kevinali1

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by kevinali1 4y ago
While I totally agree with this, I think you should still get a drivers license. There's always a very real possibility that you may need to drive a car in some sort of emergency.
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by kevinali1 4y ago
The Messi comment wasn't trying to be snarky. Was trying to foster an actual conversation about what it means to be great and how does context matter. Sorry if it came across as insulting or uninteresting- that was not my intention.
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by kevinali1 4y ago
Messi can be compared to billions of ppl are the world who play or dabble in football. This dude can be compared to what - a couple thousand?
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by kevinali1 7y ago
102
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by kevinali1 7y ago
Financier: The biography of Andre Meyer by Cary Reich. The book goes into the beginnings and psychology of one of the most important investment bankers of the 20th century. It also goes into great detail of the toxic nature of banking and t
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by kevinali1 7y ago
Drugs I guess
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by kevinali1 7y ago
I think quality of the conversation will always trump "privacy, openness and ad-free". We have to pay for quality. If we're not going to pay with dollar bills, we pay with privacy.
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by kevinali1 7y ago
I've heard both sides of the debate (art should not be treated as commerce vs art has investment value). I think it's a very confusing debate as I see the point of both sides. Art is made to evoke beauty in all sorts of ways that
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by kevinali1 8y ago
Their selling point is trustworthiness, privacy and usefulness. To be useful, they must have quality software/IP. And in their opinion, that should be protected.
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by kevinali1 8y ago
I'd call this shitty, but certainly not politically incorrect.
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by kevinali1 8y ago
Many times those colleges are great because of those donations... So maybe it is fair... Perspective
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by kevinali1 8y ago
Aerial images?
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by kevinali1 8y ago
Like a waterfall. Once you're over the edge, it's an entirely different ball game.
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by kevinali1 8y ago
I find this phenomenon similar to many other diseases. A certain diet or lifestyle works wonders in preventing it. But if you have it, there is little you can do to treat it outside of medical treatment. Eg diabetes, kidney failure, cancer.
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by kevinali1 10y ago
http://www.apple.com/macbook-air/ The still make them
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by kevinali1 10y ago
Perhaps (just perhaps), Quantopian is gathering (or has gathered) the evidence that B > A. If so, this is a great investment. Regarding institutional money, they have been around for a few years. I'm not sure about how long they&#x2
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by kevinali1 10y ago
Can you give some examples of "project management styles" that try to fix this?
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by kevinali1 10y ago
Agreed. It's like: America: "Kid's here have a better chance of becoming super-rich or super-powerful - maybe even President.. Forget about health care and income equality" Europe: "Whatever, everyone here is middle
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by kevinali1 10y ago
Again, you can't sell deposits. Chase assumed the business of WaMu, which included liabilities - mostly deposits. Deposits are a liability and it is impossible to sell a liability. So saying "they sold their deposits to Chase for
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by kevinali1 10y ago
Aren't deposits a liability? How can you sell a liability? Do you mean they sold their loans?
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by kevinali1 10y ago
I don't think they're reinventing anything. Google Fonts has been offering webfonts for many years. All they did here was change the website.
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by kevinali1 11y ago
WingIDE from Wingware is really nice
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by kevinali1 12y ago
Officially, yes. But you could still get it to work on your home network outside the US if you wanted to. Just wouldn't get data.
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by kevinali1 12y ago
Correct about the apps. But they were not geographically or operator limited. From the beginning, they were used around the world on any service.
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by kevinali1 13y ago
ggplot2 most definitely