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by vinhboy 12y ago
Ahh crap. Thanks for this. I did not realize click-to-play was so pointless.
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by vinhboy 12y ago
I didn't reply to the others because I didn't want to get into a whole fight about it. But the OP's original message about selection-bias is still correct. The article's original claim is that charter schools does work f
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by vinhboy 12y ago
Not winning the lottery is not the same as not even participating in the lottery. One could argue that simply participating in the lotter shows that those kids had active parents, and therefore are self-selecting as the OP stated.
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by vinhboy 12y ago
Dang, they banned him from computer use for 3 year and he is still making awesome stuff after that? What a bad ass.
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by vinhboy 12y ago
Back when GPU bitcoin mining was still profitable, I really wanted something like this. Unfortunately it does not exist. If GPU bitcoin mining was profitable for longer, I bet something like this would have been invented.
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by vinhboy 12y ago
This whole DMCA reporting business is pretty interesting http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/... http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright&#
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by vinhboy 12y ago
$200/hr is like a buffer, or insurance if you will. When you're working with a client, most of whom are non-technical, you have to invest A LOT of time explaining things or re-doing things because it doesn't work the way they
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by vinhboy 12y ago
It's kind of funny to me that it's easier to conquer nature, than it is to change human behavior.
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by vinhboy 12y ago
And I thought MtGox was bad. I don't want to victim blame, and I certainly feel terrible for these people, as I have been a victim of scams myself. But jeebus, I do more research into buying an iPhone case than these people did for wir
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by vinhboy 12y ago
I like the plastic bag ban because cashiers and other shoppers don't look at me weird for NOT wanting a bag. Multiple times before the bag ban in my town, I would ask for no bags, because the item I bought is already tightly packaged.
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Coding is analogous to writing a spell(reddit.com)
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by vinhboy 12y ago
No, not professional ones. Doctors, nurses, teachers, accountants, law enforcement, lawyers etc... all gets better with age.
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by vinhboy 12y ago
Is there such a thing as an address library? I imagine something with a standard format, and a table schema you can just put into any app and have a functioning contacts list. Preferably a ruby gem maybe?
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by vinhboy 12y ago
Speaking of Occupy, this sentence in the article got me all excited > President Obama, giving in to pressure from the Occupy movement and other reformers, had formed the Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Working Group. I wonder if t
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by vinhboy 12y ago
At the risk of sounding really stupid. Can someone ELI5 what's going on here and why everyone thinks its so amazing?
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by vinhboy 12y ago
They should link to his facebook group page... I can't find it.
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by vinhboy 12y ago
Good time for me to do my annual bitching about how much I hate HN comments. So who made the most agreeable comment on this thread? I don't know...
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by vinhboy 12y ago
"Freest Economies"? You mean the biggest leach in modern history. They send all of their children to be educated abroad. The rely on the security provided by our military. And they provide safe harbor for all the rich tax evaders
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by vinhboy 12y ago
Thanks for the detailed response. I think I am going to try it.
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by vinhboy 12y ago
Interesting. So does anyone actually run their OS X from a non-admin user? Are there any permission problems that arises?
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by vinhboy 12y ago
I'll also add that other banks, I think Chase, also had this feature. But they stopped doing it because I guess not enough people were using it. So yea, while I am happy for Final, as someone who has used disposable numbers for years,
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by vinhboy 12y ago
As much as I hate how casinos deal with people who find loopholes in their games, sitting down and winning "seventh jackpot in an hour and a half" is pretty silly. Everything in moderation... But I guess you can't really expe
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by vinhboy 12y ago
I say make it a documentary, but make it as layman as possible so that the rest of America can understand just how fucked up it was. Use it as an opportunity to shame the government into action.
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by vinhboy 12y ago
Nice landing page. The use of videos here is really apt and powerful. Unlike the Paypal homepage, which makes me feel unsecure..
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by vinhboy 12y ago
Does Apple sell any transmitters?
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by vinhboy 12y ago
"As delays dragged on, Caltrans approved paying the contractors an additional $6.5 million to boost efficiency and quality, and to catalog the work." WTF... I know a lot of us here are contractors. Tell me the last time you got pa
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by vinhboy 12y ago
Why does our government keep doing this shit. It's the same thing they do with muslim groups by egging on the crazy loner to do stuff (checkout Radiolab). It's like a microcosm of the bigger problem in our society. The government
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by vinhboy 12y ago
So... are we going to get any of our taxpayer money back from the people who fucked up the first time? On another note I am really delighted to see that the government was forced to step out of their bubble to make this happen.
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by vinhboy 12y ago
How do people know that one lang would compile down to another? Is there something about the lang that make this possible? Also, is it possible that something won't translate from ruby --> js and cause a bug?
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by vinhboy 12y ago
It's one of those things where you don't know what you're missing until you try it.

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