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by ig1 13y ago
It may be that the Guardian is misreporting it, but from their description the data level is far less anonymized than what I've seen when working with UKDS data.
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by ig1 13y ago
FYI. If your insurance company requires you to disclose pre-existing conditions and you fail to do so, it will give legitimate grounds for the insurance company to cancel your insurance if you ever make a claim in the future.
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by ig1 13y ago
It's unclear why they didn't get the UK Data Service to handle this, who have extensive experience in anonymization and data control (they handle the processing of census data and HMRC tax information by external researchers among
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by ig1 13y ago
There's no such thing as a "safe bet". If housing was a safe bet then significant amounts on money would feed into the housing money until it stopped being a safe bet. That's just basic market efficiency theory. Most mor
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by ig1 13y ago
The two are inseparable, buying a house to avoid variable rent prices doesn't reduce your exposure to the housing market, it actually increases it because you're leveraging against it (because you're borrowing money to do it)
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by ig1 13y ago
Rent is largely a function of house prices and house prices haven't been going up constantly, in most US cities house prices are still below-2006 prices. S&P House Price index: http://us.spindices.com/indices/r
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by ig1 13y ago
The milestones have definitely moved, but so have the underlying costs. It costs far less to build a solution, deploy it and acquire users. Modern languages, frameworks and API services save man-years of time, cloud hosting means you can ge
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CodeCraft by Funding Circle(tech.fundingcircle.com)
1 points by ig1 13y ago|1 comments
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January sales tactics: 63% of premium (clothing) market reduced(editd.com)
2 points by ig1 13y ago|0 comments
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by ig1 13y ago
Taxis are regulated in most countries, typically in exchange for a fee and following a set of regulation they'll get the exclusive right to pick up people on the street. The precise regulations vary but generally the type of things the
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by ig1 13y ago
How would you feel if you paid quarter of a million euros for your taxi licence (maybe by mortgaging your property or going heavily into debt) only to be undercut by illegal taxi drivers who didn't bother to get licensed and didn'
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by ig1 13y ago
Did you miss my link to the BLS data showing the difference between hiring number and job openings ? There's plenty of empirical ways to show that unadvertised hiring occurs. Another alternative way would be simply to survey companies
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by ig1 13y ago
What makes you think your methodology was a good one for finding the unadvertised jobs ? Plenty of unadvertised jobs will go through networks, word-of-mouth and personal recommendation - obviously cold-calling wouldn't give you good re
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by ig1 13y ago
You seem to under the misapprehension that middle-class refers to a median income grouping when that's not actually the case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_middle_class
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by ig1 13y ago
It's not uncommon for VCs to have policies of not funding competitive startups, it's in their own interests as well as the startups. If a VC has funded two competitors it means the startups become reluctant to share information wi
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by ig1 13y ago
It's a pretty weak article, if they wanted to drive traffic to their site why were they focusing on getting likes rather than CTR ? Doing internal FB advertising only really makes sense if you have a strong FB presence (i.e. Facebook g
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by ig1 13y ago
You don't have to be in the US to be listed in the US, Atlassian are actually moving to the UK but listing in the US.
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Atlassian Seeks Domicile Move to Pave Way for U.S. Initial Offer(bloomberg.com)
62 points by ig1 13y ago|42 comments
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by ig1 13y ago
The Complete Guide to Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals by Alex Kuznetsov is what I generally recommend developers entering investment banking to read. (despite "Quantitative Professionals" being in the title it'
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by ig1 13y ago
It was a UK trading desk at JPM that identified it as suspicious and reported it in the UK. It's pretty blurry about what the reporting requirements should be in such cases. Should firms be required to report any suspicious activity fo
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by ig1 13y ago
I imagine professional courtesy, it's considered incredibly rude to disclose another researchers discovery before they've announced it.
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by ig1 13y ago
You realize that North Sea Oil is well past it's peak ? - production has declined by nearly a half since 1999 and at current projections it'll be at a third of it's peak by 2020. The UK has a whole has already become a net im
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by ig1 13y ago
It's basically a non-denial, they don't deny that they took money in exchange for using the backdoored algorithm. If they took the money and didn't know the algo was backdoored both the original allegation and denial could be
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by ig1 13y ago
This is nothing new, Germany had similar issues several years ago: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-29/utilities-giving-aw...
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by ig1 13y ago
From what I recall from when I worked in FX trading, settlement dates were set by contract and not by regulations. As an aside calculating settlement dates for currencies is actually pretty hard because different currencies have different r
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by ig1 13y ago
This is a pretty poor article. Yes. Cleantech was bad for Kleiner Perkins and a lot of other VCs that bet on it. But it also didn't work out for large companies, governments or research groups investing in it either. Many of the argume
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by ig1 13y ago
Your main things to consider when choosing a country: 1) Which country do you have nationality in / property in (or in this case do your parents have property in). It's probably easier to get paper-work done, bank accounts sorted,
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by ig1 13y ago
In this case what you're looking for is the "sweat of the brow" doctrine which holds that copyright is achievable through hard work and not just originality. There are also entire classes of IP protection which the US doesn&#
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by ig1 13y ago
You seem to be mistaken in assuming that US copyright law (or more precisely the decision set down in Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.) somehow applies to the world and not just the US.
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by ig1 13y ago
Seems perfectly reasonable, if you want to supply an image for a product via a shop feed it should reflect the product and not be an advertisement for the shop. They don't seem to prohibit non-promotional (invisible) watermarks if the

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