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by mdda 15y ago
In some sense yes : If you know the starting conditions, one could just crank it through to the outcomes (assuming the strongest form of their result). OTOH, one can't measure everything, since you'd be collapsing wavefunctions everywhere
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by mdda 15y ago
Putting the Sex Ed classes into a broad category of 'improving people's mental health' may give quantifiable estimates of benefit[1]. The monetary benefits of regular education (most directly measurable at the university level [2]) are an
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by mdda 15y ago
Given the choice between 'computing angular velocity' and Sex Ed, your tax dollars would give a life-long benefit to the vast majority of the population if applied to the latter - and the value of people understanding the former is minuscul
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by mdda 15y ago
In that case "useful idiots" is a bit harsh (and not accurate from my reading of [1]). The creation of this much open source software is a true public good. The people producing it (both at small companies and big ones) may be working away
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by mdda 15y ago
Whatever you say about the rest of the world, New Jersey is definitely not part of Manhattan... I'm surprised there isn't some kind of grey fuzzing-out on that part of the globe.
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by mdda 15y ago
No, this is one fixed example : Akin to someone in the room having exactly your own birthday. The birthday paradox is the observation that it's much more likely than you'd think that two people in a room share a birthday - which is equivale
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by mdda 15y ago
Depends on how you look at the business : Foursquare's users are the retailers, its product is the people checking in.
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by mdda 15y ago
Or the market price of talent goes up : The value being created by engineers is recognized by the financial institutions, so why shouldn't tech companies pay up too? [ And I'm thinking Facebook before people get on my case about financial c
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by mdda 15y ago
So, of the people paying $1 for the product, you know that half of them would gladly pay $2? Sounds like it's time for 2 versions of the product : (i) The almost-full-featured version ($1) and (ii) The super-duper gold-plated version ($2).
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by mdda 15y ago
Unfortunately my bedside alarm clock still has the pre-change timezone info : It gave me a fake lie-in on Sunday morning a couple of weeks ago, and will (most likely) have me stumbling out of bed too early tomorrow.
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by mdda 15y ago
That's what the graphical equation says, but the approximate arithmetic ($30k x 2.5MM weddings ~= $75Bn) is right.
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by mdda 15y ago
I'm assuming this is being noticed because of the recent ANA plane aerobatics : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aunUFwyxsF0 (spoiler : plane landed safely).
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by mdda 15y ago
Do you know who any of them are already? Plausible deniability doesn't count for much.
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by mdda 15y ago
> I doubt they have the resources to find hackers Hey kid : People tell me you're the smartest computer guy in your year. My friends know where your mother lives. Please help me find some of these "hackers".
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by mdda 15y ago
Or look at it the other way around, maybe the CIA is using really bad dudes to take out Anonymous (or at least muffle them). An ISP may successfully defend themselves against a subpoena, but I have less confidence in them holding out vs a
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by mdda 15y ago
Profit margins should be expected to be proportionate to illegality : Since the threat of punishment forces vibrant competition out of the market. Similarly, one can track the effectiveness of the war on drugs by looking at the street price
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by mdda 15y ago
Company registration isn't restricted at all. Some state's LLC can be single-person, non-resident filed, after all. The restriction you'll run up against is being employed by the company you form, and having it support your visa. To do it
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by mdda 15y ago
Or the part where the people that said they would pay back their bar tabs were thrown in jail.
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by mdda 15y ago
Your article had a lot more credibility before you came up with this comment : The vast majority of RMBS and CDO-of-RMBS losses have nothing to do with the government. Your story would have been even better if you included the necessary ele
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by mdda 15y ago
You could put up a separate pricing page to see how many people click through to it, and then look at hovers to see where they linger... But that's obviously going a bit deeper than the original idea of slapping up a single page to gauge i
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by mdda 15y ago
Essential reference material : http://bros.failblog.org/
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by mdda 15y ago
4-nines is 99.99% reliability (downtime of about 1 hour per year). More detail : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability
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by mdda 15y ago
Then be glad that you're in the top n% on a global scale. People in the third world may be able to cobble together a linux box out of our scrap machines, but Apple's philosophy doesn't include that kind of outreach. In fact, if the world
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by mdda 15y ago
Your living expenses and rent are a benefit you receive as an individual from the company, with a direct monetary equivalent : You should be declaring it, and paying tax on it.
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by mdda 15y ago
Even clearer from the shadow outside : http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.742845,-117.816621&spn...
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by mdda 15y ago
He's pretty well know in the Quant community : http://wilmott.com/about.cfm , but I also had to double-check the article to see where he was introduced. I guess there was some heavy-handed editing.
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by mdda 15y ago
Is it possible to correct the typo in the title?
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by mdda 15y ago
I think it's wholly appropriate : To put up a warning flag around some of the major non-tech life events that the site's main demographic will be making decisions about.
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by mdda 15y ago
This times 1000. While the article emphasizes the narrowly-won balance between love vs pain, this is a lot more realistic IMHO. My wife and I have an 8-month old, and she's a reasonably 'easy baby'. But even so, from a coding perspective,
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by mdda 15y ago
I think that 'nobody' is a bit of an exaggeration. Or are you claiming that people who do know are just nobodies?

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