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by vpribish 9y ago
take a deep breath, my friend, it's not the apocalypse. the US still has and is still creating new manufacturing. Tesla in the bay area. Boeing, the oil industry, all of biotech and medical devices. Even in the maker-type-world dig
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by vpribish 9y ago
and in the real world, medication compliance is a serious problem that leads to real life death and suffering. internet trolls and tinfoil hatters can fuck right off.
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by vpribish 9y ago
or you could unplug it, take it home and keep it as a pet
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by vpribish 9y ago
I've ONLY heard that "Apple is a hardware company". that's their defining difference from Microsoft, and now Google
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by vpribish 9y ago
that was an awesome writeup. I've wrangled finance data and know the pain. Those Porsche blue links are wonderful!
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by vpribish 9y ago
“Tech-infused”. Like tech is an herb or a spice? Surely a sign that there are no coherent ideas to be found from that writer.
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by vpribish 9y ago
I've flipped the bozo bit on the term 'Algorithm'.
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by vpribish 9y ago
Skip it, friends. This is a badly-written, and unimportant article. also, phys.org using clickbait? I thought they were good.
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by vpribish 9y ago
Wow. They continue to dig deeper in this mess. I got that email and it looked so sketchy that I marked it as phishing. Do they have no one actually thinking this through? It's a shame we have to wait for the lawsuits to have an impa
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by vpribish 9y ago
yeah, i was trying to allude to that. I found the way of looking at things compelling, regardless.
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by vpribish 9y ago
fair question, but I don't recall the specifics that disappointed me. It's totally possible that the first half of the book was just much better than the second, and it wasn't anything about my thinking that was responsible.
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by vpribish 9y ago
and since you brought up Mr Lowe, here are his articles on "Things I won't work with": http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/thing...
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by vpribish 9y ago
Goedel, Escher, Bach -- If you're reading this page you will dig this book. Guns, Germs, and Steel -- how circumstance drove civilizations. Fun storytelling even if it's a bit too "just-so". definitely trains you to loo
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by vpribish 9y ago
I started "The Ascent of Money" and was very happy with the first half or so - then I set it aside for a few years and worked for a hedge fund. When I picked the book up again I couldn't stand how basic, boring, and mistaken
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by vpribish 9y ago
Hear, hear! this is fascinating book that anyone interested in rocketry will enjoy. Even if you are not interested in the engineering or chemistry the description of the professional community and process of invention is worth reading.
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by vpribish 9y ago
moral panic gets the attention the author craves. it amazes how THAT is such a constant. even on this site, the comments are rife with people forgetting their sense of perspective, history, and human nature and tying themselves in anxious
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by vpribish 9y ago
The only angle I saw for an antitrust concern was in delivery where Amazon is already dominant (but not focused on groceries) and Instacart is a serious player who has long partnered with Whole Foods - anytime #1 takes out a significant com
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by vpribish 9y ago
you can't be sure of much from their 13-Fs. Derivatives, swaps, forex, debt, cash, commodities, and shorts aren't reported and since you don't know how much leverage they use (reputed to be "a lot") you don't
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by vpribish 9y ago
that title is noxious
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Rocket Propellant from Lunar Soil(wickmanspacecraft.com)
72 points by vpribish 9y ago|42 comments
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by vpribish 9y ago
Algebra? If you can't understand algebra there is something dreadfully wrong with you mind, your attitude, or your instruction - Questions should be raised and no degree should be awarded. Ok - I guess it depends on what they include i
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by vpribish 9y ago
yeah, it used to be. It's literally 100 years old. As recently as in the 80's/90's it was a medium weight business magazine. Some time in the last 5 or so years it hollowed out and is just a republishing platform. They
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by vpribish 9y ago
"... insanely expensive, incoherent, dim, and an operational headache". i'm near bursting with off-topic jokes.
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by vpribish 9y ago
I think it's that we don't have materials that can focus x-rays with refraction the way we do visible wavelengths. The alternatives are tricky.
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by vpribish 9y ago
Other detectors around the surface of the globe will be oriented on different planes. The two we have now give error-rejection and, I suppose 1-D detection. Add another in Europe and one in Australia, do some trigonometry, and bob's
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by vpribish 9y ago
maybe 2 passes? 123.45678... -> 123.4568 (4 decimal places is common in finance) then to 2 places for the retail muppets 123.46 :)
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by vpribish 9y ago
your paranoia level is set a titch high - this is incompetence, not malice.
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by vpribish 9y ago
and their financial news is flooded to uselessness with bot-written "stories" from sites like "The <placename> [register|tribune|bulletin|news|alert]". The service is pretty garbage now.
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by vpribish 9y ago
This was a market half-day: exercising some code-paths that haven't been used since the day after thanksgiving '16. I do find it surprising that google and yahoo are both affected, as they used to have very different patterns of
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by vpribish 9y ago
clickbait much?

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