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by kszx 12y ago
For these kinds of services, the introduction of a payment can change supply and demand in very unexpected ways. Example: There once was an experiment with blood donations, where a payment for the blood donation actually decreased the numbe
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Why a Chinese Machine Tool Producer Acquired Two Cattle Farms in Australia(crossborderdb.com)
2 points by kszx 12y ago|0 comments
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by kszx 12y ago
The current title has an implied if, not an iff.
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by kszx 12y ago
Learning to use facial expressions can be quite useful. It's similar to learning negotiation techniques and sales strategies. In this context, spending 15 minutes a day working on the ability to one's facial expression skills (Sam
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by kszx 12y ago
> Any stock trader that uses linear graphs will lose his shirt. Can you show me a stock trading platform that uses log values by default? Yes, log graphs are very useful when you're looking at developments of stock values and many o
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by kszx 12y ago
Strangely reminds me of Bayesian statistics and updating of prior probability distributions.
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by kszx 12y ago
The translated article says that the "police, Police Security Service and the National Security Agency" have the authority to use these types of devices. It seems very reasonable to me that they may do so around government areas.
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by kszx 12y ago
There's a Wikipedia article on this: 'The jocular saying is that, in England, "everything which is not forbidden is allowed", while, in Germany, the opposite applies, so "everything which is not allowed is forbidden
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by kszx 12y ago
The explanation "not legal because we haven't allowed it" will sound odd to people from common law countries like US and UK (where, conversely, it's closer to "It's legal because no law states that it's no
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by kszx 12y ago
My impression is that applications for Pinyin text input have advanced to a level where they can be used really quickly, often faster than English. They also allow for fuzzy input and dialect-related mistakes. It's more troubling for
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by kszx 12y ago
The problem with this example is the difference between traded and non-traded goods. Loafs of bread are rarely traded across borders.
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by kszx 12y ago
Under certain conditions, price discrimination that results in a higher price for US consumers can increase their net utility. Example: HIV medication is sold at much lower prices in Africa. If prices in Africa were increased to the lev
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Marc Andreessen: The ‘90s Had It Right (Full Video)(online.wsj.com)
3 points by kszx 12y ago|0 comments
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by kszx 12y ago
Similar to my model, which is itself quite intuitive to someone who likes economic modelling: I like to think of emotion as a function of the change in the expected discounted sum of lifetime utility. First, utility is a measure satisfactio
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by kszx 12y ago
As somebody who lives in Hong Kong, I had to read it twice to understand what you mean. I realize your point is probably mostly made in reference to certain North American cities.
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by kszx 12y ago
By the way, you will get a free Oculus device if you allow it to handle internet-to-brain communication: "Indirect" advertising (through text, video etc.) is a thing of the past. Long live "direct" advertising -- project
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by kszx 12y ago
Step 1: Include the brain wave scanner in future Oculus VR devices. Step 2: Use virtual reality as the interface for brain-to-computer, brain-to-internet, and brain-to-brain communication. Step 3: Considering the acquisition of Oculus by Fa
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by kszx 12y ago
The annotated version is legal, the unannotated version is illegal.
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by kszx 12y ago
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=learned%2C%20learnt
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Google Adds Support for Bitcoin Conversion(google.com)
9 points by kszx 12y ago|0 comments
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by kszx 13y ago
Intuitively agreed at first. But then I imagined the main alternative of clustered columns/bars and now tend to think that line graphs can be grasped more quickly. Any other alternative graph formats? Maybe just show the deviations fro
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by kszx 13y ago
Worth noting that RBI's current governor is Raghuram Rajan (since September), Chicago Booth's "star professor" and one of the world's most famous economists. Also known for saying that "innovation had made fina
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by kszx 13y ago
If there's one area where the rest of the world can learn from China, it's this: yyyy-mm-dd.
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by kszx 13y ago
Ironically, the font family "Karla" on that blog makes the text quite difficult to read. ( http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Karla ) They might benefit from inspecting their own quotations more closely:
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by kszx 13y ago
"Jenn Schiffer is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of PHP is Better Than CSS."
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by kszx 13y ago
Many regional languages and dialects have been lost due to the efforts of nationalists , not globalists. Nationalists favour the use of a single language for all citizens of a country.
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Silicon Chasm: The class divide on America’s cutting edge(weeklystandard.com)
3 points by kszx 13y ago|0 comments
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by kszx 13y ago
Maybe you're referring to something like the 80-20 rule, "Pareto principle"? More productivity by abstaining from perfectionism? I just find it much more satisfying to produce small amounts of (what I consider to be) good out
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by kszx 13y ago
I have the best experience with targets where data logging works automatically, i.e., where I don't need to bother with manual data input. - RescueTime: Productive and unproductive time, or specific software/website categories, au
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by kszx 13y ago
(1.) Eat well, drink well, sleep well, work well. (2.) Quantified self: Targeting productive and unproductive time with RescueTime, and committing to explicit targets with Beeminder. (3.) Less but better. Less input but better input. Less o

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