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by lowpro 9y ago
Can confirm that your experience at the top ten school applies to Purdue Engineering and Technology majors. First year starts out slow with mostly 100+ people classes (accounting had 1,100! 550 in the room at a time), but after that they ge
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by lowpro 9y ago
Mans Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl, especially good if you're feeling down or disallusioned.
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by lowpro 9y ago
What I meant was HFT as I (and how I think the 'common person') understands it is that trading is basically a zero sum game since trading doesn't really help a company raise money over very short time periods, but investing i
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by lowpro 9y ago
In general CTFs are a list of problems you're trying to solve in a set amount of time, ranging from a few hours to a week or so (and some open CTFs are not time bound, just for learning). They will tell you something (normally very, v
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by lowpro 9y ago
The main issue I found in algo and financial aspects of programming is that the market is a zero sum game, and my intro knowledge of finance and algorithms, even when I know python, are no match for MIT PHD Quants who does it full time. The
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by lowpro 9y ago
Although this has been done, the social security system is primarily going to fail because more people are using it then have paid for it, so the system is actually borrowing from the future citizens (our kids). You can blame defense spendi
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by lowpro 9y ago
There is a difference between Anarchy and libertarianism. Most libertarians want less government, not no government.
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by lowpro 9y ago
Anecdotal but where I go to school (a top university) people often will drink then take adderall since it focuses you while you're drunk so you don't seem as drunk but can still have fun. I highly doubt however that it's more
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by lowpro 10y ago
It's not so surprising given that if Uber doesn't find anything, Google would have a much better chance at the Prelim. Injunction. Hiring a 3rd party firm isn't needed since Google is ahead either way, and Uber doesn't n
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by lowpro 10y ago
This article has some great tips, but I wonder if they're trying to sell something... maybe a sleeping mask, I'm not sure though (/s). I've had insomnia since I can remember. I could never take naps when I was young and
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by lowpro 10y ago
My HS rolled out iPads to all students my Sophmore year of HS 4 years ago. It was well known the average GPA dropped by a sizable amount (mine personally by nearly .5). There wasn't a good way for the school to lock down games, and it
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by lowpro 10y ago
You're essentially asking about the difference between active and passive existential nihilism. Or in non-philosophical terms, asking who is resigned to their existence and who actively searches to find meaning in it. Active nihilism i
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Learn advanced math off YouTube(youtube.com)
3 points by lowpro 10y ago|0 comments
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by lowpro 10y ago
Quoting the unemployment rate at 4.9% is disingenuous at it doesn't look at the participation rate, which has dropped 3% in the past 10 years (aka 10 million people). This unemployment rate also doesn't look at individual regions
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by lowpro 10y ago
> Is there a fair way of denigrating Trump supporters? Yes, by realizing that he won because of his economics, not his social positions. The rust belt votes of economic issues, which allowed him to win. The poor in the area lean to whoev
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by lowpro 10y ago
The solutions. The solutions are not black and white. Believe it or not, some on the right actually agree with the left on many social issues, but the problem becomes how to realistically solve them. Fixing things costs money, and many on t
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by lowpro 10y ago
I'm currently doing research with students from South Korea, this surprised no one. They actually have a saying about "Keeping in touch with a cousin's cousin if they work at Samsung." In SK you're considered well o
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by lowpro 10y ago
I've been watching 3Blue1Brown a lot recently, and he's been linked to many times here too. His work is absolutely amazing, and he even wrote a python library to make the animations!
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by lowpro 10y ago
Everything, including art, follows supply and demand. Value is the point where they meet. Salaries of social works and EMTs are where the supply of those positions meet the need for those positions in any certain area. Art has a defined sup
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by lowpro 10y ago
That's about how it goes, at least in high school and college age people: Snapchat all the time, twitter when bored, insta scrolling all the time, post every few days or week, and Facebook for the big things. Personally I get on Facebo
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by lowpro 10y ago
This tool is actually what I was looking for in terms of VPS usage. I knew there had to be some type of self hosting easily deploy-able platform. Thanks for sharing!
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Ask HN: How do you host your static site?
5 points by lowpro 10y ago|7 comments
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by lowpro 10y ago
Whatever you're looking to donate to, Charity Navigator[0] is a good place to look for highly rated charities. If they have a good rating, they're probably good. Also if anyone is looking to donate to a charity that gives 100%, ak
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by lowpro 10y ago
I worked with some college students from South Korea, and they were very surprised that hardly anyone smokes on campus, mainly people from outside the country. Although it's decreased in the US, I wonder if the cig companies have coped
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by lowpro 10y ago
This isn't necessarily true. The US dollar is actually increasing in value as people want their money to be safe. If Trump does bring back American jobs, meaning less jobs in Asia, the dollar buy will continue, depressing Asia and stre
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by lowpro 10y ago
> "Data is as secure as the weakest link in the chain." This can't be emphasized enough. Their main point is they have no good way to fully implement a secure PGP implementation, and the threat models PGP protects against
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by lowpro 10y ago
Many people, including myself, don't like cities. Being from Indiana, everyone I know that lives here wants to be here. Cities are crowded, dirty, and far more dangerous than the country and many small towns. The coasts are already ove
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by lowpro 10y ago
A 15 year old Egyptian kid made a new OS in asm who wants to study medicine. Sounds like he needs to go to SV, I think he'd fit right in.
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by lowpro 10y ago
At what point did Wikileaks ever scan their releases for personal information? This is completely false. They never have, nor is it feasible to, they just don't have the manpower to do so. That's a major argument against Wikileaks
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by lowpro 10y ago
I don't see why they're doing this now, what caused this? Also, I hope this doesn't put downward pressure on BTC. There is already mounting pressure as the world invests in dollars considering widespread conservative politica

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