genwin

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by genwin 14y ago
If you don't "Like" anything, what would they spam your friends about, in your name? (Maybe it's obvious from my question that I don't use Facebook.)
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by genwin 14y ago
Manager: "Take as much time as you want, but know that your absence would be highly disruptive to the company."
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by genwin 14y ago
Yep. In theory the shareholders could sue a corporation for not doing something to increase profit, including stuff that hurts people.
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by genwin 14y ago
It's not a frivolous lawsuit when millions have been harmed even to a small degree. Plus it's not a small degree; it's a rather large fine per text. Whether the fine should have been enacted by Congress is debatable; whether it should be pa
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by genwin 14y ago
People will want a Cancel button because they don't want to be asked a question at that time, but then they'll want to be able to answer (or change the answer) to the question later; e.g. on an options screen.
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by genwin 14y ago
How can it possibly be large enough for a UX designed for an iPad, having elements sized minimally for a human?
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by genwin 14y ago
When the majority of voters are clamoring for Google Fiber or the equivalent, things would change in a hurry, to ensure politicians' re-elections. Putting Google Fiber somewhere creates demand elsewhere.
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by genwin 14y ago
> Open Graph as presented by the OP will just be mostly noisy events from people that I happen to know. Agreed. Seems the basis is sub-par. It shouldn't be friends, it should be people with similar interests. In college people may large
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by genwin 14y ago
How about FromMaine? It looks like the .com is about to become available.
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by genwin 14y ago
> the years that are most impactful on your retirement are when you are young The impact is a lot smaller nowadays, though, given current low returns (except with high risk of negative returns).
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by genwin 14y ago
I concur with 35636. Compound interest was the old era. The new era is "pay the piper". Returns will no longer be fueled by $trillions in federal borrowing. Instead they'll be greatly pressured downward (perhaps to negative levels) by auste
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by genwin 14y ago
One thing to factor into the equation is that taxes on 401K money are paid eventually anyway. Taxes will almost certainly be higher in the future, but offset by possibly lower income (the annual draw from the 401K). You get compounding in t
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by genwin 14y ago
> There's nothing wrong with AWS - indeed, we still run a staging environment there - but our database benefits greatly from the low latencies of physical disks... Doesn't AWS have physical disks for RDS? What am I missing?
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by genwin 14y ago
> Why? If you really can't stand behind your opinion, what's the point in having it in the first place? If you can't stand behind your vote by writing your real name directly on your ballot, what's the point in voting in the first place
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by genwin 14y ago
You're right, it would have to be a new syntax.
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by genwin 14y ago
> 'defer' is currently very useful in loops, open a bunch of files in a loop and schedule them all to be closed at the end of the function. If defer was block scoped this would be impossible. Why couldn't it work at both the function an
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by genwin 14y ago
Your setup is close to mine, which is Win 7 running VirtualBox and Linux Mint. I've not used a Mac. I like developing with Linux. A friend recommends ditching my double-OS setup in favor of Apple. My question to you is, why don't you use on
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by genwin 14y ago
If you're the prez and express a significant reaction to common scanner technology that's 12 years old, that's news, whether it's "amazed" or "curious".
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by genwin 14y ago
When I clicked on a few pictures, they expanded, which I expected. Later (in Berlin) I clicked on a picture and got a slideshow. I much prefer seeing all the pictures and clicking on the ones I want to zoom in on. It is indeed a great inter
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by genwin 14y ago
I don't think a prediction of a Romney loss would significantly spur Romney voters. As one example of many in my life, a co-worker voted for Romney because Obama "tanked his 401K". These are not people who (on average) read real news, IMO.
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by genwin 14y ago
The code sits in one of my archive folders. I ran it for a few years, perhaps to 2004, and saw the market steadily becoming more efficient, lowering my results (like the OP did). It may well be that it no longer predicts skillfully or profi
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by genwin 14y ago
Maybe Apple and other corps. should offer subsidized housing in this part of Texas, to outsiders, with the criteria being that you must be against patent trolling.
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by genwin 14y ago
Why is a roadblock to higher taxes bad? As long as the current tax % is sufficient, I don't see why that % shouldn't be sustained indefinitely.
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by genwin 14y ago
People will tell you that you were just a lucky monkey. But you could have run your algorithm on past data, for hundreds or thousands of fake portfolios, to tell, statistically, what the odds of your algorithm being simply lucky are. In ear
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by genwin 14y ago
Those are good points.
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by genwin 14y ago
That's just the one I found in 5 seconds. This one's from mid-August 2008: "New [LA Times/Bloomberg] poll shows McCain - Obama in virtual tie". And from Sept: "[NBC News/Wall Street Journal] Poll shows Obama and McCain in virtual tie". 3 mo
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by genwin 14y ago
> The "statistics" are based on nothing but polls, all with margins of errors and varied methodology. Sure, but if the methodology is standard and the poll shows 60%/40% with a 3% margin of error, you can safely bet money on the outcome
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by genwin 14y ago
Found in 5 seconds: "Gallup Daily: Obama-McCain Race Reverts to Virtual Tie" Found in another 5 seconds: "National Poll Shows Bush, Kerry in Virtual Tie" I could go on.
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by genwin 14y ago
Good points. A solution would be to give everyone a receipt for their vote, with an anonymous copy that can be put into an exit poll bin. And something equivalent for mail-in voters.
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by genwin 14y ago
Exit pollsters should be regulated, I agree, if only to avoid an expensive unnecessary investigation. The media says that Obama and Romney are neck & neck, because that gets more viewers, which sells the advertisements they depend on. (

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