paul_milovanov

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by paul_milovanov 8y ago
apropos, Tim Harford is an economist and an author of multiple exceptional books on economics targeted to the general public, not a reporter. He manages to show how deeply fascinating economics is and that economic phenomena are part of the
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by paul_milovanov 8y ago
Exactly. Google has a nice internal solution where data at rest is encrypted with a record-unique (or bucket-unique) key and a separate system decides whether to give you that key based on whether you give it auth tokens that entitle you to
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by paul_milovanov 8y ago
It did work out for me with GEO (doubled my position on the sharp drop) but I bought stock because I had no idea when it might rebound. Options are far less forgiving if you're wrong on timing.
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by paul_milovanov 8y ago
That emphatically didn't work out for me with Valiant. Remember, options have expiries. And also it only makes sense if market implied volatility of your options contract is way below the upside move you expect. I.e buying calls at 50%
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by paul_milovanov 8y ago
Hold on, even if you keep the demographic data in plaintext, surely you can encrypt the actual HIPAA-protected data?
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by paul_milovanov 8y ago
Hold on, do you know for a fact that EPIC specifically doesn't encrypt data at rest? I'm not questioning your competence/knowledge, just trying to understand specifically what you're saying.
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by paul_milovanov 8y ago
This comment contains chemicals known to the state of California
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by paul_milovanov 8y ago
Look, given that for the majority of cancers there are no definitive environmental causes, the state of California should basically slap a sticker like that on the forehead of each one of its residents. Anything else is not full disclosure.
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by paul_milovanov 8y ago
Isn't everything?
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by paul_milovanov 8y ago
This is an extremely arrogant, ignorant and condescending statement.
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by paul_milovanov 8y ago
Why don't you post a video of setting half of your salary in cash on fire, and then you get the moral right to make that statement. :) Nobody is willing to pay the cost of that. Not that it's even necessarily the ethical thing to
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by paul_milovanov 8y ago
There's no question that the current Xinjiang situation is tragic, that the Chinese measures are draconian, and that the sooner these camps close and people can return to living their lives the better. God forbid this were to escalate
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by paul_milovanov 8y ago
That's how I know that a town like Ogdensburg, NY exists. Used to have a UPS mailbox there when I lived in Ottawa, about 70 km driving distance. Crossing the border however is a drag.
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by paul_milovanov 8y ago
Can't beat the US for gently used high-end suspenders/braces on eBay.
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by paul_milovanov 8y ago
See: sunk cost fallacy
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by paul_milovanov 8y ago
Build a big, beautiful wall.
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by paul_milovanov 8y ago
s/Microsoft/some guy at Microsoft/g
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by paul_milovanov 8y ago
I'll speculate that a freight 747 is still fundamentally structurally a plane designed to have windows (with the correspondingly reinforced fuselage) but with minor tweaks. I'd be very surprised if that's not the case. You&#x
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by paul_milovanov 8y ago
Your advice would be a lot more convincing if you had a youtube video of a demo to come with it. Just saying. :P
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by paul_milovanov 9y ago
It sure claims that they're all mostly useless though.
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by paul_milovanov 9y ago
Suppose I have peanuts and you have shellfish. I don't care for peanuts (in fact, I'm allergic to them). The subjective value that I assign to them is zero (or negative) Same thing, you don't care for shellfish (religious rea
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by paul_milovanov 9y ago
>> The growth of “zero-sum” activities may, however, be even more important. Look around the economy, and it’s striking how much high-talent manpower is devoted to activities that cannot possibly increase human welfare, but e
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by paul_milovanov 10y ago
If I ordered the parts individually and read the repair manual, I could replace the starter in my car for much less money than taking it to the mechanic. The only reason why I don't attempt that is time and effort getting directed in a
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by paul_milovanov 10y ago
Upside insurance isn't free. There's no free lunch.
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by paul_milovanov 10y ago
Come on, people. Not "we are working on", but "if I were to start working".
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by paul_milovanov 10y ago
Snakes?!! Velociraptors!!!!
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by paul_milovanov 10y ago
Furthermore, almost 100% of private day traders lose money! — from the your headline is meaningless and you should feel bad dept :P
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by paul_milovanov 10y ago
Consider mentioning Dan Bloomberg as the author of the original work as well as Leptonica. :)
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by paul_milovanov 10y ago
I absolutely would not rule out that this can open new research on for example homeopathy and acupuncture.
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by paul_milovanov 10y ago
5 channels? those are some whooping-ass channels.

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