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by nandemo 13y ago
It's a conflict between the Syrian government forces and several militias of (mostly) Syrians. So it's a civil war. Yeah, some of the militias aren't interested in democracy, and some are funded by external powers that have various interest
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by nandemo 13y ago
> It is much better to filter out some perfectly good candidates than accidentally hire the wrong candidate. If the companies OP cites were operating under that principle, they should be able to say Hire or No Hire after the last interv
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by nandemo 13y ago
> Malaysia's sexual mores in 201* != America's 201* mores. Can you elaborate? What does that have to with the article? Are you implying that in Malaysia is normal or acceptable for a woman to cyberstalk a guy like this?
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by nandemo 13y ago
I'm not a native English speaker myself, but this is what's usually taught as "standard" American English: bag /bæɡ/ vague /veɪɡ/ http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bag#Pronunciation http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vague#Pronunciat
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by nandemo 14y ago
Er, it's a big stretch to say that sort of thing works in the stock market. When people are going to buy a certain stock, they don't usually look at the whole order book and say "oh, the highest ask is 200, so this best ask at 100 is really
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by nandemo 14y ago
Saying "I doubt this startup will succeed" is reasonable, but that's not the same as saying that a startup idea is stupid. More importantly, startup returns aren't like roulette returns. Say we hold a friendly roulette game where the house
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by nandemo 14y ago
> I think saying that his opinion that something was stupid is a counter-indicator of its degree of success doesn't have much merit. I don't think that's what's Curtis is saying at all. He's just saying that it's better not to call star
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by nandemo 14y ago
It's not so much that it's anecdotal, it's that article that's poorly written. Financial Times has a better one. > Neuronov says there are some 500 strays that live in the metro stations, especially during the colder months, but only a
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by nandemo 14y ago
Not at all, like nlativy says coffeshops are everywhere in Tokyo. Yes, most are smoky, but completely separated smoking areas and even completely non-smoking places are becoming more common. Also, some mom-and-pop coffeeshops have very good
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by nandemo 14y ago
Hmm, I think that's backwards. If you're going to work in corporate finance, then you need to know about capital markets, derivatives, etc. But if you're primarily interested in quantitative trading then you don't need to know all the stuff
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by nandemo 14y ago
By now there are tens of thousands of North Korean defectors living in South Korea and elsewhere. That includes others ex-prisoners (not necessarily escapees, some people are released after all). There's also satellite imagery that corrobor
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by nandemo 14y ago
Because enough people upvoted it? I wish it was possible to downvote stories.
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by nandemo 14y ago
Sounds like a bad idea to me. Even though Num doesn't have an explicit contract, we sort of expect it to behave "nicely". But here we start with a nice ring like Integer and end up with a type that has this weird, extra element that has no
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by nandemo 14y ago
Well, assuming "halt_and_catch_fire" is something like error foo or undefined , you're essentially going out of your way to circumvent the type system. It's possible to do it, but it's frowned upon.
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by nandemo 14y ago
> The entire economic approach of some countries has been based, or at least heavily influenced by, on a paper that no one had bothered actually checking. Er, no. Reinhart and Rogoff's paper was published in 2010. The debate of keynes
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by nandemo 14y ago
> The fun part is watching people actually try to control their body language in reality. You can try, but if you aren't feeling what that "power pose" is broadcasting, you'll just look like an idiot to anyone even remotely paying atten
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by nandemo 14y ago
Chesterton is talking about social institutions and social change, not unconscious acts and biological evolution. His principle doesn't apply at all here. He's asserting that every long-standing social institution very likely came to exis
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by nandemo 14y ago
The financial industry uses a lot of Excel too.
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by nandemo 14y ago
However, the original question is interesting even from a descriptive point of view. Essentially, the descriptive version of the question would ask what is a simple set of rules that accurately model the ordering of adjectives in English (o
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by nandemo 14y ago
> Gruber says: "The consensus among the people I’ve spoken to is that this is in no way a "rats leaving a sinking ship" scenario, but rather the inevitable churn of talented people capitalizing on the success of the company." In other
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by nandemo 14y ago
Agreed.
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by nandemo 14y ago
I think they're very different arguments. uber is saying that this incident is relatively insignificant, since more people died of heart attack today. Schneier is saying that (i) we overstate the impact/probability of terrorist attacks. Not
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by nandemo 14y ago
I've never quite understood that argument. It's not about it being insensitive, just irrelevant. It seems to have an implicit but completely unsupported premise that every death is equal. First, there's age: deaths from heart disease tend t
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by nandemo 14y ago
In the first part she asks male co-workers if the same thing had ever happened to them. It seems to me that she's prepared to consider if phenomenon X happens due to sexism or it happens to everyone. It seems that out of the 3 episodes she
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by nandemo 14y ago
If it makes you feel better, spoken Continental Portuguese can be somewhat hard to understand even for us Brazilians. Roughly speaking, it's like the difference between a Southern US accent and a (non-RP) British or Scottish accent. Althou
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by nandemo 14y ago
Of course the bar doesn't want to hold bitcoins. Rent, booze and salaries are still denominated in U$.
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by nandemo 14y ago
It looks like their demise was due to fraud/embezzlement. Not sure how bitcoin would help here. Also, users of such an exchange would be heavily exposed to the volatility of BTC/$major_currency when making long-term bets. Unless one doesn't
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by nandemo 14y ago
There's a bright side to bigots publicly announcing their bigotry. For example, now I know I don't need to bother applying for work wherever Ryan Smallegan works.
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by nandemo 14y ago
Good thing I've been learning Hebrew.
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by nandemo 14y ago
Here's a slightly different example that's still hopefully in the spirit of yours. You're walking in a busy area and a pair of cops stops you and asks you to show your ID and the contents of your bag. 1) Show the ID (which you're required t

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