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by rrggrr 10y ago
Bad news: Seaborn's documentation appears to be gone. The author and/or Stanford appears to have removed public access. http://stanford.edu/~mwaskom/software/seaborn/generated/seab...
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Obama recently bemoaned the 8 trillion or so in wealth that is not circulating with much, if any, frequency in the US economy. As he and others have observed, it's sequestered overseas and at home, waiting for a time when confidence is
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by rrggrr 10y ago
RJ Hillhouse wrote a book, "Outsourced", that comes close at time to advancing this point-of-view. https://www.amazon.com/Outsourced-R-J-Hillhouse/dp/078616957...
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Today Google warned me about re-use of a password And woke me from my absent minded state. I am grateful, impressed and freaked out.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
The USGOV spends roughly $90 billion a year hoping to influence or read the policy intentions of other states and non-state actors. Having shattered the wall between public and private institutions with its $11 billion dollar bailout of Gen
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Twitter brings a lot of political heat in countries where Google does business. At first I was baffled by Google's unwillingness to bid. But now I suspect owning Twitter may be bad for business and they don't want the headache.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Akin to this is the keybase.io encrypted file system. It's in beta and brilliantly implemented so far.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Question... When are you folks going to grow up and iterate and ship transparently and responsibly? Will that be before or after I have to cancel my account?
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by rrggrr 10y ago
It is NOT in US interests. It is an exorbitant burden as explained by Michael Pettis here: http://blog.mpettis.com/2014/10/are-we-starting-to-see-why-i... In short, US debt and money supply cannot keep pace with g
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by rrggrr 10y ago
> The RMB and Yuan seem like good longterm investments IMO despite the current volatility in Chinese markets. Debt to GDP is 282% and on a trajectory to hit 500% if action is not soon taken. There is no long term upside if debt is not re
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Should CFIUS block TWTR sale to a Chinese firm?
1 points by rrggrr 10y ago|0 comments
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by rrggrr 10y ago
GOOG has to buy TWTR or its real-time web ambitions are dead. FB has to buy TWTR to prevent GOOG real-time entry. AAPL has to buy TWTR or be cut out from social media. MSFT too. The bidding war that is going on behind the scenes must be unr
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Not all users are equal. A newsmaker, world leader, reporter, gatekeeper is worth MUCH more than $29.
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Twitter buyout talks heating up (says CNBC)(cnet.com)
1 points by rrggrr 10y ago|0 comments
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by rrggrr 10y ago
This is ridiculous. Read The Human Factor by Ishmael Jones and see if you still think there's even the remotest of possibilities this is true.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Okay, expanding... revenue currently based on broadcast value alone. No value is being extracted from communications loops, redirected communications, related content, drill downs, prioritized versions of the aforementioned items, filters (
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Adam, if you want the guidance you're going to have to pay for it. I'm easy to find... let's meet for lunch.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Maddening how incompetent Twitter is at strategic thought. They have arguably the most politically and civically important property on the internet but wish they were Facebook. Twitter is a Bentley in a market that wrongly thinks it should
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by rrggrr 10y ago
DB is in trouble, with derivatives exposure so large that failure will certainly mean intervention by the German government and global banking system. For this reason, and because US banks and the Fed stand have at stake much more than $14b
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Can someone ELI5 this example?
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by rrggrr 10y ago
This is correct. Dumping is very easy to pull off because it takes a long time to obtain a remedy and much damage is done in the meantime.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
This is a SLOW process. By the time tariffs are enacted companies (and jobs) can be wiped out.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
This is correct. Three factors drove the bubble in aluminum and other commodities: Increased energy expense, speculative and fraudulent investment, and some increased consumption. However, three factors are likely to continue to drive alumi
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Elon Musk on SpaceX failure: Engines off and no apparent heat source(bloomberg.com)
16 points by rrggrr 10y ago|9 comments
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by rrggrr 10y ago
This could neatly explain Stockholm Syndrome, cult joining and other identity deficits.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Almost as interesting, its reported/discussed that light entering the EmDrive chamber via laser appeared to have travelled superluminally thought to be due to some distortion of the light cone inside the chamber. Thread: http:/&#
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Here is an amazingly well written explanation as to why, how and whats likely to come of it. http://www.cumber.com/the-euro-dollar-riot/ Excerpt: The US has peculiarities in its income tax code that create these incent
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Am I right that they are combining a call center with a list generation service? Where is the AI part of this?
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Can someone ELI5 or possibly 15 on this for me?
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Divorced parents would have to answer to their formers spouse, their former spouse's attorney, a child's rep, the Court, etc. for any serious mishap. Its not worth the knee jerk tragic outcomes the Courts can produce. Therefore, a

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