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by zzleeper 7y ago
It's quite tiring to see people abusing the Flag link when they don't want some news seen by others. I wonder if it's the same group of people doing so over and over.
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by zzleeper 7y ago
Wow, first time I've seen something on HN useful on baby related stuff :) buying now :D
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by zzleeper 7y ago
Similar experience here. Did a comparison of a bunch of statistical tools (R, Matlab, Julia, Python, etc.) on small-ish datasets. Used the latest versions in all cases, in Windows 10. All but Julia ran the regressions in <1s, while Julia
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by zzleeper 7y ago
Do you remember which one? Can't seem to find it here: https://tug.org/tug2019/program.html
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by zzleeper 7y ago
Well we are getting slightly above the target no? And some say that once we overshoot and target expectations too high, taming them might be hard.
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by zzleeper 7y ago
Silly question, but what does he mean by the iOS lock-in? I have both an Android (personal) and iphone (work) and don't find anything particularly appealing about the iphone wrt to a much much cheaper Huawei (besides a faster camera)
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by zzleeper 7y ago
Same here. People messing with their phones are the new drunk drivers. Texting, messing with stuff on Waze/Maps, changing songs on spotify, etc...
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by zzleeper 7y ago
But they are doing it with everyone. Ask any recent Harvard/MIT/Stanford PhD graduate and he will tell you he got an RFE. Same thing with Greencards.
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by zzleeper 7y ago
You can't really raise short term rates while increasing money supply. I'm certainly not going to dispute your point about bank profits, but what you are suggesting has been tried in the past many many times in many countries, and
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by zzleeper 7y ago
You just pay it as transfer pricing. Eg an expense of $100m for "brand licencing fees". You give me the trademark to the subsidiary in the less taxed place, and done.
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by zzleeper 7y ago
https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.washingtonpost.com/world/i... As you said, India is way more fucked Than Europe. 50± c is more than enough to kill people and seriously disrupt economies
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by zzleeper 7y ago
For a second, I thought you were going to talk about the Rupicola Peruviana: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Rupicola... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZbxFGeNzqw
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by zzleeper 7y ago
I'm really surprised not enough people are making this point. So bug prone, so many fragile packages, so many weird incantations that must be done if you ever want any flexibility... it absolutely sucks, but then I use it again and aga
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by zzleeper 7y ago
Not sure if you are aware, but matching competitor prices is actually anti-consumer. It's counterintuitive but it means that your competitors won't lower the price on the first place. Kinda like implicit price fixing.
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by zzleeper 7y ago
> why couldn't they raise another round of funding? Isn't an IPO just that? A better round of funding that also provides liquidity to shareholders?
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by zzleeper 8y ago
Tbh greeters seemed almost like a waste, as they were not directly creating any output.
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by zzleeper 8y ago
Wow.. when I thought NIMBYism in California couldn't get any worst. From here: https://www.sbsun.com/2019/02/28/san-bernardino-county-board... " some residents say the prohibition will protect commu
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by zzleeper 8y ago
Last week I compared a standard regression command across several statistical programs (R, Py, Stata, Matlab, Julia, etc) on a stupidly simple 10x5 matrix, and Julia took ages to run (this is on windows). Even loading the CSV file took se
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by zzleeper 8y ago
It's much easier to be an autocrat if people support you and don't realize what you are doing. Happened to us in Peru with Fujimori [1]. Elected a guy that promised to be tough on crime and actually get things done. He did lots
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by zzleeper 8y ago
When I bid on coins I NEVER bid the actual maximum on ebay; I just use gixen.com and place my actual willingness to pay there. The reason is that for most goods (luxury goods, stuff with resale value, stuff where you might now all the detai
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by zzleeper 8y ago
I read the lengthy article expecting some strong accusations of fraud, but the "deffered compensation" accusation is BS, and the other one (of using firm's resources for personal gains) is what every CEO does when he takes th
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by zzleeper 8y ago
WaPo, Economist. That's it.
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by zzleeper 8y ago
Can you tell me a bit about what use cases did you have for KC as a data scientist? I sometimes work with large datasets, but I'm not sure how exactly it would fit. Are you basically using it as a nosql database for up to whatever your
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by zzleeper 8y ago
You don't have to pay dividends, you can just do a stock repurchase. Regarding investor preferences, they only want the money spent if it gives them a positive NPV. Pharma companies are already paying dividends, which means they have f
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by zzleeper 8y ago
That's not how it works. You invest if it's worth investing, not if you just have the money laying around. Paying a few billion dollars to a big pharma company is not going to make them invest more in research. They will instead p
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by zzleeper 8y ago
Another data point: on Windows I get 60 fps on both Chrome and FF
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by zzleeper 8y ago
I abhor it on mobile. I can't navigate away from it easily, it's hard to copy paste annurl to share with others, etc. I wish Chrome had the option to disable it, but of course they don't.
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by zzleeper 8y ago
It could be quite bad for morale to keep their business. You'll probably have a group that quit, plus the ones that are left but still would be unsettled by you valuing a bit of $ over principles. That said, I don't think the Supr
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by zzleeper 8y ago
Va? I'm quite close to Crystal City and the rent is already pretty high; not SF levels but amongst the highest in the country. Also, Crystal City has two metro lines so not entirely a transportation despert.
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by zzleeper 8y ago
A lot of people say what you do, but personally I don't understand that argument. I'm typing on a $200 Huawei , and on my side there's a $900 iPhone paid by my employer that I can't even get bothered to use. I even switc

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