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by weiser 6y ago
They are expecting to be bailed out, just like everyone else.
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by weiser 7y ago
Anything with real intrinsic value will do well. For equities, that means value stocks over growth stocks.
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by weiser 7y ago
In my experience, the best approach is to treat the notebook as the frontend. So widgets, graphs, annotations are generally ok. Anything compute intensive should be relegated to the backend.
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by weiser 7y ago
How a blockchain works.
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by weiser 7y ago
This is simply solved with intermarriages. Make 2 people 1. Happened throughout history. When it didn't, led to conflict.
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by weiser 7y ago
Symbolic moving, and possible stepping stone to other actions. Technicalities don't matter.
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Mega-Banks and the Next Financial Crisis(online.wsj.com)
2 points by weiser 16y ago|0 comments
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Research Links Poor Kids' Stress, Brain Impairment(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by weiser 17y ago|0 comments
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by weiser 18y ago
In Savings and Loan crises of 80s, wall streets banks lost all the money they made during the previous 25 years. In the current crises, I dont know the exact number but it is worse than that. So if you believe that wall street banks actuall
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by weiser 18y ago
So what happens when each node in the decision tree has probability attached to it. Worse still, what happens when you do not know the true probabilities of these nodes. Now imagine you have to deal problems all day with uncertain character
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by weiser 18y ago
These guys ( http://www.visualspatial.com/ ) would not be happy with the way results of this research are framed. This research seems to be suggesting that auditory-sequential (AS) learners are more intelligent, i.e., have higher IQ, than v
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by weiser 18y ago
Actually, the author is clearly stating the causal relationship. He is pointing out that free market fundamentalism is the cause of the crises and Business schools are the cheerleaders for free market fundamentalism. Now, I personally do no
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by weiser 18y ago
I think this executive and all those who want to bury this guy are missing an important point. In financial markets, you cannot judge performance simply by results, because it is very difficult to determine whether the good performance was
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by weiser 18y ago
Ok, so certain mental abilities deteriorate. Maybe, some other mental abilities improve. The problem with this research is that it is trying look at brain from a certain view point, ignoring all other view points. A more holistic approach w
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by weiser 18y ago
My view is that people think in (1) words (2) pictures and (3) concepts. How much of each depends upon the individual. As for myself, I think mostly in pictures and concepts, very rarely in words. I am bilingual, but since I rarely use word
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by weiser 18y ago
To all those who share the personality traits of this "friend" of the blogger, how many of you believe your coding speed is slower than other hackers? From coding speed, I mean, say amount of time to finish a well defined programming projec
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by weiser 18y ago
An honest self-assessment is essential for hiring into your weakness. Unfortunately, most people are unable or unwilling to do that.
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by weiser 18y ago
Intelligence is a grand notion indeed. Check out the notion of multiple intelligences http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligence... IQ scores are useful for assessing mostly logical intelligence, and to some extent visua
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by weiser 18y ago
Yes, thats true, some people might suck at everything. But that can be managed as long as thats a small enough minority. (we have government welfare for a reason, right? :)) The hypothesis I proposed is too broad to prove easily. Maybe, we
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by weiser 18y ago
I can bet that woman must be good at something she has never been tested on and probably does not know about. Maybe if we start from the premise that most individuals have something they are really good at, we might be able to move beyond t
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by weiser 18y ago
The lack of transparency in oil futures trading has been a concern for many, not just trading in itself. See http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/release.cfm?id=257862
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by weiser 19y ago
Agree. Anybody who pins the blame on any one side is an ignorant idealogue. People who think like that can only create problems, not solve any.
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by weiser 19y ago
"..it's not hard to find poor societies or societies with long histories of oppression where the thar mentality is much less virulent. Instead, I argue that the thar mentality causes poverty, and causes or certainly reinforces the oppressio
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by weiser 19y ago
I've played blackjack in vegas, and I am also working on my web app these days. The latter is relatively harder
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by weiser 19y ago
I understand the aversion to drowning users with ads, but still, many sites use ads without nauseating the users to generate decent ad revenue. Why was it so hard to do it for reddit?
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by weiser 19y ago
There is an infinite number of primes, but Paul Graham is the greatest prime.
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by weiser 19y ago
All those companies/merchants advertising their products/services through adsense wouldnt want their ads blocked by IE. Google wont be alone in this fight.
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We need more non-geeks creating internet startups
4 points by weiser 19y ago|9 comments