seigenblues

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by seigenblues 15y ago
fed tax rebate turns into a tax credit at the end of this year, btw! Move fast!
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Depression inspired cheap living hacks (NYT)(nytimes.com)
11 points by seigenblues 15y ago|0 comments
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by seigenblues 15y ago
Very good point about the statistics. If you really try to drive a motorcycle safely, (e.g., not drunk, not too fast), the statistics practically describe a different cohort. Motorcycling is easily one of the best things i've done, it puts
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by seigenblues 15y ago
I agree with your math but disagree with your conclusion :) this is why Google is funding it -- getting an 11% return is great if you have giant piles of cash sitting around doing nothing. Those margins become substantially thinner if yo
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by seigenblues 15y ago
bigethan -- that's not necessarily how it works. It does work differently in different state & local markets, so it's possible that there's a market that works that way. I don't know of any, personally. Usually the deal is something c
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by seigenblues 15y ago
Yes, we are. The numbers can work in a couple of different ways in a couple different markets. It's neither hype, nor press, but thanks. I'm surprised Google is able to make residential PV contracts make sense: my guess is that the consum
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by seigenblues 15y ago
> How many people in the world can run an organization of that size and scope? Not many at all. This is not actually self-evident, and I'd really love some (any) attempt establishing it, either rhetorically or evidence-based.
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by seigenblues 15y ago
i believe it is a negative article, but it's very well hidden. And it recommends funding all this by discovering a “muse,” which Ferriss defines, as Seneca did not, as “an automated vehicle for generating cash without consuming time
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by seigenblues 15y ago
It wasn't the ease of install or simplest-case-deployment, that's for sure. I did install it and kick the tires. This was around the end of 2009, and i don't think there were many clients available (i see pycassa dates to 2010-04). again,
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by seigenblues 15y ago
happily, this is not a synchronous application with tens of thousands of concurrent users, so "totally hosed" for us may have a very different definition. What do you mean by "very large numbers of columns" ? I've seen some mongo users wit
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by seigenblues 15y ago
glad you didn't like it. Vertica was not free, HBase was really heavyweight, & I knew i didn't want RDBMS. The sensor data itself is plain csvs ;) Cassandra still does look interesting, although it looked like it would take me much lon
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by seigenblues 15y ago
depends on your usage. The rest of the toolchain is all python, numpy, scipy, matplotlib especially. This might be poorly titled: it's not just about the storage as it is about the aggregation of disparate sensor data into coherent, contin
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by seigenblues 15y ago
thanks, i'll try and write them up. any particular areas you'd like to see expanded?
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Timeseries data storage in MongoDB(slideshare.net)
39 points by seigenblues 15y ago|25 comments
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by seigenblues 15y ago
sure, but what would counter that argument effectively? How would you do it? How do you say that all of the histories of all the other peoples touched by the British Empire would have actually been just fine, thank you very much. Many
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by seigenblues 15y ago
First, i agree with basically all of your logic & reasoning as you've laid out. However, you lost me at the conclusion: If you accept a) (which is not much of a stretch - sleeping with other men's wives is definitely a risk-seek
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by seigenblues 15y ago
as near as i could read, no one was attacking Noah -- just Noah's behavior, which seems out of line. See the "i'm not calling you a racist, i'm calling your behavior racist" crucial line of distinction. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0T
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by seigenblues 15y ago
do you have a vim colorscheme?
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by seigenblues 16y ago
somewhere in Japan, someone has hardcoded GPS locations into their autonomous dishwashing robot, and is now wondering why it can't find the sink... (btw, another version of the story with citations, attributed quotes is here: http://editio
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by seigenblues 16y ago
"While it's likely true that people who sacrifice everything are rarely successful, I think that the people at the top of their fields almost always have." Not to harp on my favorite old saw about randomness, but drawing generalizations lik
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by seigenblues 16y ago
to the contrary, some of the High-Net-Worth individuals i've had the misfortune to interact with have a much greater interest in succeeding more than once -- especially the ones who are more self-aware than usual. I think they want to pr
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by seigenblues 16y ago
Yes, you're right. Esp your third paragraph -- having someone demonstrate that they can repeatedly succeed is the surest proof. On the other hand, you can try to analyze process, and guess at if that process can reasonably produce results
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by seigenblues 16y ago
Did any of the haters on this thread watch his TED talks? There's the one linked to in the article (from 2004), and another one Ze gave last year ( http://www.zefrank.com/ted/2010.html ). Having watched "the show" back in the olden days be
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by seigenblues 16y ago
you should really read the book "Fooled by Randomness". There's a particular chapter: "If you're so rich, why aren't you smart?" It points out how difficult it is to look at empirical evidence, esp. if you don't know the size of a given c
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by seigenblues 16y ago
Forgive me for playing devils advocate, but how is this different from the existing responsibilities of the SBA and the SBIC? It looks more like an expansion of the existing small-business incentive programs than some sort of nefarious sch
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by seigenblues 16y ago
Crossfit. (crossfit.com) You'll never get bored and it'll even take less time. One caveat: It works way better if you can join a group of crossfitters.
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by seigenblues 16y ago
That doesn't actually change the thrust of the point at all. Go ahead and switch those two words around how you want and tell me how it substantially changes my argument. You've made educated people supporting something both bad for educat
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by seigenblues 16y ago
Yes, politics certainly puts humans at their most irrational indeed! It's quite some gymnastics you're turning here. Somehow, you've ended up saying that when educated citizens overwhelmingly support one governing philosophy, it's not only
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by seigenblues 16y ago
While i don't buy his explanation of the causal mechanism at work, he's almost perfectly described my work cycle: I'm most productive in the morning, get the usual post-lunch valley, and have a nice productivity rise after my (usually ligh
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by seigenblues 16y ago
The defendant is also getting more time than the cop in Oakland who shot a restrained, unarmed man. Maybe this punishment fits this crime and its the other that doesn't, but marcusbooster's indictment of the system as a whole having some sk

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