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by malchow 11y ago
How would the curve change if the sample were cut to reflect only those students who scored in the top 1/3 on the SAT?
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by malchow 11y ago
If this were a company, the headline would have been "IRS hacked; tax information stolen from 100,000." Instead the IRS was able to spin it to The Washington Post. The headline is "thieves stole tax info." Thieves! The r
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by malchow 11y ago
Love to learn what biblio scholars think of the digital age. It strikes me that though we have mastered highly persistent and physically robust methods of data storage, the machine languages we actually consume and transact in shift so rapi
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by malchow 11y ago
I think this is the root of it. The high cost of living (high property values, high taxes, high regulation around inputs like fuel and wages) mean that being able to put four walls around a family and feel even a modicum of financial securi
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by malchow 11y ago
"Could it be that people actually buy the 'entrepreneur / do-it-your-way bullshit' for themselves but fear to apply it to their kids?" I sense that this is a very wise observation. I know college dropouts with large
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by malchow 11y ago
This is a strange comment. Google indexes and searches lots of things you eventually have to pay for. Google's a search product. Seems to me the perfectly natural state is "free organic traffic" from Google and the WSJ gett
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by malchow 11y ago
I was one of the first users of this product, and worked with Rahul Bainsal and others quite a bit on it. It was a very powerful product diligently worked upon by a talented team. One can only hope they'll get something juicy to work o
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by malchow 12y ago
Flash Crash discussion begins on page 23. "SARAO's activity created persistent downward pressure on the price of E-Minis. Indeed, during the dynamic layering cycle that ran from 11:17 a.m. to 1:40 p.m., SARAO's offers compris
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DOJ filing: how the Flash Crash was achieved, moment by moment [pdf](online.wsj.com)
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by malchow 12y ago
This. The more desirable suburbs of SF (Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton) have housing stock that sells for 10-20% more per square foot than housing in prime San Francisco itself. Is there any other major city where this is true?
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Intel pricing power makes it seem that semi innovation has slowed; not so(ricochet.com)
1 points by malchow 12y ago|0 comments
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The Glory Days of Private Equity (but not VC) Are Over(wsj.com)
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by malchow 12y ago
I love that even PRC's DDoS attacks on U.S. technology resources invoke jQuery twice.
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by malchow 12y ago
Yes, I have seen this too. They put a modal over an HTML document with a Comcast-sold IAB ad.
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by malchow 12y ago
Ads are the one thing that folks focus too much on in quest of bubble quarry. I run a large boutique display ad platform, and I'm reasonably confident that advertisements change form, function, and price -- but advertising never goes a
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Mobile news is a new form of storytelling (WSJ skunkworks)(medium.com)
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by malchow 12y ago
I was casually lumping in state income tax. That, the Obamacare 3.8% investment surtax, &c., and the situation is reasonably painful for a whole lot of people.
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by malchow 12y ago
I love this. Top Pages right now: Where's My Refund? - It's Quick, Easy and Secure. 4,600 "You take ~40% of my money every year. And you took too much this year. Give me a little back, please?" National Weather Service
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by malchow 12y ago
As far as I know, car dealers tend to be large empires built over the years through roll-ups; and they tend to ally themselves with the party favoring big government.[1] [1] https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1454&da
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by malchow 12y ago
Money buys freedom, and freedom buys happiness.
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Ask HN: What's the best way to build a paid subscription blog?
1 points by malchow 12y ago|0 comments
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by malchow 12y ago
This is exceedingly meaningless. Horizontal fracturing rigs can be reanimated relatively easily. And new wells are still being dug at a feverish pace -- they just are not being finished and activated. There really has been a sea change in t
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by malchow 12y ago
@glesica I'm not sure I understand the putative difference. Can you explain more?
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by malchow 12y ago
A historical view: http://www.city-journal.org/2015/25_1_california-drought.htm...
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by malchow 12y ago
Do they have complimentary lunch in Europe, too?
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Ask HN: How would you set up your own home email server?
14 points by malchow 12y ago|16 comments
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BuzzFeed sysadmins on 673K concurrents talking about “The Dress”(buzzfeed.com)
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by malchow 12y ago
I would be curious to get emails from network ops people who really think today's move was not a good idea, but who do support the traditional, open, handshake peering internet. (I am asking because I am advising a very senior policyma
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by malchow 12y ago
Not if the ISP is a roll up of municipal and state created monopolies. Which incidentally is a general argument for laissez faire capitalism. And in the particular , here, is an argument for regulation.
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by malchow 12y ago
"To put it another way, unless these new rules require that ISPs hook up as much interlink as their T1 peers ask for, these rules won't fix shitty Netflix performance on last-mile networks who are engaged in peering disputes with

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