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by fyi80 13y ago
#5 "Echo their name back at them" That is literally a specific advice to write low-quality "porn" content that stimulates superficially and then trigger an anger/betrayal reaction. These "tricks" are copied straight from a used car sales lo
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by fyi80 13y ago
You have interesting friends. Any email that puts my name in the subject line is spam.
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by fyi80 13y ago
Another horrible repeating of the "income inequality" trope, and then showing graphs of median income that don't get near the top l% of US earners, while citing a stat that the top 1% of earners are gaining.
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by fyi80 13y ago
200K income, you can easily afford to allocate 25% of that to a mortgage interest (plus 10% for principal, taxes, etc), $50K/year 3.5% mortgage -> 50K/yr * 100% / 3.5%/yr = $1.5M house price interest rates are so low these days, you c
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by fyi80 13y ago
Oh my. In my day they just gave us coupons for free personal pan pizza for each 10 books we read.
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by fyi80 13y ago
> You are asking, gwern, a question about what people like about your writings. tokenadult, do you have an Ed.D or Ph.D in Education? Or maybe something related to Social Work? Did you know that this communication style, which you use r
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by fyi80 13y ago
If I had $10 for ever hour I'd saved, I'd have $1000 every day. In reality, though, "saving an hour" on one task just leads to "getting stuck for an hour" on another task.
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by fyi80 13y ago
Java/C++ programmer who observed that English lacks Perl's qq operator or python's r''
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by fyi80 13y ago
> Erdos liked to tell another version of how Kummer computed 7 times 9: "Kummer said to himself, 'Hmmm, the product can't be 61 because 61 is a prime, it can't be 65 because that's a multiple of 5, 67 is a prime, 69 is too big-that leav
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by fyi80 13y ago
> that a course in introductory logic This is barely touched in standard geometry text books. 2-column proofs and all that. But most people don't notice it, and it deserves far more treatment. Many of the smartest people I know attended
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by fyi80 13y ago
Or someone who has never used it, mocking its imagined failures, shows that when people gets there hands on it, they will see it wildly outperforming expectations and achieve mass-market appeal.
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by fyi80 13y ago
I hope you made exorbitant purchases at a retail postal shop to compensate for your extreme abuse of the system.
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by fyi80 13y ago
Only if they get a LOT of mail.
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by fyi80 13y ago
Well, if a drug has a dose in the ~200mg range, you can't physically fit many of them into one pill.
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by fyi80 13y ago
If only there were a way to predict that users searching for "taxi" tend to want local results, and users searching for "abortion" don't. You know, like that other search engine does, called, um, Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=abo
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by fyi80 13y ago
Watson-ish system is IBM's medical diagnostics system. and Google Search is basically Watson.
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by fyi80 13y ago
Check out the real estate section of your local newspaper. It has a long and glorious tradition.
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by fyi80 13y ago
Here's the actual policy document: http://www.whitehouse.gov/ondcp/drugpolicyreform (It uses that horrid layout with broken scrolling that the NYT popularized with its Snowfall story.)
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by fyi80 13y ago
Where is the part where Hsieh wrote that he sold each item at a marginal loss?
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by fyi80 13y ago
Funny story: In 5th grade, on career day, the proprietor of an Army-Navy Surplus store explained margin to me: I buy a shirt for $7, sell it for $10, and get $3 dollars profit and $7 to buy another shirt. I was genuinely confused about the
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by fyi80 13y ago
Losses != negative margin. Amazon was not profitable for 10 years, because revenue did not exceed variable+fixed costs. But revenue exceeded variable costs. They had losses for 10 years, but had positive margine.
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by fyi80 13y ago
Before startups or the Internet existed, the old joke was "Lose a little on every sale and make it up in volume".
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by fyi80 13y ago
"Not applicable" or "0/0 UI elements are correct" is a fine response to checklist.
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by fyi80 13y ago
The checklist motivates the automation. This advice is for people who have neither, to get started.
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by fyi80 13y ago
Care to guess how many African-American college applicants are white Jewish South Africans? Plenty.
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by fyi80 13y ago
This is of course much better, to avoid AA going to rich black kids over poor white kids.
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by fyi80 13y ago
Are you referring to Asian-Americans, or Asian international students? Public schools love the international student tuition money these days, it's such a farce, turning "public" education on its head.
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by fyi80 13y ago
The geography imbalance, which exists, is not even close to explaining the disparity between general population and Ivy League attendees.
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by fyi80 13y ago
Define "merits". That is a huge problem in itself, as traditional measures of merit encode cultural discrimination.
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by fyi80 13y ago
"Exercising casually" is not the sort of "well-roundedness" that colleges select for. They look for "team captain", which, by the way, is far more common when your (expensive, private) school has 100 students instead of 1200 like a common p

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