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by zzleeper 8y ago
Never heard of reclaim the records until now. What they are doing is amazing! I was even moved to donate, even though I have no US ancestry ("Donation Confirmation Thank you for supporting Reclaim The Records!")
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by zzleeper 8y ago
They definitely use it in academia; it gives poor PhD students a nice way to work with GIS data (sure, you can pay for a student ArcGIS license but then good luck after graduation..) One thing I wish QGIS had though is a command line interf
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by zzleeper 8y ago
That was the case in my older neato, 5+ years away. But my botvac had performed flawlessly for the last two years (and the app app works amazingly, including saving older cleanup maps, sharing the dirt in status, etc)
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by zzleeper 8y ago
They're paying for full time devs to work on the kernel. That counts as sponsoring on my book.
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by zzleeper 8y ago
Early on (as a heavy Stata and Python user) I tried Julia and got quite discouraged by its messy treatment of missing values (and weights, etc). I've also tried R but also found lots of inconsistencies, so not enough reason to switch,
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by zzleeper 8y ago
In many countries, property taxes are local and don't go to schools (which have funding from income taxes i.e. from the state). So it's not like the foreign investors are beneficial in any way, besides maybe paying their bit of wa
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by zzleeper 8y ago
Is there a reason for that? Here (US) a lot of people buy stuff on a whim and when they decide they don't like it, they just return it, as Amazon usually doesn't charge anything. I always though that as a huge cost that ends up b
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by zzleeper 8y ago
Statistically speaking, he didn't. What he paid was way lower than the expected vsñue of what he'll get. That's the entire idea of a pyramid pension scheme.
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by zzleeper 8y ago
Were the benchmarks run on a cooled room? Some years ago, as a student, I paid $$$ for a Toshiba with 4 cores and hyperthreading, and I could only run them well on the winter or in a very cool room. In the summer it would reach 100C and co
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by zzleeper 8y ago
Irvine Company is not just "one company", it's HUGE... it owns half of Orange County, Newport Beach, etc. From Wikipedia: > The Irvine Company develops suburban master-planned communities throughout central and southern Or
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by zzleeper 8y ago
I wonder the same thing. How the hell do the economics of these things work, if users pay almost nothing and birders get so much money daily?
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by zzleeper 8y ago
Most mortgages in the US are sold to Fannie and Freddy (government-sponsored enterprises) [1]. These GSEs in fact commit themselves to buy mortgages at a predetermined rate [2], and I suspect this rate is the main driver for the rates ban
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by zzleeper 8y ago
At least the one I respect more (Samuelson) has a decent quote: Disagree. Reason: 'This would be a great idea if the market for service provision was competitive, but is less obvious with our current market.' On the other hand, i
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by zzleeper 9y ago
Did you knew it's actually a triple mandate? EG: https://www.frbsf.org/our-district/press/presidents-speeches... "Let me start with the Fed’s mission. It’s often said that Congress assigned the Federal
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by zzleeper 9y ago
Agreed. What I do for tables is use the OCR as a step 1, where I just extract the coordinates of each textbox. Then, use one of several methods to recognize columns (Hough transform, or we search for empty areas). Then, do some clustering t
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by zzleeper 9y ago
I'm not op but the claim is pretty well known. Just count the grams of sugar in any coke bottle.
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by zzleeper 9y ago
It doesn't measure the impact. For instance, 7.0 earthquakes can have a vastly different effect depending on the depth of the epicenter, the length of the earthquake, proximity to populated areas, proximity to faults. EG: https:/
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by zzleeper 9y ago
Wow, this is quite hard.. a tutorial on how to read these logs would also be useful, specially to get the handwriting.
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by zzleeper 9y ago
Same thought. Having 1 year to play the H1B lottery is not ideal, and they really hired lots of economists lately, most of which have this issue.
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by zzleeper 9y ago
This is also an issue at Stanford, UPenn and so on. But as you probably know, those schools will never in a million years go candid with a reporter about it (due to prestige and other issues).
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by zzleeper 9y ago
Just be sure not to go in the summer, and to read all the tips for hiking in Death Valley and surrounding areas. It gets really hot (but it's amazing!)
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by zzleeper 9y ago
What would you recommend for mobile? Browsing on Android with Chrome is a nightmare, and the last time I tried FF it was a bit sluggish (although it did allowed me to install extensions!)
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by zzleeper 9y ago
To double down on what user5994461 said, that's indeed a ponzi scheme and quite stupid if you know current population trends. It also creates quite perverse incentives, as older folks want to reduce their retirement age (even as they l
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by zzleeper 9y ago
For company plans, you said the answer. It's silly to assume that your employer will be alive when you are 80 year sold, and also seems like a stupid idea for a company in a completely unrelated business to get into the retirement fund
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by zzleeper 9y ago
I'm pretty sure the vast majority of men don't assume women are "sub human". This akin to saying "Arabs are terrorists", "Latinos are illegal immigrants", and similar BS.
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by zzleeper 9y ago
> You take a Redshift workload and you run it on Oracle, it’s 15 times faster. I thought no one could run Oracle benchmarks because they were against the TOS. Oh wait, Ellison can... I'm pretty sure his benchmarks are not really unb
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by zzleeper 9y ago
Back of the envelope calculations: Investors clearly want them to be profitable; maybe not now but eventually. They have a $450m valuation and $150m in sales, for which they get 5% ($7.5m) [1]. According to Crunchbase, they have 50-100 empl
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by zzleeper 9y ago
The text is unreadable on Windows Chrome. The font is too gray or thin.
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by zzleeper 9y ago
Do you buy them online by any chance?
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by zzleeper 9y ago
I did a finance PhD. We don't have PIs. Email cost is trivial, etc. Put it another way: I don't care if my employer just spent a bunch of money on a better building or more comfy office chairs. I don't care if the IT departme

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