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by princeb 10y ago
> that many people (men, in particular) say their greatest regret was working so hard i think many people also regret not working harder.
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by princeb 10y ago
i don't see any anti-autonomy in that post? he's definitely anti "disguising level 2 as autonomy" though.
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by princeb 10y ago
>The whole point of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier music is that tunes transposed to different keys sounded different, so you needed to compose the music specifically for each key. that sounds wrong. tranposing a piece into the instrument&
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by princeb 10y ago
> 2. Learn your intervals > 4c. Get a good feel for common jumps i think that's why the current system works so well. most musicians have intervals burned into their muscles. to use an excel reference, reading R1C1 from the stave
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by princeb 10y ago
if you were hoping for a nerdy treatise on musical rhythm, harmony, form, cadences, sequences and motifs, and evolution from baroque to classical to romantic to modern... well this is not it. edit: just a comment about the temperament- befo
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by princeb 10y ago
my home called to me pre-college at 10 years old in a nationally administered gifted program. i only realised a few years later that everyone there was just like me and totally different from everyone else at the same time. university, even
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by princeb 10y ago
like he said the rounding made 975000 an impossible result. if you have rounding or some kind of non-continuous function the right feature to use is actually Solver (which is an included add in you have to enable in Excel options) which pro
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by princeb 10y ago
> some people that felt they weren't ready for the real world. i know some of these people. i suspect a lot of phds are people like these. of those who stay through the entire 3-5 year program, yet some are happy to remain post docs
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by princeb 10y ago
"Bing" also means stellar.
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by princeb 10y ago
you can still use table names in vlookups, and it will still not solve your problem because vlookups do not work by table headers but by column numbers
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by princeb 10y ago
there are a few unique issues i face with excel beyond the stats package. 1. if you shift cells (ctrl c, ctrl v) around, delete or insert rows, you may mess up existing cell references in formulas without realizing it. your vlookups, hlooku
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by princeb 10y ago
they were not hidden. they were released ahead of time. the uncanny accuracy of an expectation article a month before the official release led to the opening of the case
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by princeb 10y ago
unauthorized dissemination of economic data is a serious offense in many countries. in the states, you can go to prison for it. in this Singapore case, the journalists and the official involved were fined. no jail. lucky them. the official
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by princeb 10y ago
you might get personal details of a single person by going through the public internet, but find your way onto a civil servant's machine and you might get personal details of everyone in Singapore. guessing it's probably going to
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by princeb 10y ago
i don't know whether this is true or not... maybe hongyi can comment here ;) but a lot of personal data in Singapore is wonderfully linked up across almost all government departments in the country. all government services can be acces
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by princeb 10y ago
i am a decidedly non-morning person. i wake up at 4 am everyday because i need to get into the office by 5, and lots of things needs to be done by 7. by noon my productivity falls off a cliff and I am a zombie by 6 pm but the social life be
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by princeb 10y ago
the RCEP is apparently being written to allow members to play fast and loose with IP and labour laws. If TPP goes through, TPP members signing the RCEP will not accept an agreement that allows non TPP members to be held to a lower standard
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by princeb 10y ago
this is probably less to do with avoiding capital restrictions but more money laundering. as far as i know, that is illegal almost everywhere. it doesn't seem to be a big deal to Russia because > When Moscow regulators looked into t
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by princeb 10y ago
> compare performance versus frequency of trading The paper for this would be the famous barber/odean's "boys will be boys" [1] [1] https://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/odean/papers/gender/
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by princeb 10y ago
> Put them everywhere and behaviour will eventually return to where it was. don't understand this comment - you mean to say vehicle drivers will eventually resume driving on lanes that are separated by traffic cones? i suppose they
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by princeb 10y ago
not the one downmodding you but.. haha no it doesn't! the median lost almost all its value because the median of (0.5, 0.5, 1e9) is 0.5
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by princeb 10y ago
well, now i'm selling two homes in Antarctica for 50 cents each.
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by princeb 10y ago
in the US the chinatowns (used to be) largely populated by toisanese emigrants. it is now mostly HK/China prestige yue and mandarin speakers, but the traditional image of the american Chinatown is seiyap.
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by princeb 10y ago
> considers-self-Chinese, can't-even-properly-speak-Mandarin i don't think true ethnic chinese speak mandarin. that language is something that was only recently (in the grand span of chinese history) imposed upon the rest of ch
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by princeb 10y ago
a hard disk jockey, maybe.
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by princeb 10y ago
as long as they have any kind of non-correlation, they will benefit from merging. > would you say it is wise to continue eating the fruit i would say it is wise to do what the 2 survivors did... which is to have a diversified portfolio o
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by princeb 10y ago
> And part of that increased regulation ought to be splitting investment banking risk from retail banking risk again. Both are risky enough as is. Combining their (sometimes correlated!) risk is a really bad idea. the implication of call
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by princeb 10y ago
combination of (1) more riders (2) fewer taxis because (a) taxi companies cover damage on a limited basis i think (b) driver pays for repairs out of pocket and then goes through a lengthy and painful assessment and reimbursement process (c)
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by princeb 10y ago
> at any comparable business like college football?
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by princeb 10y ago
i think this is the right idea increasing housing supply sounds like the best straightforward solution but the outcome you want to avoid is one where the government rapidly increases housing supply to match demand in order to keep apartment

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