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by powera 12y ago
From the (terrible) article: "The Nicholas Fund, which he has run since 1969, has topped the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index by an average of 2 percentage points a year for the past 40 years and has beaten it every year since 2008. If
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by powera 12y ago
Well, technically the probability of getting exactly 1 should be 0. Thanks to rounding, it isn't literally a 0 probability, but for any practical purposes the open and closed sets should be equivalent.
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by powera 12y ago
"They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
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by powera 12y ago
I hate to be the naysayer, but NOBODY SHOULD USE THIS. If you don't have a lot of money, open a Vanguard account and forget about it. If you don't have the $1000 to set up a Vanguard account, put your money in an FDIC-insured ban
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by powera 12y ago
I think we have to face that the FDA is incompetent and corrupt. Getting a drug approved is more dependent on how much money you want to spend than on whether it works. Some drugs that may be effective are delayed for years and years ( h
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by powera 12y ago
I'm also very skeptical that it's actually a congressman; if the person is this bitter about Washington why did they just spend so much effort getting elected 3 months ago? Beyond that, members DON'T vote with party leadershi
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by powera 12y ago
It doesn't matter if it's a fraud, a con, or even real; this article is terrible and should never have been published in any reputable news source. These claims of being "verified" or "replicated" are complete
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by powera 12y ago
I know I'm going to get downvoted for this comment, but: what the literal fuck? That article seems to only be a borderline incoherent mix of various claims of racism, anti-communism, pro-communism, and anti-semitism directed at nobody
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by powera 12y ago
Sometimes I worry that the epidemics (or potential epidemics, rather) will continue until eventually our incompetence in large-scale organization overtakes all of the 20th century innovations in medicine.
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by powera 12y ago
The real question is: if you care that much about performance, why would you use the un-optimized PHP runtime?
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by powera 12y ago
No mention of demographics, the inflation rate, the T-bill risk-free rate of return, or of the GDP growth rate (I'm not saying any or all of these ARE correlated, they're just things I think it would be obvious to analyze before j
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by powera 12y ago
That does seems wrong. First, did Osama (or Al Qaeda) really have any experience with hacking computer systems in this way? Second, why would you rely on "static routing tables" and "certificates" for defending against
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by powera 12y ago
The last paragraph of the article, literally verbatim: If it does take off, it will probably start small. It’s not hard to picture groups of friends using it to create custom coins based on inside jokes. Anderson says there would actually b
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by powera 12y ago
Congratulations on making Tinder even less useful than it is now.
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by powera 12y ago
For the record, I'm calling shenanigans. Solving multiple problems "magically" with a product in a closed beta, with no press about people having tried it? Seems unlikely that it will do half the stuff promised in the next
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by powera 12y ago
This is a bit of a flippant dismissal, but the interview reads as if it's Mitt Romney answering the questions, not someone in the tech community.
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by powera 12y ago
This appears to be unrelated to the Kuro5hin derived CMS named Scoop?
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by powera 12y ago
Are you seriously suggesting they have no expenses other than buying the USB drives? Shipping and handling have to cost something here, for one. And having an inventory. EDIT: Also, from the article: "Mr Bahar and Mr Imbesi's pl
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by powera 12y ago
You're not going to figure out the room number based on what lamp is in the room.
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by powera 12y ago
The inmate still died. It's almost double-talk to call it "botched" when you accidentally kill someone a different way than you were intending to kill them.
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by powera 13y ago
I think it's worth noting this article in any discussion about Herbalife: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/10/business/staking-1-billion... (summary: lots of people have lots of money invested in whet
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by powera 13y ago
I think that's just people suggesting companies that have had a recent people of hiring people that say stupid things, not serious speculation. [Brendan Eich, Tom Preston-Warner, Tom Perkins] Because vicg@ also says a lot of stupid t
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by powera 13y ago
We're still working on adding new features to the API - there are a few known missing features we'd like to add (like "Like" support) but are also interested in feedback for what features people specifically want. [note:
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by powera 13y ago
Yes. Selectively demonstrating a ridiculous amount of outrage at the hate target of the day is absurd. The fact that you couldn't possibly do it in every similar situation shows why it is absurd.
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by powera 13y ago
I think the moral of the story is that if you are so concerned about IMMEDIATELY deleting your data and a 48 hour period where you can recover it is unacceptable, you should definitely run your own servers.
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by powera 13y ago
Why are there so many comments complaining this is confusing, and so few explaining what it actually does?
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by powera 13y ago
From the very end - these guys sound REALLY bitter: """If you read this whole thing. Thank you. Wow. If you scrolled down here and skimmed it or just wanted to see if there was a prize at the end, well, you're here. It
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by powera 13y ago
The most striking thing to me is that they seem to be aggressively motivating people to longer reservations. For RDS they only dropped prices for on-demand (which is still expensive) and 3 year, heavy utilization instances.
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Quip 1.7 – Like Button, Comments, and Themes(quip.com)
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by powera 13y ago
"With dozens of groups working on the problem and an eventual market worth probably $1 trillion I have no doubt there will be a solution within the next couple of years." - people have been saying effectively the same thing about

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