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by kbutler 8y ago
It was a beautiful song But it ran too long If you're gonna have a hit You gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05 -- Billy Joel, The Entertainer, 1974 To be fair, the article acknowledges songs were already getting shorter in th
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by kbutler 8y ago
That's a different feedback. If you can allocate capital better than the index through an active investment (that is, you can find investments that give a better return), you will beat the index, so passive investors will want to inves
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No. And if passive funds cause poor allocation of capital, that will increase the returns of smart active investing - a negative feedback on pure passive investing.
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There are no extra chemicals - the brine is just concentrated sea water. The chemicals are present in sea water, they've just been concentrated by removal of 40% of the water.
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by kbutler 8y ago
The article included the quote in such a way that it appears to be pulled out of thin air - I was surprised when I checked other links to find that it was in the data. And that all feels like casting a wide net anomaly hunting, rather than
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by kbutler 8y ago
X is about Y. X is hardly different from 0. X is at most 0.4 How close is X to 0? How close is Y to 0? (Don't know) Could X be 0? Could Y be 0? Could Y be .001? Could Y be -.001? (Yes)
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by kbutler 8y ago
I don't dispute that you can see more outside the beam of the light if the light is off. You can see a surprising amount even just by starlight - but I wouldn't want to drive that way, knowing how I've stumbled over things a
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by kbutler 8y ago
> ...yet existent The article does not assert that there is ANY correlation between mental health and potatoes. The closest they come was "about as...which is to say, hardly at all". .001 is about as much as 0, or about as much
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by kbutler 8y ago
> the lights are meant more to be seen than to see. That's definitely false for headlights, fog lights, and for the extra light bars (well, maybe those are often installed as stylistic choices rather than utility). Tail lights, runn
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by kbutler 8y ago
There was at least one scientific study, by authors who don't want it used to condemn homosexuality. Summary: Study at the height of the AIDS death rate found that homosexuality led to shortened lifespan. AIDS death rate has declined
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By working at twenty of them, expecting 15 to fail, 4 to not completely fail, and one to go big?
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Sure, I can do all of those things. But I have no competitive advantage doing them. Any time I spend driving the car (O($10)/hour job) is time I'm not spending developing software (O($100)/hour job). The counter argument to t
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by kbutler 8y ago
Oil changes often don't get recorded.
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Or broccoli, cauliflower, kale, cabbage, etc. Or any fruits or vegetables you can buy in any modern restaurants or stores. Or meat from any domesticated animal. Not sure that helps, frankly.
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by kbutler 8y ago
100g Almonds carbohydrate 22g (and lots of paleo friendly fat and protein) 100g strawberries carbohydrate 8g (basically the rest of the weight is water) These are hardly "not eating carbohydrates". Also, considering any product of
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by kbutler 8y ago
Airport security screening? https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/risa.12814
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> bring the reader along for the ride That's the point of long form story telling in the Atlantic. Sometimes it is well done, this isn't a good example of it (the ride isn't worth it).
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A remix is a different work. A different encoding of the same piece is not a different work. If by "different master" you mean a separate recording of a different performance of the song, then yes, it is a different "work&quo
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by kbutler 8y ago
A concert recording is a separate work. A music video is a separate work. An online stream of an existing audio recording is not a separate work.
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...if that were Spotify's only cost of service. They also pay for bandwidth, servers, application development, customer acquisition, ...
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by kbutler 8y ago
No - how many times have these people paid for this song? If they had bought the CD (and many of them have) or the cassette (and many of them have) or the mp3 (and many of them have) or the iTunes AAC (and many of them have) they could pla
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by kbutler 8y ago
> You'll know the names of the states. How many other foreign countries do you know the subdivisions of United Kingdom - England, Scotland, Wales, ... Canada - Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, ....
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by kbutler 8y ago
Same. And we also have some neighborhood cats that occasionally hang around. We'd need to train the network to recognize which cat is by the door...
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by kbutler 8y ago
This appears to be incorrect, and the usual interpretation of "sale of goods damaged in a fire" is the original. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fire-sale
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Demolition of history is stealing the past from the future. Goes both ways. I'm glad various buildings and artworks have been preserved, even though they may prevent other buildings or artworks. I don't know that I would have push
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by kbutler 8y ago
They bought into their own subliminal messaging. They just really like hearing "Google Won".
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So Person X makes off as a pure winner in the clawback (doesn't lose Fund Y profits, gets "made whole" of direct losses in clawback) Not "fair" but "legal". Yay! In real-world experience, rather than 10th-
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cataract surgery involves replacing the lens with a new lens, now generally an artificial lens https://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/cataract-surgery.h...
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>> that some direct Madoff investors were also customers of the funds > that some Madoff investors. You omitted the word "direct" (why?) Person X invests in a fund Y that invests with Madoff and gets out soon enough. Per
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Some Madoff-touched money is going to be invested at a profit, some at a loss, some spent, some beneficiaries will be dead with assets left to heirs, etc. Unwinding /anything/ from a decade ago is non-trivial. It's even possi

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