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by mortehu 10y ago
The Protégé basket of funds contains five hedge funds, not twenty. The returns are far from indiscernible from S&P 500. At the end of 2015, the S&P 500 portfolio had seen 3x the profits of the Protégé portfolio.
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by mortehu 10y ago
> Mr. Buffett ended up winning handily. The bet isn't over until December 31, 2017: http://longbets.org/362/
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by mortehu 10y ago
> All UI's are graphs at their heart A bit of an overstatement, considering /bin/rm, Amazon Echo, NFC (e.g. Apple Pay), car pedals, shake gestures (e.g. camera activation on Moto X), and keyboard shortcuts (e.g. Win-L to l
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by mortehu 10y ago
Which is why you ask follow-up questions instead of just giving the optimal solution for UltraSPARC and rejecting what would be the optimal solution for other CPUs.
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by mortehu 10y ago
I think the problem was that he didn't update his knowledge about what an inode is after the interviewer told him. He still thought it was an integer value, as opposed to a metadata structure. If inode meant inode number, it works be
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by mortehu 10y ago
The fact that it had the ability to listen to audio shouldn't be the issue, since it wouldn't do that unless you explicitly enabled it. Your grammar is kind of ambiguous there. Certainly it was downloaded without permission, but
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by mortehu 10y ago
These guys were trading futures contracts. Unlike stocks, when you are long a futures contract, someone else is necessarily short, so it won't be the case that "anyone taking financial risk would be rewarded".
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by mortehu 10y ago
I haven't. As I understand it, it basically doesn't work at all in city traffic? Like going across Manhattan on 59th street?
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by mortehu 10y ago
tcoppi is arguing against market cap weighting, which is the reason why VITSX is so close to VFINX despite containing other stocks. If the total market is outperforming S&P 500, that means the companies not in S&P 500 perform better
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by mortehu 10y ago
I think this depends on your water. I use my filters for 6 months at a time, every single day, and haven't noticed any effect like that. They do acknowledge some people get a fishy smell on their troubleshooting page: https:/&#
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by mortehu 10y ago
A small PSA: "Brita" brand water filters seem to be very popular in US, but they're also some of the worst in tests. For example in this test ... http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/health-products/g684&#x2F
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by mortehu 10y ago
> people in the US who are HIV+ and under active treatment now live slightly longer lives than their HIV- counterparts This sounded implausible, so I looked for a source. This page says "the average life expectancy of a 20-year-old
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by mortehu 10y ago
You have situations like at the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, which is in the Mojave Desert, where the project had to be scaled down to preserve some desert tortoise habitat. If you're placing solar panels in a sand desert, you have to
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by mortehu 10y ago
Neat. I wasn't aware of the trick of peeling off a bit at a time.
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by mortehu 10y ago
The satisfiability problem doesn't require that you provide the solution, only that you determine whether or not a solution exists. So you'd end up with a primality check, which is known to be in P: https://en.wikiped
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by mortehu 10y ago
How about Bosnia and Herzegovina? They're 51% muslim and have applied to join EU earlier this year.
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by mortehu 10y ago
That exact strategy is also mentioned in Flash Boys, in the form of THOR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THOR_(trading_platform)
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by mortehu 10y ago
Citizenship might be unnecessary, though. People could apply for permanent resident cards. It looks like currently there's no such procedure for EEA residents, since they already have that right. https://www.gov.uk/ap
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by mortehu 10y ago
But rich people often save in the form of investments in companies, which leads to further growth.
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by mortehu 10y ago
Quote from the summary of the article: Consider 10 separate countries, cities, or other units of equal size, with population 1000. Assume the wealth in each unit follows a power law distribution, say a ParetoLomax, all wit
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by mortehu 10y ago
But by European standards, Chicago is a small city of about 100,000 people surrounded by an enormous commuter town.
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by mortehu 10y ago
From the release notes: > This is a first alpha release Alpha typically means feature complete, but untested and thus unsuitable for general release. You don't need to use good-looking version numbers for that.
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by mortehu 10y ago
Whence does it get the public key with which it verifies the signature? How is the public key verified?
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by mortehu 11y ago
> I'd kill for a 128-bit architecture so a UUID compare would be a single instruction Well, there's PCMPESTRI on Intel. http://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/PCMPESTRI.html
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by mortehu 11y ago
To elaborate, even if you do call CLUSTER[1] to enforce a physical ordering, the primary key is not the default (there is no default). 1. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/sql-cluster.html
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by mortehu 11y ago
Tip for SQL users: If you give all your ID fields unique names, e.g. by calling your field "reservation_id" instead of "id", even in the reservation table, you can do stuff like: SELECT * FROM reservation JOIN guest USIN
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by mortehu 11y ago
According to [1], k-NN is pretty far from being the top general classifier. Admittedly, all the data sets are small, with no more than 130,000 instances. When does it start becoming "very hard to beat", and what are you basing t
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by mortehu 11y ago
It seems the water and sewage system is 100% funded by water and sewage rates[1], whereas MTA's budget of course comes from entirely different sources (toll revenue, sales tax, petroleum business tax, NYC real estate transfer taxes, an
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by mortehu 11y ago
He is accused of not disclosing his 50% stake in Wintris when he is elected to parliament in April 2009, in violation of a law requiring all members of parliament to report companies of which they own more than 25%. (I can't find the l
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by mortehu 11y ago
Based on the documentaries I've watched, the real reason Henry Ford lifted wages to $5 was to solve retention issues. Working at the car factory was a pretty bad job, and employees were constantly leaving. Before the wage hike, he hi

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