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The rise of phantom investments to $40T. [pdf](imf.org)
2 points by lowdose 7y ago|0 comments
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by lowdose 7y ago
A hyperloop to the moon?
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by lowdose 7y ago
Is Snowden publishing a book at the same time there is some confusion about voting in Russian elections? I'm a big fan of Snowden and don't want to insinuate malice. Is this just a mere coincidence? https://www.newsweek
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by lowdose 7y ago
This, also called price anchoring. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring
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by lowdose 7y ago
Good writing! Have you seen this video of Michal Kosinski about the end of privacy? He talks about making inferences about intimate psycho-demographic information from photos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUwBcTgzbtU&
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by lowdose 7y ago
I'm not implying Bill Gates is bad but he is performing a myth like Santa Claus. It is even better when you have twice the amount of Santa Claus money. Bill Gates "When you have money in hand,only you forget who are you .But when
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by lowdose 7y ago
Buffett, 87, has since 2006 made more than $30.9 billion in donations to the charities, including roughly $24.5 billion to the Gates Foundation.
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by lowdose 7y ago
Suitsupply also has a very nice shoe collection made from italian calf leather for a reasonable price. Sneakers for $179 and dress shoes are priced at $249. Like you said amazing quality shoes last for several years when given proper main
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by lowdose 7y ago
I understand your point of view but I have a different opinion. It is ridiculous to expect people to pay the same price for a digital book as the printed version. The distribution costs are not only a fraction, the business risk in publish
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by lowdose 7y ago
Hanlon's razor says incompetence over malice. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor > "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
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by lowdose 7y ago
> Text was invented 5000 years ago. The only innovation is HOW Amazon is recreating text versions of the orignal books. Sounds like an innovation to me. When Amazon is going to do text-to-speech on normal books they are even going to put
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by lowdose 7y ago
You are right and Bernanke was just executing orders of Hank Paulson as a karma payback. Lehman Brothers was the only bank that refused to take a haircut on the bailout of LTCM in 1998. CEO Dick Fuld told Paulson "to drop dead".
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by lowdose 7y ago
I don't understand why you would like an audiobook. The bandwidth of a speaker is 100 words/min while reading is around 300 words/min, a significant difference that will compound in years over a lifetime. I never have the fee
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by lowdose 7y ago
For the most part you are right. But isn't this the normal outcome of a successful business model eventually attracting many imposters because they hear about pros making money. Companies like Traackr offer saas services to analyze the
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by lowdose 7y ago
Your right and everybody feels like Steve Jobs online and demands change today.
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by lowdose 7y ago
Isn't Popper required reading material at every decent university?
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by lowdose 7y ago
You are spot on "practice what you preach".
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by lowdose 7y ago
And the most crazy part that people like Macron are calling for this. France is one of the biggest importers of soya. Greenpeace even physically blocked a ship two months ago demanding France proved no rain forest was destroyed on the accou
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by lowdose 7y ago
I agree the content is actually funny in that reddit tread. I wonder how good it can become with a really large good database. I read in some article of OpenAI a dataset gets better by for example replace names by pronouns.
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by lowdose 7y ago
I was expecting a story similar to the Big Mac index from the economist. But it is just a product launch review. A hyperbole Bloomberg original that leaves a bad taste.
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by lowdose 7y ago
Your online web store is a simple but absolute stunning display of a frictionless customer experience. I'm genuinely curious about the motivation to sell these products made-to-order, seems like a product that can be stocked. Care to e
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by lowdose 7y ago
It is double speak.
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by lowdose 7y ago
As a European citizen I would really like to provide the people of Hong Kong a passport of their choosing. Our Western colonial mistakes are responsible for setting up China with this situation in HK. The best is to acknowledge our mistakes
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Astronomers Create 8M Baby Universes Inside a Computer and Watch Them Grow(livescience.com)
2 points by lowdose 7y ago|0 comments
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Sending Even a Tiny Message Through a Black Hole Would Make It Evaporate(livescience.com)
2 points by lowdose 7y ago|0 comments
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by lowdose 7y ago
> Either way, it is becoming increasingly difficult for American politicians and climate activists to say they can see the effects of warming temperatures in the United States. For at least the past 14 years, there have been no such warm
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David Koch dies at 79.(nbcnews.com)
7 points by lowdose 7y ago|1 comments
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by lowdose 7y ago
What AI projects are so controversial a founder is place on leave or is this just about Google high jacking his operation? > DeepMind has been vague about the situation, but Bloomberg claims the move stems from controversy over some of S
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DeepMind Co-Founder Mustafa Suleyman Placed on Leave(extremetech.com)
3 points by lowdose 7y ago|2 comments
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by lowdose 7y ago
Reproduction is a force of nature, assuming your a heterosexual man, have you ever dated a chick above 30 without kids? I know guys that take the full condom home.

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