nimble

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by nimble 13y ago
Can't we automate sales?
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by nimble 13y ago
> I hate going back to my home country and I love the intellectual, rational environment here. The US is an intellectual, rational environment? What are you from Borat's country?
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by nimble 13y ago
It surprises me that there's a unique 12 digit answer to this. If you bet proportion f of your income every round, then if you win n coin flips, shouldn't you have (1+2f)^n (1-f)^(1000-n) £? For a given f, it takes a certain nu
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by nimble 13y ago
Responding to your edit: I don't think his point was that 20,000 was too big to fail. The point is that 20,000 is too big, period. Any company over a certain size (certainly way less than 20,000) institutes internal procedures for sm
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by nimble 13y ago
It actually get 60 net up-votes
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by nimble 13y ago
> Jesus, what a tool you are. This sounds like the start of a pretty angry prayer.
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by nimble 13y ago
Eliminating the subpenny rule sounds like a good idea, but it wouldn't address the advantage of responding to news quickly, would it?
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by nimble 13y ago
Economic value is a measure of the benefit that an economic actor can gain from either a good or service (first sentence at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_(economics) ). My post was comparing the current system tha
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by nimble 13y ago
There is an obvious problem with HFT: it gives an advantage to lower latency analysis and communication, leading to huge amounts of wasted effort getting faster pipes and software, co-locating automated trading, etc. None of this is deliv
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by nimble 13y ago
Now let's see it turn around and go up the hill.
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by nimble 13y ago
Obscurity is underrated.
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by nimble 13y ago
The proxy angle is interesting, but I don't think that's main factor here. What's walking through someone's lawn a proxy for? The cops see a kid who looks like trouble and who's technically breaking the law and t
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by nimble 13y ago
They're claiming the release was accidental. Not the removal.
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by nimble 13y ago
I wonder whether stake is correlated (perhaps inversely) with valuation.
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by nimble 13y ago
Not to distract too much from how terrible the subject matter of the patent is, but can someone explain why they decided to put the "system for" claims separate from the "method for" claims? There is some small fee ass
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by nimble 13y ago
And why shouldn't you be able to sell your browsing information for $30/mo?
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by nimble 13y ago
Given that we hammer it into every kid, who do you think these kids are who aren't going?
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by nimble 13y ago
Under methodology: """ Return from Attending College : The main financial benefit of attending college is the gain in income received by a college graduate over a high school graduate. However, by choosing to attend college
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by nimble 13y ago
> What this explains is "spooky action at a distance". So what's the explanation for why almost all interactions that we perceive seem to not be spooky or at a distance?
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by nimble 13y ago
I agree with you. My point was: you used the wrong word. :)
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by nimble 13y ago
> The nature of torture aside, taking the life of a sentient being is the ultimate violation of its rights. I don't see how any act less than killing can be considered morally worse than killing. Why?
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by nimble 13y ago
Sentience doesn't mean what you think it does: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience
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by nimble 13y ago
I think its unfortunate that opposition to torturing animals is often lumped in with opposition to merely killing animals.
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by nimble 13y ago
Re-read the sentence you quoted.
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by nimble 13y ago
Did your cook1929 account get hell banned?
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by nimble 13y ago
Where do you find a breakdown of the costs? Anyone have links?
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by nimble 13y ago
Implicit in my characterization "copyright for ideas" is that this proposal will somehow extend copyright, as it's currently understood, to cover ideas. I understand your point that copyright as it exists today does not co
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by nimble 13y ago
Now you're the one who's ignored that this was hypothetical. My point was that if we go ahead with your proposal, such that patent protection becomes about preventing copying work rather than (possibly accidentally) duplicating an
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by nimble 13y ago
I see what you meant. Your proposal sounds more like copyright-for-ideas than patents. In such a system, why would you need to apply for a patent? Samsung copied your phone design? Sue them for that, holistically, rather than finding som
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by nimble 13y ago
> This was not a flash of insight. This was the result of measuring EM field strength with expensive equipment, buying lots of iPads to test product variability, doing lots of experiments and iterating the design. So what do you think is

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