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Comment #31161143
Disclaimer: I'm pretty new to twitter, so I may be misunderstanding something. On my Twitter Home Screen there are three little stars on the upper right of the central container wh…
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Comment #29996184
I get that feeling as well, fartcannon. The meteoric rise over the past year of the subreddit just feels artficial. I don't have any evidence outside of the a rapid increase of sub…
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Comment #28864015
Here's a few ways I could think of: 1. It's much more difficult to gamble with debt/debt is not used for gambling to such an extent that the scale would have enough of an effect. 2…
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Comment #28706090
Are you implying a relationship between the two plots?
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Comment #27045501
Many of the individual businesses within Berkshire are able to act with a long term horizon that I think is uncommon within the stock market as a whole. Profits and float are able …
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Comment #27045004
Voting power is in my understanding the real reason. Dollar for dollar a shares have seven times the voting power of a b share. Following his death, the foundations he has bequeath…
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Comment #26834684
0.6% is orders of magnitude larger than the percentage of people who have a legitimate use case. In my opinion it's not that coin does not have legitimate uses, it's that the cost …
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Comment #26457594
Reading through the abstract it immediately doesn’t appear that they are using the correct statistical test to come to the conclusion they are claiming. Like another comment says, …
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Comment #20687735
The fact that they are already planning on making changes seems to run counter to the idea that they would be taking a "Berkshire Hathaway" approach. In my understanding Warren Buf…
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Comment #19341130
Painting this as an unintended consequence of open source is really interesting. The rise of free open source alternatives to proprietary products has encouraged companies to provi…
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Comment #18860765
Is it stepped at all? Do you owe nothing before 50k and then once you cross that threshold you now owe money? That would seem to incentivise staying below that threshold for a perc…
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Comment #18570078
Anecdotally, I have a few friends who work in the railroad industry and they are currently seeing something close to this. The company is almost entirely owned by large institution…
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Comment #18286920
If the article posted last week is to be believed [1], which I do, then transportation makes up a relatively small portion of emissions (14%). Also, the demand for gasoline is very…
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Comment #18243917
Why do you train to failure? Very few training programs that I have seen encourage lifters to regularly train to failure. I think westside barbell's program may, but that is for pe…
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Comment #17782592
I'd throw Omaha in that list as well. Three large to midsize universities within 1 hour, and there are few options outside of banks or insurance companies. The very few tech compan…
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Comment #17000127
Yeah, the only way to search reddit and actually get what you are looking for is through Google. I don't understand why the website's search is so bad.
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Comment #15802714
In most recipes, if the tomatoes are not in season you'll have better luck using canned tomatoes anyways.
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Comment #13638905
It's working for me now. Thank you!
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Comment #13635719
The site appears to be broken for internet explorer 11. I am not able to follow any links.
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Comment #13552224
O'Reilly has a weekly Fintech newsletter which is pretty interesting. It isn't weekly like most of O'Reilly's newsletters, but that can be a good thing as it doesn't have to stretc…
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Comment #13082236
Totally off topic from the feature request: You might want to include the 1060 in your list of graphics cards if you are willing to include the 970m (laptop version). The newer lap…
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Comment #13014335
R for Data Science is a good R equivalent by Hadley Wickham. It also acts as a high level overview of the hadley/tidy verse (ggplot2, tidyr, dplyr, etc.). R4DS is free online [1]. …
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Comment #12517386
I've always had a hard time understanding pipes, so it may just be that the concept will take more time for me to grok. I thought that the little bunny foo foo example in section 1…