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by paul_f 6y ago
That sounds a bit like sunk cost fallacy? The development money is already spent, so the willingness to build the aircraft would seem to be based only on the marginal cost. But with modern financial engineering, who knows.
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by paul_f 6y ago
What Apple is forcing is NOT a free trial. It is first-month-free, which is altogether different. Using the phrase free-trial is a lie.
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by paul_f 6y ago
And this is why anti-trust laws exist.
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by paul_f 6y ago
Google is under fire for removing political speech they don't like, not spam. This is where losing the 230 protections become a problem for them.
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by paul_f 6y ago
This is not really true, in fact, in my opinion, it is the opposite of this. Services are given immunity if they don't moderate their content. Once they moderate it, they lose the protections. Facebook want to moderate content and rece
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by paul_f 6y ago
Be careful, everytime I make this point I get berated by the Spacex fan boys. The reality is, making high speed trading faster adds no true value to society. And therefore I find this entire project sad.
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by paul_f 6y ago
Brands pay for placement. Promoting a store brand over another brand that paid for placement, not one that is necessarily better, is not a problem IMO. It is good business. You're gonna lose advertising dollars, but that's a busin
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by paul_f 6y ago
Remember when everyone was all for net neutrality? This is no different IMO.
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by paul_f 6y ago
Breeding? Was that really necessary? :-)
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by paul_f 6y ago
I hope you didn't mean this as elitist as it comes across. There's nothing wrong with blue-collar coding
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by paul_f 6y ago
In any given fund, true. VCs re always raising the next fund and need to show results.
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by paul_f 6y ago
I would say some large states are also doing well per-capita - Texas, California, Florida - all three less than one-third the per-capita death rate for the country as a whole. California is 3X Montana, New York is 86X Montana.
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by paul_f 6y ago
Could one split the difference with "just under"? Or maybe add an expected value or prior value, and the algorithm would adjust how it is phrased?
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by paul_f 7y ago
Do the inverse of this and open a stand at a fair :-)
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by paul_f 7y ago
Is this how sports schedules, NFL, NBA, etc are made?
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by paul_f 7y ago
I guess we will know in about a week?
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by paul_f 7y ago
What a vast understatement
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by paul_f 7y ago
I don't agree there is a common definition of end-to-end encryption. Ask a random, non-technical co-worker what they think it means and you might get an answer that matches Zoom's marketing claims.
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by paul_f 7y ago
Honestly, while it's wouldn't be my choice, I am glad someone is running this test
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by paul_f 7y ago
That is true. But, this particular coronavirus seems more likely to cause pneumonia than influenza.
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by paul_f 7y ago
can't really reach that conclusion. Mortality rate is too dependent on how many people have been tested, not the underlying mortality. Nobody knows the true denominator in these equations.
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by paul_f 7y ago
The video shows a plot of "new cases", which might be measuring the rollout of testing, not the actual increase in number of people with the virus. It is also not showing data per-capita. In other words, this is not terribly usefu
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by paul_f 7y ago
Knowing the actual CFR allows us to set the right policy. The seasonal flu has a range of 0.10 and 0.015% CFR. At what point do we shut down society? 0.4% 0.6%? And I know this will get me down=voted, but what if COVID-19 is everywhere alre
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by paul_f 7y ago
Is it possible for the number of cases counted to go up simply because more testing is occurring, while the number of people with the virus has leveled off?
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by paul_f 7y ago
If you are travelling inside of one country, France or Germany for example, it's great. However, if you want to take the train from Barcelona to Milan, it's 11 hours and 40 minutes. If you fly, it is 1 hour and 40 minutes.
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by paul_f 7y ago
Do you understand how economics works? When money from outside your city is spent in your city, that is a huge net benefit to everyone.
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by paul_f 7y ago
Try Lyft a few times before you do that
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by paul_f 7y ago
Even with free tuition, you still have to pay for living expenses, which are often much higher than tuition at an in-state school.
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by paul_f 7y ago
Brilliant strategy - graduate college, file bankruptcy, get rid of the student loan debt. Most college graduates rent for the first few years and with the utility of VISA debit cards, no need for a credit card. Live in a city, use public tr
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by paul_f 7y ago
What about a long time family-owned pizza place that owns their space. Does it seem right to raise their property taxes?

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