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by goialoq 9y ago
Should Michelson and Morley have been kicked out college because they didn't trust in the existence of luminiferous Ether? http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/Ether.html
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by goialoq 9y ago
Why would a fact mentioned in high school be considered automatically more reliable than a documentary? Both are secondary or tertiary sources. To be ready for college, it's more important to have critical thinking skills, to understan
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by goialoq 9y ago
No, it's simple misunderstanding of randomness. Black swans are unpredicatable unmodelable events. "Resulting" just means misjudging well-modeledrandom events. It's thinking that if you win a small prize on a lottery ti
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by goialoq 9y ago
Why have a compiler at all if you want to defer all error-checking to runtime?
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by goialoq 9y ago
> the personal data of 57 million passengers and 600,000 drivers were stolen in a breach that occurred in October 2016, and that it paid the hacker $100,000 to destroy the information
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by goialoq 9y ago
Another poster explained that their goal is to intermediate -- to get between moviegoers and movie theaters, and then charge theaters for access to moviegoers. This is how Google makes their AdWords money, for example, but the model is far
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by goialoq 9y ago
How much would you pay for concessions if the theater didn't show movies because they didn't like the royalties? Or if they didn't show the movie you apparently want to see?
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by goialoq 9y ago
You're exactly right and that makes me feel sick about how ugly the world works.
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by goialoq 9y ago
If you ban opinions, it's impossible to get anything done that isn't very basic physics and chemistry.
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by goialoq 9y ago
"authenticity in food" is a massive myth. The foods you eat have been genetically modified for centuries via breeding techniques. "monocultures" and "industrial scale farming" are separate from GMO, and will ex
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by goialoq 9y ago
How about the government lets the banks pick up the tab? Why should taxpayers bail out (wealthy, educated, intelligent) bankers who made bad loans?
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by goialoq 9y ago
That's not true at all. A loan has a priced in risk of default. The National Mortgage Lenders Association defaulted on their mortgage. Many business and corporations, large and small, go bankrupt and discharge debts. Only individual co
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by goialoq 9y ago
Affordable education is easy to get: state and local public college. The only problem is young people making poor choices (which is partially the fault of elders and predators) and taking out large loans to attend overpriced (for the value
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by goialoq 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_failure
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by goialoq 9y ago
Tether artificially inflates the price of tether to $1. It's "tethered"
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by goialoq 9y ago
Why does HN have an active discussion of every rehashed ("hashed", hah!) crypto ponzi/pyramid/fraud scheme that flies, but not every new MLM? There were always be scammers peddling garbage backed by lies. It's getti
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by goialoq 9y ago
Parent was saying that you can lower your percentage by raising your transaction size.
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by goialoq 9y ago
Parent was talking about the 2008-2009 GFC, not the 2000 .com stock bubble. The .com stock bubble was just speculation about a new technology, not massive worldwide fraud.
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by goialoq 9y ago
If you had securities investments in 2008, your money is fine, as long as you held it for a few years before or after 2008. Only if you cashed out stocks in 2009 or sold your last house in 2010 would you be hurting. For the larger economy,
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by goialoq 9y ago
"_Long-Term_ Capital Management": established 1994, collapsed 1998. It's like the "_People's_ _Republic_ of China" or the "Union of Soviet _Socialist_ _Republics_" of "fake it till you make it&q
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by goialoq 9y ago
Seems like a 419-style thing -- it's designed to scare sophisticated investors away, and attract only rubes.
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by goialoq 9y ago
This is reportedly quite common. Supposedly (but I have doubts), there's a similar market for cellphones with fake specs -- the consumers know the specs are fake, but they need the fake exterior to impress their business partners.
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by goialoq 9y ago
"Authorization" is not more of a factor in quality than materials and production. Authorization is a proxy for these things.
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by goialoq 9y ago
Partial Source about Montesorri philosophy on toys: http://www.mariamontessori.com/2010/08/29/toys-for-children-...
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by goialoq 9y ago
An article that explains the perverse results of "Ban the Box", and then attempts to rebut it: https://onlabor.org/ban-the-box-and-perverse-consequences-pa... > Ban the Box interacts with racial profiling becau
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by goialoq 9y ago
> That's why most of Harvard's black students are first or second generation African immigrants. citation?
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by goialoq 9y ago
That's not diversity preference, that's disadvantaged preference.
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Tangential fact: The author of this article is Isaac Asimov's niece.
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by goialoq 9y ago
I don't understand their editorializing > contrary to expectations, ingore the weasel words > a great deal of image statistics are captured by the structure of a convolutional image generator rather than by any learned capabilit
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by goialoq 9y ago
That can explain the trend in #fundings, which is a silly metric anyway. But $$$ has also plateaued and started to drop.

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