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Napkin math: For just 1 person to intersect: Each of those 10000 people have a (10000/30000000)/100 % chance to get selected, or .00000033%. Multiply that by a thousand selections …

Those terms are used all the time on hn but not usually italicized, but that's fair, I get your point. When you respond twice in a row in a comment chain saying that they are using…

I have no idea why you are italicizing types of logical fallacies. I can't think of a good reason to do that. And just pointing out that you believe they are committing a logical f…

Try out your thought experiment again with a machine that can predict markets with 55% reliability, or 50.1% reliability . This more likely reflects reality. If someone had a machi…

This is a great resource. I'd add Practical Deep Learning for Coders [0] to the video series list. [0] http://course.fast.ai/index.html

Thank you, that is a very intuitive explanation. You've probably read Scott Aaronson's Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity? [0]. This seems like the perfect…

I haven't had time to read the entire thing, so I've skimmed over lots, but there doesn't seem to be much mention of complexity theory in the way I believe idlewords is talking abo…

There are still a few countries with wealth taxes[0]. I'm not sure if they work well or not for these countries. Picketty doesn't spend to much time on the subject of existing weal…

Picketty's book does at least attempt to address this. He proposes a switch from income tax to wealth tax. He shows that most inequality is a result of the growth of existing wealt…

Picketty definitely does not ignore wealth inequality. Most of his book is devoted to explaining why the return on existing wealth is the most important factor in inequality. He pr…

For a more in-depth, but still funny and entertaining, explanation of quantum computing check out 'Quantum Computing Since Democritus' by Scott Aaronson, the co-author of this comi…

I'm curious if the effects on the brain from running are the same as from meditation [0]. Any long distance runner will tell you that you can definitely get into a meditative-like …

What counts as 'proven skill in communication' to you? Other than how they communicate throughout the interview process, I'm not sure how else to test for this.

7 Habits of Highly Effective People. It's one of the best selling books of all time for good reason. It's much more than tips and tricks for getting work done.

I really wasn't a fan either. I found that the first two sections contained very little useful information/ideas/instructions, and then the third section started talking about muse…

I was only thinking about keeping communication private. I didn't think about uses like signing libraries. Great example, thanks.

People who use PGP keys, can you give examples of your use? I'm genuinely curious. Who are you contacting, or who is contacting you? The author says he only receives 2 encrypted em…

In what way is Canada homogeneous? I've never heard anyone say that before. I would think it was much less homogeneous than much of the western world, especially the US. I know Tor…

I wish it was easier to correct mistakes. Most of the time the voice recognition will only get a single word wrong, yet you need to repeat the entire question or instruction. If Si…

You've described the basic merger arbitrage strategy. There are many hedge funds that exclusively do this type of stuff. It's risky though. When a deal doesn't go through you can l…

I don't see any statistics in his comment. I actually don't see any supporting info at all. All I see is wild conjecture. If he did go looking for statistics, he would find that th…

This is a somewhat worrisome comment. It reaches for a lot of conclusions with zero supporting evidence. There is no need to bring up race or ethnicity to describe this effect of s…

Does only one company need to win? I don't think so. 91% of smartphone profits go to Apple! I had no idea it was that high. http://fortune.com/2016/02/14/apple-mobile-profit-2015/ …

This is my takeaway from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers 2016 internet trends presentation. http://www.kpcb.com/internet-trends Some I agree with, some I think is hyperbole. Snapc…