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by niggler 13y ago
At the lower levels, sure. But once you start getting into more specialized fields, there are generally more courses and more professors compared to less prestigious counterparts. It's not that there aren't sharp people at less prestigious
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I'd like to propose an alternate interpretation: There is some desired heterogeneity of intellect. Elite Colleges aren't just looking for sharp mathematicians. They want to attract sharp physicists, sharp philosophers, sharp linguists, sh
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"The reason you want to go to those schools is not their top-notch academics" I assume you didn't go to an Ivy League school. Most of the people who are there by academic merit genuinely are at the top of their academic year/class. If you
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by niggler 13y ago
This is relatively new (early 2013 retina macbook pro 15", MacBookPro10,1, 2.7 Ghz, 16GB Memory), so I would think WebGL would work in both places ...
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by niggler 13y ago
You misread my statement. The claim the parent made was that $15 was near cost, and I was stating my experience that the soup-to-nuts cost is closer to $10 (and could be lower)
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by niggler 13y ago
The original ( http://codepen.io/stuffit/pen/KrAwx ) feels much more responsive (when feeding the same dimensions -- 114,53 -- as what your version uses), tested on Firefox 19.0.2 and Chrome 26.0.1410.65
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by niggler 13y ago
Food trucks are here to stay. In NYC, at least, it's the cheapest, fastest, and easiest way to get lunch. There's a true structural advantage (much much lower fixed overhead)
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especially if it's near the $15 dollar level (which is pretty much cost). I remember ordering once (this was 7 years ago) at $5-$7 a tee and USPS charged around 2.75 at the time, for a grand total closer to $10
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by niggler 13y ago
In this project, the tee is $40. In VM the tee is $25. But I think the soundtrack was seen by Braff as a Big Deal, which is probably why it shows up at a lower price point ($20) than the tee.
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by niggler 13y ago
Looking back on the veronica mars kickstarter ( http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/559914737/the-veronica-m... ) I'm surprised to see that most of the largest pledges were hit (1/1 at $10K, 3/3 at $8K, 3/3 at $6.5K, 4/5 at $5K, 10/10 at $3
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by niggler 13y ago
In my experience, likelihood of spam content is correlated with number of ads or tracking cookies (the indicator number in ghostery). I expect posts with more than 5 tracking cookies/ads to be spam (and yes, techcrunch rings in at 15, and
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by niggler 13y ago
You are rewarded for using Ghostery and other anti-spam measures when reading HN
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by niggler 13y ago
Discussion from a month ago (hit the front page): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5405371
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by niggler 13y ago
In the securities industry high salaries are common because they usually are paired with lower percentage payouts. If you want a higher payout, you are generally expected to take a small or no salary (in the extreme case)
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by niggler 13y ago
Warning: There was a fund that tried to do this ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derwent_Capital_Markets ) and didn't exactly succeed
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by niggler 13y ago
You clearly haven't bothered to learn about their service: "To calculate the exchange rate for US Dollars, we pull up-to-the-minute BID prices from three exchanges. We take the 2 that are closest together and toss out the third, so that a b
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by niggler 13y ago
IF that happens. There is still a chicken-egg dynamic at play (businesses don't plan on holding BTC and no one seems to reliably hedge against USDBTC volatility at a scale that justifies using it for business. Expenses are still in dollars
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by niggler 13y ago
It gets better: http://devimages.apple.com/ File not found."
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by niggler 13y ago
"the fee associated with delivery from its stores will be higher, clocking in at $9.99 for your collection of items, stiffer than the normal $3.99 rate." I'm sure Costco is getting a portion of that fee.
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by niggler 13y ago
Nonzero chance Herndon gets a percentage of the ad revenue.
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by niggler 13y ago
" didn't want to get drawn into a demarcation debate." Econ and Psych really do lie in a gray area, and by avoid the demarcation debate you completely miss the relevance of the issue at hand. If policy makers weren't using this study to jus
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by niggler 13y ago
"is not something confined to one partisan side" True, but I haven't seen a liberal think tank manipulate charts in that specific manner.
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by niggler 13y ago
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5575631
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by niggler 13y ago
"science and related fields " But we are talking about economics, and republican groups like fox news eat it up. My favorite example is the 2011 chart distorting the display of the unemployment rate: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2011/12/12
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by niggler 13y ago
"journals could start requiring a git link that contains data, code, and paper drafts." But when the goal is to create a result rather than report it, transparency is the enemy
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by niggler 13y ago
Someone discussed it here a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2828804 "Most platforms slow down when there is an influx of orders into the market. Some are designed to force events during the process (which allows for action
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by niggler 13y ago
"* owns their own private jet/yacht/other signs of opulence" What if they got their private jet by tricking others into following the strategy?
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It's also possible they have such a low cost basis (remember that it wasn't that long ago when BTC was less than 1 USD) that 30 represents s massive profit
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One part that's missing here is that a bunch of people following a suboptimal strategy may have the mass to overwhelm those following an optimal strategy (but who don't have enough capital to move prices in their direction)

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