theobon

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by theobon 10y ago
During import it was intentionally undervalued to avoid customs. This provided the journalistic license to provide the massive price discrepancy. "On the packing slip he wrote “rocha: rochedo—rock” and listed the value at $100."
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by theobon 10y ago
Has been down for more than a week. Link to previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13646712
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by theobon 10y ago
Thank you for providing a perfect example of the concern around Universal Basic Income. Even to the point of dropping the Universal... It doesn't even exist and it can still be used to divide society. The exact opposite of its intentio
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by theobon 10y ago
The underlying issue appears to be that prediction systems do not take into account recent changes. Which is common sense, a prediction system is going to lag. It makes a cute fluff article about the value of beat reporters when dealing wit
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by theobon 10y ago
I think that the odds of walking out of a casino with equal to or more than you walked into it is less than 40%. My stats knowledge is failing me right now but if you start with $100 and feed slots at $12/m after an hour the average pe
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by theobon 10y ago
If you are going to post that why would you leave out the section immediately following that addresses why this is newsworthy "The 2017 memo, however, differs in two main areas. It centralizes the agency’s media inquiries and social me
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by theobon 10y ago
Can you expand on your comment that individuals have a lot more power? My admittedly anecdotal evidence shows that individuals are feeling more impotent with voices washed out in a wave a noise and an inability to affect anything.
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by theobon 10y ago
As a Canadian that hates that all my all my online shopping is dominated by US ads, reviews and prices I really want to like this. It has some great features, especially the price history tracker, but lacks usability. I have no idea what th
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by theobon 10y ago
2000 customers, average of 50 devices per customer, average of $15000 per devices 2000 * 50 * $15000 = $1.5 billion I think that objectively counts as a hit...
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by theobon 10y ago
The people you are talking about giving up when they plateau are likely the same people that would have given up when forced to learn the grammar. The net result is a similar number of people at the higher level but the people at the beginn
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by theobon 10y ago
Is that new. When I signed up, admittedly a number of years ago, they just asked me to tell them the amounts of the two test deposits. No login creds provided.
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by theobon 10y ago
The problem, IMHO, is trust. We can't trust what we read online. We know there is lots of true, useful information online and there is lots of crap. So, how do you figure out which is which? Intuition, gut response, does it make sense.
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by theobon 10y ago
The landing sequence appears less complex and risky than the skycrane solution for Curiosity. Does anyone know what the tradeoffs between the two options are?
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by theobon 10y ago
I'd love to seen an ADEPT method explanation of Laplace Transforms. I got through most of math fairly easily by having a mental model of what was going on and could always check that I was on the right track as it made sense in my ment
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by theobon 11y ago
That isn't unique to Computer Science or Programming. I've worked with engineers, accountants, project managers, and many trades people that never touch their area of expertise outside of the classroom or the office. No venturing
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by theobon 11y ago
This is very interesting. There is a common belief that you cannot persuade anyone on the internet. This amazes me as the internet is the number one source of information for most people and information does change beliefs. Perhaps the reas
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by theobon 11y ago
My guess is that as the pot increases people of a higher income get interested. I can see an argument that if the pot increases from $1M to $10M in likelihood of someone that makes $100k/y buys a ticket will increase by more than 10 ti
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by theobon 12y ago
While I appreciate your humour I want to clarify for anyone genuinely confused. Yield is being used in the legal sense regarding fault not the programming shared resource sense. What this means, as far as I understand, is that in the event
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by theobon 12y ago
Why are the majority of the comments here blaming the victim? This is the death if a person who tried to stand against an overwhelming force. To try and stand against the cartels where the police didn't dare and instead of honouring he
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by theobon 12y ago
Anyone found technical documentation on they implemented this? Code or paper?
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by theobon 12y ago
Why are you resistant to doing the market valuation? It is cheap and beneficial. No matter hire certain you are it will validate and refine your offering. You get to learn the market size, the price point and create reasonable estimates fo