jakobsen

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by jakobsen 12y ago
> the efficient market hypothesis assumes that emotion, mass psychology, etc. don't enter into stock markets Isn't mass psychology part of "public information"?? I know little about stock markets, but from the outside
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by jakobsen 12y ago
I understand your point, but why even mention Uber when the parent specifically said "car sharing"? Likewise, why does the parent bring the topic of "house sharing" when Airbnb is clearly renting, and not sharing? I just
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by jakobsen 12y ago
But then driving for hire is not the same as car sharing.
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by jakobsen 12y ago
As for scalability... I was thinking that for sure free access to internet would be very hard to monitor, but say you limit it to email: That would be certainly much, much easier (hence cheaper) to monitor than what we currently have. Every
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by jakobsen 12y ago
Not knowing anything about squatter's rights (or law in general), shouldn't it be possible to just create a law putting whatever limits we want on camping WITHOUT the need for it to be completely forbidden? I am just now in a plac
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by jakobsen 12y ago
Only 7% of the land in Finland and Sweden is Agricultural land, compared to 70% in the UK, so it's no wonder that the countryside is much more inaccessible. That being said, there's a lot more that could be done, such as allowing
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by jakobsen 12y ago
>these original, truly Nigerian scams, were less sophisticated than the later Internet imitators, since targeting technical professionals isn't targeting the dumbest of the dumb. On the contrary, the scam you describe look much more
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by jakobsen 12y ago
I think it's better if nobody benefits from there being scammers. Otherwise those under pay via mehanical turk may be tempted to pose as (or become) scammers themselves
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by jakobsen 12y ago
> Spain is just wanted due to the proximity to Africa and a lot of African immigrants/refugees using this vector. I hear this from time to time, but data paints a radically different picture. What you describe is only the case for s
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by jakobsen 12y ago
Why would it? The vast majority of people with whom I interact in OS projects have no clue what my gender (or ethnicity for that matter) is.
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by jakobsen 12y ago
Weight does change around the world, mostly because at the equator you are farther away from the centre of mass of the earth than you are at the poles, but also because of local gravity anomalies. It's mass that never changes, so maybe
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by jakobsen 13y ago
Aren't you are proving the parent's point there? You say that only articles depicting their own culture are seem as relevant to the american reader, which is what he claims. That's absolutely not the case in other places of t
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by jakobsen 13y ago
I started working out 2 years ago and it changed my life for the better, but it most definitively didn't improve my productivity at work. Why would it?
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by jakobsen 13y ago
But isn't the definition of the imaginary unit axiomatic? If so it's indeed true that there is no logical reason why it exists other than it being useful.
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by jakobsen 13y ago
Speaking of European Americans... I never really got if the term "Latin" in the US applies to those of Latin European descent (Spanish, French, Romanian, etc.), olny to Latin Americans (Mexican, Brazilian, etc.) or if it means som
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by jakobsen 13y ago
>I'd rather have people streamline the refueling process than sit in front of a TV and collect a paycheque. You make it look that these two are the only alternatives when they are not (e.g. people could also be studying or actively
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by jakobsen 13y ago
That's a false dicothomy. If the were not wasting their times on a unnecesary job, there is also a chance that they found a useful occupation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
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by jakobsen 13y ago
I think it's wrong to define an ideology with hundreds of years of history by the actions of a random person you happen to know. Have you ever bothered to read Wollstonecraft? Simone de Beauvoir? even Naomi Wolf?? I encourage to do so
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by jakobsen 13y ago
Ok, stop the strawman bullshit already. What you describe is NOT feminism by any stretch of imagination. You are describing the imposing of traditional roles based on gender (in your case, that of boys on a girl) which is exactly what femin
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by jakobsen 13y ago
>Ubuntu on other side asks only for user password It's the user password of an admin user. What other password can it possibly ask for? a global su password?
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by jakobsen 13y ago
So in the UK you are not allowed to enter museums if you are homeless???
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by jakobsen 13y ago
>I suspect (and would like to see the stats) that the USA has a higher mortality rate below age 40 than other western countries but that it levels out after that The USA has a lower than average life expectancy at age 65, and the life ex
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by jakobsen 13y ago
GMOs are not banned in Europe as a whole, but it looks like only Spain have a significant GMO output [1]. Coincidentally Spain has a nice life expectancy, so there doesn't seem to be an obvious correlation (one might argue that Spain m
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by jakobsen 13y ago
They are different even then. Earnings relate to poverty via the prices of goods. I'm don't know much about economy but after searching in wikipedia I think the term is called "purchasing power parity".
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by jakobsen 13y ago
This. Plus why would anyone want to remove fatal injuries from life expectancy? It certainly looks like a legit concern to me.
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by jakobsen 13y ago
Of course it is required (within the computational limits of your computer, of course) If p(x) means 'x is an integer', you could use the regex /^1$/ since it matches integers only (in particular, the integer 1). That&#x
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by jakobsen 13y ago
Anybody with some law knowledge can help me get this right? He says the clause doesn't violate the First Amendment because he is freely agreeing to "forfeit his right to speak freely". Are constitutional rights not inalienabl
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by jakobsen 13y ago
How is that vote similar?? What was proposed in Switzerland was a salary cap, not a tax. There is not such a cap in France, nor anywhere that I heard of.
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by jakobsen 13y ago
I think the point is, if smartphone cameras eventually get to say 40MP then people will start uploading at that resolution even if there's absolutely no benefit from it . The image may then be scaled down to be shown on the page, but F
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by jakobsen 13y ago
Basically, yes.

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