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by jcnnghm 13y ago
Chapman fumed. "When little girls say they like it because it's more sparkly, that's all fine and good but, subconsciously, they are soaking in the sexy 'come hither' look and the skinny aspect of the new version. It's horrible! Merida was
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It's unethical to give people what they say they want?
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Considering they grossed $550 million on this, it's kind of hard to justify not doing it, if it tests better.
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While it was a good buy then, it's important to keep in mind that it's either in the middle of, or toward the tail end of a short squeeze, so is likely trading above the present fundamental value of the company. I expect it will fall quite
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
I can't imagine this not squeezing. The short interest would take 7 days at 4 million shares a day to cover [1], and is about 45% of the float, assuming people haven't been covering for the last couple of weeks. Many of the shorts were op
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There isn't enough manpower to fine everyone doing anything wrong every day. Parking fines are generally much higher than the parking cost because it's impractical to catch every illegally parked vehicle every time; the whole idea is to ma
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Certainly that's the new value prop, but wasn't a lot of that previously handled by teaching assistants? Personally, I think the Udacity "continuous Socratic method" approach is better than traditional lectures because it forces constant th
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Educators are going to need to deliver in-person value in excess of their cost. The writing is on the wall, there is no technological limitation preventing world-class instructors from teaching everyone. This will doubtlessly be the first
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With this multivariate testing, how many visits does it take to get statistically significant data?
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That's not the way patents work. There is not a renewal, but a new patent on the modified substance. The patent on the original substance would still expire. This, of course, raises an interesting question. If the claim is that the tin
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What's the use of medical advancement that can't help more than 10% of humanity? When the patent expires everybody benefits. Until then, it's available to everyone, but they must help pay for the drugs development. If nobody pays, the d
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Once the old substances patent expires, any drug company can produce generics. There is no incentive to ignore patents and produce generics if the patent is expired because other companies will likely be producing generics, assuming there
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Of course their drugs are cheaper, if drugs companies won't sell to them at huge discounts, India ignores the patents and produces the drugs themselves. Consequently, the US subsidizes their drugs, insofar as they do not contribute to the
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by jcnnghm 14y ago
It's down less than 5%. That's not exactly out of the ordinary. They are probably expected to miss their earnings forecast.
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by jcnnghm 14y ago
That's a nice thought, but it is probably not the cause. "There is a steep positive slope in the numbers of battle deaths between 1816 and 1914 and a steep negative slope between 1945 and 1997." [1] Obviously, something happened in 1945 t
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by jcnnghm 14y ago
Nobody extends credit to "unknown borrowers". That's exactly why credit scores exist, which map 1-to-1 with the probability that a borrower will default prior to some horizon. This is a solved problem.
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Wouldn't credit cards have this same problem? It seems like most online purchases are already instant-financed through credit cards, though credit approval is done in advance. Credit cards are unsecured and the whole system is largely bas
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It would depend on the cost of acquiring the chemicals necessary to produce, as well as externalities. For example, in the short run you could increase your supply of chemicals by hijacking trucks, but that increases your economic costs su
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This is ok if costs are fixed, but if costs aren't fixed you should maximize profit, not revenue. Drugs, in particular, don't have fixed costs because they can be bought in greater quantities at lower per-unit cost as demand increases; the
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by jcnnghm 14y ago
The defect rate is not 4 times as high, it is actually higher than that. If there is some probability x that a single pixel is not defective, the defect-free probability for a display is x^(width * height). If we choose x to be 99.99999% t
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by jcnnghm 14y ago
It you went to a good school, and got good grades, you probably are not working this job. It seems that it has become fashionable to believe that every job should pay upper middle class wages or not exist at all. Hindsight should make it
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by jcnnghm 14y ago
Your sample size is too small, and your data isn't independent. Both magnetic disks and ssds fail, multiple backups are the only way to protect data.
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by jcnnghm 14y ago
I have been on 100% travel in the US for the last year, and the three weeks I spent in Oregon were very depressing. It literally rained every single day; the longest period without rain was about 6 hours, or the couple of days it snowed.
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by jcnnghm 14y ago
I had a calculus professor do this at the University of Maryland. Her book was awful. Her teaching method was standing in front of the class, and reading from her book. During one class, someone asked her to explain something a different
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by jcnnghm 14y ago
I agree with what you are saying. I've been contemplating the reasons why I don't understand math the way I understand programming for some time, and opened up my old Calculus book a few days ago and started rereading it from the beginning
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by jcnnghm 14y ago
Sometimes tap water is bad. I lived in a house with extremely hard water, and it was basically undrinkable. Of course, I was generally buying water in gallon or 2.2 gallon containers at the time. When I buy bottled water today, I want an
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Your causality presumption may be reversed.
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I completely agree with this. Last time I was in New York, I was kind of dismayed that there is not tons of new construction going on. I would not be shocked if the subways are still in use in 500 years. They are a tremendous investment,
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It would be almost impossible to get a reliable estimate for other countries, most do not have separate civilian and military space programs like the US. For example, the ESA is building Galileo, a positioning system similar to GPS, primar
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The total 2010 US Space budget was $64.6B. The entire rest of the world combined spent only $22.5B. NASA's 2010 budget was $18.7B, 83% of the spending for the rest of the world. The Air Force Space Command is the remainder, they run many p

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