losvedir

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by losvedir 17y ago
Cool - the fact about cell phones is astonishing. I always cringe at the false boiling frog metaphor, though. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog )
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by losvedir 17y ago
Interesting. I don't think I agree with this example, though: He might, for example, ask students to recite the letters A through J as fast as possible, and then the numbers 1 through 10. Each of those tasks typically takes around two seco
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by losvedir 17y ago
But it's not too hard to remove them. The way the Buzz settings found my contacts and added them was perfect, because I use my gmail account frequently with my friends -- I'm right in their ideal use case. This person didn't -- either she c
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by losvedir 17y ago
Any reason the video with the smiling guy on the front page can't start playing if you click him? It looked like it should and I was initially confused when I pressed "play" and the video didn't play, taking me to a new page instead.
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by losvedir 17y ago
Maybe it's different in OS X, but my (admittedly single) large screen doesn't pose a problem. If I'm mousing from one corner to another, I move the mouse more definitively and I cross the screen in 3.5 inches of mouse travel (just tested).
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by losvedir 17y ago
The customer who wants to be among the first to get the console but doesn't want to wait in line is also a winner. You have to think of the value people assign to their time. The console flipper simply converts the price of the console from
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by losvedir 17y ago
"I could see both lanes continue to flow in my review mirror." Heh, you didn't happen to learn to drive in, say, Massachusetts did you? It's called the "rear view mirror", but I've found that due to the accent, many people here in Boston ha
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by losvedir 17y ago
Whoa, where is submitter from? Interesting dialect of English where "what" works like "that".
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by losvedir 17y ago
I can never be quite sure that I'm remembering the proper closed form expression, so I always rederive it in a way that's basically what you have here, but a little less dense: Call the sum of the terms Sn, though we don't know what it is.
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by losvedir 17y ago
Wow! Damn that's a cool website. Sorry I don't have anything useful to add, just saying I wish I had that site around back when I was learning Chinese.
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by losvedir 17y ago
The part that's interesting to me is his idea that it will be essentially a "vault" and super safe. The problem is he'd be targeting people under the FDIC limit, so that safety wouldn't be desirable. But what if he targeted people OVER 100k
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by losvedir 17y ago
Not a "bank", per se, but exactly what you're talking about: http://www.lendingclub.com/