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madcowherdon Did New York Lose Anything with Amazon’s Rejection? It’s Complicated

Is that 300B Apple's global revenue? If so, I'd imagine there's your answer. Prior Apple fancy accounting tricks had all revenue funneled through the friendliest tax haven until they got called on it.

I'd imagine though, only US revenue gets claimed in CA.

madcowherdon The iPhones XS

It also looks like part of the outside edge of the ear got blurred mistakenly.

madcowherdon Inside the Chicago Police Department’s secret budget

I'm also perplexed about this. Anyone's car could be stolen, and then used to commit any number of crimes. Maybe the woman in the article didn't report the car as stolen?

madcowherdon “Dear Mark. I am writing this to inform you that I shall not comply”

do people use social media as their sole news source? why is a newspaper my friend?

madcowherdon A Word Is Worth a Thousand Vectors

Sorry, I should have specifically mentioned how it differs from random indexing/projection. I was immediately reminded of a similar inference example using random indexing/projection.

https://code.google.com/p/semanticvectors/wiki/PredicationBa...

madcowherdon A Word Is Worth a Thousand Vectors

Wondering how this differs from the SemanticVectors package? Will have to look into word2vec further.