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by rz2k 10y ago
There's nothing weird about the logic at all. It doesn't take much sophistication to recognize that inflation measuring the cost of a basket of goods is affected when the goods change either through substitution or changes in qual
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by rz2k 10y ago
About 1000 days ago Phil Schiller said, "Can't innovate any more, my ass!" with the release of the Mac Pro. Regardless of whether it was innovative or not, that was pretty much the last time desktops were ever updated. Apple
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by rz2k 10y ago
"Linear Algebra from Foundations to Frontiers" on EdX[1] is an introductory course in linear algebra with a manageable learning curve. There are many calculus courses on Coursera and EdX. [1] https://www.edx.org/co
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by rz2k 10y ago
Hitting someone with a 12-inch bat is probably better than stabbing a cab driver with a penknife.[1] [1] http://dealbreaker.com/2012/12/in-wake-of-exec-accidentally-...
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by rz2k 10y ago
How is that a "pious" belief? Let's say that retailers' financial services costs drop by 1% of revenue, and they choose to raise their prices by 5%, because they're really greedy or mean. Their competitor across the
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by rz2k 10y ago
I don't know the answer, but in this case does columnar store imply that it is a collection of arrays, perhaps for a scientific database, and a bit different than HBase? Here's someone else's blog post from 2010 on different
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by rz2k 10y ago
The NewsHour absolutely seems the most trustworthy news organization to me, too, and I wish they had the same editors managing a full length daily newspaper. The Washington Post seems to be improving, and the LA Times wins a lot of awards,
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by rz2k 10y ago
We're in a political era where people get excited about dismantling any institution. You can have the chair of a science committee bring a snowball in for show and tell, and it's considered a hilarious rebuke to scientists who are
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by rz2k 10y ago
Could that be a personnel training problem? The data in such a case would be saying there is a high number of crime victims, even if that number is correlated with the number of people committing crimes. And unless there's a corpse, th
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by rz2k 10y ago
After hardly driving for a good portion of a decade, then regularly driving again, the highway seemed pretty weird. As in, how are these people spending so much mental energy? Then after a week or two staying exactly where I wanted to be in
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by rz2k 10y ago
It absolutely is not some abstract subject that can be summarily dismissed by saying its impossible to measure intimidation of journalists or that no one has perspective on the issue. Take a look at the exhaustive treatment by the Committee
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by rz2k 10y ago
Do you think the culture is affected by one specific industry being so prominent? For instance, in New York people might ask where you live because it might be too difficult to even understand what someone else does. (Someone's address
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by rz2k 10y ago
I've never heard of wickr. Is it popular, and is it considered to work? While something such as Signal relies on trusting the people at the two ends of the channel, (to a security non-expert) it seems that if an app were given enough p
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by rz2k 10y ago
Yes, it's different. Ask former classmates or relatives who went into journalism. You may hear they are reluctant to pursue some stories because they don't have enough proof to protect themselves against powerful people the storie
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by rz2k 10y ago
Out of curiosity where else have you lived?
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by rz2k 10y ago
Incidentally, the value that grew, and that you would have extracted in dividends, is not reflected in the share price. Also, the DJIA is weighted by the share price rather than the market capitalization of each component. (Really, it is th
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by rz2k 10y ago
While a distinction can be drawn between real economy and money or financial economy, currencies, like the US dollar, are defined as legal tender by the governments that are backed up by significant real economies. Official currencies can b
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by rz2k 10y ago
Re: investing in solar producers and a coming shakeout This makes me think of some interesting structural economic issues I hadn't considered before. Compared to the global distribution networks of hydrocarbons, distributing PV panels
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by rz2k 10y ago
People like to misinterpret Keynes, so it is worth stressing the "can" does not mean that it will in a strict sense. Similarly, "We're all dead in the long run," does not mean that whatever long run effect being dis
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by rz2k 10y ago
How is Russia "right"? I can't even fathom the UK making such demands on India, or the US on the Philippines.
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by rz2k 10y ago
I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that a lot of people complaining about others with race-based assumptions in an online forum ends up reinforcing each others' biases. If the additional questions actually do encourage
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by rz2k 10y ago
If traffic lights stopped bicyclists, I wouldn't think they are such a nuisance. Transportation in Manhattan used to be a solved problem with walking + subways. I applaud someone getting exercise, but I wish that during their recreatio
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by rz2k 10y ago
I might rank the love for Elixir higher. Go has a lot of detractors, in addition to the people who are getting a lot done with it. Comments often seem to think Haskell or its community is a little ridiculous. Lua always gets positive commen
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by rz2k 10y ago
Blowing up in midair, or spilling some of the passengers so that they land separately from the plane can be a problem, too.
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by rz2k 10y ago
What were Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina positions at the University of Illinois' NCSA when developing Mosaic? Even the name Mozilla points to the acrimony over that dispute over intellectual property.
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by rz2k 10y ago
Maybe. What if the lady you're trying to ignore in the seat next to you on a plane sees you type those words on your laptop? Probably, it would be even worse than doing differential equations while Italian.[1] [1] https://w
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by rz2k 10y ago
How about MonetDB? I think it was one of the earlier column store dbs, and its seems to remain actively developed open source, when others are proprietary products now.
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She raised money for them as they were exhausting what they could get from "friends and family" connections, and long before they went public. Probably like a few others she worked with they later went through cycles of completely
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We're saying the same thing, and by using scientifically literate terminology we're probably furthering Taleb's point. They're cultivated in the sense that their seeds are propagated and they're cared for. Concerns
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Am I being pedantic to think that is a weird way to label? Organic refers to the methods and compounds used to control pests, while GMO refers to the genetic heritage of the organisms being cultivated. They're cultivated because they h

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