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by kevinpet 8y ago
The question is not "is there anything that would clearly be burdensome?", but "am I confident enough that I am complying with these items, as retroactively interpreted by regulators?" You need to pay a lawyer to evaluat
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This is essentially a "job market paper" for a data science bootcamp for recent PhDs. The contents are nothing groundbreaking but just an exploration of how different models and data sources can be used to predict something. Insof
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by kevinpet 8y ago
Filemaker was great for this. Around 2000, you could get an amazing level of productivity for building small custom relatively complicated apps without writing any real code.
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by kevinpet 8y ago
A rectangular volume 10cm x 40cm x 175cm massing 70kg on a frictionless plane.
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by kevinpet 8y ago
This fits my experience. Also important to remember that success is cyclical. One year you think "wow I never thought it could take off like this" and the next year is "where did all the growth go, how did these idiots ever t
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by kevinpet 8y ago
Maybe he schedules them for when he's in the office?
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by kevinpet 8y ago
I hope Facebook keeps going further and further in the direction of echo chambers, to the point that people stop seeing it as a source of news or anything but a very slanted view of the world. Ideally we could have a forum that actually enc
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by kevinpet 8y ago
I read the article. I can usually follow statistics in things like social science papers etc. I had no idea what it was trying to convey. You seem to be using an unusual visualization and don't label the axes or explain what it is sayi
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by kevinpet 8y ago
Maintainability is not the most important part of writing code. It becomes the most important thing to try to improve once you get to the point that your code is correct, well tested, and has acceptable performance.
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If you looked back to 1979 you'd find a dozen other technologies that didn't pan out.
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by kevinpet 9y ago
Looking at the chart, it could be explained if they briefly delivered more quickly to buyers. Reading on, I see that the methodology is based on reported VINs and spotted in the wild VINs. These could easily decline as the novelty wears off
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by kevinpet 9y ago
This is the first time I've actually seen equity crowdfunding. I'm used to companies talking about "investors" when they really mean donors or preorders. I've been thinking about the three wheel issue lately. In CA,
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by kevinpet 9y ago
I started skimming part way through. The article didn't seem to offer much substance, just a few weak opinions restated a few times in different words. Low points: "everyone is technically a hybrid" and that chimeras are crea
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by kevinpet 9y ago
I use graphviz quite a bit for doing diagrams of data flow or UI flows. It's easy to get something sufficient to communicate, but in my experience very hard to get something you'd be happy putting in a presentation that's goi
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by kevinpet 9y ago
"Most people" :) Fraction of people who have Emacs installed. Fraction of people who use Emacs for things other than programming. Fraction of those who use org-mode.
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by kevinpet 9y ago
If we're going to have pedantry, lets make sure we have correct pedantry. "sunk cost" just means that a cost has been paid, and it's non-recoverable. When it comes up, it's usually to point out that only the future
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by kevinpet 9y ago
OOTH, part of the goal of modules is to allow you to discard those parts of Java SE that you don't need.
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by kevinpet 9y ago
It stuck out to me too. I think it may be the case that the writers at NYT legitimately believe that any responsible adult is a progressive, and if you aren't a progressive, then you're probably one step away from being declared i
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by kevinpet 10y ago
While I'd definitely like to see restrictions on internet browsing being protected at least as much as library circulation records [1] and video rentals [2], as a fan of checks and balances, the mere concept of a regulatory agency pass
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by kevinpet 10y ago
Not specific to inmates, but in general, yes, investors are willing to make money from buying unwanted life insurance policies. http://www.investopedia.com/articles/pf/07/unwanted_policies...
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by kevinpet 10y ago
I read these articles until I get to the first major methodological problem. In this case, it is this claim: "It turns out that people’s interview language of choice matched their most endorsed language on LinkedIn just under 50% of th
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by kevinpet 10y ago
That's how the entire financial world works. The trades on the stock market are only a highly organized way to agree to a deal. The money and assets change hand three days later. The financial world does not rely on iron-clad cryptogra
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by kevinpet 10y ago
Since you mention fighting words, I refer you to Ken White at Popehat: https://www.popehat.com/?s=fighting+words I'm not actually familiar with the content of Milo's speeches, but I don't need to be to determ
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by kevinpet 10y ago
Destroy America by advocating for diminishing the scope of the first amendment?
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by kevinpet 10y ago
"The Taxi Workers Alliance had asked all drivers, Uber included, to not pick up at JFK" Uber isn't a driver. What does the taxi workers alliance have to say about taxi dispatchers? Did cab companies participate in the strike?
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by kevinpet 10y ago
To be fair, the only time you hear about someone repurposing a flag is when it has catastrophic effects.
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Relevant information: Alphabet: GOOG (non-voting class C) closed Friday at a 2.8% discount from GOOGL (1x voting class A) Zillow: Z (non-voting class C) closed Friday at 1.1% discount from ZG (voting class A).
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by kevinpet 10y ago
Expensive is already relative to the alternative. If a furnace can provide the same comfort at $5k, it takes a long time for the cost savings of the heat pump to make that up. The real savings is that in new construction, you don't hav
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by kevinpet 10y ago
This is a lot of analysis to hang on leaked 2014 numbers. It's a rapidly growing and changing company.
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If you start from the assumption that the law is whatever lawyers and judges tend to think it is, then access to lawyers is more important. If you take the egalitarian perspective that the law is the law and a lawyer is just someone particu

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