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Someone mentioned them a couple pages back. The problem here is that they make their money with a higher spread -- i.e. you pay more for each stock you buy and get less on each sale. But that won't be shown to you, so it makes costs a lot less transparent, which is ultimately a bad thing...

Those were the days... traveling from Switzerland to Boston, Vegas, and San Francisco for Fan Faires. Totally worth it! Alas, traveling now is almost exclusively for work -- so not quite as much fun. We should have a little ED reunion at some point. Vegas probably isn't a bad place for it!

There was the episode with the enslaved factory workers... was that season 1? I thought it became rather obvious around then. Now, it's just interesting to see how few things it takes to shift our present to that future... private firms contracting with mercenaries, for example, isn't exactly...

Nice to see The 100 renewed. Fingers crossed for Crisis.

London.Actually not traveling from Boston until July. Lead to super-useful information, though. I'd just have counted on a taxi, which apparently isn't easy to get at that time. Could have ended badly. I've used Uber before, so I'll go with that!

Yeah, this game deserves it. Definitely play it on hard, however.

Thanks -- I could now repurchase it for $0 as well. How weird. It's downloading now -- is it also playable or does it just pre-download?

Honestly, I don't understand the PS Store. Each time I click a link, it takes half a minute to load the next page. The search function is horrible. The URLs are ridiculously long/messy. I'm really enjoying my PS4, but this is ridiculous. This shouldn't be so hard... Steam and Xbox Live manage...

Ohh, Wikipedia had the 29th, the PS store says "Out now" for the PS3:http://us.playstation.com/games/child-of-light-ps3.html I added it to my calendar based on the PS store's release date, but I can't find the PS4 version in the store anymore to confirm. The official website says the 30th...

Ohh, Wikipedia had the 29th, the PS store says "Out now" for the PS3:http://us.playstation.com/games/child-of-light-ps3.html I added it to my calendar based on the PS store's release date, but I can't find the PS4 version in the store anymore to confirm. The official website says the 30th...

So, this is coming out at 12:01am EST tonight, yes?

I just Chromecasted that on my TV and holy shit. Preordered back when they announced the game, but I'm definitely anticipating the beta now. Bring it on! I do think they should setup a bunch of PC servers as the market for it has to be there to make it worthwhile. That said, I really suck at...

I have a flight out of Boston at 6:30am on a Saturday. The first silver line bus gets there at 5:50, which is too late, I think. Are there any other public transit lines that would get me to the airport on time, or do I have to pay for a taxi?

I can't usually stand to sit through walkthroughs, but this one was pretty fantastic:Watch Dogs Video - 9 Minute Multiplayer Walkthrough | GameTrailers

Say goodbye to Net Neutrality:FCC, in 'Net Neutrality' Turnaround, Plans to Allow Fast Lane - The New York Times

Hadn't heard about the show until now and did a 5-episode marathon. Lots of little things that are really annoying, but then there are some scenes that just make it worth watching on their own.

The Split isn't entirely ugly... but they need some designers of real glasses to put their touch on it. I wonder if it's too heavy for rimless glasses?

Genuinely awesome show that would have deserved more seasons. If only Netflix or Amazon could pick up the show... what's Monk up to these days? (The two of them working a case would make for an awesome movie, too.)

So does the game have permadeath (you lose all your skills), or you only lose the items you had on you (UO style)? Also, I don't suppose there are invites available? Signed up a year ago and still no invite.

Deja vu? From 2005:http://brennan.3cdn.net/9d1efbddb2c4..._pom6bx3bk.pdf I'm going to guess they didn't fix their methodology since.

Why should consumers care that Amazon subsidizes the box? If it isn't useful for what we'd use it for, then it's not a product worth buying. I can already stream Amazon and Netflix on my PS4. Are any of these boxes actually hardware constrained? My boxee runs everything just fine (including 3D...

I wouldn't be so sure. For example, the Dow is price-weighted, whereas the S&P 500 is capitalization-weighted. I suspect there may be a (tiny?) difference in how well suited they are for index investment on that basis. On top of that, the Dow indexes only a small number of firms. Heck, there are...

I don't disagree that there's a lot of waste in the system, but that's completely independent of the ACA. The problem there is that a service may have been unnecessary with hindsight, but could have been useful in "prevent[ing] problems that require expensive intervention." It's a bit like...

I can see it being a success from a pure marketing perspective... but from an investing perspective, it makes no sense to me. I might well think that renewable energies are going to take off, but even if that is true in the next 20 years, there's no saying that a "renewable energy motif" would...

Definitely join. Yes, they're silly... but all you need is some hiring manager to be part of the same group and suddenly you're "closer" than the other applicants. I've gone on a few interviews on wall street after graduation and maybe half of those referred to an honor society I had been part...

Indulge my lazyness... what's the deal with campaigns (can only do them once every n days?) and what is AvA? I'm down to 60kb/sec, so there's a good chance this download will not finish before the weekend is over. Not inspiring me with a whole lot of confidence...

Is anyone using a smart watch (particular one that is compatible with the Nexus 5)? They sound pretty cool in theory, but at the same time, they don't seem to be quite there just yet. I looked at the Pebble online and $150 is pretty reasonable for a watch with some extra features. I saw that the...

150kb/s -- boo.

It really amazes me that nobody has copied this yet. This must have added a lot to the game's longevity, because an experienced player actually had an incentive to help out a newbie and get them started in the game.

Huh? Econometrics is primarily linear regression models, whereas Machine Learning (at least how I'm learning it) is all about Bayesian statistics. I really don't see how those two fields are comparable... I guess they both deal with stats, but in very different ways. Why not just take a free...

Part of the latest update on the kickstarter: Somehow, I don't think the last 24 hours can match the last 29 days...

Heh, I just got access to a cluster that is not being used on campus. 500 cores, average usage doesn't go above 1% for more than a few seconds. $5/month and there are no constraints on my usage. Sad thing? For operations that could be vectorized, some GPUs would probably outperform it. Then...

Is it, really? I just have a couple tabs open in Chrome (200-600MB per tab -- wtf, by the way?) and an open window of eclipse, powerpoint, R Studio, and texmaker. All of that uses 7GB of RAM with another 8GB on standby. That leaves 1GB free. I'm not saying that I'd have much lower performance...

Deductions for retirement savings are extremely costly in terms of lost tax revenue. Hence why they're targeted. If you make $180k+/yr, you don't need a tax break for investments to be attractive.

Just finished episode 1... holy shit, what a season opener. I'm still in shock. Also, can I propose a norm where we write, before the spoiler tag, what episode is being spoiled? So that if a spoiler is tagged as episode 2, someone who has seen [up to] that episode should not have anything...

I'm considering moving next to a new Google office. I can only get Comcast where I live now (a 10 minute walk from their office), but Verizon FIOS has hooked up the area around Google and somehow even Comcast is cheaper there... Do cable companies enjoy the same kind of immunity from lawsuits...

Yeah, wtf... I mean, I had still pledged $35, but there's no way it's going to reach even the $800k goal -- which doesn't seem nearly enough to design a proper MMORPG.

That's what I did. I went with U-Box (Pods-equivalent from U-Haul, I guess?) and hired movers in both cities to load/unload it. I really didn't deal with the box myself at all and I spent about $600 compared to the $3,000+ that the national moving companies wanted to charge me. I also didn't...

I use Scottrade and am very happy with it -- but all I do is execute trades, i.e. I don't use it as a research platform. $7 per trade, no other fees. Money that I pull from my bank account via Scottrade shows up immediately (no idea if this is the case with all platforms).

The bar at Union Pig & Chicken is pretty awesome.