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by tcgv 14y ago
I agree, it doesn't make sense to compare absolute numbers. The risk of having a gun at home should be calculated as [deaths of children by gun]/[number of family homes with guns], and the same should be done to calculate the risk of having
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by tcgv 14y ago
Not necessarily. I while ago I ventured myself in the stock market and in less than a month I traded over US$ 150k in call options. How much money did I have? about US$ 2k, but I made over 100 buy-sell transactions that summed up to that am
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by tcgv 14y ago
I guess that, according to the efficient market hypothesis [1], you can expect the price of bitcoins in other currencies to be the same as the price in dollars adjusted by that currency exchange rate. Otherwise easy profit would be possibl
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by tcgv 14y ago
I agree with you. When ever someone argues that we know a lot about the world and how it works, the following quote comes to my mind: "The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine" J. B. S. Haldane
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by tcgv 14y ago
In Brazil we use "americano" (it is Portuguese noun too) to refer to someone that was actually born in the USA. I recall when I was a kid at school that a teacher once said even though we don't regard our selves as americans, it wouldn't be
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by tcgv 14y ago
"but for unknown reasons could not urinate" Maybe that guy suffered from the Shy bladder syndrome [1]. [1] http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Shy+bladder+...
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by tcgv 14y ago
This reminds me of something a professor told me in my first Calculus course that the famous L'Hospital's rule, named after the French mathematician Guillaume de l'Hôpital, was actually discovered and proved by Bernoulli. The saying is that
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by tcgv 14y ago
I'm from Brazil too and this year the company I work for gave a pay raise of 8.0% for me and my fellow programmers, a little bit above the expected inflation for 2012 of 5.6%
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by tcgv 14y ago
He means that if you keep spending all of your investment's returns, you'll end up with a fixed income of $30K (1% of $3M) that, due to inflation, will have less purchasing power as the years go by.
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by tcgv 14y ago
AngularJS solves app architecturing problems in a elegant declarative way Actually BackboneJS praises itself for not doing that: It doesn't depend on stuffing application logic into your HTML. There's no embedded JavaScript, template log
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by tcgv 14y ago
I agree, he would only have caught that if he were unit testing his UI, and usually doing that is more trouble than it's worth.
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by tcgv 14y ago
If I recall correctly this has already been covered in an episode of The Simpsons. Free vacines are just a means for the government (now Google) to control our minds, Ned Flanders had it all figured out!
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by tcgv 14y ago
I guess it is "dangerous" because that is what we are teaching children at school nowadays, and young people at college, narrowing their views to this generally accepted concept.
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by tcgv 14y ago
You are correct, 3.5 Km is the maximum height only when building towers with constant horizontal cross section.
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by tcgv 14y ago
I was thinking the same thing while reading the post. Maybe a scene in the next 007 franchise film could boost their revenue ;)
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by tcgv 14y ago
... and hardware engineers as well. It is the usage of hardware pipelines that makes possible GHz processors nowadays. It is a really wide concept that can be applied to several kinds of processes.
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by tcgv 14y ago
That would be more meaningful if they provided us the anatomy of entrepreneurs in general, successful and unsuccessful. Then we would be able to find out if there is a correlation (not causality) between being married with children and bein
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by tcgv 14y ago
This is the occurence of each leter in the message: K = 10; N = 9; A = 9; H = 8; R = 8; F = 7; P = 7; O = 7; D = 6; Q = 6; M = 5; J = 5; G = 5; W = 5; T = 5; X = 4; E = 4; Z = 4; I = 4; C = 3; B = 3; L = 3; Y = 3; V = 2; S = 2; U = 1 Doesn'
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by tcgv 14y ago
Thanks for correcting my grammar. I'm actually not a native english speaker, and I'm not writing from home where I have a grammar checker plugin in my browser... so that's my excuse ;)
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by tcgv 14y ago
Google won because they were able to provide much more meaningful results then its competitors, thanks to the PageRank algorithm[1]. When you have the most efficient SE, it is easy to 'monetize' without risking losing your users. [1] http:
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by tcgv 14y ago
I agree with Toshio, well written TDD is the best low level spec you can get, and it is always up to date.
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by tcgv 14y ago
It would be nice to know how much those companies are worth today.