postgeographic

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by postgeographic 7y ago
Not who you asked, but I work for a large international company, a big 4 professional services firm. I wanted to install anaconda and Jupyter on my machine (data science is not a part of my 'official' job description, but I wanted
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by postgeographic 8y ago
so where does the line between a crime being small enough not to warrant police attention and being big enough to warrant it get drawn? seems pretty arbitrary to me
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by postgeographic 9y ago
By ignoring things like this I suppose - https://econoblog101.wordpress.com/2015/09/15/income-inequal...
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by postgeographic 10y ago
You've clearly not spent any time in London. Your ignorance is showing.
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by postgeographic 10y ago
Information cascade does not necessarily mean no nefarious actor or actors. While I'm not saying there IS a vast conspiracy to take down Uber, I too have felt that there is a concerted push for negative PR on Uber, with the timing of
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by postgeographic 10y ago
You need game theory to realise people are shitty?
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by postgeographic 10y ago
Yeah, have we gone from paying for the product to being the product, as the saying goes
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by postgeographic 10y ago
That's a pretty bullshit generalisation about Russians. Or as it's. More colloquially known, racist.
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by postgeographic 10y ago
Yeah, that's called a buy-and-build strategy, or a bolt-hole strategy. A large number of industries or market segments that are fragmented end up consolidating this way. For example, Lumison is a data center business here in the UK, an