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The reason they add to over 100% is due to the 10% fee on profits which limits arbitrage. Specifically, all profits have a fee assessed but it doesn't account for money lost on ass…

I don't have familiarity with speech-to-text but wouldn't it be possible to weight words based on their probability in this application to help resolve this. For example, suspect i…

I concur it is about respect for time most of all. Though the technical portions are interesting, they could have been broken out into separate articles for people who want those a…

I am going to a group discussion tomorrow about first-refusal rights in the NFL and happened to do a brief naive analysis of extra point vs 2 point conversions earlier today. In br…

I can't access a lot of posts in China but this one works great \o/

Today was National Day in China. So, this sort of attack, at the very least, functions very well as propaganda fodder.

W1ntermute is decrying the fact that the Ubuntu team is in a position where they feel it is necessary to rely on selling access to their userbase. It seems the most valued contribu…

I speculate that it may be an attempt to stem movement to the significant number of private trackers that dependably provide higher quality torrents earlier than public sites. Allo…

As an aside, I find some irony in the fact that a growth hacker uses blogspot. All Blogspot blogs are blocked in China without the use of a vpn. Thus, a sizeable chunk of potential…

"Growth hacker" is the in vogue jargon for "marketer". I have read arguments promoting the title on the basis that there is an increased reliance on quantitative analysis but the b…

Really interesting read. Thank you for posting the link. I certainly would have missed this otherwise.

I would be interested to hear other's thoughts on JFK's answer to why he would like to attend Harvard. I suck at writing essays but it seems his reason for wanting to attend Harvar…

Zed Shaws's Learn Python the Hardway is a wonderful introduction to Python and because it is very concise, it makes for a handy review resource as well. There are a few portions th…

You may feel fixies are impractical but they carry benefits. The primary one being better power transfer. Second, you can often make a cheap fixie by finding an old frame, refurbis…

I'm unable to access the article but I'm very surprised by many of the comments in this thread. A large number of articles are posted each month belittling (at the very least quest…

I'm extremely late to this thread and unsure where best to post this. That said, if I wanted to seriously question an individual, I would most want to control the environment. Woul…

I'm surprised by the article's premise. I was just in SK and everywhere I went Psy was on the radio. I wonder if that is the same pricing package. I am hard pressed to believe his …

NASA is American... So, who is the target audience then? Is the author intending to persuade western Europeans to fund NASA? Swearing may be 'fun' but it still isn't what should be…

Seconded. His Kickstarter video and copy seemed like a stream of thought joke. Why should I give a rich Hollywood actor money when I can give a well planned and spoken individual t…

This is true outside the banks as well. If you make any purchase exceeding 250 USD (approximating a purchase requiring 10+ 100RMB bills), chances are the store will have one of the…

The most interesting part of 1921 is that the original(?) Brewster's Millions was released. In the original movie, the protagonist had to spend $2mil in a year and remain unmarried…

I am starting to love kickstarter more and more. It seems like it will be full of business 101 case studies before the year is out.

I don't often wear a coat but I do often wear dress pants, collared shirts and dress shoes. I also often hop/climb fences while wearing them, so... yes.

That isn't necessarily true. He doesn't specify rotary phones. Even if he did, like the folders and envelopes he also mentions, corded phones which look like the picture are still …

Wow, that is crazy. I am really shocked that I got to watch it sooner in China than you did in Japan. I wonder why there is such a difference between the two countries...