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by huac 9y ago
Money laundering rules
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by huac 9y ago
> For a typical party, scheduled for the weekend of Dec. 8, Cre8 Agency LLC is sending 25 women and 5 men, all good-looking, to hang out with “pretty much all men” who work for a large gaming company in San Francisco Who is it?
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by huac 9y ago
Genocide is bad even if you allow women to contribute to some of the killing.
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by huac 9y ago
That's interesting because both of the developers attend Horace Mann (still)
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by huac 9y ago
There are numerous legitimate reasons for wanting to speak out loud for a conversation. But, if they said "let's do a call so that we can avoid putting possibly incriminating material to disk" then that would violate the rul
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by huac 9y ago
While the grad students might also have preferred running around NYC with guns, something tells me that that would not be a great societal outcome.
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by huac 9y ago
> “In the United States, no one should lose property at the hands of the government without knowing it,” Feinstein wrote. Wish she would say something about asset forfeiture then, but nope, she and Harris are hugely in favor of that desp
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American Airlines Accidentally Let Too Many Pilots Take the Holidays Off(npr.org)
364 points by huac 9y ago|333 comments
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by huac 9y ago
> A ivy-league mba has way too much to lose to risk going to jail over some stock options. And yet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raj_Rajaratnam and co
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by huac 9y ago
built in house https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/scaling-airbnbs-paymen...
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by huac 9y ago
There's always room for Props 2.0! (I don't think this is that bad of an idea. Is there a lot of packaging and marketing on top? Sure, but the fundamental idea is fine.)
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by huac 9y ago
Woah, I did not know that universities were exempt! The head of my alma mater's investment fund definitely did not mention that...
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by huac 9y ago
There are plenty of analogous policies in America. For example, universities are required to spend 10% (or some other percent?) of their total endowment each year in order to keep their tax-free status. This is why Harvard & Co. need to
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by huac 9y ago
> Some digital items obtained from loot crates have sold for over $1,000. That's been happening for years. Hats in Team Fortress 2 sold for ~1500 (Burning Kabuto was around there IIRC), and a knife in CSGO went for 24k (apparently,
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by huac 9y ago
The US is an anomaly among developed countries for having a tax system that is so heavily individualistic. Plenty of other countries give tax-preparation duties to companies or the government, so individuals are mostly covered by blanket fo
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by huac 9y ago
> Jones reported that members of Tillman's unit burned his body armor and uniform in an apparent attempt to hide the fact that he was killed by friendly fire.[23] His notebook, in which – according to author Jon Krakauer – Tillman h
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by huac 9y ago
Your concerns are typically addressed by: 1. Reserve pricing - if no ad is 'good enough', e.g. no advertiser is willing to bid above a certain threshold for you, then no ad is shown 2. ePCM pricing - Adsense predicts what the like
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by huac 9y ago
They could (you know, theoretically) copy Robinhood's business model and its evolution - allow users to trade algorithmically with their own accounts, offer them up as sacrificial lambs to HFT, and then offer credit, and so on.
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by huac 9y ago
accounting for liquidity is hard
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by huac 9y ago
Similarly, just because you can't dox an account doesn't make it a bot.
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by huac 9y ago
What kind of bag/backpack do you use when running?
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by huac 9y ago
There was a thread a few days ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15527849 ) about how much more important diet is than exercise to maintaining weight.
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by huac 9y ago
The question becomes what you optimize for - optimizing for speed picks you the Ferrari, optimizing for gas mileage gets you the Prius.
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by huac 9y ago
> 1. more people learn data science and ML from MOOCs than university courses More people, out of the subset of people on Kaggle. Lot of selection bias there!
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by huac 9y ago
Sorry, Tinder Select https://www.engadget.com/2017/03/08/there-s-a-secret-celebri...
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A War of Words Puts Facebook at the Center of Myanmar’s Rohingya Crisis(nytimes.com)
3 points by huac 9y ago|0 comments
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by huac 9y ago
"Additionally, we had run some (statistically insignificant) experiments suggesting clients weren’t price sensitive regarding home based vet care. " I, uh, don't know if this is the right way to pick your market.
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by huac 9y ago
While the substance of the tools that everybody use has mostly converged, there are still many signals of wealth that I think you overlook. - The iPhone X and Apple Watch with Hermes bands are a far cry from an average Android phone. - I se
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by huac 9y ago
This is a good post! > An example: modeling the difference in price between an ETF and its basket as a Gaussian would be a mistake, since there are well-defined arbitrage bounds on this difference. The infinite tails of the normal distri
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by huac 9y ago
those are from a campaign staffer; twitter is not actually writing tweets for trump, or anyone else. a handler is somebody who makes the blue check feel comfortable on the platform, e.g. banning people who disagree with them

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