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Mathematically speaking though, Michael Berry's success may have been more to do with luck than skill: 1. Nowadays, options are priced in such a manner that the expected value of buying OTM hedge…

It's not like they don't have enough ads on the article pages themselves. I'm sure they are extremely profitable with all those ads plastered everywhere, with enough ads that it slows t…

the pdf to the paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.02683v1.pdf The amount of background research required to even try to understand this is immense It's just nuts. How does on…

People lose money in the market because of bad timing (buying high selling low) and poor strategy (buying energy stocks in 2014, for eample), not because of dark polls and stuff like that.

That's what I'm doing now for all my other Wikipedia sandboxes. I just assumed it was safe up there, and it was for almost 2 years, until I checked recently.

for-profit colleges profit

I have read this is not possible, because most of the loans are guaranteed by the federal government. For-profit colleges could make good shorts, but those stocks have already been hammered a lot.

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A top link on HN must send an enormous amount of traffic...has anyone ran a study as to how many hits it generates? I'm guessing a couple hundred thousand if it stays on the front page for a day.

His mistake was answering the officer's initial questions. You are under no obligation to talk to the police if questioned. If the officer has sufficient reason to believe you're guilty (suc…

It's written in the first person, and he's describing the findings. How else should he have written it?

there already exist methods to generate skewed distributions that are very similar to the ones shown in the article. not sure how this is new. Skewed distributions arise form a more general case of th…

that's why awhile ago I proposed the high-IQ basic income. It's like a government Mensa that pays its members. But it would also be very un-egalitarian

All subjects took a benchmark cognitive test, a kind of modified I.Q. test, at the beginning and at the end of the study. Although improvements were observed in every cognitive task that was practice…

I suspect it's a memory problem, but I just noticed this about 2 days ago and is there a way to make chrome not do this? I like having many tabs open

the ability to turn txt into a diagram is intriguing

You got to have balls of steel to short a company like Twitter. I would rather short oil, gas, or commodity companies . Facebook stock, for example, is up 200% since 2012, leaving a lot of shorts burn…

I wonder when the earliest this could have been feasible on a web browser

lol if it's so easy, I implore you to create a Twitter competitor... and to make your challenge easier, instead of it being worth $20 billion, we'll lower the bar to, say, $150 million. It&#…

To call it 'dangerous' is a bit of a stretch..maybe annoying. The easiest detection system is that the tweets of an account with a lot of fake followers will have very little, if any, intera…

probably due to metabolism more so than activity

Email subscription popups ...those are annoying

this is fine if you have f-u money, but for everyone else it sucks Your online presence is becoming your new, indelible permanent record. Anything incriminating, so long as it’s archived on a major se…