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by svv 11mo ago
> - the KPI "do-more-users-leave-our-platform-earlier-if-our-matching-algo-is-just-too-good" - I promise: In alle the years, this question WAS NEVER - NEVER!!!!!!! - raised, regardless wich Manager or which Exec. This metric is
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by svv 8y ago
I've cancelled by NYTimes subscription just a few months ago. Didn't have to do any phone calls-- just answered a few questions in the chat, right there on their website.
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by svv 8y ago
They do have NFC and usb-c options (separately, though), and are planning to launch lightning as well https://www.yubico.com/2019/01/yubico-launches-the-security-...
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by svv 8y ago
This is a good quote. One similar way to state it is by using the System 1 / System 2 [1] terminology. Manipulation is when someone pushes the audience to System 1 reasoning, diverting them from using System 2. It's not a perfec
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by svv 9y ago
This falls under the Explanation #2: Human capital. By the way, the post does not mention whether the study controlled for wives staying at home.
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Yandex announced the launch of a machine intelligence and research group(venturebeat.com)
3 points by svv 10y ago|0 comments
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How to Disappear a Jetliner(slate.com)
1 points by svv 13y ago|0 comments
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Spotify Acquires The Echo Nest(techcrunch.com)
4 points by svv 13y ago|0 comments
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Telegram’s Cryptanalysis Contest(cryptofails.com)
189 points by svv 13y ago|130 comments
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Video Interoperability on the Web Gets a Boost From Cisco’s H.264 Codec(blog.mozilla.org)
1 points by svv 13y ago|0 comments
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by svv 13y ago
Why is the parent being downvoted? Multiple codecs are a real problem for video-streaming services, and introducing a new one definitely has potential to bring more compatibility problems. Patent trolls are also a real obstacle (clean-roo
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by svv 13y ago
Well, pure mathematic models also don't have any real-world meaning, and no predictive power with regard to the real world events. Still, nobody thinks that the analytical proof of the Pythagorean theorem is somehow inferior to the empirica
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by svv 13y ago
> incredible track record of dead-wrong predictions The Austrian School economics methodology does not allow for making predictions. See e.g. the note at the beginning of http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Austrian_predictions It provides c
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The Supreme Court Case Looming Over Angelina Jolie's Breast-Cancer Column(theatlantic.com)
1 points by svv 13y ago|0 comments
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by svv 13y ago
Great point, expect that no one is touching them. Deposits over EUR 100K are being hit /frozen, those up to EUR 100K are not touched Yes, that's the current decision. The linked article was written at the time the Parliament was about to
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by svv 15y ago
Economics is a value-free science, in that it analyses real-life processes and policy implications _without_ prescribing what specific goals are to be pursued by the policy makers. Politics (unlike _political science_, arguably) is all abou
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by svv 15y ago
Austrian school covers many disciplines -- economics, history, law, politics etc. One can reasonably disagree with their views on, say, economics science, but calling it all just "politics" is simply an incorrect portrayal of what they do.
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by svv 15y ago
The RESTful way to solve such problems is not just by better conventions, but by conventions standardized by the appropriate media types. E.g., the REST service may define a Content-Type: application/vnd.acme-json-with-paged-hrefs t
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by svv 15y ago
Instead of buying the computer with paper money, consider buying the computer with gold bullions during the commodity boom. Why buy that Macbook Pro with x bullions today if you can buy it with x-y bullions tomorrow? People have different
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by svv 16y ago
Fragment identifiers are currently the only part of a URI that can be changed without causing a browser to refresh the page This is actually the primary reason for most of the hash and hash-bang uris in today's javascript-heavy sites. On
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by svv 16y ago
Slavery wasn't about pure economics. In fact, it is not that obvious that slave labour is more efficient from the purely economical point. There're problems with incentives, with hiring staff willing to manage the slaves, controlling abus
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by svv 16y ago
6 - To paraphrase "ISPs should be free to put whatever they want in their contracts". The reality is that 'freedom of contract' is not fair when there is a huge difference in bargaining power, the markets can't sort it out for the reasons
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by svv 16y ago
Vernor Vinge's "True Names" came out even before Neuromancer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Names
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by svv 16y ago
Austrian economics is heavily into modeling, even though they don't usually call it that. In fact, its immersion in the ontological, methodological and epistemological issues around economics (and some nearby social sciences) is in many as
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by svv 16y ago
This syntax is similiar to Stephen Colebourne's FCM proposal: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddhp95vd_6hg3qhc That proposal also used the "#" symbol, with the following rationale: "The symbol is already used within Javadoc to separate the
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by svv 17y ago
Just scroll to the bottom of the page -- the transcript is right there below the comments.
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by svv 17y ago
Banks make a bad analogy. Sure, it should be the bank's responsibility to keep accounts safe. However, the fact that bank accounts are considered to be "safe" is in a large part due to systemic factors like the existence of the Fed (as len