tapertaper

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by tapertaper 13y ago
Producers do make money off the currency. Who will mine it if it's worth nothing? And who will hold it if its value will collapse?
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by tapertaper 13y ago
Those goods are all highly unique with no easy substitutes. One currency can buy something as easily as another.
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by tapertaper 14y ago
My impression of the wine biz is that supply is fragmented. In which case the network of relationships is complex (many-to-many) and so costly to maintain. In my business (insurance) disintermediation only followed massive consolidation on
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by tapertaper 14y ago
Alternate title: the importance of peer review. Spreadsheets are awesome because they let us organize analysis visually which more programming-based quantitative tools cannot. This makes everything easier, including auditing. But someone's
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by tapertaper 14y ago
Eliminate price gouging laws and give gas station owners an incentive to buy generators and this problem goes away. Also gives an incentive to truck gas in from afar. Obviously people view increased prices during a crisis to be morally repu
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by tapertaper 14y ago
I was in Toronto during the blackout and never looked up even once. I think about that missed opportunity all the time.
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by tapertaper 14y ago
Maybe a silly question: do copyrights for games (art or whatever) ever expire?
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by tapertaper 14y ago
Slick stuff. They clearly invest a lot of time/energy into each listing. Good photos, good detail on each building. We want to move to a bigger space in downtown NY but we need to break our five-year lease. So we either moving within the bu
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by tapertaper 14y ago
For me it was a system for tracking errors in weather forecasts. I downloaded 400-odd forecasts from the NOAA twice a day and dropped them into a database.* Figured out the following technologies on the fly: Python for the machine learning
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by tapertaper 14y ago
I taught myself programming last year (starting with Python from Google's course) and am incredibly jealous of this. I'd have killed for someone to explain what on earth Object Oriented Programming was in the context of the project I was wo
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by tapertaper 14y ago
This is more about slavery than plankton. Fertile land does not equal Obama votes.
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by tapertaper 14y ago
Another effect: prototyping is surely the most labor-intensive part of the manufacturing process. This will reduce the share of employment attributed to manufacturing while possibly increase output. Like all other manufacturing technologies
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by tapertaper 14y ago
pg should just webcast a sample of ycombinator presentations. The "search for the next Steve Jobs" is a pretty active market. I predict competition for this show.
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by tapertaper 14y ago
Seems a bit of a non-sequitur here: 1. We think writing skills are great (fair enough) 2. We feel we were taught to write well in school (good for you) 3. We aren't happy with how our kids are being taught to write (that's too bad, but ok)
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by tapertaper 14y ago
Any organization rewards its most productive members. If Apple's marginal dollar of profit starts coming from litigating rather than Innovating it's not just bad for consumers, it's bad for Apple (over a longer horizon). Who do we want to h
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by tapertaper 14y ago
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. -Carl Sagan
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by tapertaper 14y ago
The feeling of competitive pride is possibly the most precious resource in the universe. Who can achieve anything without it? Dragon moms all over the world weep with envy over this boy.
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by tapertaper 14y ago
Excel power user here. Any plans for inter-compatibility? If Grid can simply view other spreadsheet formats (even stripped of formulas and formatting), you'll get a lot of looks from the business world.
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by tapertaper 14y ago
3.4 sigmas aren't enough. Call when you get to 5. http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2011/12/13/the-large... and... http://trap.it/47HCqt
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by tapertaper 14y ago
The font on that website hurts my eyes.
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by tapertaper 15y ago
The deals in insurance don't come when an insurer follows its filings religiously. They come when insurers make a big move for market share and max out their deviations from manual/filed rates, which vary by state. This happens infrequently
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by tapertaper 15y ago
Michael Jordan would WANT to have been rejected.
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by tapertaper 15y ago
What's the point of putting the tl;dr at the bottom?
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by tapertaper 15y ago
Everyone who spends their day on a computer would get a productivity boost if they learned to code.
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by tapertaper 15y ago
Great comment. Probably also worth speculating on why this is happening NOW. Why is this breaking out of CS departments in 2011 and not 2002? The datasets are new. Bandwidth? Storage capacity? Computing power? All of the above?
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Steve Jobs = Keith Richards(webtrough.wordpress.com)
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