ewanmcteagle

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by ewanmcteagle 1y ago
What you are missing is fairly straightforward. Inflating away debt is a form of default. People don't want to lend you money when that is how you plan to pay it back -- same outcome as a default. I guess you could do it once but onl
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by ewanmcteagle 1y ago
This is completely incorrect. Even if you believe the premise, you cannot expect others to lend money to you when you obviously refuse to pay back previous creditors and then the premise becomes incorrect because the debt will not be a safe
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by ewanmcteagle 3y ago
Agree. Maybe people are thinking of asfoetida. A very different thing.
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by ewanmcteagle 4y ago
But in fact anyone who reads the article will see that your assumption is incorrect.
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by ewanmcteagle 4y ago
This is definitely not proven beyond a doubt. In fact it's fairly well documented that he was not the cause.
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by ewanmcteagle 5y ago
Sounds related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness
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by ewanmcteagle 9y ago
As Charlie Munger says, envy is the only one of the seven deadly sins that has no upside (isn't even fun).
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by ewanmcteagle 9y ago
The uniformity of thought here is somewhat concerning to me. Here is a detailed review of the Piketty by an academic who disagrees: http://www.deirdremccloskey.org/docs/pdf/PikettyReviewEssay....
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by ewanmcteagle 11y ago
When can we hope to see some form that will allow the public to play against this even if it is pay to play for each game or a weaker PC version? I hope the system does not end up being put away like Deep Blue was. Also, what kind of hardw
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by ewanmcteagle 11y ago
This is not correct. In the professional ranks 1p is often no weaker than 9p because often the young players start out at 1p and are very strong because selection pressure is much greater. The 9p rank in Japan also came partly out of just
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by ewanmcteagle 11y ago
Buffett is on record supporting the pipeline.
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by ewanmcteagle 12y ago
It's not sneaky. This is the way returns are calculated in the industry. 1.09 * 1.09 * 1.09 would be 3 years of 9% returns compounded. In the same way if the total return over 3 years is 50% you take the cube root of 1.5 to figure out
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by ewanmcteagle 13y ago
In what scenarios would this be useful? Just to experiment?
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by ewanmcteagle 13y ago
This quote changes the meaning. It says that to secure inalienable rights, governments are instituted among men and to do that those governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. It is not consent of the governed
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by ewanmcteagle 14y ago
Seems to be the same John Tromp of the Computer Go bet. http://dcook.org/gobet/
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by ewanmcteagle 14y ago
sorry, by 'read' I meant calculate. Calculation is the chess term, reading is the Go equivalent.
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by ewanmcteagle 14y ago
I don't think it's that strange. Ultimately you have to play in order to read ahead in the game. People who think they can sit down and learn to read ahead will struggle. But if you start actually playing, a lot of the basic reading ahea
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by ewanmcteagle 14y ago
Seems the anti-glare/glare issue has been turned into some kind of compromise. I don't think I'll be able to get this.
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In the Land of the Non-Reader(bygonebureau.com)
1 points by ewanmcteagle 14y ago|0 comments
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by ewanmcteagle 15y ago
This can't be correct when it comes to the larger screens. I found the text on the iPhone 3G to be fuzzy but not on the iPhone 4. I don't like Apple's antialiasing but on the iPhone 4 it doesn't matter anymore. Antialiasing becomes irrele
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Samantha Garvey, Homeless Teen Up For Prestigious Intel Science Prize(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by ewanmcteagle 15y ago|0 comments
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by ewanmcteagle 15y ago
I would submit that the biggest reason for this view and the reason many people hold it is that 37signals as well as most of the programming jobs are CRUD jobs where non-algorithmic skills are probably more important than algorithmic skills
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by ewanmcteagle 15y ago
Why are the students afraid of lower grades? If you don't go to a PhD program, does it matter all that much? I think this emphasis on grades is something we should work to undo. You can learn, you can relearn and get extra help, but if t
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by ewanmcteagle 15y ago
I think this is a valuable alternate perspective. Students will become discouraged from time to time and this will vary by field. Frankly, most professors don't care about undergraduate education. I know this from direct experience. The
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by ewanmcteagle 15y ago
It's useful for weeding out this place as an employer. As a male programmer who intends to remain a programmer, I'm disheartened by this future where I may have to work for juveniles and have these types of discussions.
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by ewanmcteagle 15y ago
Meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies evaluating the association of saturated fat with cardiovascular disease: http://www.ajcn.org/content/early/2010/01/13/ajcn.2009.27725...
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by ewanmcteagle 15y ago
You must ask this question of every single piece of stock advice ever given freely or sold. If you knew about future price movements with some degree of accuracy, the least profitable thing you could do would be to tell others.
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by ewanmcteagle 15y ago
Will they allow motorola employees to work on google things? I've known motorola programmers and they are not at all of the same caliber as google programmers
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by ewanmcteagle 15y ago
If you back out the $30/share in cash the P/E looks to be around 12.
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by ewanmcteagle 15y ago
For those examples are you saying that science or research is clear? I think it isn't for any of them.

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