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by mkn 18y ago
You're not dreaming. I remember that it was an article about how to allocate your portfolio according to the risk inherent in the various investment options. It appeared here on hacker news, and yes, it put the lie to a lot of Taleb's claim
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by mkn 18y ago
Looks like I missed a sentence from the article. However, the difference for FTMs was only 1.5%. I'd have to presume that there was a job change involved for all these people, as anyone who received a 32% pay cut in the same job for going M
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by mkn 18y ago
The difference in pay between FTMs and MTFs was 1.5% in this study, and the article seems to suggest that this explains the 29% difference in pay between biological men and women. That's just staggeringly disingenuous. If anything, it means
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by mkn 18y ago
While these "first programming language" articles seem to be perennial favorites, we've reason to be skeptical on many grounds. First, the authors never seem to be someone qualified to design a curriculum. No doubt they are all qualified co
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by mkn 18y ago
While I can appreciate this approach from a one-off perspective, it seems like it would make more sense to package this process up, like some of the micro-lending services. The key difference is that there's no fixed interest (compound or s
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by mkn 18y ago
I had a similar experience, except that I was imagining Professor Bunsen Honeydew saying, "Welcome again, folks, to Muppet Labs, where the future is being made today." More on-topic, it seems like there's a sliding scale that goes from "pri
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by mkn 18y ago
I think the author may be equivocating on innovation. Anyone would have to agree that the kinds of innovations that NASA was/is responsible for (whether directly or through funding subcontractors) were of a fundamentally different kind and
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by mkn 18y ago
I'd be very interested to see how their costs stack up, if commensurable figures could even be found. During my senior year in the aero/astro program at UW, the space cadet half of the class (the other half were the wing nuts) got to work w
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by mkn 18y ago
At a high level, jQuery has two main things going for it: 1) It has awesome functionality. 2) It's indistinguishably close to being browser-independent It looks like MS has adopted jQuery for (1), and their developers will get (2) for free.
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by mkn 18y ago
My own anecdata are somewhat conflicted on this issue. I always did well in school, understanding the key issues in a design problem (aerospace engineering) long before my classmates, and I always attributed it to my sleep habits (8-10 hrs
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by mkn 18y ago
The launch is currently scheduled for 20:00 PDT.
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by mkn 18y ago
Oh, boy. I get to be cantankerous again. >While 40W may be small compared with the bigger picture, it is still energy that is completely wasted The bigger picture is all that ever matters when we're discussing fungible goods such as pow
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by mkn 18y ago
tokipin: those issues have to do with testing, not the theory itself. I would argue that if you can't test a given theory, then what you have isn't a theory, but a belief. Otherwise, you're committing the No-True-Scotsman fallacy. The Wikip
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by mkn 18y ago
Between the Forer Effect ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forer_effect ), confirmation bias ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias ), and the fact that people routinely retest into different categories ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by mkn 18y ago
I have two pet peeves here. One, this wasn't a rant. It was neither bombastic nor over-emotional. It seemed to me to be wholly uncontroversial. If anything, the relatively conservative steps he advises (starting a business with only moderat
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by mkn 19y ago
I reached the amount indicated above in 43 20-day cycles, not 43 months. This ups the returns considerably. I wish inspectd.com had a logging feature. I'd like to see trades output as a cdf or similar. I'd love to more closely analyze the t
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by mkn 19y ago
The real questions are, "How long does this take in real time?" and, "How much like real life is this scenario?" The default setting has trades of 20-day duration. 18 trades take one year, and to get to ten years takes ~183 trades. At 3.5%
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by mkn 19y ago
I think that some of the better startup ideas would actually do better during a recession than otherwise. If your product or service reduces a business cost or opens up an untapped (monetary, social, or other) revenue source, people and bus