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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Theranos was valued $9B yet no one sleuthed the actual machine. Nikola Motor Co was valued $22B with a "fully functional" truck rolling downhill. Maddoff ponzied $65B without a business. It really is wild that so much money gets t
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Without P2W and micro-transaction mechanics, I don't think Mac users are more valuable than other ones for OP (I assume that, in the context, you are referring the fact Apple users spend more [1, 2], tho it could just be a cheeky joke)
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Hard disagree. Seems obvious to me those associations are cultural and extrapolations of previous experiences and stories. Ask these 3 prompts to isolated North Koreans or Papuans (probably after explaining elves are supernatural humanoids
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Of course! As I recall the morale of the story is "just get started". The site started with an Excel spreadsheet he was selling to his neighbors haha. https://youtube.com/watch?v=jw8N7YrBM4o
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
I listened to a talk by YNAB's creator last year (about development not the program itself). Didn't realize until this thread how popular it is.
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
GP's last paragraph seems to imply to me too that trust is all that keeps the pegs. I think the billions of dollars in arbitrage opportunity is a bit more powerful than trust as we've seen a few days ago when USDT lost its peg, bu
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Does the 5% + 50c include the whole payment process on top of the tax-handling? As in, the alternative is paying 2-3% anyway to someone like Stripe for integrating payments, so that the cost of off-loading all int'l VAT and co headache
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
It's outside the US too, but holy moly is it dirt cheap in the US, averages not even 4% [1]. When I looked last year RBC showed like 8% (now 9.75%[2]) for 25 years fixed in Canada; tougher choice against 5 year terms than down South. 1
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Very fair.
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Whereas self-indulgence is procrastination and self-denial is altruism & giving yourself (time and what not) to others?
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Thanks a lot for the terminology, looking at Google's first page for "Christian monk procrastination" I'm not sure I would've found it if I even looked for it. They're interesting inputs for Marginalia's s
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Got anything more specific to recommend? I'd like to read the main books of the main religions eventually out of personal culture, but they won't get to the top of the reading pile any time soon. Meanwhile, I'm sure procrasti
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Did you estimate the hours by summing total video lenghts in history? As I recall there was no time spent stat, just video history eothout watchtime indication.
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Made my Aura much more responsive, with better UI. Easy install too.
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
I mean, are these not doppelgangers?
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
I'm relieved this is the second-to-the-top parent comment. They literally did an eye gaze study showing that just about no one saw the logo (and even fewer read it), yet their conclusion is some emotional fugazi.
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
>You can buy a 200-300 dollar phone with more than decent specs Two weeks ago I got a "9.5" (looks brand new, battery too) used Pixel 3a for 100$ on eBay. It's a perfectly fine phone with picture/video quality underso
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Seems like, with a better name tho. But you get fun out of it! And you make a difference (in Alphabet's bottom line).
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
You know that Edison didn't need to invent wires and glass-working to invent the light-bulb, right?
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
I'm not sure where you bringing "sitting in cash" from.
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Yes, you need some level of financial creativity to justify buying into one of the many bubbles. But that's where the timeless Buffett quote[0] on Ted Williams and batting comes in, there's no called strikes in securities markets.
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Indeed, there's no such thing as free money. You get payed (or burned) when trading on these mergers for bearing the risk of the deal failing or renegotiating.
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
These mergers never are almost never at parity months before closing. This one isn't even so far a spread, 15% rebate on proposed takeout price. Activision, with an offer from Microsoft for which even Buffett is partaking in the arbitr
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Market pricing and arbitrage pegs it, is how I understand it. It's "worth" whatever price the bid-ask spread meets at. It's exchangeable for USD to the company. As long as there isn't a bank run where they'd st
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
"Yield farming" (covered puts) is why.
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
The root of the issue is that the US doesn't separate elected lawmakers from district distribution. The fact[0] elected officials can redraw their own electoral map is just beyond belief, in a tough competition with Citizen's Unit
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The unreasonable effectiveness of data-oriented programming(literateprogrammer.blogspot.com)
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Given the cash burn of the classic 2021 SPAC, if they're not riddled with debt yet they may well be as soon as the stock market ATM stops spitting money (which might be about now). Which reminds me OP omitted dilution/share issuan
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Oh I see, you're playing medic. Thanks, I always wondered what "showdead" meant (tho not enough to Google it I guess).
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
This is great, thanks a lot. It's my understanding that Playwright is the "new Puppeteer" (even with core devs migrating). I presume this sort of technique would be feasible on Playwright too? Do you think there's any ad

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