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kevinali1

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About kevinali1

I enjoy Python programming, quantitative finance, good design, reading non-fiction, and practicing golf. I studied at the University of Waterloo (Mathematics).

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    Comment #34835144

    While I totally agree with this, I think you should still get a drivers license. There's always a very real possibility that you may need to drive a car in some sort of emergency.

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    Comment #34835093

    The Messi comment wasn't trying to be snarky. Was trying to foster an actual conversation about what it means to be great and how does context matter. Sorry if it came across as in…

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    Comment #34820617

    Messi can be compared to billions of ppl are the world who play or dabble in football. This dude can be compared to what - a couple thousand?

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    Comment #22093478

    Financier: The biography of Andre Meyer by Cary Reich. The book goes into the beginnings and psychology of one of the most important investment bankers of the 20th century. It also…

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    Comment #21838937

    Drugs I guess

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    Comment #21781416

    I think quality of the conversation will always trump "privacy, openness and ad-free". We have to pay for quality. If we're not going to pay with dollar bills, we pay with privacy.…

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    Comment #21675248

    I've heard both sides of the debate (art should not be treated as commerce vs art has investment value). I think it's a very confusing debate as I see the point of both sides. Art …

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    Comment #20708455

    Woah... tell me more

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    Comment #18443771

    Their selling point is trustworthiness, privacy and usefulness. To be useful, they must have quality software/IP. And in their opinion, that should be protected.

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    Comment #18373453

    I'd call this shitty, but certainly not politically incorrect.

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    Comment #18210099

    Many times those colleges are great because of those donations... So maybe it is fair... Perspective

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    Comment #17343117

    Aerial images?

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    Comment #17115459

    Like a waterfall. Once you're over the edge, it's an entirely different ball game.

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    Comment #17112226

    I find this phenomenon similar to many other diseases. A certain diet or lifestyle works wonders in preventing it. But if you have it, there is little you can do to treat it outsid…

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    Comment #13691407

    http://www.apple.com/macbook-air/ The still make them

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    Comment #12952670

    Perhaps (just perhaps), Quantopian is gathering (or has gathered) the evidence that B > A. If so, this is a great investment. Regarding institutional money, they have been around f…

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    Comment #12568078

    Can you give some examples of "project management styles" that try to fix this?

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    Comment #12354602

    Agreed. It's like: America: "Kid's here have a better chance of becoming super-rich or super-powerful - maybe even President.. Forget about health care and income equality" Europe:…

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    Comment #12067844

    Again, you can't sell deposits. Chase assumed the business of WaMu, which included liabilities - mostly deposits. Deposits are a liability and it is impossible to sell a liability.…

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    Comment #12067291

    Aren't deposits a liability? How can you sell a liability? Do you mean they sold their loans?

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    Comment #11906193

    I don't think they're reinventing anything. Google Fonts has been offering webfonts for many years. All they did here was change the website.

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    Comment #9779593

    WingIDE from Wingware is really nice

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    Comment #8082217

    Officially, yes. But you could still get it to work on your home network outside the US if you wanted to. Just wouldn't get data.

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    Comment #8074487

    Correct about the apps. But they were not geographically or operator limited. From the beginning, they were used around the world on any service.