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by lusr 14y ago
“We reached our $15,000 goal in 3 days, and once you launch a project you can’t cap it. You can only keep it or cancel it. It became a little overwhelming.” Is there a conflict of interest at work here? For projects delivering physical good
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If you do release the source, what's the best way to be notified of this? Your Twitter account looks pretty active? I'm particularly interested in your risk management strategies (this is where my previous efforts fell short).
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Well I'm no expert (only what I know from university 10 years ago and working in related areas of finance), but it's the latter. One further piece of the story is that the positions are in different markets for related (or the same) finan
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In the context they're referring to, the idea is to enter two positions simultaneously (not to enter and exit one position - in that case you'd have to predict which direction the market is going) 1. You buy and sell at the opportunity pric
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You're conflating two things here: 1. A messed up culture of rewarded risk taking and management turning a blind eye, turning on their own people when things go wrong in this cut-throat environment; in this sense this guy didn't do anythin
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by lusr 14y ago
1. Sometimes a bank can have better rates on ONE currency but not another, e.g. my bank, Nedbank [1], has better USD/ZAR rates but worse EUR/ZAR rates than Bidvest [2]. 2. Depending on where you're from, some countries won't even grant you
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by lusr 14y ago
It would be sad if it were true. But there are too many parts of this story that make no sense and therefore make me doubt its veracity: - US patent was granted in 1987 and maintenance fees must be paid 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years after that i
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by lusr 14y ago
What you said is true if you're young and you don't have much data to assess yourself with, but even if you're not pg and don't have a model of success well backed with data, the fact is that if you're 30 or 40 years old there are plenty of
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by lusr 14y ago
There's a ridiculously vast difference between "a little fucked up" and serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, rapid cycling bipolar disorder or borderline personality disorder. If you think serious mental illness isn't a real, deb
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This "I will have it even so" mindset can work but not forever in my experience. If you want an expanded repertoire of techniques, David Burns' "Feeling Good" has a section on procrastination that pretty much forces you to become aware of
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by lusr 14y ago
The article is somewhat poorly written with the chronology being difficult to follow, but this is what I made of it: 1. the Edublogs team removed the offending post within the 12 hours, thereby complying with the request. 2. apparently Se
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by lusr 14y ago
What it (kind of, the focal length of the camera notwithstanding) looked like from up there: http://twitter.com/57UN/status/257547773975601152/photo/1/la...
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I have to wonder how many of the members of government pushing this also happen to be shareholders of telecoms companies. (I long for the day somebody builds such a graph of all influential people so such questions could easily be answered
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> a preliminary injunction will often involve some sort of bond requirement So depending on how large that is, it can say a bit about how serious Apple is about this stuff (or how deep their pockets are, maybe)? For anybody who's curio
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While I really enjoyed the story, I felt much the same way as you about the ethics. They justify their decision to run business as usual, supporting the same rate of natural growth, etc. by saying they didn't want to raise prices for their
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by lusr 14y ago
I really don't understand criticism of the Samsung document, and I say this as somebody who currently owns an iPhone 4S - and my previous phone was an iPhone 3G. I also own a Samsung television and home theatre system, and plan on buying a
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I find it amazing you would write a 557 word reply and not include the following critical statement from the court that completely refutes your entire point about the court's intention in asking that question, and fully supports Samsung's a
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There's no need to guess about any of this: "SAIC's Center for Information Security Technology, an authorized TTAP Evaluation Facility, has performed the evaluation of Microsoft's claim that the security features and assurances provided by
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Hmmm if that's the way it works that's a very positive change, although it's very different from other countries (where you can only apply for permanent residency after a number of years of actual residency) so I wonder if we're seeing the
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An I-485 is "Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status". You can only apply for an I-485 after 5 years of residency. That means after 5.5 years you may freely change jobs - to a similar position. For those 5.5 years yo
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You've nailed it. As a highly skilled foreigner who's looking to emigrate, most employment visas in the countries I've looked at effectively force you to become a slave to the company sponsoring you for at least 5 years before you can even
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by lusr 14y ago
> Re-read the blog post. He's speculating the attack used DNS. (Though he has no proof.) You may want to re-read it yourself: "The attack on Saturday used one such amplification technique called DNS reflection."
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> Beyond that the strongest interpretation would be that students with misconceptions are less likely to succeed in traditionally taught CS courses You don't even have to go that far. When I tutored people in programming (years ago at
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An excellent point and indeed I see my experiences with depression as a strength I can pass onto my children by teaching them to recognize and handle dysfunctional thought patterns in themselves and others.
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Whilst I agree it's dangerous to attempt offering people therapy when you don't have the qualifications to back it up, I think you're conflating therapy with helping depressed individuals to recognize their condition so that they may seek
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Absolutely. I haven't seen anybody mention David Burns' book "Feeling Good" but it probably saved my life from a descent into insanity. It's my "bible" now. I knew something was completely and absolutely wrong with my self-destructive
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I suspect the most severely depressed in 3rd world countries, to be blunt, end up on the street and die (assuming they don't take their own lives first). That's one reason you may not see depression as obviously prevalent in the general po
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1. Cancer: does it matter whether it's cancer or something else? Surely the criteria here is "harm" not "cancer". 2. "Flame retardant" vs. "specific chemical": the article specifically cited recent research regarding PBDEs, why did you
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Sensationalism. I backed Pebble ($255) because they had a solid product and working prototypes. This article (among a number of other "oh noes Kickstarter will take all our monies" scare-articles doing the rounds lately) misses a number of
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Very interesting. I'd love to know how many viewers were using proxy servers to view the Olympics from outside the UK. I'd also love to know why intelligent people insist on using 3D line graphs (and why product designers choose to impleme

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