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by spikels 11y ago
DNN is a key technology of the future. I highly recommend the education program Professor Karpathy mentions at the end of this post. All are excellent and free.
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by spikels 11y ago
Why does pointing out that AirBnB pays a $1 million a month in hotel tax make people want to restrict AirBnB? People are way too uptight in SF. AirBnB already faces plenty of regulations - most passed in the past year. Prop F is not needed
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by spikels 11y ago
Expected to happen at end of year because shareholders basicly insisted on it. Yahoo owns a minority stake in Alibaba - a huge fast growing company. Yahoo is worth $30 billion but the Alibaba stake is worth $23 billion* and they also have a
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by spikels 11y ago
These hires were part of Yahoo's content creation strategy which also included producing TV shows. They just wrote off $42 million for the TV shows[1]. These expensive celebrities are probably next as I doubt they can justify their cos
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by spikels 11y ago
I was a long time subscriber to FT and still think it is above average but sloppy articles like this make me think the quality has been declining with the rest of the industry.
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by spikels 11y ago
This is incorrect. In order for the asset owner to gain from an increase in productivity they to interact with customers, workers and suppliers who in turn interact with others. This ends up sharing much if not most or even all of the gain
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by spikels 11y ago
This article and the 2 linked source articles are a big hot mess of half baked thoughts and misunderstandings. However it did remind me again to think of all the impacts that driverless cars will have. Does anyone know of a thoughtful analy
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by spikels 11y ago
Neither Kay nor Romer are the clearest writers but I think Romer was clearly attacking Stigler (as well as Lucas and others at Chicago) and Kay was just repeating what Romer said. See this: http://paulromer.net/stigler-convi
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by spikels 11y ago
This is a political argument in the economics profession. Beyond the obvious points that math/data can be used to obscure weak arguments and that idealogical binders are bad for clear thought, Romer is simply attacking his political op
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by spikels 11y ago
Rented in 7 cities on 2 continents - never used a broker. I know they exist but are they that common. Don't people mostly uses Craiglist along with a few other online resources? Don't disagree the process could be greatly improved
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by spikels 11y ago
I have seen this happen many times in big companies. Even people who clearly should have been fired long ago are kept around until the next round of layoffs. I think it is because it is simply easier on management as well as the fired emplo
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by spikels 11y ago
Revenue per employee is an interesting performance metric although not usually applied to growth companies. Twitter's was growing fast relative to other big public tech firms but still much lower than most. http://www.busine
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by spikels 11y ago
SEC runs a free TweetLonger service for public companies. They are required to use it if they make important announcements that will impact the stock.
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by spikels 11y ago
Correct! Because of increased trade low skill workers in rich and poor countries more and more compete for the same work. This raises the value of low skilled workers in poor countries where their incomes gone way up but lowers their value
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by spikels 11y ago
I used to share a ski house in Tahoe. Should I expect to pay part of the rent or not? I think the term "share" is strictly agnostic on who pays but also does have a gifting connotation that appeals to marketing. I have no problem
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by spikels 11y ago
This is an attempt to get a refund from AirBnB, right? Has HN become a back channel customer service platform for YC companies? Unfortunately since it seems to work so well. I expect we will see more of this.
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by spikels 11y ago
Because 3rd parties generally lack both the information and incentives to do as good a job as you would. This is usually known as the "principal-agent problem"[1]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal
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by spikels 11y ago
Their mothers were malnourished
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by spikels 11y ago
You can also get stunted growth if your mother is malnourished during pregnancy or even before. In fact, it can take several generations for the effects malnourishment to be eliminated.
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by spikels 11y ago
According to news reports Hillary handed over the emails to the Dept. of State as hard copies. These were then processed by them into PDFs including doing OCR. http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/11/technology/s
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by spikels 11y ago
$29k a foot is nothing! The Central Subway project currently under construction from Chinatown to the CalTrain station (the only major subway project built in SF in many decades) will cost $1.6 billion (assuming no cost overruns) to build a
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by spikels 11y ago
Because Hillary wants to make it hard to analyze them. Drug companies used the same technique to hide their relationships with doctors. https://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/doc-dollars-guides-col...
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by spikels 11y ago
Given the context I think they mean that Mr Robot is not available legally in Argentina.
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by spikels 11y ago
How did expelling the DEA help? I can understand that the DEA would be ineffective but why would they be counter productive?
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by spikels 11y ago
Growth is just change in total spending (= total selling). Less spending by one of the biggest spenders means less growth. The is the essence of "fiscal policy"[1]. Of course much of this is offset by the the need to fund this spe
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by spikels 11y ago
It can't be that since their foreign reserves which include foreign currency holdings are declining. The recent turmoil started with an attempt to lower their currency but this quickly got out of hand when their stock market crashed so
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by spikels 11y ago
Short term rates are directly set by The Fed. (Notice I said "rates" not "bonds". In the jargon "Bonds" have terms of over a year. Bonds are not controlled directly by The Fed - only very short-term rates (typi
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by spikels 11y ago
It is mostly the politicians who write these stupid laws not the prosecutors and judges who generally follow the intent of the law. The media deserve a lot of the blame for overhyping issues then demanding solutions when there are no good o
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by spikels 11y ago
The change.org petition got to 213,446 supporters when it was stopped shortly after her departure. Not need to exaggerate the facts to express an opinion.
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by spikels 11y ago
I expect Obama to do the same thing. Come out in favor of pardoning Snowden AFTER he is no longer president.

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