spikels

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by spikels 13y ago
Reading socialistworld.net will only make you more confused about economic issues like these. I'd suggest any basic economics text as a good place to get started.
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by spikels 13y ago
As mentioned in the article her medical care is already taken care of by a union-sponsored health insurance plan run by a big HMO. These typically require very low or zero payments by the insured.
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by spikels 13y ago
In a normal place this is accomplished by increasing building height, increasing the building's footprint and reducing the unit size. No additional land needs to be used and higher density increases efficiency of services such as mass
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Snowden accuses Senate intelligence chair of hypocrisy over CIA disclosures(theguardian.com)
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by spikels 13y ago
Perhaps she has seen some secret version of the Fourth Amendment that only applies to her. I hope I'm just joking here...
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by spikels 13y ago
Yes - Feinstein has been awful on the NSA spying issue. So far there have been only two narrow issues that have bothered her all all: spying on her and spying on friendly foreign leaders. She has been one of the ruling elite for so long tha
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by spikels 13y ago
Ha! This beating is for your own good. Later you will thank me.
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by spikels 13y ago
Yes they are great and all the things you mention are super cool but since neural nets are only as good as the humans that design them we can't expect them to solve fundamental problems like market failures. For example would better we
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by spikels 13y ago
Why would you want to conquer it?
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by spikels 13y ago
Why would you not expect to get diluted? If you are very lucky you might get offered the same terms as new investors. But why should you expect to get for free what others had to pay for? If you want this, try to negotiate something as part
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by spikels 13y ago
Fuck EBay and the stupid patent system. You should have to actually invent something before you can patent it. This is written so broadly as to encompass almost anything involving exchanging non-physical items of value using networks and co
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by spikels 13y ago
Neural nets are a useful technology but they are not magic. I doubt they will play much of a role in any effort to improve financial markets. First, neural nets have been used for decades by various financial market participants, in particu
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by spikels 13y ago
This is almost certainly bullshit. The poor quality of information in even the best newspapers is astounding! And it seems to almost always be at it's worst when it comes to medical issues. How about some actual evidence? Not even a si
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by spikels 13y ago
Still not sure what to make of this guy. He's done some great things but has such extreme opinions about everything I find it hard to trust his judgement. And frequent appearances on RT aren't helping.
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by spikels 13y ago
Yes you get to sell all your stock in one company and buy a diversified portfolio. Maybe you haven't heard but diversification is good. And NOT FREE for everyone else. Do you understand the value of this? In my view everyone should be
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by spikels 13y ago
My two favorite government investing scams: (1) Congress's insider trading exemption - Until recently legislators and their staff were completely exempt from insider trading laws while they were often privy to insider information[1]. I
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by spikels 13y ago
Besides the obvious issue that correlation does not imply causation what does the statement "1 in 1,000 uninsured people die each year" even mean given that the overall annual mortality rate in the US is 799.5 per 100,000[1]. Is t
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by spikels 13y ago
You got that right but I'll hold my rant for another day.
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by spikels 13y ago
According to Mikeal he "wrote the original version of the npm registry". More of his thoughts on the history of NPM here: https://gist.github.com/mikeal/8947417
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by spikels 13y ago
"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence." -Napoleon
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by spikels 13y ago
I disagree. Node and MongoDb have both had very strong growth for several years now across a wide variety of users from individual hackers to the largest companies. While I'm skeptical of MongoDb's long term prospects due to its u
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by spikels 13y ago
In my opinion hstore is one of the most useful newer features in Postgress and hstore2 is a big step improvement on it.
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by spikels 13y ago
My understanding is that it will need to be updated to handle all the new hstore2 features.
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by spikels 13y ago
Walmart, eBay/PayPal, Yahoo, Amazon/Zappos, LinkedIn, CBS, Time Warner, GM, DowJones, Microsoft.... And those a just the ones I have happened to hear about with major node.js projects.
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by spikels 13y ago
Maybe try searching for "Postgres 9.4 hstore". Just a thought but I'm to lazy to try. ;)
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by spikels 13y ago
This drives me crazy. The whole reason they are given a decades long monopoly is so they build the infrastructure. Once it is built there is absolutely no good reason to renew the monopoly. It's like continuing to pay on your 30 year m
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by spikels 13y ago
Right I meant "human" - sorry for the typo, too late to fix now.
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by spikels 13y ago
I completely agree that ignorance and laziness are much more representative of humane behavior than deceit and evil. And I believe it is just good practice to always assume the best intentions in others for your own peace and happiness. How
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by spikels 13y ago
Thanks! More bad journalism about medical research. Why is this so hard? Is it that the reporter simply cannot understand it? Or it is purposely distorted to make it more appealing to readers? I think it is usually a combination of both of
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[video] How Does Text Become Data? (Strangeloop 2013)(infoq.com)
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