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by wjnc 9y ago
Dear Herr Krach, thank you for your letter. I think you misunderstand how business works. Apple is a profit seeking corporation. Profits we make, we hope to distribute to our shareholders. Paying taxes is an obligation with which we comply,
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by wjnc 9y ago
He doesn't seem to mind [1]: "The only thing that would have been nice is that after the project had been finished and the chip deployed, that someone from Intel would have told me, just as a courtesy, that MINIX 3 was now probabl
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by wjnc 9y ago
If there is inflation in non-local currency, wouldn't that point to massive supply chain problems on the ground. Can't fault currencies for that. BTC is not helping Venezuela since there is a state induced apocalypse going on. No
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by wjnc 9y ago
If you know what's going on, the title might be clickbait. But I looked at the abstract (via the link in the article on Quanta Magazine) and understood none. Read the article and understood some. They explained the Big-O, the algorithm
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Accurate Genomic Prediction of Human Height(biorxiv.org)
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by wjnc 9y ago
Agree. I recently visited Bletchley Park and one of the astonishing life stories was of Bill Tutte. He was as instrumental as Turing and became a professor in graph theory after WW2. Astonishing for me was that he had to 'restart'
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by wjnc 9y ago
The companies historically creating cameras had a business model creating low to high end cameras. That's unravelling. Coping with quickly changing markets is hard. So even though smartphones and high end cameras aren't compatible
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by wjnc 9y ago
Indeed. 'Big corp' would find it very hard to react when a profitable segment of their portfolio drops out (smartphone vs. simple camera / so you're struggling financially), while competition or complexity ramps up in an
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by wjnc 9y ago
Good point. That would be a camera as a platform-model. We're half-way there in re-assembling a market structure that can withstand the 'new' pressures. The only way for a truely decent product, would be a decoupling of 1. ca
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by wjnc 9y ago
As an economist: isn't this 'just' an example of software eating the world? One the one hand, quality camera's should keep upgrading the periferal hardware to keep match with modern IT-supplies and on the other hand keep
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by wjnc 9y ago
It's actually a pet-peeve of mine that corporatism (Rheinland model) could be easily seen as enabling certain forms of corruption. It's very clean: hardly any bribery or extortion in this model. But networking, clientilism and fav
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by wjnc 9y ago
If anything, this is as good as it gets with regards to a modern jobhunt. First response is from Skyscanner! For us 'flexible' travellers, it's even harder than the story suggests. I have 4+ international airports with 1,5 ho
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by wjnc 9y ago
Randomized trials are the gold standard, but I wouldn't blast a study straight for being prospective. My main thingy with studies like these is that actuarial bookkeeping is hard. The difference in base mortality rate between a few age
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by wjnc 9y ago
I agree. However the hazard ratio is monotonously increasing across activity groups in the direction one would expect if there is an effect. So the data does indeed show a (meaningful) rise in risk going lower on the activity ladder, only i
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by wjnc 9y ago
From the OP: "Buying your way onto the bestseller list is not technically illegal, nor is it that hard if you know how." It's a pretty awesome ploy, with one caveat: to make real money, somewhere, someone should produce somet
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by wjnc 9y ago
That's the general accounting principle, but accounting is pretty hard. Leases get pretty complicated quicky. For example in a sale and leaseback under IAS17 even 'profits' you make at the outset (let's call them economi
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by wjnc 9y ago
TBH, there's a significant part of people cycling longer commutes as well (30k seems to be a natural limit). You work out two hours and hardly miss any work since you skip traffic jams. Most offices of larger firms have locker rooms an
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by wjnc 9y ago
I cringe when I read such Trumpian tweets from a founder. The journalist reached out a few times and the response was unclear. So he writes his piece with a pretty clear warning to future customers. Get your PR and compliance straight if yo
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by wjnc 9y ago
For me the article has a somewhat sad component (next to technological awesomeness): "In retirement, Zottarelli told me, he would like to see Florida again. He wonders how it has changed. In his garage is a 1954 Swallow Doretti, a fixe
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by wjnc 9y ago
I would agree that the laws surrounding money laundering and terrorism financing in the EU are pretty heavy handed. An example: a financial firm is to check the UBO (ultimate benificiary owner, i.e. the real person involved) at the other en
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by wjnc 9y ago
You should Google and read up on 'Wwft' (Dutch law). You wouldn't want to go from VAT troubles to terrorism financing or money laundering troubles with that same tax office. No intention of stirring up troubles in this thread
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by wjnc 9y ago
Is this the sought distinction? "This source code is licensed [to you] under EITHER" whereas "Th[e] source is licensed under BOTH". The "this" hints at a genitive that's not there but still feels there. (L
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by wjnc 9y ago
The problem is to think of a market structure where third parties are involved: Current EU-system, the seller is always first point of contact in case of defects. So the seller should involve a third party and then share costs (after 5, 10,
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by wjnc 9y ago
Other institutions help consumers in this respect. Consumer organizations, collective claims and legal assistance insurance come to mind. The Netherlands has implemented said directive as a two year minimum warranty and has a well-known gov
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by wjnc 9y ago
A practical application of a geometric series [1]. Before my study of statistical distributions I once re-invented the Poisson distribution. It took one look of my physicist colleague to give everyone a good laugh. That was the moment I dec
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by wjnc 9y ago
Best interest in mind: sure you want to post this with a partially named account with more personal details in prior posts?
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by wjnc 9y ago
I'm with you: 3 shows a day * 5 minutes * 365 days a year * 2 years < 200 hrs of content for $100M Now express that budget as something relating to advertising budget and profits. Those 200 hrs should steer tens of billions in sales
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by wjnc 9y ago
First two words in Royal Dutch Shell :) Car industry true, although in earlier days Daf (inventor of the automatic transmission) comes to mind.
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by wjnc 9y ago
Actuarial pricing is pretty simple in it's basis. Estimate claim frequency and claim severity (loss) per model, age group, state, [100s more categories]. Use proper statistical distribution. Apply markup for costs. Apply commercial mar
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by wjnc 9y ago
Excel in business / finance is a great mish-mash of ETL, modelling (from simple statistics to pretty advanced optimization), graphics and dashboarding. With too little structure and documentation to be good for you. A big plus is that

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