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by iaw 14y ago
I've thought about this before but the issues is that the energy is dinged 3 times by inefficiency losses. First when you capture it from the sun(or whatever), then when you pump it and convert it to potential, then when you let it out and
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by iaw 14y ago
I can't access the full paper but there's something wrong here. A few concerns I have : 1) Congestion rents are not mentioned anywhere when they have as large if not a larger impact on the cost to rate payers than energy price. 2) There's n
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by iaw 14y ago
Agreed. It's especially egregious because this functionality can potentially endanger the lives of customers while opening up liability suits (not a lawyer, just guessing). Anyone know how much it would've cost to keep google maps?
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by iaw 14y ago
I just ran across this : http://www.thielfellowship.org/become-a-fellow/about-the-pro... which seems like another option if you really have a dream to chase and don't want to wait the 3.5 years. Still risky but less so because Thiel is a
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by iaw 14y ago
You sound like you have a good head on your shoulders so I have no doubt you'll do fine. The one thing I should mention that I didn't cover already is : be able to handle failure and rejection. It's a little divergent from your original que
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by iaw 14y ago
Ugh, I'm not subscribing to wsj.com. Good for Zynga though, if they pull it off that is a good way to monetize and they're positioned better than anyone for it.
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by iaw 14y ago
Seconded, if you're starting a company with no understanding of how you can make money than you are not starting a business.
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McAfee Now Hospitalized(wired.com)
5 points by iaw 14y ago|0 comments
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by iaw 14y ago
Wow, I was hoping Google could avoid the anti-trust stick but this was a horrific mistake on their part. What's funny is that so few people use Google Shopping but the behavior is so strongly strongly rooted in the anti-competitive and mis
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Ask HN: How did you get from A - B?
3 points by iaw 14y ago|1 comments
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by iaw 14y ago
"I am 18, and a freshman in college as a CS major, but I am open to taking a hiatus..." Finish school first. The degree (and the knowledge you'll gain while you pursue it and the free time you'll have to pursue other avenues of interest) i
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R Inferno : A deeper guide to the functioning of R(burns-stat.com)
2 points by iaw 14y ago|0 comments
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by iaw 14y ago
Nope, that's one way to look at it (especially if you're sticking with data frames). The nice thing about that outlook is that you can essentially automate tasks you would normally perform on a spreadsheet.
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by iaw 14y ago
For those who want to go deep : http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf
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by iaw 14y ago
While it is predominantly a statistics language there is also a huge wealth of data manipulation capabilities in functions like plyr, aggregate, *apply, ave, subset, etc. Just in terms of organizing data sets, ignoring any statistical analy
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by iaw 14y ago
I must say, there are a lot of presumptions being thrown around about "Top 20 School" alum. There are numerous benefits (and draw-backs) to going to such schools but to make broad assessments about individuals who attended the schools is a
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by iaw 14y ago
"He asked if I’d have done it had they simply asked nicely. no probably not." Beautiful.
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by iaw 14y ago
I truly hope that anyone investing in bit coin is wise enough to maintain a well-diversified portfolio. Bitcoin is a speculative investment in the future value of a highly volatile new form of currency...
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by iaw 14y ago
A Texas ranger was chasing a Mexican bandito around the turn of the last century. The bandito had robbed a bank in Texas and was hiding in a bar in a border town when the ranger found him. The ranger only spoke English and the bandito onl
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by iaw 14y ago
I think if you compare the SPY (S&P 500) to AAPL over the time period concerned you'll see the SPY losing 5% while AAPL lost 20%. I agree that ekpyrotic's answer is the most verifiable reason, but I do not believe it's the only reason.
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by iaw 14y ago
I'm surprised you didn't point out the "market cap" chart. The start of the decline in value corresponds perfectly to the start of the recession.
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by iaw 14y ago
I'd be really curious to see how the royalties from traditional radio breaks down on a cost per person per play basis. I have no feel for where that number would end up, but I think it would really shed light on how comparable a payment of
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by iaw 14y ago
It's kind of mind-blowing that there are no false-positives (that I saw) with the rapidly moving ground.
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by iaw 14y ago
I'm surprised we haven't seen more mention of ITER in this thread http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER http://www.iter.org/ One of my professors from college moonlights as a consultant for the project. What most people don't acknowledge ab
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by iaw 14y ago
That's fantastic! When the box disappears does that mean the algo has completely lost track of the rider though?