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Re:Texas Hold'em Hand Strength, Visualized on Monday February 23, 2015 @12:15PM (#9095440)
Not a poker expert by far, but this could be because 2/3 can only participate in three straight draws (A2345,23456,34567) whereas 2/7 can be in seven straight hands. (A2345, 23456, 34567, 45678, 56789, 6789T, 789TJ)
Re:Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflection... on Monday January 05, 2015 @03:52PM (#8841072)
For one of the first projects of this type (from 2006) see http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/CAVE/projects/world_eye/.
Re:What are hedge funds, and what social functions do they serve? on Monday September 22, 2014 @03:41PM (#8352175)
> How did a few asset managers earn more money in a single year than Pierpont Morgan did in his whole life?

Ummm, no they don't. $1 in 1913 is around $24 in today's dollars[http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1&year1=1913&ye...]. So JPM's net worth today would be $36 billion making him the 12th richest person person in the world [http://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/2014-09-19/aaa].

Re:Orkut shutting down September 30 on Monday June 30, 2014 @10:36AM (#7965240)
Fixed now.
Re:Orkut shutting down September 30 on Monday June 30, 2014 @10:24AM (#7965175)
In case anyone from Google is reading this, the link to Google Takeout is taking me to your internal 'moma' sign-in page.
Re:Why does 1Password need to see all of Dropbox? on Monday March 31, 2014 @09:07AM (#7501155)
They address this in their security user guide - http://learn.agilebits.com/1Password4/Security/dropbox-permi...
Re:The best todo list app for any developer on Saturday February 01, 2014 @01:41PM (#7162731)
+1 for todo.txt. I used it extensively all of last year and saw an immense boost in productivity. Best part is the ability to write plugins.
Re:Zappos sells shit product $100k on Thursday November 21, 2013 @08:58PM (#6778796)
For those searching for context - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2427470,00.asp

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