kcanini

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by kcanini 10y ago
> Every other ad for 6 months was asking me to cheat on my wife. We all know how that went. You cheated on your wife?
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by kcanini 10y ago
VC still gets that sweet 2% management fee per year.
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by kcanini 10y ago
Related: Does anyone know how to disable these notifications? It happens every time I fly, and it's becoming annoying.
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by kcanini 10y ago
Where do you think people with that much money keep it? I imagine it's invested in all kinds of things, including venture capital and private equity.
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by kcanini 10y ago
Conversely, if a significant proportion of the cars on the road are autonomous and safer than human-driven cars, then the accident rate for everyone could decline, making insurance cheaper for both autonomous and human-driven cars.
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by kcanini 10y ago
> Whenever people buy something which they are completely unable to differentiate from a fake, are they really being defrauded when someone sells them the fake? Yes.
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by kcanini 10y ago
Nope, thanks for the link.
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by kcanini 10y ago
"Expensive" when referring to stocks typically means some flavor of price/earnings ratio, such as http://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe/
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by kcanini 10y ago
Have you read this page? http://www.shadowstats.com/article/no-438-public-comment-on-...
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by kcanini 10y ago
> Isn't that the point? Risk=0 and all. Well, the short-term real returns are negative, and the long-term real returns will also be negative if the Fed ever raises interest rates in the next few decades. There is also good evidence
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by kcanini 10y ago
The inflation-adjusted yield on those bonds is currently near 0%, and actually negative for short durations.
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by kcanini 10y ago
Doctors do go through an accreditation process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Medical_Licensin...
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by kcanini 10y ago
Yeah, but how many high-paying tech jobs are available in Florida?
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by kcanini 10y ago
Or it would require a family to be able to support itself on one full-time income instead of two, so the other spouse can maintain the house.
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by kcanini 10y ago
"alarmingly good shape" I'm imagining you one day looking down at your body and realizing, "Oh shit, I'm way too fit. Better cut out all this biking!"
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by kcanini 11y ago
ML is a subset of AI.
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by kcanini 11y ago
I think you missed the point: Zuckerberg is doing this to avoid paying taxes on his billions of dollars of accumulated wealth. Part of that money should be going back to the society that helped him earn it. Instead, he will have complete co
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by kcanini 11y ago
Yes. Source: I used to work for Google Ventures.
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by kcanini 11y ago
My experience as a frequent bicycle commuter is the exact opposite. Taxi drivers are usually the most defensive and courteous drivers on the road; I assume it's because they know that they could be out of a job with one mistake. The on
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by kcanini 11y ago
For all of you pontificating on the meaning of this... This is the annual founder's letter. The previous one was also published by the SEC: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/000119312514
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by kcanini 12y ago
What's more annoying is that it has two identical L pieces, instead of having one that is a mirror-image of the other, as they appear in Tetris.
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by kcanini 12y ago
Write a letter? What am I a farmer?
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by kcanini 12y ago
They just closed down the Mountain View office last week. Most of the ~75 people were laid off, I believe.
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by kcanini 12y ago
How do you measure the length of the definition of the language used to write p? You just have the same problem all over again, because it depends on the meta-language you use to define your language.
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by kcanini 12y ago
Interesting. Is this the Omega you're referring to? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin%27s_constant
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by kcanini 12y ago
If you want to define KC as the minimal length of some set of instructions to describe the string, then you still haven't gotten away from the fact that a common language must still be fixed in advance. You just changed it from a compu
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by kcanini 12y ago
Cool, thanks. Weird coincidence... just a few days ago I broke out my old information theory textbook (Cover & Thomas) and worked through this exact same line of reasoning to convince myself that "the Kolmogorov complexity" of
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by kcanini 12y ago
If we aren't concerned about the Kolmogorov complexity of any fixed finite strings, then what exactly is it useful for?
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by kcanini 13y ago
You moved from Slovenia to the Bay Area and chose not to live in the city?? There's your problem right there.
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by kcanini 13y ago
Interesting that you're concerned about whether the woman preferred the role she was assigned, but fail to consider the man's preferences.

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