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by iaw 9y ago
I've done two reconciliations in my career, each lasting a month. Never again.
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by iaw 9y ago
Does anyone have more context on why Ireland's loophole will take so long to close? I suspect they're worried about externalities and retooling costs for entities obeying the spirit of tax law but it seems like they could put mon
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by iaw 9y ago
There's a lot in this article that raises red flags for me, but more about the journalism then the subject. There's an element of sensationalism implying that this is a 'side' of Silicon Valley without offering evidence
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by iaw 9y ago
Definitely agree that there are degrees of freedom, I'm just not confident that a removal of regulations in the healthcare market would lead to a positive outcome (higher quality/less expensive healthcare). >> Services are r
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by iaw 9y ago
Libertarian arguments only hold for free markets. Even eliminating all regulations and restrictions imposed by the government, healthcare does not become a free market for two reasons: 1) Information is not symmetric, contractual obligat
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by iaw 9y ago
I don't think you know what the word 'lens' means[0]. It has a pretty solid definition, and the objects used in the paper do not meet it. To be a lens the object has to focus or disperse light via refraction, the objects use
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by iaw 9y ago
> "Good evening ladies and gentlemen. This is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are all doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress." I f
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by iaw 9y ago
> "our early estimates of Trump’s chances weren’t based on a statistical model." The Polls+Plus model that Taleb criticized wasn't an early estimate and it seems kind of strange that you'd conflate the two. Trump rec
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by iaw 9y ago
As pointed out in the replies to Nassim's tweet, he chose a more volatile Silver model from 538 (NowCast) to suit his argument as opposed to Polls+Plus. While his thesis may be correct he chose to represent it in a biased fashion caus
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by iaw 9y ago
Is there any real benefit to this change? It seems like a wash for men and a serious increase to cyber-stalking for women.
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by iaw 9y ago
Citi has some really bad security practices, when I talked with them about it they mentioned some future changes they were planning that were even worse.
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by iaw 9y ago
Neither does the technology in the referenced article...
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by iaw 9y ago
> Is this considered an invasion of privacy? No. > I wonder if they can track you with this tech. About as well as anti-theft gates at Macy's track you.
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Alchemy, Rigour and Engineering(inference.vc)
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by iaw 9y ago
> "The real reason there's sticker shock is that the real cost of road transportation is hidden from most voters. Gas tax money goes to states and the US Department of Transportation which flows back as what seems like free fed
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by iaw 9y ago
> If you've hacked my server ... and I can hack you back ... I should be allowed to do so. Are you aware of any other circumstances where a private party breaking the law allows you to turn around and do the same?
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by iaw 9y ago
All the references I found Wikipedia said it used Hydrazine thrusters. As to why there's propellant left: it's a sealed system and NASA has intelligent engineering practices when it comes to resource planning.
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by iaw 9y ago
My understanding aligns with yours. These are probably highly energetic Alpha particles that embed in metals but I always thought they were of little concern compared to the problems of decay due to neutron bombardment.
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by iaw 9y ago
> Why is the onerous of lowering their standards being pushed on educated women? A single person looking to find a partner is in essence selling something: themselves. When selling anything it's important to consider the target mar
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by iaw 9y ago
Care to explain why you feel that way? From your statement I hope that you're extremely enlightened on the topic or have first hand experience being an educated woman trying to date.
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by iaw 9y ago
I don't have any commentary here other than to say that this is great work!
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by iaw 9y ago
Mods: could we add (2014) to this? It looks like you have to register to get the puzzles from [0]. Kind of a bummer because the solutions appear freely available. [0] http://wpc.puzzles.com/uspc2014/
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by iaw 9y ago
In numerous cities there are foreign investors who buy mansions and let them sit empty as investment properties. You can stroll through these "rich" neighborhoods and see how sparsely populated they are. Investments like that wou
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by iaw 9y ago
> Too big to fail. I don't think you understand what that means because it doesn't apply to Snap.
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by iaw 9y ago
There's a third possibility that you should be cognizant of: Snap runs out of money. If they have ~3 more quarters like the last one then they're insolvent. There may be a real opportunity here but not enough time to execute on i
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by iaw 9y ago
Underwriting by investment banks feels less like underwriting and more like arbitraging the fear of missing out.
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by iaw 9y ago
Ayn Rand, arguably a strong proponent of "personal responsibility", required welfare at the end of her life. She made some justifications for how she could live off of welfare but still did it. When times are personally good it&#
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by iaw 9y ago
I know a strong sense of commercialism was imbued in me from an early age by watching targeted ads. I would not want to do that to any child, I don't think it's healthy.
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by iaw 9y ago
I would not trust YouTube unattended with a child, I don't even trust television unattended with a child. Things like Netflix and home media servers are the way to go IMO.
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by iaw 9y ago
There are two approaches to this type of problem, bottom-up and top-down: Bottom-up is the preferred solution because you can derive everything from earlier principles, math is always bottoms up. Physics tries to be but occasionally fails.

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