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malshe

7,178karma·1,872submissions·December 27, 2017
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Paywall removed: https://outline.com/s9tgAF
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Earlier post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19315821
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I am surprised by the number of people here as well as on Twitter confusing between "annualized" and "annual". If I make 1% trading a stock in one day then the annualized return is…
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I see most PhD students in business management with Windows computers. There Macs have 5%-10% incidence rate in my experience. I work with a few CS profs and their students and all the profs use Macs …
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I am really intrigued when people claim that more students are buying Surfae books than MBPs. Where are those students? Do you have any statistics to back that up or it’s just “anecdata”? If it’s latt…
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I have a 15" MBP which I bought last summer. It's been great working on this laptop but the touchbar never grew on me. Now I use this little utility to make the touchbar more useful.
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"I'd also point out that in the context of India - a country which in 1943 had around 400m people living in it - in other words .375% of the total population." When you want to triviali…
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Interesting part from the article: "To compute a crash rate, you take the number of crashes and divide it by the number of miles traveled. NHTSA did this calculation twice—once for miles traveled…
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In my experience using first person in abstract or even in the manuscript is field- as well as individual- dependent. Prof. John Cochrane (when he was at U of Chicago) advised not to use royal pronoun…
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Outline link: https://outline.com/qqSvjm
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Recently in our parking garage they marked two parking lots on the corner for compact cars. I usually park quite close to these spots and I have yet to see a truly compact car parked there. I have eve…
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Contrary to what these companies are saying, I think this is going to be great for customers. Amazon just pushes its own home brands to no end and I have little faith in the ratings and reviews of the…
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I am surprised that you are being downvoted. What you wrote makes a lot of sense.
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I haven’t heard anyone say that before either. As many others I know, I don’t mind it. But I have made it more useful using this neat utility called Energy Bar - https://github.com/bil…
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