jaredmck

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by jaredmck 16y ago
Why would the crowd reveal its intentions earlier in a game than in the actual market? It seems historically, the herd does the opposite. The game is an "easier" market than the real market; much like how play money poker is far easier tha
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by jaredmck 16y ago
That Erlamg screenshot is hilarious. Only one story on the front page didn't have Erlang in the title, why HN had been slow...was it due to the amount of Erlang submissions?
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by jaredmck 16y ago
really love the (somewhat new?) design on their blog
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by jaredmck 16y ago
If the vaccine definitively will prevent/end the disease, it may be worth it; but you seem to be ignoring the fact that most of these situations are far from binary.
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by jaredmck 16y ago
This fits into my "hipster is a gimmick run by groupon" theory...would love to see them (or anyone, really) pull off an epic trolling of tech crunch
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by jaredmck 16y ago
how exactly is it going to shake up the world? I see the best case as more of a mild rattling of the world- a more human social networking, which will either softly nudge people in this direction, move other networking players closer to th
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by jaredmck 16y ago
On errors in the "abortion lowers crime" study http://isteve.blogspot.com/2005/11/im-shocked-shocked-to-see... overview of freakonomics 2 and how it shouldn't have been surprising that the errors were numerous and more obvious than in the
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by jaredmck 16y ago
OKCupid seems to do a way, way better job at data analysis than the freakonomics guys, who sadly see no need to be correct in the analyses used in their popular books. I don't think you intended this as a backhanded compliment, but it riles
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by jaredmck 16y ago
This is a great post from Mark, who is consistently bringing great stuff on the blog- his stuff is a must read for anyone interested in the space. Inspiring stuff- thanks, Mark!
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by jaredmck 16y ago
pretty sure your iPhone doesn't have 16 GB of RAM- iPhone 4 apparently has 512 MB RAM...so still more than your old computer, but not so drastic.
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by jaredmck 16y ago
Groupon doesn't have that many developers- it's sales in which they have an army of employees. The most recent number I've heard is 2,500. Groupon is not a tech company, it's a sales company. Lefkofsky and Keywell (the original investors wh