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nkkar

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    Comment #29374834

    > when you think about the idea that everything up until now on the internet has been copyable and we are just starting to figure out how to actually give a digital thing ownership…

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    Comment #13544531

    > On the other hand my Apple News feed seems to perpetually have a FOX News story. The one this morning was "Is Trump Bashing the new Celeb nude selfie?" > All I know is the people…

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    Comment #13542979

    Your followup post ( http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2013/03/22/using-norm... ) is excellent. Thank you!

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    Comment #13418588

    ROC curve is the true positive rate vs false positive rate, which directly address sensitivity & specificity.

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    Comment #13318604

    I think he means to say the article is hyperbolic

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    Comment #13217463

    I suppose it depends on your investment goals, profile, etc. If you hold the general thesis that "the future" will see continued "progress", increased living standards & more consu…

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    Comment #13136152

    Any reading recommendations?

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    Comment #13124272

    The former, if all things remain the same in terms of computing power and availability of data. I think betting against improvement in either of those areas is a bad bet so I'm opt…

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    Comment #13080581

    Ah, yes, that makes sense, thank you!

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    Comment #13074217

    Would this mean that the currency would never fluctuate below that price point?

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    Comment #13065602

    I loved this admission. There is a lot of awesome, powerful, fancy stuff out there today, but you can get a lot done with the vanilla approach. I was introduced to JS back when AJA…

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    Comment #13006936

    I see this timeline comparison very often and it seems to me very hand wavy. Sure, it's a nice narrative, but I don't see any real reasons why this 'pattern' from 70s to 00s should…