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511.
by huac 9y ago
The story is very well written, but the perspective of the slavemaster's son was jarring for me to read.
512.
by huac 9y ago
As of 2015 they had 1382 employees, a far cry from 50. They also had Bill Gates.
513.
by huac 10y ago
What time zones are these things in?
514.
by huac 10y ago
They had Paypal Student before, where your account would be linked to your parent's account. But they shut that down recently, with no way to reactivate or unlink the account, and you're unable to reuse your email when making anot
515.
by huac 10y ago
The same happened in the US west, when ranchers killed all the wolves. In particular, Teddy Roosevelt gave federal protection to the Roosevelt elk, and hunters shot literally all the wolves in their habitat. No wolves meant no check on moos
516.
The elite meme wars of America's most exclusive colleges(mic.com)
1 points by huac 10y ago|0 comments
517.
by huac 10y ago
10 years, and I could never get an invite. RIP.
518.
by huac 10y ago
Someone who trades frequently is more likely to upgrade to Robinhood Gold than somebody who buys an index fund once and forgets.
519.
by huac 10y ago
Robinhood knows that people can just buy index funds and sit (which is what I do). But this doesn't make money, so they encourage people to buy individual stocks, "whatever new Elon Musk stock is out there", and trade on leve
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Machine learning to predict white collar crime(whitecollar.thenewinquiry.com)
1 points by huac 10y ago|0 comments
521.
by huac 10y ago
Nobody, let alone a hip hop beginner, should be subjected to Joey Bada$$.
522.
by huac 10y ago
They faced legal trouble for the anonymity.
523.
by huac 10y ago
That is the incorrect link. The correct link is: https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/NEWS.html This links to the R-DEVEL branch, which is not R 3.4.0, but rather the development version ahead o
524.
by huac 10y ago
The studios have an incentive to not overcharge as well - if the theaters go bankrupt then distribution just got a whole lot harder. But yes, the accounting in the entire movie industry needs to be taken with a pinch of salt, and perhaps so
525.
by huac 10y ago
Maybe if there was easier public transport (e.g. buses and trains) more people could visit the park.
526.
by huac 10y ago
Ok, yeah, demanding subsequent rounds against founders' wishes is pretty mean. I guess you usually need investor approval to raise further rounds, but this would be taking that right of refusal much farther.
527.
by huac 10y ago
These are known as 'pro-rata' rights, which entitle earlier stage investors to participate in later rounds in order to maintain their stake in the company. These are relatively well-established rights that you will likely find in
528.
by huac 10y ago
Helping Chrome or Firefox improve their battery life - on Windows 10 - improves the image of Windows laptops overall.
529.
by huac 10y ago
No, it's not. If a user chooses a 'no purchase' option then it means that the product assortment offered was not worth it for the price. That means Amazon needs to change the assortments of products it offers users. If a user
530.
by huac 10y ago
How else are we gonna catch Capone?
531.
by huac 10y ago
Early start times are because of after-school sports (and other extracurriculars).
532.
by huac 10y ago
The article claims that's how it worked
533.
by huac 10y ago
Imagine you're an investor in the last round who invested at $7.5 billion. Now, Uber buys Lyft for $7.6 billion. Are you happy with that return? Any sale, just by necessity really, would have to be for a significant premium.
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Field Guide to Data Science [pdf](boozallen.com)
4 points by huac 10y ago|0 comments
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Why would a tenure-track professor find himself selling his plasma?(longreads.com)
1 points by huac 10y ago|0 comments
536.
by huac 10y ago
About half of the comments blame the victim!
537.
by huac 10y ago
No, that's US law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/250.5
538.
by huac 10y ago
What do you want to do? What are your dreams?
539.
by huac 10y ago
I also was wondering if it was meant to be a joke (did XKCD roast compression protocols?). But it was legitimately hard to read the graphs on a Retina screen, which amuses me because I'm sure that's what the Dropbox people use.
540.
by huac 10y ago
Why are their graphs xkcd-style?

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