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New comment by aet in "Nuclear energy is clean"

aet — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 00:20:47 +0000

Few? Here is another: mining

“Many Navajo people have died of kidney failure and cancer, conditions linked to uranium contamination. And new research from the CDC shows uranium in babies born now.”

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/04/10/4735472...

New comment by aet in "Is the $10B James Webb Space Telescope worth the price tag?"

aet — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 17:01:27 +0000

We should have put that money towards the F-35.

The Statistics of Coin Tosses for Theater Geeks

aet — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 11:27:12 +0000

Article URL: https://daily.jstor.org/statistics-of-coin-tosses-theater-geeks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14210692

Points: 18

# Comments: 5

New comment by aet in "The K Language"

aet — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 12:20:27 +0000

Two processes can't write simultaneously to the same table partition.

The Private Interest Foundation of Panama

aet — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 12:15:02 +0000

Article URL: http://www.panama-foundations.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11421227

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by aet in "Tech Is Eating Media – Now What?"

aet — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 16:21:51 +0000

This piece has left me confused

New comment by aet in "Math professor forced to use $180 textbook written by his boss"

aet — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 16:58:36 +0000

Last I heard you couldn't "force" a tenured professor to do anything. Dismiss over a text book? laughable

New comment by aet in "What The New York Times Didn’t Say About Amazon"

aet — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 15:14:51 +0000

Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post (edited: Not Amazon, but Bezos owns WP)

Cash Drops and Keystrokes: The Dark Reality of Sports Betting

aet — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 11:47:31 +0000

Article URL: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/15/us/sports-betting-daily-fantasy-games-fanduel-draftkings.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10392559

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by aet in "Laser Razor suspended by Kickstarter"

aet — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:00:45 +0000

A fool and his money, be soone at debate: which after with sorow, repents him to late.

New comment by aet in "Ph.D. recipients in computing fields are primarily non-US residents in the US"

aet — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 19:19:40 +0000

Yes, it is opposite in grad school. Recessions bring U.S. students. In a booming economy, qualified students take high-paying jobs. In a recession, they ride it out in grad school. (I only have anecdotal evidence for this claim.)

New comment by aet in "Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Devices"

aet — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 18:56:59 +0000

This hurts Google, but not Apple. Why ever order Apple device from Amazon.com? Seems very risky.

New comment by aet in "Hacking the random walk hypothesis"

aet — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 12:54:56 +0000

I'm not exactly sure what your asking, but basically randomness in returns decreases as you increase the sampling rate (i.e. annual returns are more normal than say minutely returns). This is due basically to the fact that the more activity happens between measurements. (I could be misunderstanding your question.) High frequency measurements of prices often exhibit regularities that result from the trading mechanism e.g. bid-ask bounce.

New comment by aet in "Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users"

aet — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:14:05 +0000

Type "Whatsapp" into LinkedIn and you will get some idea, but probably biased towards more junior people. I agree would be interesting to see.

New comment by aet in "How Stanford Took on the Giants of Economics"

aet — Sat, 12 Sep 2015 21:22:07 +0000

Are you saying there is no story here?

New comment by aet in "Building a hut with a tiled roof, underfloor heating and mud and stone walls"

aet — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 19:59:26 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJKd0rkKss

New comment by aet in "Apple is a great copycat, but did they actually improve anything?"

aet — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 17:06:37 +0000

It is square, but it was no competitor. Google around about Prada v iPhone.

New comment by aet in "Apple is a great copycat, but did they actually improve anything?"

aet — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 17:04:17 +0000

I agree. I think it would be cool to see a full history.

New comment by aet in "Apple is a great copycat, but did they actually improve anything?"

aet — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 16:23:27 +0000

Cell phones before and after iPhone

http://bit.ly/1JZ6MwF

New comment by aet in "Building a hut with a tiled roof, underfloor heating and mud and stone walls"

aet — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 15:56:29 +0000

If you like this, you will also like the documentary "Alone in the Wilderness" -- see http://www.dickproenneke.com