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by gaika 18y ago
Great Britain was very close to complete banking collapse on October 10th too. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1127278/Revealed-Day...
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by gaika 18y ago
Being honest to yourself is much harder than it seems. Have you read Ghandi's "Experiments with Truth" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_My_Experiments_wit... ?
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Halifax Explosion(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by gaika 18y ago|0 comments
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Why Hacker News Thinks PHP Won Something(gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)
99 points by gaika 18y ago|80 comments
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The Most Аwesome Depression Ever(wired.com)
10 points by gaika 18y ago|5 comments
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by gaika 18y ago
3) Have you tried named_scope? It solves most of the query building pain for me...
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Practicing self-control consumes real energy(scienceblogs.com)
24 points by gaika 18y ago|11 comments
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by gaika 18y ago
Rails: problem - who takes care of it - how 1) Input validation - programmer - validates_* and attr_accessible in the models 2) Output validation - programmer - HTML::Sanitize 3) SQL injection - rails - use ? or named_scope to construct com
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by gaika 18y ago
You ain't seen nothing yet: http://finance.google.com/finance?q=iso (up 100,067.23%) http://finance.google.com/finance?q=jdo (up 81,870.14%)
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by gaika 18y ago
Peak of the "suicide" corresponds to the bottom of the stock market in November.
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by gaika 18y ago
Another breakdown is needed, but my guess is that it is air force pilots and bomber crew that skew the stats. Read/see "catch 22".
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by gaika 18y ago
But there were at least 10 times more soldiers than officers. That means officer's death risk was at least 3 times higher than soldier's. They also mention that average IQ of a soldier that died was 95.
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by gaika 18y ago
I bet there will be a study that shows how smarter people lost more during current crisis.
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by gaika 18y ago
Statistics :( Just add another variable - officer or soldier - and the conclusion can be reversed. Clearly no causation here: higher percentage of officers died, and officers were smarter.
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by gaika 18y ago
Congratulations! Need more news like that to get over gloom & doom.
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by gaika 18y ago
Crazy world, we have web2.0 attack of the clones, now in finance: http://stockpickr.com http://alphaclone.com http://zecco.com , that's not counting virtual stock market games where you can sell you strategies to others. Funny how peop
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by gaika 18y ago
Anybody can find the text of the response? Here's the text of lawsuit (08-CV-9595) [PDF] http://people.bakersfield.com/file/document/339038/2/0/
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by gaika 18y ago
Unit of bogosity is the lenat, named after Douglas Lenat. Like the farad it is considered far too large a unit for practical use, so bogosity is usually expressed in microlenats.
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Michael Lewis: A Wall Street Job Can’t Match a Calling in Life(bloomberg.com)
68 points by gaika 18y ago|25 comments
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Computation and Mathematical Proof(metamodern.com)
2 points by gaika 18y ago|0 comments
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Apple Tells Court It Believes Someone Is Behind Psystar(groklaw.net)
2 points by gaika 18y ago|0 comments
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by gaika 18y ago
Cool, that's exactly what I need, yet, even after skimming "how it works" page I'm still not sure.
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by gaika 18y ago
Nobody knows http://jaanix.com
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by gaika 18y ago
$200k this December, max flight time of 19 minutes, travel distance of 27 miles @83 mph: http://uk.cars.ign.com/articles/817/817351p1.html
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Finance Has Lost Sight of Its Role(nakedcapitalism.com)
3 points by gaika 18y ago|0 comments
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by gaika 18y ago
Linus Torvalds: "The git architecture simply sucks for big objects": http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2006/2/8/200591/thread
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by gaika 18y ago
In the good old days stocks were considered too risky and to compensate for that they had to return more than bonds. Earnings are a lot easier to fake than dividends that's why some consider dividend rate more reliable indicator than P/E (e
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by gaika 18y ago
It is even worse (or better if you're buying), the dividend yield on S&P 500 is now more than the yield on 10 year treasury bond.
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by gaika 18y ago
P/E doesn't mean much for a company that is still growing fast.
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by gaika 18y ago
The fall in the shares in these companies has nothing to do with their business. The overall market is down more than 30%, and technology companies are a lot more sensitive to the market direction than others. This is how Salesforce looks a

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