Anderkent

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by Anderkent 7y ago
The 'picking winners' part is most certainly providing value! If you can, more accurately than at random, look at a bunch of ideas and say which ones are going to be successful and which aren't, so that you (or others) can fu
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by Anderkent 7y ago
No capital powerhouse achieves 20% year over year. Some capital company maybe gets that each year, but they take losses in different years, so it's just swapping places. Berkshire Hathaway averages what, 9% a year?
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by Anderkent 7y ago
>Also people don't make money by creating value, they make money by picking the winners and following the money. This is still creating value.
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by Anderkent 7y ago
As others have said, a stagnant (0% growth) economy still has many positive sum trades within it. If all trading stopped happening, you wouldn't see the GDP remain at the same level; it would crash to basically 0 as almost no one would
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by Anderkent 7y ago
I guess what I always find unconvincing about these kind of arguments is that they require 0-sum trades, and real world trades are positive sum. I think this is more of a gambling simulation than an economic one. However, even with positive
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by Anderkent 7y ago
There were a ton of taxi related apps but none of them did what Uber did; at least in London. There were apps where you could book a taxi, telling them when and where to pick you up, but if you expected anyone to show up in the next 5 minut
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by Anderkent 8y ago
AFAIK there's no actual theory - no specific model one can evaluate. The couple attempts by economists to critique MMT were always met with the response that the thing being critiqued isn't actually MMT (but never with specifics o
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by Anderkent 8y ago
That also seems more effort than typing three words to me TBH, but I guess there YMMV
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by Anderkent 8y ago
It's free for everything I need as an end user AFAICT. How does it take away money?
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by Anderkent 8y ago
>location data is usually not shared verbally but sent via some kind of text medium - you just send GPS-coordinates from another (map-)app directly through your email/messaging-app. seems simple enough. So in one setting I have to e
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by Anderkent 8y ago
I'd still rather remember/type/say three words than something like 5P56+4Q. I'm really surprised that no one thinks pronounciability has value.
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by Anderkent 8y ago
>I always wonder if there is value lost in companies that are shuttered because something isn't the next big hit, or some private equity decides they want to cash out / break up a company that otherwise... would be just fine an
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by Anderkent 8y ago
I used to plug my AKG k702s (which are maybe not 'audiophile' $2k headphones, but are good enough) into a pixel 1 without any issues. Alas after an 'upgrade' to a pixel 3 after I crushed the first one against the deck wh
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by Anderkent 8y ago
The issues you list don't really seem to be relevant in regard to duplicate resource creation? They're just about handling creating the resource in the first place. As long as the uuid is persisted you can redirect all attempts to
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by Anderkent 8y ago
Or you could just generate an unique identifier on the client and save the roundtrip? Uuids aren't really expensive.
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by Anderkent 8y ago
> Online is real life and there’s not a significant difference between someone making death threats online or over the phone or through the mail There is a very significant difference - someone who knows your address or phone number like
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by Anderkent 8y ago
Example? BuzzFeed News has in my experience been one of the better, if not the best, news portals.
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by Anderkent 8y ago
Possible that you got lucky in a lemon market?
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by Anderkent 8y ago
Toggling GOPATH between projects is a huge pain, it's not as simple as set it once and forget it.
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by Anderkent 8y ago
Sure, but there's a ton of different groups that have already 'established for themselves' that they're right, and are in 'advocacy phrase'. Every group has people who advocate for the group beliefs in emotiona
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by Anderkent 8y ago
If your goal is to convince other people of what you believe, all of those sound useful. If your goal is to be convince if you're right, and be convinced if you're aren't, they become less so.
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by Anderkent 8y ago
Because we like to establish whether the ideas are good before trying to push them into the 'competition in the human mindshare'.
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by Anderkent 8y ago
Well, the ability to make only Northern Ireland leave the EU was chuckle-inducing, so I'd probably play with things that way :P
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by Anderkent 8y ago
Gimme Scotland / Wales borders to play with too, that'd make for some funny pictures.
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by Anderkent 8y ago
Well, introduction of open borders is also fairly recent, don't you think that might have more impact on the within-eu migration than shared currency?
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by Anderkent 8y ago
Are you contesting that ads work better for good products, or that such would imply more good products across advertised products? The mechanism for the first is quite intuitive. An add can make someone buy something once. If that thing is
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by Anderkent 8y ago
Of course all companies use ads, including unscrupulous ones. But ads work better for companies with a real product, and therefore you expect the % of good products among advertised products to be higher than among non-advertised ones.
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by Anderkent 8y ago
But this is exactly why sponsored results are good for the searcher. Products that people are willing to spend money advertising will usually be better for you, especially in a context where repeated custom is likely.
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by Anderkent 8y ago
A bonus payment if you sign an NDA on departure seems pretty common.
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by Anderkent 8y ago
Bond is severely racist too, if you take those criteria. Black people get assigned higher bond, and often have a harder time getting it together. As such there are many people in jail that are in no way a risk but are held because they can&

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