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by pliny 4y ago
when you pass an electrical current through a resistor you get heat. you can read about this concept here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heating_element
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by pliny 4y ago
If you want to compare grades across semesters you have to either keep the difficulty of the tests constant or adjust the grades to compensate for how difficult the tests were relative to previous semesters. BTW, I don't know if it&#x2
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by pliny 5y ago
Negative feedback means dampening, as in the severity goes down after a shock. The term you're looking for is 'vicious cycle'.
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by pliny 5y ago
He made those trades in late February, not late march, so if the result of those trades was net long he probably did worse than people who traded after hearing the announcements.
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by pliny 5y ago
Why was your office getting so many bomb threats?
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by pliny 5y ago
Voluntary attribution is a solved problem in cryptography, so you can stay private if everything goes well and prove you are the sender or receiver for a given transaction if you need it reversed.
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by pliny 5y ago
Hamas is the government in Gaza.
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by pliny 5y ago
Most market data vendors (including yahoo finance, google finance etc) account for splits (by dividing the historical price) and dividends (by simulating reinvestment). You don't have to think about those events unless you're doin
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by pliny 6y ago
You can trade money for plants
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by pliny 6y ago
I think his spiel has been that while blog readers could trivially find out his real name, but his patients could not (searching 'scott siskind' wouldn't bring up his blog in the first n page of results), until this associati
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by pliny 6y ago
If you have enough cash + leverage to buy the underlying on the puts you won't get margin called, you'll get assigned.
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by pliny 6y ago
Don't have much to say about the rest of the comment but >The spread on most trades is probably in the range of 50c on low liquidity shares and $1 on low liquidity options. Is demonstrably wrong. The minimum spread on options contra
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by pliny 6y ago
If you want to make a PB&B that uses the entire banana, simply peel the banana, coat the flesh in PB, tear up your bread slices and adhere them to the banana. This method is not guaranteed to use all the bread.
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by pliny 6y ago
Notable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20421170 is true this time as well. The catalyst for this submission was https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/12792622549830819... by way of ht
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Newton, the Man (1946)(mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk)
46 points by pliny 6y ago|11 comments
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by pliny 7y ago
Waymo offers Waymo RSUs which are not liquid.
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by pliny 7y ago
This article links to two (!) different Wansink studies.
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by pliny 7y ago
What was the verdict?
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by pliny 7y ago
Thank you.
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by pliny 7y ago
Just want to say it's impossible to tell which paper you're referring to. The first link on the page isn't a paper. The word shehab doesn't appear anywhere on the page. The word shehab doesn't appear anywhere in the
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by pliny 7y ago
What's your point?
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Playing the Game of Infinite Leverage(bloomberg.com)
27 points by pliny 7y ago|6 comments
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by pliny 7y ago
>Amazon’s high productivity quotas forces workers to pee in bottles to avoid bathroom breaks and risk injury working with the automated machines and robots — one of which sent 24 workers to the hospital after spraying them with concentra
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by pliny 7y ago
>They calculated 11 p-values, and got a significant result for two of them under α=0.1. We'd expect that that to happen about half the time if the null hypothesis is true. Not true: > Pairwise comparisons were used to explore sig
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by pliny 7y ago
If you allowed people to sell their kidneys the market price would definitely be a lot higher and the trade in kidneys between homeless people and sick people would leave both groups a lot better off. Today you have one group dying in the s
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by pliny 7y ago
If you go back a year you can get some detail into what HM Revenue and Customs spends it's money on (90% of it is under the title 'social protection' which is child welfare and tax credits). The collection and enforcement loo
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by pliny 7y ago
>Poor Gandhi can't win https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/10-11/30/enacted
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by pliny 7y ago
Washington had a revenue neutral carbon tax on the ballot in 2016 and that was (imo unfortunately) rejected by voters. The revenue for the carbon tax would have funded a reduction in the sales tax: https://ballotpedia.org/Wa
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by pliny 7y ago
Don't you need at least one other piece of identifying info to make that useful? Like, I could churn out mostly valid gmail passwords all day, but I have no idea which users have those passwords.
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by pliny 7y ago
None of the rules he sets out for access to index are true for ICs within google trying to run over even the top/smallest tier of pages in the index.

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