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by ploika 7y ago
It's ironic that you're calling non-disposable items garbage. Genuine question, because everyone's life is different, is it really that big a deal? I bring shopping bags with me when I go grocery shopping. They're more c
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by ploika 7y ago
The Economist was never neutral. It was set up in response to the Corn Laws in the 19th Century Britain and has been very upfront about its ideological standpoint ever since. It's one of the things I like about it. I do believe it&#x27
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by ploika 7y ago
Lighter roasts, and maybe different origins, if you're making your own coffee. The Strength 3 Kenyan and Rwandan coffee in my local supermarket tastes a bit sweeter than the norm to me. I've always taken coffee with a little bit o
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by ploika 8y ago
That's an ironic conclusion to draw. You could test your own theory against observations that calculations with real world data are very much a part of economics, but are just not part of this particular course.
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by ploika 8y ago
M-Pesa could be considered fintech that has improved matters for millions of people.
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There's a serious chance that life will not go on for some in Northern Ireland. People might die there as a direct result of this. Jo Cox already died in England. This is not scaremongering.
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by ploika 8y ago
With respect, the examples you gave seem like more of a problem with employment law and governance in individual countries than with the EU as an institution. The gilet jaunes were/are angry about a carbon tax and lack of wealth taxes.
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by ploika 8y ago
I think "modern" is more of an allusion to Modern Portfolio Theory, which has been around for decades, rather than trying to imply that modern = newer = better. Modern in this sense could loosely mean "after John Maynard Keyn
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by ploika 8y ago
That's not what happened ten years ago in many different countries.
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by ploika 8y ago
"F k business" - Boris Johnson, June 2018 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-44618154
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by ploika 8y ago
Minor nitpick: it would be called Ulster Scots rather than Ulster Irish.
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by ploika 8y ago
Not sure of your age or nationality, but I'm guessing you didn't live through it. (I didn't either, for the record, but my parents did). Ireland in the 70s was not a prosperous place, and trying to pay for things with second
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by ploika 8y ago
Big Clock strikes again.
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by ploika 8y ago
What outcome should be respected though? Nobody voted for Chequers. Which, obviously, isn't acceptable to the EU either in its current form. A lot of people voted for £350m a week extra for the NHS, continued unfettered access to EU ma
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by ploika 8y ago
Monopoly doesn't mean that there's only one company in the market. It means that one company has an overwhelming amount of market share. Google unquestionably fits this description when it comes to internet search, outside of Chin
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by ploika 8y ago
To be fair, the EU can't change geography. We're a sparsely populated island off another island off the main bulk of the continent. They already paid big chunks of the bills for Ireland's roads, ports and airports. Asking the
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by ploika 8y ago
There are loads of decent tech jobs in Dublin, but generally in established companies (including banks and telcos) rather than startups. There's a vibrant enough tech Meetup scene too, so even if you're just paying the bills with
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by ploika 8y ago
It happened about a week or two out from the vote, in a campaign that had been officially been running for a couple of months (I can't remember how long exactly), and had seen low-key unofficial campaigning for easily a couple of years
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by ploika 8y ago
I know some Mediterranean economies could be a bit stronger and the Dublin Regulation isn't really working that well, but you'll have a hard time convincing anyone fleeing barrel bombs that things are better in Eritrea or Syria th
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by ploika 9y ago
Facebook is a for-profit venture so that analogy doesn't really work for me. A closer analogy would be an investment circulating a memo saying that their questionable AML practices are actually no big deal because they really believe
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by ploika 9y ago
r/learnprogramming on Reddit is my suggestion. In general they're much more open to less laser-focused questions than would be allowed on Stack Overflow, and to helping people who might not fully know what questions to ask, or how
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by ploika 9y ago
I did start my post with the words "in my opinion". I am not right or wrong about anything, and neither are you. We're mostly talking about syntax preferences here. I'm separating out traditional statistics as an alias f
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by ploika 9y ago
I've been a heavy R user for about 7 years, and I only slightly disagree with one of your points. (In my opinion) R is best for traditional statistics, as opposed to AI, machine learning, predictive analytics, data science, data analys
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by ploika 9y ago
That's a bit reductionist. I'm saying we should enter into formal contracts for services that are vital to the running of our businesses. That way there's more protection against getting the rug pulled out from underneath us.
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by ploika 9y ago
That doesn't make it any less true.
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by ploika 9y ago
Deloitte, EY, PwC and KPMG literally are the biggest four though. It's not really a myth of superiority, just a recognition of the state of the audit industry.
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by ploika 9y ago
For data analysis and a lot of (maybe most) machine learning tasks, not really. For statistical analysis and modelling, R is still preferable to Python in my experience.
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by ploika 9y ago
The Financial Times' Alphaville blog is my favourite. Free to read once you register. It's not exclusively crypto-related, but they dedicate substantial coverage to developments in the whole crypto/blockchain/ICO space.
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by ploika 9y ago
That's just not accurate at all. It's even less accurate again if you're moving in business/tech circles and not travelling around as a tourist.
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by ploika 10y ago
I see we've reached peak HN early today.

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