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billf1953

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    Comment #21276562

    I must be missing something, I buy Bitcoin with a USD bank account, I send to another address and then this address sends to a known drug dealer. How do they establish the second a…

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    Comment #20554927

    It reads like no one had any sense of how well they would do on the test. So people guessed they'd be slightly above average which is a good prior for a group of Ivy league student…

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    Comment #19286118

    Degree of change would be nice. These traits could all be very flat over time and therefore small peaks make things statistically significant.

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    Comment #16489522

    Slightly snarky cliffs SWE did good work, got passed over for promotion several times, got mad and quits cushy software job to freelance. Everyone sympathizes because everyone thin…

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    Comment #16348061

    I'm actually not surprised that journalists overestimated Hillary's chance of winning. As a group, they are predominantly coastal and almost uniformly college educated. Both of tho…

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    Comment #16345846

    You could also die and have zero spending dollars. Or less fatalistically see high inflation eat away your lower than expected returns

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    Comment #16210648

    The real issue is that the converse statement is rarely true. Providing less value to your customers is a way to be paid more. Obviously as the entire thread points out, the outcom…

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    Comment #15992682

    This is like describing a painting to a blind person. Describing "a dust-covered sunflower" as a "yellow flower" doesn't much help the blind person and certainly doesn't help the s…

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    Comment #15087820

    You realize that saving half your income is actually living on a sixth. The government always get a third.

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    Comment #15061797

    Seriously leftist plot to solve unsolved statistical problem? Is reality breaking down?

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    Comment #14995629

    The simple answer is that this blog post tells us nothing about her skill level aside from the clear resume brags. Google I/O presenter on Tensorflow said something along the lines…

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    Comment #14939663

    Really it's debatable that people work together? I get bias but seriously this is like saying I have a Left bias because I think the Earth is round.

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    Comment #14682289

    This has to be some sort of logic fallacy. With multiple offers you are guaranteed to be able to get higher pay, more time off, and/or better working conditions. You can't see the …

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    Comment #14456968

    Yeah what a dog argument. Basically either shows the author has little comprehension of ml or he happened to design a terrible demonstration of small data issues.

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    Comment #14214820

    The article isn't wrong. I count 15 words that are CS specific jargon in the Hello World statement. Couple this with some big lecture and mediocre professor who explains poorly, it…