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by qq66 12y ago
It seems like an individually game-theoretic optimization to the online shaming problem is to abstain from discussing any controversial or potentially controversial issue, offline or offline, at any time, for any reason.
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by qq66 12y ago
This is a concierge service by text. It makes sense as an idea for two reasons: first, most people don't know the variety of things that a concierge (at a hotel, or credit card provider) can do; second, I've met many people even o
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by qq66 12y ago
Hm? You seem to be saying "If you go to a top PhD school, you'll have the best faculty opportunities." I agree with you there. What I'm saying is that "If you perform extremely well in your undergraduate degree, you
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by qq66 12y ago
The fact that this looks at grad schools rather than undergraduate schools weakens its argument substantially. Students of all capability levels end up in all sorts of undergraduate institutions -- some community college students are brilli
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by qq66 12y ago
In what way? I've spent a considerable amount of time in Calcutta -- it has its extreme positives and extreme negatives like many cities. The analogy needs some clarification.
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by qq66 12y ago
The "fast-followers" in the electric car business trying to play catch-up with Tesla are mostly existing fuel car companies, and they have a lot of assets in their favor: huge teams of experienced car designers, manufacturing and
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by qq66 12y ago
Because it's hard to imagine that anyone actually has a increasing marginal utility of money. If they did, over wide enough of a range, they'd bet their entire life savings on the Powerball. What's much more likely is that
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by qq66 12y ago
A calendar can't be useful without information on who you're meeting and where. For some people, that is highly confidential information.
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by qq66 12y ago
There are at least two possible explanations: 1) Customer service response is highly variable 2) Twilio (like any company) is extra-responsive to customers who have a large audience on the Internet
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by qq66 12y ago
Noncompetes are generally not enforceable in California.
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by qq66 12y ago
This article shows the extent to which the President and his team are playing chess to these Youtubers' tic-tac-toe. By granting interview time to a group so clearly hungry to establish their legitimacy as "real" journalists,
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by qq66 12y ago
Colbert might have been joking, but I've seen clothing tags advertise "Interior pocket fits iPad Mini."
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by qq66 12y ago
> I hear NYC to PHL is 30 mins by heli. Doubtful, unless you're in some kind of military helicopter. NYC to PHL is close to 100 miles, no helicopters go 200 miles per hour.
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by qq66 12y ago
Which is how it should be. I can understand keeping a summary of the data to track the performance of your admissions process, but you shouldn't be keeping highly personal information about students for any longer than it takes to make
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by qq66 12y ago
Why preorder it? Why not just buy it when it comes out?
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by qq66 12y ago
The Kindle Fire tablets are also designed to sell Amazon content, but they benefit the customer with their rock-bottom pricing which the Fire Phone did not have.
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by qq66 12y ago
The audits are probably pretty bad, but also probably better than the audits that less scrutinized companies do. What consumer electronics products are manufactured in the US... not counting "final assembly" in the US where the PC
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by qq66 12y ago
It should make you rethink buying any electronic product whatsoever, since Apple's supply-chain audits are, though insufficient, by far the most thorough of any company (since they face the most scrutiny).
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by qq66 12y ago
Do you use Facebook Poke?
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by qq66 12y ago
The network effect becomes very large if you start introducing significant discounts for carpooling, as Uber has done. The chance of finding a carpool partner and getting a 40% discount are much higher for Uber than a competitor, and will b
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by qq66 12y ago
Some people can dunk a basketball with no training [1]. Some people can dunk a basketball with a little training. Some people can dunk a basketball if they make it the primary focus of their lives and train hard towards that goal. And some
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by qq66 12y ago
A company loses money when its costs exceed its revenues. If Apple has to pay Warner Brothers a sum contractually specified in dollars for each copy of "Pump Up the Volume" that it sells, it could easily lose money if the rouble f
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by qq66 12y ago
> You, reader, can be a Bellard. In the sense that you, reader, can write ffmpeg, that's not really true. In the sense that you, reader, can achieve your maximum potential in any given field if you commit yourself wholeheartedly to
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by qq66 12y ago
> How many companies can point to software as impactful as FFMpeg and QEMU? Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc... > How many individuals can point to software as impactful as FFMpeg and QEMU? Tougher question.
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by qq66 12y ago
I was talking about first class passengers who can go to the front of ticketing and security lines, since economy class passengers are not likely to be in the market for supersonic flights.
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by qq66 12y ago
The reason that not much changes between a 4 hour flight and an 8 hour flight is that the journey adds about 2 hours on each end, making it a 8 hour vs. 12 hour journey. (1 hour to the airport and 1 hour at the airport). Urban transit syste
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by qq66 12y ago
I think the major reason for John Oliver's success is his ability to produce videos that are long enough to capture some of the insight of long-form text, with enough gags to meet today's attention spans.
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by qq66 12y ago
Not really, since "equal" is poorly defined. A blue shirt and red shirt are equally nice, but a closet of assorted shirts is more valuable than a closet of just blue shirts. A portfolio of diverse stocks, each with an equal risk&#
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by qq66 12y ago
I use a fake number and a fake name at Safeway, and they always address me by the fake "Mr. XXX" when I check out. Always a little weird.
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by qq66 12y ago
That's an infantilizing policy. Why should the government decide when you take some of your vacation?

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