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by zodiac 11y ago
I would think that if he focused the essay more on gender discrimination instead of just on Jessica, she would not be comfortable with or allow the essay to be published. > Those may be true, but that's not enough to answer the ques
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by zodiac 11y ago
I think he meant "they should have supported offline maps a long time ago"
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by zodiac 11y ago
Yup! If we're trying to compute 3256 % 7 and we know that 325 % 7 = 3, then 3256 % 7 = (325 * 10 + 6) % 7 = (3 * 10 + 6) Computing 10 % 7, 20 % 7 etc generates the white arrows. I think unless we're checking divisibility by primes
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by zodiac 11y ago
OP acknowledges this... "Unfortunately, using the mean as a test statistic is flawed - it only works when the pre-selection distribution of A and B is identical, at least beyond C." To me the rest of the article is asks the questi
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by zodiac 11y ago
> His argument is based the proposition that different sexes/races have different market value profiles. He needs to demonstrate why that is the case before proceeding to heavy math. Not really, his argument is that "PG's
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by zodiac 11y ago
Not really, it's the expected future value of dividends (plus the value in assets of the company and in voting rights, but these are normally much smaller than the value of the future value of dividends). People buy growth company stoc
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by zodiac 11y ago
How is this relevant to what I posted?
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by zodiac 11y ago
I can't speak for everyone, but unless some extraordinary new information comes to light I personally would never use livecoding.tv after observing this incident. It seems from the comments on this thread that a lot of HN readers agree
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by zodiac 11y ago
I think if it were only a matter of taking a long time to delete the account, we wouldn't be so unhappy. To me, the reason your team's behavior seems extremely unprofessional are 1. Not telling Liza when her account would be delet
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by zodiac 11y ago
AFAIK pg added that to the article after WildUtah made his comment, and pg acknowledges this in a reply to WildUtah
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by zodiac 11y ago
My best math classes have been where the professor took the intuitive approach but prefaced it with a rigorous definitions so I always had a safety net to fall back on.
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by zodiac 11y ago
What product are you making? Couldn't find it via your profile.
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by zodiac 11y ago
"The north" is an actual area What is the area? Do you have a source for this?
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by zodiac 11y ago
I imagine the human's hand would be obstructing active areas of the board a large percentage of the time
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"built on" is not necessarily synonymous with "developed on".
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by zodiac 11y ago
www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html
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by zodiac 11y ago
Serious question: why didn't we evolve a more effective instinctive drowning response than the one we currently have? For instance I learned how to tread water the first or second time I entered a pool and cannot remember a time when I
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by zodiac 11y ago
Are the questions different from regular YC applications? I don't see the "Please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage" question I've read about
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by zodiac 11y ago
But the game investors play isn't "choose a company/asset class to invest in, and then compete with other bidders". While I'm competing with the other bidders I can take my money and invest it elsewhere. So if we&#x
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by zodiac 11y ago
> Sell to a later investor in a private financing round. But what incentives would those later investors have? Public company stock is valuable because it provides the owner a dividend stream, control of the company as well as ownership
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by zodiac 11y ago
> If there are only two VCs in the market and they both estimate the same cashflow, rational economics says they will both out bid school other down to the last cent of Present Value. Is this true in the presence of other investment oppo
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by zodiac 11y ago
Maybe what he meant is: If the future profits of AirBnB were known perfectly now, then their valuation should be the present value of all future profits as otherwise there is an arbitrage opportunity. Since the future profits are not known
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by zodiac 11y ago
If AirBnB hypothetically decided to never IPO, what incentives does an investor have in investing? Does the private AirBnB need to issue dividends? Genuinely curious about how this would work.
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by zodiac 11y ago
I think the JSON that drcode describes doesn't need to be DOM-like - it doesn't need to contain spans, divs etc. Look at the example he gave.
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by zodiac 11y ago
> As long as good candidates are rare, and bad candidates have a small-but-nonzero chance of tricking you into hiring them, it's very expensive to pass on a good candidate. Yes, I agree with you. My point is that even taking this in
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by zodiac 11y ago
For me the main thing that Atlas Shrugged made me extend my conception of civil disobedience to economic laws. I believed that civil disobedience against for eg racial segregation laws is morally correct. Atlas Shrugged made me agree that i
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by zodiac 11y ago
I agree with you that if hiring strategy B led to hiring 10% of the good candidates and cut the odds of hiring the bad candidate to 0.5%, compared to 100% and 1% for hiring strategy A, then strategy B is worse than strategy A. However 1) Th
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by zodiac 11y ago
> Counterintuitively, if you pass on too many of the "good" candidates, in your overzealousness to reject bad candidates, you're actually INCREASING THE ODDS OF A BAD HIRE. Yes, but what hiring managers are doing isn'
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by zodiac 11y ago
IIRC, they've said that they're targeting people learning english more than english speakers learning other languages. They have english courses in lots of languages.
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by zodiac 11y ago
> In non-technical everyday usage, the word "restaurant" implies table service The english language varies considerably by geographical region, the speaker's socioeconomic class, etc. Your statement is not universally true

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