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From Orwell to Gladwell and Back(takimag.com)
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by pitt1980 10y ago
I don't get the reference nuclear energy appears to be the safest energy option, and has been for many years now
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by pitt1980 10y ago
"To sidestep the randomness of observed outcomes, we focus on modeling the probability of a successful outcome for a given case. Secondly, to account for the context or difficulty of the case, we measure the change in the probability o
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by pitt1980 10y ago
who pays for their own education? usually it's some combination of parents and government backed loans or grants even when people pay for their own education in the form of future loans, they're doing so with highly imperfect info
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by pitt1980 10y ago
I hope people aren't seriously basing their political opinions off documentaries but I'm sure people do base their opinions off whatever appeals to their logic and emotions, in whatever medium it comes in
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by pitt1980 10y ago
Yes, racking up $100K of debt may seem good because you now have a 6 figure job which is good for the economy. However, what they don't explain is why $100K of debt was needed, and not say $10K. Or why you shouldn't just take $1M
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by pitt1980 10y ago
"people here pride themselves on a kind of militant open-mindedness. It is the kind of place that will severely punish any deviations from accepted schools of thought" interesting phrase
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by pitt1980 10y ago
How did Iceland recover from it's banking crisis? --------- Iceland's rapid return to health hinged on a series of measures that Nobel laureate Paul Krugman later referred to as "doing an Iceland." Krugman, an admirer of
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by pitt1980 10y ago
https://m.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/4pd1cz/gmail_mark... https://m.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/4paj4d/gmail_putt... http://xoxohth.com/thr
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Google selectively sends Donald J Trump to spam(m.reddit.com)
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by pitt1980 10y ago
how am I able to buy a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store for $5? seems like I've getting pretty much everything that's economically viable from the chicken, plus a fair amount of labor put into the chicken
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by pitt1980 10y ago
I'm not actually sure that there's that big a markup over all the tickets sold Most of the big mark up tickets are bought from season ticket packages, which include plenty of dud games that can only be resold at a loss Averaged ov
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by pitt1980 10y ago
http://www.stubhub.com/nba-finals-tickets/grouping/145491/ Seems like there are tickets to be had if you want them Not sure why I should be upset people can't get below market prices
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by pitt1980 10y ago
I'd bet a shockingly high percentage of however they're defining 'online abuse' - is specifically middle to high school age girls targeting other middle to high school age girls
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by pitt1980 10y ago
I suspect people who've read Talib make a lot of money in prediction markets this year from people who just read Nate Silver
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by pitt1980 10y ago
http://fooledbyrandomness.com/minority.pdf this chapter interesting contrasts with this blog post http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/12/01/setting-the-default/ ------------- a better writer
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by pitt1980 10y ago
"I'm surprised about a lot of accusation of arrogance,etc... From what I have read his arrogance, might be misconceived as he is willingness to call out anybody on what he perceived as their BS." ---------------- I'm not
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by pitt1980 10y ago
given how 538 seemed to want to be positioned in the market place, I'm pretty disappointed with how similar their model of 'shocking headlines over actual depth' is to what are generally dismissed as low brow competitors its
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by pitt1980 10y ago
doesn't seems like a very good disguise how often do you see a google streetview car? shouldn't about 1 or 2 passes a year get them the info they need? if you saw a google streetview car in the same neighborhood, 5 or 6 times in t
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Ask HN: Does Trump's nomination affect Big Data, analytics, or the singularity?
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by pitt1980 11y ago
bankruptcy isn't exactly a get out of jail free card I'm not an expert in this area, but I suspect if you're interested in qualifying for a mortgage in the future, bankruptcy is something you should think twice about I'm
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by pitt1980 11y ago
"on the basis that they had to recoup it and more within a single night" I'm not sure that's exactly right I'm not exactly a regular club goer, but every once in a while I hear my co-workers talk about various place
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by pitt1980 11y ago
http://www.amazon.com/2-Hour-Job-Search-Technology-Faster/dp... I think this is a really useful, easy to read, book good luck
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by pitt1980 11y ago
People find religion useful Ideas can be useful even if they're not scientifically valid nuggets of fact There are 7 billion unique people on the planet, all in unique situations, if you reduce the ideas you find help to those with sci
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Minerva has lower acceptance rate than Harvard or Yale(marginalrevolution.com)
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by pitt1980 11y ago
"People try to buy software businesses with “no money down.” (“Will you loan me the entire purchase price of the business? I’ll pay you back over the next 3 years. Promise!”)" ---------------- While I see why you would have run aw
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by pitt1980 11y ago
sounds like he was counting his HN posts, which, high quality as they may be, is a pretty low standard for "publishable"
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by pitt1980 11y ago
Seems like the cost-benefit analysis of caning looks pretty positive
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Website Went Offline and Took Most of Women’s Basketball Analytics with It(fivethirtyeight.com)
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What Ivy League students are reading that you aren’t(washingtonpost.com)
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