hnnewguy

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by hnnewguy 11y ago
How did I know that there would be a comment like this at the top, someone criticizing the research for not being science? What is wrong with making up and using a narcissism metric and seeing what it correlates with? It's how social
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by hnnewguy 11y ago
> I like his disdain for targeted ads, in spite of the fact that this could probably be profitable for his company. I don't agree with the idea that all a company has to do is tack on ads and they'll be wildly profitable. I t
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by hnnewguy 11y ago
> At worst, they are the next-generation MTV Completely delusional. I don't know what SnapChat will end up "being", but the idea that the worst-case-scenario is, for all intents and purposes, "incredibly successful
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by hnnewguy 11y ago
> It's sad that 538 has turned into a pop-stats site that runs on volume and snappy headlines. It's our fault, they're catering to our demands. You can't run a media company any other way. No one wants to read rea
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by hnnewguy 11y ago
> It's been running a massive surplus since the 80s. When the boomers were in their prime earning years, supporting a smaller, aged cohort.
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by hnnewguy 11y ago
> you realize that all those people suckered into ARM loans they couldn't afford during the housing crisis was precisely because they couldn't read between the lines? Maybe, just maybe , there were a few who said, "I&#x2
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by hnnewguy 11y ago
> Do you think he is a liar and if so what do you think he is lying about and why? I don't understand what you're trying to accomplish. While I don't agree with user=irrigation's comments, I think he's been pre
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by hnnewguy 11y ago
> because the country is seen as dysfunctional All the more reason to study their literature.
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by hnnewguy 11y ago
> It it weren't, the numbers would reflect the male/female employment percentages So should this apply to every industry?
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by hnnewguy 11y ago
> the couple uses Washington state (where Paul’s brother lives) as their address for U.S. residential purposes because there’s no state income tax. > Plus our benefits are grandfathered in if Congress screws around with Social Securi
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by hnnewguy 11y ago
> disrupt these banks. What makes you think that the people involved in the disruption of the banks won't partake in the same shenanigans? Do you think "bankers" are inherently evil, while their replacements will be inhe
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by hnnewguy 11y ago
But it has a garage, and in the Valley that's where dreams are born.
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by hnnewguy 11y ago
I found that odd as well. What exactly is a "technology company"?
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by hnnewguy 11y ago
> I don't really think he burglarized MIT I think Mr. Swartz's actions at MIT are admirable, but I don't know how you can deny that what he did was burglary.
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by hnnewguy 11y ago
> artificially low interest rates Interest rates are set in agreement between borrowers and lenders, and hence are always artificial. As far as optimality, the "best" rate is one as low as possible without causing inflation.
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by hnnewguy 11y ago
I'm not going to deny that much of what you describe is occurring. America is a harsh, dog eat dog place. I'll only comment that it isn't unique to this point in time, and isn't a result of Fed actions regarding the Gr
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by hnnewguy 11y ago
Those people are considered unemployed in the U6 measure. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
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by hnnewguy 11y ago
> If someone signs up for e.g. Taskrabbit and does a few hours a week, they're then "self-employed" and no longer count against the unemployment statistics Are you implying that this is having a significant effect on the
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by hnnewguy 11y ago
It probably won't. But the list of countries that are "actually profitable" will.
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by hnnewguy 11y ago
You are a sophisticated investor, who has been very successful wth complex derivatives, predicted and profited from the housing bubble for 6 years...and you don't have $1MM in assets?
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by hnnewguy 11y ago
> "Because winners of purely stochastic games believe they deserve the win does not imply that our real game of life is purely stochastic." This is true, but misses the point. The point is that people believe they "deser
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by hnnewguy 11y ago
He's no different than anyone else playing the money game (just take a look at his accusations towards Mr. Andreesen, who, I think, is a nice guy). He's just better at it.
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by hnnewguy 11y ago
>The scale on the first plot is a bit disingenuous It isn't really disingenuous. It's become fashionable to claim that "all graphs should start at zero", but that's not necessarily how you display data. Here is
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by hnnewguy 11y ago
> but I'm sick of humanities-bashing Humanities (crap), finance (useless banksters), business (lol MBAs), economics (the an inevitable discussion every year here about how the Nobel Prize isn't a real Nobel). It's anno
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by hnnewguy 11y ago
This is a far smaller problem than differing instructors, content, materials or methods between identical courses. In fact, it's part of the solution: as cohort size increases, generally there are more sections of a course taught, and
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by hnnewguy 11y ago
> "Who cares? These are hypothetical problems." It's called foresight. The problems aren't merely "hypothetical"; they're inevitibilities.
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by hnnewguy 11y ago
> It only has paragraphs, but no sections, summary, or anything like that. Almost like a book. I pity the "tl;dr"/buzzfeed generation.
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by hnnewguy 11y ago
> I'm also sad that this amount of energy is not put into something more meaningful. Why are you on HackerNews in the middle of the day, lecturing people, rather than feeding homeless people and building shelters?
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by hnnewguy 11y ago
Having "100+ million users" is a relatively new concept, period. It shouldn't be surprising that very few, if any, have failed. But that doesn't tell us anything about the future. Before Enron, how many companies with $
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by hnnewguy 11y ago
> I think this stereotype/assumption (east coast, FWIW) - is probably due to the radical uptake on the field" Hmm, I like this, and I think you may be right. Unless you worked in a pretty scientific field, just 25 years ago &q

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