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by overeater 8y ago
Here on the east coast, I use it as my main form of payment. Fast food, grocery stores, gas stations sometimes. I don't carry a wallet anymore, just a sleeve on my phone case for my driver's license.
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by overeater 8y ago
There's a reason hearsay isn't accepted in courts because of its unreliability. But this doesn't strike me as potentially true at all. No university I know of would not take intentional academic fraud seriously. Even the mere
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by overeater 8y ago
That's not true. If I take the top 5 students based on performance in a test, and put them in a group. They will likely do worse the second time around. No need to know the mean.
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by overeater 8y ago
I also don't understand what this javascript library does. "We just show you the essentials: pageviews, referrers, top pages, and screensizes." The information is already there in the server logs, which gives even more accura
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by overeater 8y ago
There's a simpler mathematical explanation. It's called Regression Towards the Mean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean
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by overeater 8y ago
This is cherry picking the most long-lasting supported iPhone and comparing it against the least supported Android phone. Google has guaranteed a minimum of 3 years support now. Plenty of iPhones had only 3 years of support, and same with A
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by overeater 8y ago
It sounds like your two options are that people should 1) do trades: some unpleasant, strenuous work in physically dangerous conditions, for about 10 years hustling day and night before your body gives out for $50K/year? 2) have the go
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by overeater 8y ago
We need to stop pretending young people are complete gullible idiots who don't read anything on the internet or listen to advice from their parents and other adults. There's a simpler explanation and we already know it. Going to c
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by overeater 8y ago
The annoying thing, is since there are more unreputable programs out there, all the stats about PhD students are heavily skewed by those students. Basically this rhetoric about 1/1000 phd students landing a job, or phd graduates being
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by overeater 8y ago
The question is, who becomes the final arbiter? And if that decision is "we should hide this knowledge", how is that enacted? What are the consequences for the researchers? Can you name any specific examples of computer science re
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by overeater 8y ago
The parent post is about college, so this is not about children anymore. I think what making it all free takes away, is the importance of making good decisions about college. If it were all free, I bet a lot fewer students would take it ser
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by overeater 8y ago
AirBnB -- How are their costs significant? Web hosting is extremely cheap. Yelp -- How are their costs significant? Web hosting is extremely cheap. Twitter -- How are their costs significant? Web hosting is extremely cheap.
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by overeater 8y ago
Sorry to be blunt throwawaymath, but that's just wrong. I am very familiar with several American universities (including Ivy League) where the advisor can admit directly.
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by overeater 8y ago
There's no SF city income tax. Are you thinking about sales tax? In most cases, sales tax should be negligible unless you're spending ALL of your money, and spending it ALL on local purchases. Things like flights, vacations, onlin
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by overeater 8y ago
Many waitresses and bartenders I know make $800-1000 in cash tips on a busy weekend, and don't report their tips. They're basically making the equivalent of a six figure salary that is fully taxed. They can do side hustles during
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by overeater 8y ago
Agreed. I think many people just don't do very precise math. But the other part is the extra income tax in CA versus TX, which is about 10% of the income, so subtract 10K from that 70K.
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by overeater 8y ago
Same. I couldn't figure out a working relation ID. This is too hard to use.
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by overeater 8y ago
Many waitresses and bartenders especially at high end places get paid more than almost any other profession, so it's an unfair comparison. My friends who have these jobs pull $200-400 a night in tips, so probably equivalent to $600&#x2
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by overeater 8y ago
I think there's more to it than that when you start doing this. Like which index fund? The Dow Jones or S&P or total index? And just the US market or including international markets to be more diversified? What broker would you use
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by overeater 8y ago
It's the same for many other things on Hacker News. Where it seems like everyone is dissatisfied with higher education, or the federal government, or the evil large tech companies.
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by overeater 8y ago
So you're saying if you buy a house, you will be making incredible gains. If not, then you will be making gains at least as good as everywhere else. Sounds like win-win to me.
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by overeater 8y ago
Yes, thank you. People are quick to point out the Microsoft hasn't done anything detrimental to society, forget that their software is such a mess. We're too focused on judging companies based on whether employees get paternity le
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by overeater 8y ago
Sure, I think we both agree that the price is not proportional to the service as I already stated. The grantparent post (and other posts here) was asking in a way that implied they weren't doing more than hosting pdfs. I was just point
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by overeater 8y ago
While I agree that the publishers are asking for too much, what they provide is the infrastructure and procedures for publishing. I think we'd both agree startups like Yelp and AirBnB provide some non-zero value, yet I can also ask, &q
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by overeater 8y ago
Every economist talk or research project I've seen has been the equivalent of an undergrad data science project but they get access to some unique dataset that the public doesn't have and wear a suit. That's about it. I don&#
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by overeater 9y ago
35% is the marginal tax rate. The actual tax on 300k is 27%.
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by overeater 9y ago
Why are you including state tax of 13% but not social security and medicare which is 7%? Also note that state tax is deductible so it feels more like 9%.
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by overeater 9y ago
The demise of click-bait headlines.
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by overeater 9y ago
Agreed. I made the edit.
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by overeater 9y ago
> If this option doesn't work for you, don't do it. No need to get overly defensive. I'm responding to your argument that this should be more widely known and accepted. Science gets harder to do every year as the the lowes

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