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by riggins 12y ago
This is due to consolidation pressure brought about by long-term low interest rates combined with inaccessible small consumer loans. Low interest rates make consumer loans more accessible. It's much easier to service a 5% loan than a
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by riggins 12y ago
What parts would you like to learn more about? I just need a good introduction. Its a field I'm interested in but know very little about.
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by riggins 12y ago
Please don't post substanceless one-liners here. i.e. don't make jokes. I've wondered about this because I've done the same thing and gotten downvoted. There's nothing about not making jokes in the guidelines. Per
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by riggins 12y ago
Does anyone have any suggestions on resources to learn more about this field?
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by riggins 12y ago
I find it hilarious that DMX is dead last. I've now got empirical evidence of what I always thought. I think DMX rhymes words with themselves more than any rapper I've ever heard.
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by riggins 12y ago
I really hope you're still reading this thread. This study says that owning a cat makes if more likely to have Toxo. Wikipedia, which the grandparent node quotes, said the opposite. In fact, Wikipedia, correctly links to the study and
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by riggins 12y ago
Even if the student can solve optimization or related rates problems just like the ones in the book and in the lecture — but doesn’t know how to start if the optimization or related rates problem does not match their template — then the st
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by riggins 12y ago
Read my other post, the wiki on toxoplasmosis There should be some sort of Goodwin's law wrt using Wikipedia as your evidence.
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by riggins 12y ago
I'm not sure I'd trust wikipedia as the final word http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/253802.php For example, rats infected with the parasite lose their fear of cats, and are even attracted by their sc
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by riggins 12y ago
Here's another hypothesis. It's the finance industry culture. Why? Finance is a zero-sum game. That leads to a set of incentives where what you need to do is beat the next guy. Tech is almost the opposite of a zero-sum games. That
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by riggins 12y ago
I have completely the opposite view agreed. There's also evidence to back that up. source: Get Anyone to Do Anything (David Lieberman, Ph.D. Psychology) The second factor in making sure that you are understood has to do with expecta
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by riggins 12y ago
Retail is and always will be a low margin business. what would you rather invest in (assume there are no costs other than inventory to keep it simple). A store that has $100K of inventory that turns inventory once a year with a 20% profit
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by riggins 12y ago
again, I probably wouldn't take my tech game plan from what worked for gold mining in 1849. And we know who's getting really, really rich ... and its not 'people selling tools'. Its Google, Apple, Facebook, AirBnB, Dropb
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by riggins 12y ago
I don't think this analogy holds up to cursory scrutiny. Tech is responsible for huge wealth creation. If the Forbes 400 was around in 1849, you wouldn't have seen any gold miners occupying the top spots. Its as apt as saying peop
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by riggins 12y ago
I read the article. After letting it marinate, I concluded that I completely disagree with the author. Here's the crux of the argument. One night I escaped the hacker house to go out with a group of founders from various startups ...
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by riggins 12y ago
It's pretty cool that someone who cried about Nikola Tesla as a kid is now running one of the world's most valuable companies.
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by riggins 12y ago
I made this comment above, but I would love to see the success stats for ex-google engineers. If the failure rate for all start-ups is 90%, I'm betting its lower for start-ups founded by ex-google engineers.
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by riggins 12y ago
The thing these aggregate statistic ignore are the quality of the founders. Let me put it concretely. When Sebastian Thrun decided to launch Udacity I suspect the chance of failure was less then 90%. OTOH, I have 2 non-technical friends who
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by riggins 12y ago
for pure motivation, having the money go to a nemesis would be hard to beat.
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by riggins 12y ago
I can think of 2 options. 1. Benevolent option: the money goes to the website but it goes back to the user after a year, less a fee (the website will also earn interest for that year so you'd get fee + interest income). Not only do you
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by riggins 12y ago
I hope the developer lets us know how this goes. I'm kinda dying to know if people actually sign up to send some random website money. As it is, I'm almost wondering if its satire.
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by riggins 12y ago
I love this idea because I think this is a huge win-win for both buyers, sellers, and efficiency (more stuff gets used, less gets tossed). As the comments have pointed out the difficulty is accurately identifying items. With used books you
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by riggins 12y ago
Why China? Because culturally they don't have the same ethical restraints. I'll admit, I don't have enough experience to say whether or not that's true, but the person who was making the argument to me had lived in Chin
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by riggins 12y ago
that's a very good point. However, wouldn't you agree that China is getting closer to the US in technological sophistication? How does that picture look if a much larger proportion of China's population is geniuses?
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by riggins 12y ago
Here's a prediction I've heard that I actually thought was kind of interesting. China will be the first to clone humans because they don't have our ethical restraints. Since China already is interested in eugenics, its easy t
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by riggins 12y ago
I really struggle to understand people who view prohibiting the use of embryos that would be thrown out otherwise as supporting 'life'.
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by riggins 12y ago
I'm guessing there are expenses related to verifying someone's identity.
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by riggins 12y ago
1. I really like the look of the desk 2. Motorization is key 3. Price. Just look at how successful www.standdesk.co has been with their $399. I'd be tempted by a motorized version of this for around $1,000.
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by riggins 13y ago
Coursera has a lot of intro-level courses, but not really much in-depth stuff. that depends on your definition of intro-level. Take CS. Yes they have intro level stuff Learn to Program | An Introduction to Interactive Programming In Pytho
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by riggins 13y ago
everything you say makes sense. My initial thought is the best setup would really depend on the task. For really complex tasks I would guess that you'd want a more closed environment. As a concrete example, if you're trying to mak

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