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by kevinpet 10y ago
Feynman's actually observations are well worth reading for anyone who builds anything that may be vaguely considered engineering. http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/roger... The
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by kevinpet 10y ago
Uber is inherently a two-sided marketplace. You don't care if your friends are shopping on ebay, but you care if enough people are selling there.
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by kevinpet 10y ago
Not a typo, but misleading. Very few people bought tapes when they were $70-$100. The only purchasers were video stores. There wasn't a slow glide, it went from very high down to $20 quickly, a few years after VHS killed Beta.
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by kevinpet 10y ago
Stock is centralized, but not in that way. There is no single ordering of transactions. Exchanges (which are distinct entities, i.e. decentralized) are legally required to report their trades, but the order actually happens at independent p
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by kevinpet 10y ago
From the description, it sound like Domain Driven Design is a better fit for "a pattern language" than software patterns are.
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by kevinpet 10y ago
not a subject matter expert, but there doesn't seem to be controversy around the original concept of "priming speeds up recognition of related words". What seems to be controversial is priming modifying how things are interpr
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by kevinpet 10y ago
I think it's about being able to say "we weren't idiots who couldn't figure out if it was a good investment, we were straight up lied to".
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by kevinpet 10y ago
I thought that they would have overlooked taxes. In fact, I can't see how this is anything other than stacking the deck: "Each vehicle’s price is based on its official manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) without tax. In a
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by kevinpet 10y ago
The suggestion to make password reset opt-in during signup will never fly. Useful advise starts from the actual behavior of today's users, not the hypothetical behavior of a perfect user.
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For startups not within site of profitability or IPO, it's going to be around a third of the preferred price.
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by kevinpet 10y ago
The sad thing is that it could have been relatively easy to address by allowing something like a disqualifying disposition as long as the tax is deferred. I'll probably take advantage of it to exercise some of my shares, but I will hav
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by kevinpet 10y ago
Which would probably be pretty unsuccessful. Who's going to use and recommend WhiteBnB to their friends? Well, yeah, neo-nazis. But that's a pretty niche market and AirBnB only works if they are big enough to make the two sided ma
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by kevinpet 10y ago
Sounds like you are an outlier in terms of your tolerance for sugar or the negative health effects. Maybe you aren't in the best position to evaluate what is the best broad policy to be imposed by the government on everyone.
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by kevinpet 10y ago
So your recommendation is that Facebook completely ignore lack of diversity and rely on childhood mentorship and less tendency for CS to attract men in college to fill in the gap in twenty years?
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by kevinpet 10y ago
Eve finds NeuroMama, a worthless stack of nothing but shady documents, and importantly, without a significant number of shares available to borrow. She knows how to manipulate markets and doesn't care much for legality. Eve buys a sign
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by kevinpet 10y ago
I found 1.2lbs, so this process is able to remove about 10% of the production cost.
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by kevinpet 10y ago
No, because by asking for fewer hours you're indicating that you're going to prioritize going home at quitting time.
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by kevinpet 10y ago
I wonder how much of this is related to historical inability to use native characters in domain names.
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by kevinpet 10y ago
The return of the ETF is only as good as what the portfolio managers can accomplish in reality. They are very good at this, but the cost is there. It's referred to as tracking error.
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by kevinpet 10y ago
Something looks fishy, but the author has some unreasonable expectations. Specifically, if FB is optimizing for click through rate, you cannot expect an even distribution across the demographics. You aren't paying enough to saturate al
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by kevinpet 10y ago
I didn't pay close to a million dollars for a house in San Mateo so to live next to people who need rent control. The peninsula is not Tuscany or London. Any significant local character was ripped up fifty years ago with the last of th
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by kevinpet 10y ago
Ambiguity about co2 -> warming, or ambiguity about morality of transfer payments from rich to poor nations related to climate change? By analogy, evolution is an established scientific fact. But a public school curriculum that promote eu
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by kevinpet 10y ago
I happened to read this article about recusal recently and I don't understand how some of these allegations wouldn't be explicit grounds for recusal, specifically the son being a lawyer with a firm that tries cases in the father&#
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by kevinpet 10y ago
Social security is the United States' federal mandatory pension, and it does not generally apply to foreign income (unless in a country that also has a mandatory pension with which the US has a tax treaty). https://www.irs.g
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by kevinpet 10y ago
The science is pretty clear on co2 causing global warming. The economics of the urgency and advisability of any particular intervention are less clear. The moral assumptions underlying "climate justice" are pretty unclear to me an
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by kevinpet 10y ago
The equipment that is sold for "this lets you do amazing things" is the worst equipment for general purpose use. In this particular comment, the magnification of a telescope is the ratio of the primary (mirror or lens) focal lengt
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by kevinpet 10y ago
IANAL, but I would not assume that "without counsel representing you" would be enough to say it was under duress.
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For the same reason that David Ricardo comes up in modern economics classes and Panini comes up in modern linguistics classes -- because those are considered significant in the history of the now dominant paradigms.
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by kevinpet 11y ago
Average in this article is GDP per capita, which is the mean, not the median.
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by kevinpet 11y ago
It's stuff like this that makes it hard to believe that Ayn Rand started out talking about the virtues of rationality. See also LessWrong.

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