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by pp 16y ago
I have credit cards at a bunch of banks here in Russia and what they do is they send you a one-time password in a text message every time you make a purchase online. It's the same VbV/SecureCode window and everything but you don't get to cr
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by pp 16y ago
Which is terrible. If you really need business cards in two languages, just order two different sets.
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by pp 17y ago
What would be the top 3 items on that list?
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by pp 17y ago
Shouldn't they be able to get B1 visas with the company they founded? It's most probably registered in the US. But then again, the US immigration system is seriously broken.
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by pp 17y ago
I wonder about this, too. I mean, it's funny how people have all these rights including freedom of movement and residence, but only within the country . The economists usually praise mobility of the population. I wonder if the current stat
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by pp 17y ago
Just in case someone from the Dropbox team is reading this, I wanted to compliment on the web UI. Really, it kicks some serious ass. I'm usually very picky when it comes to websites and their design, but this one is just a piece of art.
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by pp 17y ago
When I worked at a large company, their reason for storing passwords (to an online ordering system; for some 1.5 million clients) as plain text was the ability to impersonate users when debugging their problems. Then, after a while, even th
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by pp 17y ago
It has to do with maximizing the return per employee, so to say. Otherwise you might as well fire the employee and save 100% of the salary.
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by pp 17y ago
I would go as far as to say there really are only two things a lower- to mid-level manager should focus on. First--and this is by far the most important thing--she should make sure her subordinates have the best possible environment to do t
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by pp 17y ago
Luck is disguised as genius all the time! Not only do we tend to see just the winners (survivorship bias), those winners honestly mistake their lucky guesses for great decisions (hindsight bias). I would love to study more examples of faile
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by pp 17y ago
Most studies that I'm aware of in behavioral psychology (granted, it's a young branch of science) confirm my point, though. When they tell people about the anchoring heuristic, people still continue to make similar mistakes. One way to expl
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by pp 17y ago
It would make more sense if it was a wiki, so people could link to detailed descriptions/implementations of the algorithms listed. The invitation to email those to the author (at the bottom of the page) is not exactly encouraging.
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by pp 17y ago
To my knowledge, the famous experiments of Kahnenman and Tversky have proven otherwise. When studying the effect of "anchoring", for example, they would actually explain to their subjects how their rational decisions are influenced by this
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by pp 17y ago
> If you want a cup of approximately coffee-shaped liquid in the morning, Starbucks is great because it's the same coffee anywhere. Which really is the point of branding in the first place.
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by pp 17y ago
On a serious note, have people been more educated in probability, the economic crisis might not have turned out as bad. Look at Nassim Taleb to see how far some probability consciousness can get you.
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by pp 17y ago
While I certainly agree with you, I must admit that it never occurred to me that the whole monkey typist experiment depends on the assumption of the monkey's being able to actually hit each key. :)
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by pp 17y ago
Isn't that simply because work is harder? This is one end of spectrum, and the other one is laying on the beach doing nothing, which becomes tiresome even sooner. Games are somewhere in between--something for the brain to chew on the edge o
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by pp 17y ago
Привет :) Not exactly not specialties, but thanks for the info. Funny that you've mentioned Parallels--they are about as much of a start-up as Google.
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by pp 17y ago
http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/taskwatch (note the release date).
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by pp 17y ago
Russia, anyone?
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by pp 17y ago
Shouldn't there NOT be 200-line methods in the first place?
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by pp 17y ago
Some say that the Drake Equation has too many variables that are impossible to even guess, let alone estimate. For example, here's a great article: http://www.crichton-official.com/speech-alienscauseglobalwar...