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by mixmax 19y ago
Not to be trolling or sound like a stupid old fart - but if I want to see weird statues, LOLcats, or the best picture in the world I will go to Reddit. The great thing about this place is that the signal to noise ratio is good, the articles
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by mixmax 19y ago
I believe that the IRS uses Benfords law for fraud detection. If the numbers on your tax return do not conform to the law they will investigate further, as there is a good chance that you made the numbers up. Maybe there is a potential star
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by mixmax 19y ago
It probably won't work because it contradicts behavioral economics. Daniel Kahnemann won the nobel prize in economics in 1992 "for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human jud
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by mixmax 19y ago
Basically what you are saying is that the people that took the risk should also take the hit, which seen from a moral standpoint is obviously right. The problem with this approach though is that the financial markets are notoriously non-tra
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the idea is great but the implementation not so. Certainly there is a correlation between where the user points his mouse and where he looks - but it is pretty small. Especially when pictures and multimedia are involved people tend to move
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by mixmax 19y ago
I think that 2-3 hours of work a day is more the norm than the exception with programmers. Basically it is hard to keep your concentration for 8 hours straight without some kind of break. How many comments on /. Reddit and YC news do you th