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by kylebrown 12y ago
Not sure if paid shill or just biased? The Bloomberg article was about the wealth amassed by Xi's extended family.[1] This New Yorker piece cites an article by Geremie Barme which points out that of the 48 highest-profile corruption ca
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by kylebrown 12y ago
yup, this is the relevant paragraph: > By the end of 2014, the Party had announced the punishment of more than a hundred thousand officials on corruption charges. Many foreign observers asked if Xi’s crusade was truly intended to stamp
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by kylebrown 12y ago
One of the big pieces in React Native was reimplementing flexbox positioning (they did it using randomly generated test cases in a TDD-based process; described in the "diving deeper" video iirc). So as long as you use flexbox to p
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by kylebrown 12y ago
>Reimplementing controls with UIViews If it's using UIViews, it isn't reimplementing native controls. It's using native controls, same as if it was implemented with (interface builder) .nib files. That's like saying &
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by kylebrown 12y ago
Haha, grow up. Useless to him !== useless to her. Marriage is dependent on compromise and negotiation, among other things. The world is chock-full of nonsense, and you will have to navigate it, whether you do so single or married. Good grie
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by kylebrown 12y ago
So then what is the cause? Maybe because the demand for rings is not for their commodity value, but for their signaling value? So buying a ring from Tiffany's is worth a lot more than buying one off craiglist? And they aren't scar
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by kylebrown 12y ago
Why would buying an expensive diamond be any different than buying a vintage car? Or really expensive speakers? Or any other toys the man will want? I couldn't imagine being happy in a relationship without learning to compromise. Only
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by kylebrown 12y ago
> the problem here is literally that you will find that what you've bought can't be resold for anything like what you bought it for, What does this have to do with an "open market price"? Most anything bought at retai
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by kylebrown 12y ago
There are only a few outliers, by definition. So most people have to make the compromise. Coordination games work by punishing you when you don't follow the crowd.
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by kylebrown 12y ago
When arbitrators/escrow-agents compete on fees, it drives fees lower as they attempt to undercut each other. That makes retirement attacks more likely (do a bunch of honest biz to get a good rating with the intention to get a big payof
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by kylebrown 12y ago
IME, IQ tests (like other standardized tests, SAT's, GRE's etc) are easily gamed. I did a couple practice ones and my score jumped up by 20+ points the second time. Where is the evidence that it measures some hidden factor? Seems
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by kylebrown 12y ago
> Honestly, after mind-taxing eight hour job, you want to go home, watch a movie, read a book or some other relaxing activity. Then this person probably wouldn't find much time to do CTF challenges, either.
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by kylebrown 12y ago
Cool, thanks for providing the option to change the board size. A good way to start is to play short games on a 9x9 board (19x19 is the official size, but games take a very long time to play out at that massive size). Just find a friend (or
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by kylebrown 12y ago
The question isn't, "what's the cheapest fuel at the moment?" The question is what's the cheapest carbon-neutral power source that could scale up to meet future global demand? Daniel Nocera has been arguing for year
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by kylebrown 12y ago
I think it is modeled in terms of endogenous vs exogenous entry. But I might be wrong, please correct me if I misunderstood.
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by kylebrown 12y ago
The High-Frequency Trading Arms Race: Frequent Batch Auctions as a Market Design Response[1][2] is a must-read. The tldr; is that a continuous mechanism (sequential trade processing) only looks efficient in time-space, but is actually ineff
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by kylebrown 12y ago
The 2nd-to-last slide[1] compares the IEX "speed bump" to other anti-HFT measures: "Ingenious, eliminates sniping. But, only works while IEX is small relative to the rest of the continuous market (free-rides off price discove
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by kylebrown 12y ago
> doing otherwise would be an inefficiency in operations which would drive up the already high cost of education. The biggest source of inefficiency is the bloated administration. In his most recent article, Accountability in the Ontario
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by kylebrown 12y ago
The last paragraph from one of his follow-up articles, The Importance of Going Viral, is relevant: "In fact the response has been overwhelmingly positive from everyone, except regular faculty. Not one message of support from anyone in
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by kylebrown 12y ago
Have any of the languages on this list been around for decades? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic_programming_langu...
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by kylebrown 12y ago
The current system is not the best of all possible worlds. There are better alternatives (eg. fair trade), ignoring them is just laziness.
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by kylebrown 12y ago
Buying fair trade supports an alternative over the status quo.
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by kylebrown 12y ago
> Imagine for example you could make $120,000 a year as a programmer, or $200,000 a year doing factory work. Do you think society will produce more programmers or more factory workers? Say I can make $25k a year as a janitor, or $360k as
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by kylebrown 12y ago
TrustDavis is more like distributed escrow than reputation.
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by kylebrown 12y ago
So if the baseline is 25% survive, then 75% fail, for a sum of 100%. How is it correct to compare that baseline to two numbers (66% and 88%) which don't sum to 100? Is failing different from not surviving?
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by kylebrown 12y ago
That prediction doesn't improve over the prior. So its no better than the (biased) coin flip.
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by kylebrown 12y ago
Its not clear from the article which factor the 50% figure applies. I doubt its the overall odds ratio, but rather the likelihood given some priors. For example, given a prior that 90% of startups fail, what is the likelihood that this part
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by kylebrown 12y ago
Reflexive is the term used by George Soros: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflexivity_(social_theory)#In_...
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by kylebrown 12y ago
Will augmented reality games (eg. Ingress) be more healthy activities than flat screen stay inside games?
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by kylebrown 12y ago
Deep Mind Atari demo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfGD2qveGdQ

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