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by msellout 13y ago
Profit per visit seems flawed as well. Why not just optimize profit, or long-term expected profit? The vague statement, "the shift in metric played a huge role in aligning the company’s focus," seems at odds with the article's emphasis on m
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by msellout 13y ago
I'd imagine that the power imbalance of corporation vs employee creates a "lowest common denominator" situation more often than corporation vs union.
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by msellout 13y ago
Many parts of "first world" countries are in a similar situation. The US is large.
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by msellout 13y ago
Are you pretending he used the word "imagine" as "hope" rather than "expect"?
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by msellout 13y ago
How is that different from an honors, IB, etc. program?
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by msellout 13y ago
How are you defining "a dick move"?
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by msellout 13y ago
Why would the increase of the stock price increase Yahoo's available capital? Are they making acquisitions via stock swaps? Is their cost of capital decreasing?
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by msellout 13y ago
I think the first step is to sell yourself to learn about sales. Then you'll know enough to hire someone. You find that person the same way you find clients.
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by msellout 13y ago
No such thing as an always-valid p-value. Observations that were predictive yesterday may have no value tomorrow.
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by msellout 14y ago
It's less about the number of bytes than the number of records produced by the map step(s). Sometimes 10gb input data will produce many billions of records to reduce (if you're looking at combinations of things). Basically, if your computat
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by msellout 14y ago
That's not necessarily true. A market anomaly does not disappear instantaneously, but instead decays gradually as it is exploited and in turn becomes harder to exploit. Think of it as a radioactive half-life. Some research (I found the link
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by msellout 14y ago
Right, so there aren't any consequences of smoking, but only consequences of inhaling tar?
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by msellout 14y ago
Not so obvious. The critique is also of the fact that the resources to process a bitcoin transaction are intensive. Yes, I know this is part of the elegance of bitcoin. Elegance by one measure is cumbersome by another.
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by msellout 14y ago
Shouldn't that indirect effect show up in analysis?
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by msellout 14y ago
empirically false.
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by msellout 14y ago
I'd forgotten the fonts were small, because I've had them magnified on this page for so long. I'm only old according to Peter Townshend.
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by msellout 14y ago
In other words, rounding error. There's a great story of a histogram of heights in Napoleon's army having two peaks, eliciting all sorts of theories. Reality was that height in the army was normally distributed, but that the data was collec
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by msellout 14y ago
perhaps he meant the industry in general (of listing merchants) rather than the Yellow Pages company specifically.
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by msellout 14y ago
No, in recent years speed gains are found by adding more processors. I don't have the chart on hand, but a couple years ago the growth rate of speed of a single chip got much lower.
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by msellout 14y ago
> Sure there is. Someone can sell insurance, and you can choose to pay for it. Some assumptions: 1. Bitcoin insurance is a viable business; 2. People will trust the insurer.
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by msellout 14y ago
Not experimental, just that there are good libraries that aren't Py3k yet.
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by msellout 14y ago
What calendar will you use? Edit: It seems we're arguing about what a priori knowledge is capable of serving as a base for factual deductions. The Kantian approach is to say that we all agree on time and space and everything can be based of
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by msellout 14y ago
It'd be the solipsist's database: "I exist" would be the only entry.
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by msellout 14y ago
Yes, it's interesting that so many people on HN are climate change environmentalists, but that this example of over-fishing didn't raise much concern. Still, it does sound like Jellyfish Art is moving towards farming their own.
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by msellout 14y ago
Start by moving to weekly billing.
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by msellout 14y ago
You may be entitled to protection by disability laws ( http://www.stammeringlaw.org.uk/disability/disab.htm ) that will help you gain a raise or new employment.
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by msellout 14y ago
Costa Rica isn't so cheap anymore, BTW.
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by msellout 14y ago
The argument is more about how to define "good".
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by msellout 14y ago
USA's desire for a free market is industry-dependent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_United_States_steel_tariff
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by msellout 14y ago
And as machine learning grows more popular, perhaps many programmers will be replaced as well.

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