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Can't we automate sales?

> I hate going back to my home country and I love the intellectual, rational environment here. The US is an intellectual, rational environment? What are you from Borat's country?

It surprises me that there's a unique 12 digit answer to this. If you bet proportion f of your income every round, then if you win n coin flips, shouldn't you have (1+2f)^n (1-f)^(…

Responding to your edit: I don't think his point was that 20,000 was too big to fail. The point is that 20,000 is too big, period. Any company over a certain size (certainly way le…

It actually get 60 net up-votes

> Jesus, what a tool you are. This sounds like the start of a pretty angry prayer.

Eliminating the subpenny rule sounds like a good idea, but it wouldn't address the advantage of responding to news quickly, would it?

Economic value is a measure of the benefit that an economic actor can gain from either a good or service (first sentence at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_(economics) ). My pos…

There is an obvious problem with HFT: it gives an advantage to lower latency analysis and communication, leading to huge amounts of wasted effort getting faster pipes and software,…

Now let's see it turn around and go up the hill.

Obscurity is underrated.

The proxy angle is interesting, but I don't think that's main factor here. What's walking through someone's lawn a proxy for? The cops see a kid who looks like trouble and who's te…

They're claiming the release was accidental. Not the removal.

I wonder whether stake is correlated (perhaps inversely) with valuation.

Not to distract too much from how terrible the subject matter of the patent is, but can someone explain why they decided to put the "system for" claims separate from the "method fo…

And why shouldn't you be able to sell your browsing information for $30/mo?

Given that we hammer it into every kid, who do you think these kids are who aren't going?

Under methodology: """ Return from Attending College : The main financial benefit of attending college is the gain in income received by a college graduate over a high school gradu…

> What this explains is "spooky action at a distance". So what's the explanation for why almost all interactions that we perceive seem to not be spooky or at a distance?

I agree with you. My point was: you used the wrong word. :)

> The nature of torture aside, taking the life of a sentient being is the ultimate violation of its rights. I don't see how any act less than killing can be considered morally wors…

Sentience doesn't mean what you think it does: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience

I think its unfortunate that opposition to torturing animals is often lumped in with opposition to merely killing animals.

Re-read the sentence you quoted.