've heard some people say that the M.O. for wall street these days seems to be: - during earnings provide extremely positive guidance for next quarter. this will bump stock up - as time goes by, slowly update your guidanc
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> Interesting that even the most naive methods still have >50% accuracy. All methods that you'll ever see have >50% accuracy, because if you find a signal with <50% accuracy you'll just flip the sign in the sginal and
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
From my experience, 11 is not a myth. I'm trying to change industry and so I have no previous relevant experience. So the only times when I've actually got interviews was because I sent out ~100 CVs. Understanding the company has
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
Very insightful article, thank you. So the cycle is: - problem exists - quickly centralized solution to problem appears - new problems appears - slowly decentralized alternative solution to old problem appears - repeat I would add that it s
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
Out of interest, why do you believe that? I have no strong opinion either way. But I was wondering if your belief isn't motivated more by your familiarity (with those scenarios) than anything else. Personally I would note that in those
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> How would his post history be relevant? Post history is relevant to assess if the person you're talking to has a very strongly set view on an extremely complex matter. If they do, that suggests that the reasons for the person spen
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
You just have to briefly skim that guy's post history to learn that he's an ideological warrior.
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> The last time the EU fined Google a huge amount of money for anti-trust reasons the general sentiment here was that it was just socialist Europeans taxing American companies trying to make an honest living. That was a common sentiment
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> because he felt it was damned if he did or didn't. He noted that at the end of a conference call. Why would he be damned if he does? Because he knows things don't look good. In that case, it makes perfect sense that the stock

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