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by huac 9y ago
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15288168
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by huac 9y ago
Additional regulation increases the number of filings that must be made.
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by huac 9y ago
Did CS broker on behalf of Plated or Albertsons?
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by huac 9y ago
"Research from Harvard Business School has found that nonconformity signals increased status." Am I increasing my status by wearing a button down to work when everyone else wears the same free company t-shirt and hoodie?
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by huac 9y ago
> The pain we feel is capitalism dying. It hurts us because we are still in it. I mean, not really? I genuinely can't see where this author thinks capitalism is dying. Mark Fisher diagnosed a link between capitalism and mental illne
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Uber sues ad agency for click fraud(bloomberg.com)
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by huac 9y ago
There's an argument that basically every crime involving a company or officers of a company is a financial crime, so theoretically the SEC could bring securities charges...
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by huac 9y ago
Alfred Nobel was an arms manufacturer, that's literally putting profits about society's well being.
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by huac 9y ago
Do you have a federal court decision to cite? Your other comments pointed to two state court decisions (FL and VA).
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by huac 9y ago
Yes. Essentially there is some qualitative evidence that there is a priming effect, but the quantitative evidence is insufficient given the sample sizes collected by the cited studies.
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by huac 9y ago
(skimmed paper) The classic recommendation problem is the following: given a user and the items (mangas) that they like, out of some universe of items (mangas), how can we recommend new items (mangas) that they are also likely to enjoy? Typ
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by huac 9y ago
yes, recommendation systems are a very vibrant branch of machine learning.
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by huac 9y ago
"the US isn't a capitalist nation" - ok buddy
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by huac 9y ago
This is basically Affirm's business too.
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by huac 9y ago
These unconscious biases make it even more important that 'members of protected classes' join management, rather than people with discriminatory beliefs.
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by huac 9y ago
How is healthcare in PR now?
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by huac 9y ago
"To qualify, an individual must not have been a resident of Puerto Rico within in the last 15 years." It seems that "returners" don't qualify for that. Maybe it's just the amazing Puerto Rican food (I'd ea
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by huac 9y ago
Aren't triangles the strongest shape? https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1393965/are-triangl... https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/619ygo/why_are_...
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by huac 9y ago
Plus, white on black gives a dope contrast but that's real expensive to print at scale.
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by huac 9y ago
I mean, everybody came out okay - Shkreli really made his investors a lot of money! Yeah, he lied, but he did some incredible work: typical fraudsters take your money and run - he doesn't fit that mold. Honestly, the issue was that he&
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by huac 9y ago
page's argument is that waymo as a whole was successful, so waymo as a whole got paid a lot. because levandowski was an early waymo employee and pretty senior, he had a large 'stake' in waymo's bonus payout. however - an
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by huac 9y ago
In Chinese, the character for green, "绿" (lǜ), also means light blue. Apparently, this is a more linguistic coincidence ( https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/6832/what-is-the... ).
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by huac 9y ago
"An empirical technique to come up with recipes people love" includes "picking the most popular recipes from other websites."
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by huac 9y ago
It's more complicated than just the theoretical M-M propositions - companies should prefer to issue debt (rather than equity) because the interest payments act as a tax shield. However, increased leverage results in higher borrowing co
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by huac 9y ago
Hence why the commenter you're replying to supports single payer healthcare, to address mental health issues and addiction. And having affordable housing obviously creates some stability in a person's life.
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by huac 9y ago
http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3022-newoffer.html
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by huac 9y ago
but they can break out instagram/whatsapp
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by huac 9y ago
Funnily enough, a bunch of the stations I saw in Korea and Japan had 'public market' areas, where they rent out stalls to local/smaller merchants.
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by huac 9y ago
> Leasing space in subway stations to shops might detract from the “historic” character of the US’s barbarous public transit systems, but the revenues could fund needed improvements, such as ventilation, without the need for debt or hig
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by huac 9y ago
Even if it wasn't staged (which it probably was), the big story here is that Erdogan is consolidating power by purging his enemies and expropriating whatever he can. I wonder if this will be the final straw to torpedo Turkey's EU

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