micwawa

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by micwawa 11y ago
$1 is 1981 was four popsicles from the icecream truck. Well worth it to be the king. $1 in 1996 was a bottomless plastic cup of PBR. Also well worth it. $1 is 2011 is the cost of an overnight diaper that my three year old son throws away
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by micwawa 11y ago
Agreed - It doesn't seem that these are anything near legal contracts. I would like to see a less misleading word than 'contract.' A contract is a 'meeting of minds' and requires considerations from both parties.
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by micwawa 11y ago
By the way, if you have some presale ether and you think the price might be a little frothy, Kraken makes it super easy to sweep your presale wallet. I recently did this and had bitcoin on its way to my Circle account within an hour.
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by micwawa 11y ago
Tell Mrs. Patmore that.
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by micwawa 11y ago
Are people still developing Counterparty? Is this what you're referring to?
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by micwawa 11y ago
I got my previous phone three years ago - the battery has gone to pot and Verizon has been telling me I'm reading for an upgrade - but I kept putting off going to the Verizon store to get a new one. I thought, sure, I'll go for
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by micwawa 11y ago
I gotta say, for someone who is very much pro-TPP, Ron Wyden seems suddenly concerned about entities overseas using legal power to push around US businesses.
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by micwawa 11y ago
Yup. I just bought a new iphone.
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by micwawa 11y ago
This says so much about the dangers of winner-take-all economics.
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by micwawa 11y ago
It's more than getting in, it's networking and having the recruiters from all of the bulge-bracket and consulting firms groom you. Why recruit someone online when you have a rich, educated, smart pool of candidates who have the e
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by micwawa 11y ago
Thanks. I had quite a few apps in there.
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by micwawa 11y ago
Last night I applied for a job, and there was a link that you can click to allow the website to access your LinkedIn information. I clicked on this. I usually breeze through this because all these applications just want to access your bas
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by micwawa 11y ago
The internet is full of misinformation about dentists. Some corporate sponsored dentists will mill up thousands of fake reviews. These used to be five-star, but now they're smart enough to use a more nuanced strategy and throw in som
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by micwawa 11y ago
Funny bone indeed. It also seems that, as a consumer, these same professions are the hardest to get good information about. If someone serves a burger with a bland sauce they'll get 20 Yelp reviews over the weekend. On the other ha
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by micwawa 11y ago
Location : USA West coast, near an airport, but not near a major tech hub. Remote: Yes Willing to Relocate: No. Technologies: Matlab, Python, and lots of geometry. Looking to do some machine learning. CV: 20+ refereed papers. 2 NSF grants
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by micwawa 11y ago
Optimization of tax code via machine learning. It should be possible to build an intelligent tax machine that uses enough features in order properly classify and tax corporations like GE or high frequency trading funds in the most obviousl
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by micwawa 11y ago
Is the tax something that a hedge fund with offshore shell companies and other active investments could work around?
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by micwawa 11y ago
This has a chance of working, provided I give hope of having a curated notes list.
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by micwawa 11y ago
Tangential exactly (which is why something like a spreadsheet would never work.) I've tried using notes but then I often forget exactly which note I used or how I had planned to access it later. But I imagine myself being able to quic
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Ask HN: Is there an app that reminds me where I stashed stuff?
5 points by micwawa 11y ago|8 comments
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by micwawa 11y ago
It's amusing how many CEOs get to CEO with this attitude. I once put a nasty Yelp review up about a local place and got a call from the CEO of the larger franchise who demanded to know exactly who had put my up to this.
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by micwawa 11y ago
obligations? If/when you have kids....
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by micwawa 11y ago
I'm on the west coast and I'm an expert (Ph.D + Ivy postdoc) in mathematics. I've played a little bit recently and my feeling is that the low hanging fruit has been largely harvested - Large variations and playing against mo
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by micwawa 11y ago
mwfd541 at gmail
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by micwawa 11y ago
Injury reports are serious wrinkles. Often time players will be scratched within a few hours before the game. If you are optimizing, you need to account for this because it sends the backups value much higher than his salary. For example
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by micwawa 11y ago
I got into this for the very same reason. If you are in it for these academic aspect, would you be interested in teaming up?
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by micwawa 11y ago
Someone should pen an essay explaining why Resource Inequality is actually a good thing in Academia.
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by micwawa 11y ago
>>but I've never met an astrophysicist that was religious You should visit the IAS in Princeton sometime.
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by micwawa 11y ago
Ok, but this is just playing with the word "before".
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by micwawa 11y ago
"First, when the universe began there was no God" I don't see how this follows or doesn't follow from physics. Certainly, according to physics, God is not necessary. But to most believers God is not something that cares

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