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by solve 11y ago
The whole science industry should follow the lead of those scientific journals who've banned p-values from their publications. P-values just lead to so much confusion and nonsense. And that's without even considering the scientist
92.
by solve 11y ago
Grow big enough fast enough and well liked enough, you become the law.
93.
by solve 11y ago
So does this FF mode that blocks them entirely also risk breaking the pages?
94.
by solve 11y ago
Illegal-sounding + extremely popular + not actually illegal = Often great investments.
95.
by solve 11y ago
Weird. If browsers can detect these trackers, could an alternative be to just de-prioritize the trackers, so they load last and won't slow down page load time (since I assume they're invisible anyway?)
96.
by solve 11y ago
No, that's wrong.
97.
by solve 11y ago
How about we ban anti-finance hate articles like this from hacker news? Certainly, the intent of these is not to spur in-depth intelligent conversation.
98.
by solve 11y ago
IPO is a fictional line. Is there really reason that there should be 100B+ post-IPO companies, but that there shouldn't be 100B+ pre-IPO companies? Laws regarding IPOs create decent incentive to avoid an official IPO. Money follows the
99.
by solve 11y ago
I'm convinced that voice pitch, syllable meter, hand gestures, facial gestures, and other forms of non-word emphasis are also crucial to figuring out basic phrase chunking and word types, with minimal interaction, early on. Seems it wo
100.
by solve 11y ago
You take random posts on /r/bitcoin as serious predictions? Looks like I've found another problem. RE sophisticated market - Yes, BTC is now far closer to a sophisticated market, which is mostly reflecting the consensus predi
101.
by solve 11y ago
Efficient sophisticated markets -- which the BTC markets are quite close to being now with as they have derivatives, wide accessibility, years of maturity -- do not simply reflect present demand, but instead the current best prediction of c
102.
by solve 11y ago
> why these 'victories' aren't leading to increased prices Prices are incredibly increased, from the $0.0001 USD/BTC they used to be on the open markets. Your statement shows that you completely misunderstand how mark
103.
by solve 11y ago
He didn't want to live an ok life and fix his problems. This is a man who wanted to find a way to the very top.
104.
by solve 11y ago
Didn't mean to overreact toward the OP. I really haven't heard or seen about him to judge either way. As you can see, I was rather traumatized by those 2 clients from hell.
105.
by solve 11y ago
You have it completely backward. Market value / Valuation / Acquisition price == approximately, a prediction of total cumulative FUTURE profits, NOT PAST profits. Past profits, directly speaking are totally irrelevant, as hard as
106.
by solve 11y ago
I have on 2 separate occasions... when, I against my better judgement, took some consulting work with obvious clients from hell. Immediate not so subtle threats from the beginning. Turned out that all of their previous contracting experienc
107.
by solve 11y ago
Modern machine learning replaced it. Or rather, relegated statistics to a small subset of a wider field, only to be used for increasingly smaller subset of tasks.
108.
by solve 11y ago
An excellent benevolent dictator can be so much better than any system where there's a big pressure to converging to the crowd average, or even the lowest common denominator of the crowd. Most of us joined HN for exactly this reason. I
109.
by solve 11y ago
> as he converted the problem to his notation, "here's where the miracle occurs" Exactly what I see to be the future of all types of engineering, computer control, and interaction - e.g. programming languages, circuit engi
110.
by solve 11y ago
It's a totally non-conscious change that keeps pulling you in further. You get so addicted to pleasing, or at least not upsetting the forum. You unknowingly adapt to learn their language, try to stay ahead of the latest themes. Pretty
111.
by solve 11y ago
Translation: become a subservient hive mind conformist wimp.
112.
by solve 11y ago
Doing any kind of web research for work is effectively a breadth-first tree traversal. Remembering all the higher level nodes, when you're ready to go the next level deep, would be a nightmare. My brain couldn't handle that, but t
113.
by solve 11y ago
Goodbye RAM :) Or better for RAM, since I can now selectively kill and resume processes? Oh, I see it's not one process per tab. So does anyone know how I can more easily survive on 2GB with many tabs, other than by constantly killing
114.
by solve 11y ago
Have to wonder if it forms a feedback loop: - Asians are getting higher scores than others, so they're required to get higher scores to be admitted. - Parents of the next generation know that their children need even higher scores, so
115.
by solve 11y ago
A.k.a. cities offering the worst salaries, relative to other options available to residents, resulting in the most unfilled positions. Winner: London.
116.
by solve 11y ago
This.... sounds incredible. Source - currently drunk.
117.
by solve 11y ago
Electrons have a temperature? Didn't know that.
118.
by solve 11y ago
I'm talking relative, you're showing absolute. Oh, I see I edited that out of my previous comment. Previously, I said to try an experiment using multiple accounts where you post comments with a swear word and slightly censored swe
119.
by solve 11y ago
Certain very strong community norms have formed here, whether you realize it, or whether it was intentional or not. Sorry, I meant "rule" just as something that is somehow enforced, empirically. Probably "rule" is comple
120.
by solve 11y ago
Apparently YC has an internal "bad investor list", as well as a huge network of easily accessible founders who've dealt with the majority of the investors in the area before. Presumably, us normal outsiders would have a tough

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