safgasCVS

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by safgasCVS 8y ago
Fine there’s always movement between states and each person has their reasons for moving them it good or bad. That said I have tried the switch repeatedly after reading such posts/recommendations only to realise I’ve spent more time t
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
So You think what I said is somehow undone by avg vs median? Hahaha thx for making me laugh
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
Hmm well given how essentially all salaried jobs require a degree today it’s hard to see education as being an optional purchase for most people. Maybe 30 years ago but not today. Hard to say what’s worthless or not - jobs change all the ti
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
averages/median Hide too much. Better question is What is the probability of being in the 90th percentile of wealth conditional upon your ancestors being in the 90th percentile of wealth and compare that against the bottom 10th percent
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
So basically you just described income tax
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
This was going to happen anyways as crypto is dead
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
This is not what the disagreement is about. It’s got nothing to do with uncertainty in the predictions and the debate is not about saying for certain what is going to happen. We know that distributions have means and variances so one can’t
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
Unlikely. Taleb seems to like how his argument has been summarised. The crux of the issue taleb has with silver is showing probabilities without making a decision/declaration is cowardly. When asked about making a prediction he says on
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
Thanks for the recommendations - I just bought both!
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
Ah thank you for the correction!
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
I really enjoyed Dan Carlin’s ‘Celtic holocaust’ that went at length into the character and motivations of Julius Caesar. What I mostly appreciate in listening to Carlin is his ability to sympathize with the people living through the momen
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
I am quite happy with WSL - I might not be the target audience as my needs are almost entirely for statistics but WSL beats a vm for rstudio server and awk. You’ll hear nothing but praise from me
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
Product page is a mess - why no simple 1 page per item that shows whats new rather multiple articles spread out over different links? I had to go to theverge to understand what was launched
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
"My tech is farming". Absolutely The word Technology means 'the skill of crafting', but its become hijacked to mean anything with a microchip That so few people can feed so many using such a small amount of land is a ma
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
So lets get this straight - the single variable that explains the situation of millions of people happens to be a subjective opinion of the moral failings of people you've never met. Nice!
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
I'm jealous of the emacs masters as I like the idea of having this 'one tool for life' but I'm honest enough to admit I'm just too lazy to learn it!
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
This has become a waste of my time.
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
Post 60s the US had twin deficits essentially making BW dead in the water unless they shifted to austerity to maintain a surplus which would have been politically too difficult. (Or one could be nasty and say it would have put an end to the
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
So I think you and I wil disagree a bit here "First, the system was not safe...at all. There were pretty much constant financial crises through the 1960s." I cant find any such systemic crashes that happened in the 60s. The 80s we
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
Shun the non-believer! (I guess we're both getting downvoted today huh)
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
Comrade, when the workers take over there will be utopia for all! Jokes - there's nothing wrong with a sensible financial sector but our current over-financialised world of financial speculation with the public being required to bail o
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
And I wonder if I'll ever learn to not make flippant generalising comments :) I'd say there needs to be a distinction made between finance going towards funding productive activities and the rampant financial speculation largely d
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
So I'll void preaching to the choir and give you this little gem instead http://uk.businessinsider.com/pubs-replaced-banks-in-ireland...
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
The industrial revolution was driven by the increasing adoption of coal as a shift away from burning wood and other biomass allowing for highly energy intensive industries to develop. Steam engines, massive smelting furnances etc couldnt fu
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
The financial sector never fails to demonstrate how utterly worthless it is.
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
The purpose of the Vitality program has almost nothing to do with the advertised improvements in health but act as a 'land grab' of healthy lives from other insurers. Its almost entirely to do with selection despite what they may
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
People change over time. If you are the same person today as 10 years ago you're doing something wrong. Good for him
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
Thank you for this! I've been looking for windows equivalent to csvkit and this is just the ticket
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
Earlier this morning I spent 45 minutes in a meeting discussing the replacement for a $4 million big data system we bought 2 years ago because no one was using it. The solution discussed wasnt to ask the analysts why no one was using it but
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Fast inverse square root(en.wikipedia.org)
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