phaedon

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by phaedon 15y ago
Only for A, B > 0, but that's good enough for probabilities (except 0, I guess)
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by phaedon 15y ago
I'm pretty sure this exact Stack Exchange post was linked on HN before.
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by phaedon 15y ago
Not just a possibility. Wachovia/Wells Fargo helped Mexican drug cartels launder money. Here's an article from back in April about it: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-d...
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by phaedon 15y ago
Right. Wealth has both absolute and relative terms. The poor in American today have it better in many ways than even nobility in millennia past. But there is also a relative component to wealth too. If Bill Gates and his class can pay f
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by phaedon 15y ago
I logged in just so I could up-vote this.
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by phaedon 15y ago
"If Disney could produce popstars in a laboratory they would." I think The Onion has a great video bit about this exact premise. http://www.theonion.com/video/disney-lab-unveils-its-latest-...
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by phaedon 15y ago
Germany and the German-speaking world (Deutschosphere?) in general. In fact, the BBC had something on this recently http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13545386
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by phaedon 15y ago
MIT's OpenCourseWare is a fantastic project. It's been a while since I was involved with it, but I contacted them a few years ago and helped TeX up some of the notes (for Physics courses, not CS). Anyhow, if you feel inspired or just want
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by phaedon 15y ago
"He said hard work was the key to the poor lifting themselves out of poverty. If you give money to the poor "they just spend it," he told me." This is a key observation from a man who clearly practices what he preaches.
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by phaedon 15y ago
The setting just motivates the demonstration of a method, which finds use in lots of places. Education is valuable.
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by phaedon 15y ago
"[Pariser] went out of his way to “friend” people with conservative politics. When he didn’t click on their updates as often as those of his like-minded contacts, he says, the system dropped the outliers from his news feed." There's the rub