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by jpmattia 10y ago
> these individuals are not named, but it should not be assumed that they were being unlawfully persecuted - rather that there was a serious reason for them to be under investigation. If only there were some way of determining whether
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by jpmattia 10y ago
> so he knows what he's talking about; I'm not so sure. For example: > The commutator of the Hamiltonian with the angular momentum of an electron does not vanish.8 Its eigenvalue is, therefore, not a constant of motion.
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by jpmattia 10y ago
Just to put your rant on more sound statistical footing, there is the whole Replication Crisis issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
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by jpmattia 10y ago
Just to prepare: Does anyone have a way of exporting Trello data?
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by jpmattia 10y ago
I know the HN protocol is to use the headline, but the sciencebulletin article headline is pretty broken. Negative differential resistance (NDR) in tunneling diodes has been understood for several decades, and is pretty far from a mystery
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by jpmattia 10y ago
> If you don't fail outright, the most common outcome from bootstrapping is often worse than raising VC or working for a VC-backed startup. Anyone have stats on this?
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by jpmattia 10y ago
One of their papers (pdf): https://icrc2016.exordo.com/files/papers/45/final_draft/ID04... Not exclusively silicon-based work, btw.
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by jpmattia 10y ago
The fact that so many of them failed to recognize the popping even after it popped (Ben Bernanke among them) pretty much tells us everything we need to know.
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by jpmattia 10y ago
Me too... "How on earth did they get water waves to obey Bose-Einstein stats!"
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by jpmattia 10y ago
It looks like they applied CPI directly to the cost of housing. That is not correct. CPI has a component of "owner's equivalent rent", which should be removed before cost-correcting the price of housing. Otherwise, you are
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by jpmattia 10y ago
Real house prices are currently up 44% since the nineties. https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OOfzxFgh8YE/WD2XUyaZeqI/AAAAAAAAp... That is not accounted for by sq footage. Interest rates are a much more likely culprit.
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by jpmattia 10y ago
TAF usually means Thousand Acre-Feet in water resources. (ie, a unit of volume.)
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by jpmattia 10y ago
Latest drought map for CA not included in article: http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?... About 88% of the state still in some form of drought.
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by jpmattia 10y ago
> His lab can tell the difference — they use microscopes and other instruments to look for subtle features that reveal a diamond's origin. Wild guess as to why anyone can tell the difference: Lab-grown diamonds are more perfect tha
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by jpmattia 10y ago
My personal favorite is not listed: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V M2V is the velocity of M2, roughly: How fast money is changing hands via transactions.
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by jpmattia 10y ago
> I wonder how you even test a 1THz amplifier. The usual schtick is to measure the S-parameters a slower speeds and extrapolate out to the cutoff. (see chart 21 from the link above: http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/Faculty&#x2F
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by jpmattia 10y ago
Old joke: It's not that Germanium has a bad bandgap, it's just that room temperature is wrong. [As it turns out, having a decent native oxide is also a winner.)
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by jpmattia 10y ago
> what a crazy time commitment running 40 miles a week actually is. Absolutely. 52 yo here, averaging about 15 miles/week running + 4-7 miles/week hiking. It takes major dedication just to work that amount in, I have no idea h
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by jpmattia 10y ago
Several years before this publication, Ernesto Illy had an article in Scientific American: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-complexity-of-... The article is funny in one respect: SciAm is pretty strict ag
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by jpmattia 10y ago
Thank you for even that partial info. We can confirm that we're seeing some response now.
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by jpmattia 10y ago
> fake diamonds What a funny concept. Is the index of refraction different from diamond? Is the placement of the carbon atoms not on a diamond lattice? Or is the lattice constant somehow smaller or larger?
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by jpmattia 10y ago
> A marketing firm's job is to "wow" you, not be efficient. Glassy offices work in the segment for which that is true. There is another segment, which wants maximum ROI ie customer-wow-per-dollar. And that's the s
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by jpmattia 10y ago
> Marketing agencies/consultancies set up on prime real estate in order to impress clients, which is really bass-ackwards when you think about it. If I have the choice between a badass agency who watches costs or a badass agency
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by jpmattia 10y ago
> Cool, now if they could not show ads for their paid service, that'd be great. They offer it, but just like cable TV before it, the ad-free tier will go away as soon as somebody applies pressure on the bottom line.
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by jpmattia 10y ago
> Are they turning around and selling the note to Fannie or Ginnie Mae? No, they're well beyond the conforming loan limits, even in "high-cost areas". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conforming_loan A
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by jpmattia 10y ago
> I have been asked to appraise private stock for lenders and render an opinion around its volatility and liquidity. That must be a ton of fun. How do they incentivize you and your operation to be conservative? Because they presumabl
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by jpmattia 10y ago
> but still shows your ability to pay. I wasn't being clear: It doesn't matter that you can pay, it matters that you will pay. (Four months is nothing to the mortgage principal.) Look, the Fed is going to raise rates RS
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by jpmattia 10y ago
Low income reduces the value of the deduction. I'm sure there are a gaggle of cpa's optimizing his 1040.
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by jpmattia 10y ago
There are two different things: From your link: Taxpayers can deduct the interest paid on first and second mortgages up to $1,000,000 in mortgage debt (the limit is $500,000 if married and filing separately). So mortgage interest for loan
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by jpmattia 10y ago
For the case where stock is not being pledged: I would be amazed if the lenders were taking on 100% of the risk of default. Usually there's some assumption of asset recovery. That probably means the no-money-down loan is being struc

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