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by neilknowsbest 4y ago
Microsoft has an amusingly academic take on this idea here (PDF): https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
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by neilknowsbest 4y ago
Is this the guy who covered Hunts Point in the Bronx? I remember seeing his pictures, feels like a long time ago now. I found a Flickr album here [0]. I also vaguely recall a long form article, talking about a few different people's
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by neilknowsbest 4y ago
> $ It is observed that sovereign borrowers that inflate their way out of debt find their ability to borrow in the local currency reduced. They may still be able to borrow USD, though. Argentina in particular comes to mind, with someth
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by neilknowsbest 4y ago
As I understand it, most US refiners in the gulf region are tuned for heavier/sourer crudes than is produced domestically. I'm not entirely sure why that is (maybe a historical artifact due to prevalence of those grades in Latin
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by neilknowsbest 4y ago
As an aside, the web page for this story shows pictures of a study participant seated in front of a big monitor displaying their vitals. I don't know much about study design, but I feel like that would confound results.
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by neilknowsbest 4y ago
FWIW I think Page and Brin have retained voting control of the company through some differentiated class of common shares. So Sundar is probably more interested in pleasing them than some Wall Street analysts.
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by neilknowsbest 4y ago
Can you share anything specific about changes to this land policy? I have no knowledge of how this sort of leasing arrangement works in China or elsewhere (Singapore, etc).
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by neilknowsbest 4y ago
Regarding the relevance of the example expenses for Disney: Disney's 2019 Annual Report [0] shows total revenues of $26B for their Parks, Experiences and Products segment. Within that, revenues for admissions are $7.5B, merchandise&#
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by neilknowsbest 4y ago
They might be raising the distinction between "rain forest" and "jungle". As I understand it, A rain forest is a tropical forest characterized by a dense canopy that blocks most sunlight from reaching the floor; it has r
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by neilknowsbest 5y ago
I believe the parent here is making a distinction between "capital" and "money"; "money" being a claim against real physical "capital". When a pile of "capital" is destroyed (i.e. a bushel o
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by neilknowsbest 5y ago
“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they understand about what they imagine they can design” -- Hayek
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by neilknowsbest 5y ago
I can't speak to what the parent comment might have been referencing, but the CDC estimates 120MM infections through May 2021. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
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by neilknowsbest 5y ago
For what it's worth, ERCOT is not subject to FERC regulation, so order 841 doesn't apply to ERCOT.
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by neilknowsbest 6y ago
One issue I've come across is that the query optimizer in Clickhouse does not propagate `where` clauses through a join. My terminology might be wrong, so consider this example: select * from a inner join b using (id) where b.foo = &#x