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Computers used to “solve” two-person, limit Texas hold’em(arstechnica.com)
2 points by nohuck13 12y ago|0 comments
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by nohuck13 13y ago
Indeed. The first thing that would happen if water were a lot more scarce is that lots of things would become more expensive, since water is an input to just about everything. Presumably people would change their behaviour in lots of ways
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by nohuck13 13y ago
"As for Ayn Rand, just how much have her ideas influencedthe community's design? Mr Johnson admits he never finished “Atlas Shrugged”. "I'm not actually much of a reader," he says. "Watched the movie and skimme
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by nohuck13 13y ago
"A worker moving to a new town 30 years ago took a huge leap of faith about her new home and workplace. By making information more accessible, the Internet has improved the quality of any given move. As a result, Americans’ moves are s
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by nohuck13 13y ago
> "ATM, 1 bitcoin is worth ~350 times more than one Federal Reserve Note, making Bitcoin the most valuable currency in the world. The value of the M1 money supply (all the cash) of USD is $2.5 trillion. The value of the BTC money s
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by nohuck13 13y ago
Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1699256938/the-vanamo-on...
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by nohuck13 13y ago
The NYSE matching engines are in Mahwah, NJ, about 20 miles from the NYSE floor. If you rent colo space there's you're actually in the same building.
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by nohuck13 13y ago
Can you explain this? Is it the pursuit of wealth that's reprehensible to you? Violating the taboo against talking too openly about it? Or just the ridiculous award? I don't find it reprehensible at all. It's not like the
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Students Are 'Hacking' Their School-Issued iPads: Good for Them(theatlantic.com)
1 points by nohuck13 13y ago|0 comments
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by nohuck13 13y ago
In practice, the US has lots of bilateral income tax treaties [1] that prevent expats' getting doubly taxed. For example, I'm an American living in London but I don't pay US taxes for work done here because the tax rate is h
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High-Profile MOOC Prof Dumps Coursera(nation.time.com)
5 points by nohuck13 13y ago|0 comments
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by nohuck13 13y ago
When Google sponsors an awesome project like this, I see the tech company equivalent of Nike sponsoring LeBron James for $105 million. Even if the R&D angle doesn't work out, Google gets real value (i.e. indirectly interchangeable
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by nohuck13 13y ago
American Airlines gold status (the lowest frequent flyer status level) is not actually that generous. It's basically priority boarding, a little bit of priority on the upgrade queue (if you want to pay for the upgrade with upgrade vou
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by nohuck13 13y ago
11. "The framework I found, which made the decision [to start Amazon in 1994] incredibly easy, was what I called a regret minimization framework. I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, 'OK, I'm looking back on
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by nohuck13 13y ago
Completely agree with all the "feels like it's been around forever" sentiment. I was surprised to read this post and be reminded that it's only been five years! One of the things if feels like people have overlooked in
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by nohuck13 13y ago
I'd never thought about this line of reasoning but it's an interesting hypothetical question. The Wikipedia article on insider trading is surprisingly informative on the counterarguments: "Milton Friedman, laureate of the No
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Twitter's IPO: Flying Towards the Stock Market(economist.com)
4 points by nohuck13 13y ago|0 comments
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by nohuck13 13y ago
The "understanding-first" approach is so right, especially with a topic like Bayesian methods where the logic makes _so much sense_, and yet is so easy to miss by brute-force memorization of equations. IPython notebook is a great
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by nohuck13 13y ago
I guess a good answer to that question would be a PhD dissertation, not a HN comment. I wish I knew the answer, or that it was easy for me to express Very true :) we are not the first to discuss this. Nor is it the first time a leg
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by nohuck13 13y ago
That makes sense. I'm not sure positive rights such as the right to a lawyer, or the right to police protection, are fundamental human rights. If you draw a distiction between positive and negative liberty a la Kant [1], you can argu
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by nohuck13 13y ago
What rights do you think have changed?
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by nohuck13 13y ago
I would argue the right to literacy is already a human right. The price of books is orthogonal.
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by nohuck13 13y ago
Agreed, although I don't mind so much whether they are making money off it- anyone making money off promoting freedom of speech is welcome to promote free speech as a human right. But there's an issue of basic human right inflatio
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by nohuck13 13y ago
The other responses are great. But one meta point I think is worth making. Don't overestimate how much competency you gain from just getting a CS degree. Lots of people coasted their way through undergrad without internalizing a hec
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by nohuck13 13y ago
Am I the only on that thinks this is a bit of an overreach? Seems to me, good justifications for legislating would be -If customers were being tricked into paying roaming charges in nefarious ways; -If there were serious externalities some
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by nohuck13 13y ago
Probably the plaintiffs believe in good faith that they are pushing for positive social change against a nefarious practice (and they certainly seem misguided, at best, to me). But -It's a class-action suit. It's not unlikely th
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by nohuck13 13y ago
Quick refresher on what the word "shortage" actually means. SHORTAGE: Below market rent-controls. If more people want housing than there are apartments, and the price can't adjust, that's a shortage. SHORTAGE: An oil su
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by nohuck13 13y ago
Last 4 digits of SSN is particularly flagrant. I could almost believe (if I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt, which I don't, particularly) that they are using name and email as good-faith identifiers to let me opt out. Af
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by nohuck13 13y ago
It's interesting how many more trees there are in 2013. My wife pointed out that it looks the same with pictures of New York from the early 20th century- green space just wasn't a thing we had the desire/means to rate as hig
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by nohuck13 13y ago
I'm not sure that was what jahewson meant.

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