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by yufeng66 8y ago
But why design it that way? Seems to be a sure way to confuse new user.
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Hadoop coffee machine(twitter.com)
4 points by yufeng66 9y ago|0 comments
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by yufeng66 9y ago
As others have pointed out. Its about money. If the compound is expected to be very profitable, then it make sense to invest a lot money to do a large scale study. On the other hand, if it is a natural compound that you can't really pa
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by yufeng66 9y ago
In the case of life insurance or auto insurance, if charge the same by gender, it basically means subsidization of male by female. Given the female was the more disadvantaged group historically, it felt wrong. Race is the other way around.
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by yufeng66 9y ago
Reminded me of Jules Verne's Propeller Island, a city on a massive ship in the Pacific Ocean, inhabited entirely by millionaires. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propeller_Island
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by yufeng66 9y ago
US tax code is a strange animal. While in general you take home more if you earn more, the curve is not always smooth. There are several spot you suddenly lose the ability to claim certain benefit as income increase. In a situation like tha
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by yufeng66 9y ago
One important factor is the Chinese government view cash as necessary evil. They prefer the money to be in the digital form to avoid issues such as grey economy and difficulty in collecting tax. As such they refuse to issue large denominati
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by yufeng66 9y ago
I will be that guy too then :) People tend to use relative change: d(GDP)/dt / GDP = d(Population)/dt / Population + d(Productivity)/dt / Productivity So the relative change of GDP is still neatly separated int
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by yufeng66 11y ago
This post is somewhat misleading. China invaded Vietnam (1979) AFTER Vietnam invaded Cambodia (1978). The genocide was pretty much done by that point. Polpot was on friendly term with North Vietnam during the Vietnam war, so it is unfair t