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by vladd 8y ago
The article presents a graph where two metrics are overlapped on the same scale (union membership and percentage-based middle-class income), with a graph title suggesting that one causes the other. This isn't necessarily true. Irrespec
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by vladd 9y ago
Warren included several gems in this year's annual letter. Below, a small preview: - discussion about December's tax change (>> The $65 billion gain is nonetheless real – rest assured of that. But only $36 billion came from
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Berkshire Hathaway 2017 Annual Letter [pdf](berkshirehathaway.com)
249 points by vladd 9y ago|153 comments
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by vladd 9y ago
A "legitimate" signature (or, for a better word, a good-performing signature) is one that performs well on both precision and recall ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_and_recall ). Precision is the ra
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by vladd 9y ago
I'd recommend to be careful when mentioning nationalities together with diminishing words ("dirt cheap") - even if it's not discrimination, it can impact your judgement and its validity. For example, if you would have sa
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by vladd 9y ago
49 / 7 = 7 years (a gap of 3 years until they can commit for a decade)
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by vladd 9y ago
>> Closing A380 isn't going to happen for years considering the backlog they have The article mentions: "96 unfilled orders -- But based on airlines’ intentions or finances, 47 of those are unlikely to be delivered, which ha
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by vladd 10y ago
Uber is showing huge growth by expanding in a lot of new markets (in Europe and Asia). Market formation is expensive; they initially support a critical mass of drivers with minimum guaranteed earnings before mass adoption in that region hap
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by vladd 10y ago
>> he would have to liquidate some stock [...] which would have the effect of depressing the FB stock price Depressing the stock is not the main problem of that. Insider trading is (he cannot liquidate FB stock on short notice as he h
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by vladd 10y ago
I agree that fairness has no place when looking whether someone obeyed the law or not. Fairness however should be of interest for the people that make these laws.
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by vladd 10y ago
The press expects them to announce iPhone 7: http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/29/12429510/apple-iphone-7-ev...
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by vladd 10y ago
Germany is the only EU country having roads without speed limits - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limit#Roads_without_spee... . Outside of EU, the only other European location that would qualify would be Isle of M
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by vladd 10y ago
Subway line 14 in Paris is fully automated, has trains arriving every 85 seconds during peak hours, and has an hourly capacity of 30'000 - 40'000 seats/hour. https://www.systra.com/IMG/pdf/metro_mete
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X.org Managed to Get Renewed(phoronix.com)
4 points by vladd 11y ago|0 comments
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by vladd 11y ago
I'm trying to understand better the graphs: if this year a house in Manhattan appreciates in value, it won't reflect in GDP but it would reflect in the asset growth curve? This might be a cause for the disconnect of the curves. If
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by vladd 11y ago
You should read: http://www.wired.com/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/ >> It turns out, a billing address and the last four digits of a credit card number are the only two pieces of information a
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by vladd 11y ago
It depends on how far up you want the weight to go: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_transfer_orbit - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit
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by vladd 11y ago
It has been one of the criticism that gets brought up about the Blizzard CEO - the fact that he won't invest unless the game is exploitable over long periods of time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kotick#Gam
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by vladd 12y ago
NameSilo.com has cheaper .com / .net etc than listed alternatives.
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Bitcoin Exchange Bitstamp Confirms Loss of ~$5M USD from Hot Wallet(cryptocoinsnews.com)
1 points by vladd 12y ago|0 comments
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by vladd 12y ago
"swift" might be a close translation.
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by vladd 12y ago
It's common for people to have discovered a new concept intuitively without understanding all its implications. Like Newtonian physics. Aiming to redefine it properly is worthy.
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by vladd 12y ago
You could use other definitions, such as picking an arbitrary number of years and call anything younger than that a startup. But maintaining a high growth explains so many aspects of a startup's life (why founders give up parts of thei
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by vladd 12y ago
It's actually a term for businesses that are designed to grow fast and still experience a high growth rate: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
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by vladd 12y ago
It's not that he doesn't have revenue, I doubt it even has persistent users. Users are generally 30-day active (trailing average). Here we're talking about a spike in traffic that the project got after some public exposure on
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by vladd 12y ago
The same issue appears when deciding allowance of cookie share-ability across subdomains. The solution is called a public suffix list - more information about it is available at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Public_Suffix_List .
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by vladd 12y ago
This breaks for obvious cases such as mzzafr2pr.blogspot.com
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Microsoft's Cortana mixes AI with human-added humour(bbc.com)
2 points by vladd 12y ago|0 comments
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by vladd 13y ago
In case you want to try out static analysis on your own code-base, here's a link with the list of most popular tools in this field, grouped by language: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tools_for_static_code_a.
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by vladd 13y ago
Income inequality (savers are from within the big earners group) coupled with automation of low-skilled work will lead to a society where capital is concentrated in the hands of few (the high class), intelligence defines the middle class wo

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