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by mbroshi 9y ago
I am agnostic on net neutrality (ie. neither for nor against, just admitting my own lack of ability to assess its fallout). I read a lot of sweeping, but hard to measure claims on its affects (such as in the linked article). Are there any c
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by mbroshi 9y ago
The drop in returns received was 6 million.
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by mbroshi 9y ago
Agreed. This article may or may not have made some good points, but I couldn't keep reading after that.
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by mbroshi 10y ago
You can refuse to answer their question. You can also ask them how much others are making at your position (and they can refuse to answer that, too). I don't see where the asymmetry is.
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by mbroshi 10y ago
The analogy is not perfect, but all the time people like to know how much a house or car sold for in the past, or how much a stock traded for the in past, etc. Seems like useful data. Now, I'm not advocating for or against this particu
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by mbroshi 10y ago
A big plus of automating tickets is that it's no longer biased. You're not more likely to get a ticket in a poorer, more high crime neighborhood, just because there happen to be more police there. This way, rich white people in th
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by mbroshi 10y ago
The best no-limit hold-em players in the world are also presumably quite good at limit hold-em, limit omaha, 7 card stud, etc., not to mention other card games like bridge. Serious question: When these programs are built to beat humans in o
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How We Coordinate Work Through Meetings(habitica.wordpress.com)
1 points by mbroshi 10y ago|0 comments
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by mbroshi 10y ago
Can you expand? Many proofs assume the axiom of choice, and I'm missing how this one does.
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Integrated Tests Are a Scam (2010)(blog.thecodewhisperer.com)
1 points by mbroshi 10y ago|0 comments
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by mbroshi 10y ago
Can I ask a couple of naive questions (I'm not very well informed on these issues): 1. Since electric cars may well be powered by coal, not gasoline, might they not be more heavily emitting? 2. Does the environmental impact of creating
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Lyft’s 10-Year Driverless Car Plan Is a Pipe Dream(theringer.com)
3 points by mbroshi 10y ago|0 comments
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by mbroshi 10y ago
It's funny, because many of the points made about SO in this article remind me of my experiences with HN. My first couple of comments were downvoted, as I did not yet know the HN etiquette and unspoken rules of discourse, and that can
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Don't Believe the Good Economic News About Brexit(bloomberg.com)
2 points by mbroshi 10y ago|0 comments
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How Gopher Nearly Won the Internet(chronicle.com)
4 points by mbroshi 10y ago|0 comments
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Disadvantage Gives Fund Managers an Advantage(bloomberg.com)
1 points by mbroshi 10y ago|0 comments
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Laissez-Faire in Tokyo Land Use(marginalrevolution.com)
2 points by mbroshi 10y ago|0 comments
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by mbroshi 10y ago
The article mostly describes how elephants populations have been dwindling with the ban in place. I do not see any statistics supporting the view that elephant populations will dwindle any more quickly/slowly without a ban.
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by mbroshi 10y ago
Maybe this is overly naive, but when I make a typo in the Google search bar, it doesn't even search for my typo-ed term (even if it would have gotten some hits), it searches for what I actually meant to type. Can't package manager
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by mbroshi 11y ago
For those like myself that freak about this kind of stuff, and did not read through carefully, the effect is pretty small and requires taking a lot of benadryl: "Three years of taking either daily Benadryl, Advil PM, Tylenol PM, or Mot
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by mbroshi 11y ago
Am I alone in feeling like this is akin to a tutorial on how you can shoplift without getting caught? WSJ, for better or worse, does not want to give you content without your paying for it. If you take that content without paying, you are s
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by mbroshi 11y ago
In case you are not already excited by discoveries in concrete, this should help: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/3-concrete/
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by mbroshi 11y ago
Presumably they make their money from repeat customers, in which case ripping off their customers is probably not an optimal strategy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeated_game
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Estonian ID card(en.wikipedia.org)
9 points by mbroshi 11y ago|0 comments
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by mbroshi 11y ago
This could be a start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_ID_card
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by mbroshi 11y ago
Reminds me of this: https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by mbroshi 11y ago
I love this observation! I would be interested if anyone could dig up what text book that came from.
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by mbroshi 11y ago
Simple supply and demand: Sell commodity futures. If there really are huge influxes of an existing scarce resource on the horizon (the article mentions platinum), prices will drop.
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by mbroshi 11y ago
I will admit I did not make it through this entire article, but it really did not ring true to me at all--just sounded like an unsupported, hostile, angry rant. >> “Fucked if we care” think the recruiters, “now grovel and be exploited
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by mbroshi 11y ago
Insurance companies cannot credibly cover acts of god, aka correlated risks, because they happen to too many people all at once. It's not a simple matter of "fixing" insurance for those matters. NPR's Planet Money had a

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