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by lev99 9y ago
My Netflix bill is creeping up. I’m up to $13.99/month. Honestly I’m probably not going to keep it if it keeps creeping up.
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by lev99 9y ago
After doing research I am finding that grants and scholarships are less common than I originally believed. I did not go to the most prestigious school I was accepted to. I went to a less prestigious school that offered a much better deal.
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by lev99 9y ago
Engineering tasks.
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by lev99 9y ago
Don't look too closely at sticker prices, almost no one pays that.
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by lev99 9y ago
A science degree. I had an internship my senior year.
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by lev99 9y ago
I imagine a clean dataset like this would be hard to obtain. How many crimes go unreported? How many true accusations are disbelieved?
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by lev99 9y ago
Trends matter. It's easier to fix 44 to 56 than 40 to 60 or 35 to 65.
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by lev99 9y ago
There are both natural and social differences between men and women and boys and girls.
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by lev99 9y ago
I strongly disagree. If you judge an education by three factors you can see there are opportunities to receive great ROIs from a college degree. 1) Which degree you receive. 2) Which institution you receive it from. 3) Your total out of po
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by lev99 9y ago
There is a certain terrible stigma associated with men in early childhood education [0]. [0] https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=ZISEWpecLdfIjwPdm...
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by lev99 9y ago
Having more male teachers in K-12, with a specific need on the earlier years, can help boys stay interested in education longer. 76% of the teachers are female [0], with most of the male teachers teaching in later years. This isn't a
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by lev99 9y ago
Why are you bummed that people are mad about being lied to? It seems like a reasonable human reaction.
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by lev99 9y ago
I trust him even less because I cannot tell when he is telling the truth. This is great.
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by lev99 9y ago
It's a classic example of loss aversion[0]. In my mind the real loss risk of this venture is the opportunity cost spent developing the algorithm. Many people that fail to build trading algorithms would have been very successful if th
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by lev99 9y ago
Ethics is already required for ABET accreditation. Almost every good United States based university level Computer Science program is ABET accredited. I took an entire two credit long course on ethics to receive my degree, involving writin
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by lev99 9y ago
Am I missing an obvious example?
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by lev99 9y ago
The problem is "a few hundred" is an undefined number. 400 would be about 1%, which would be fairly reported as a few hundred. My ceiling number is very high, but I would believe more than 1% are let go.
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by lev99 9y ago
What impact will this have on my selection of cars over the next 20 years?
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by lev99 9y ago
Seattle Times likes to give Amazon bad press. Seattle has enough other tech companies to absorb a few hundred jobs. Companies routinely end up over-hiring or having redundant positions. It appears that they are laying off less than 10% o
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by lev99 9y ago
They release some information in their earnings report about user activity. [0] Daily Active Users = 1.40 Billion. Monthly Active Users = 2.13 Billion. It's hard to extract too many statistics out of this. It's just fair to say
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by lev99 9y ago
Why can't goverment DMCA requests work for blockchains? How is your suggestion much different than bittorrent? The goverment could just as easily take down links to the blockchain as they could takedown links to a torrent. Exchanging
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by lev99 9y ago
It also does not seem to have any unique insight. I feel like I've read this set of opinions every time bitcoin values changes rapidly.
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by lev99 9y ago
How do you apply that principal to the last mile problem? To be fair, Amazon is fair at handling Customer Service complaints. I ordered a package with a scheduled 2 hour delivery window ({Fresh, Now}) and it came 2 hours late. The package
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by lev99 9y ago
Call centers and remote offices under perform their Head Quarters counterpart. The best building to work (for your career) is almost always the one where the C-suite has their offices.
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by lev99 9y ago
> include rural prosperity The United States has just shy of one billion acres of farmland. In 2014 The United States had an agriculture export surplus of almost 40 billion dollars. The current Farm Bill, and the historical trend, pushe
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by lev99 9y ago
Your net worth has to be more than 0, but you don't need a lot of money just decent credit.
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by lev99 9y ago
Thinking about costs as they apply to my finical situation in 2055 doesn't mean that I don't spend money in 2018 for enjoyment. I just look at the cost from a different point of view.
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by lev99 9y ago
I agree that connectivity is a great investment. I pay extra for more bandwidth in my home office and I would buy more if it was available.
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by lev99 9y ago
1) I am aware of inflation, but my calculations shown don't consider them. A dollar today has slightly more then half the value it will have in 2055 if you assume yearly 2% inflation. I suspect we will have a few years with much more
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by lev99 9y ago
Thoughts on "thinking long term". I always translate monthly expenses as 2055 dollars, because that is my target retirement date. If something in 2018 costs $100/month that means it costs $1,200/yr. You can expect to se

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