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by JamisonM 10y ago
If you regard the Twitter feed of Wikileaks a credible source of information I can't help you. https://mobile.twitter.com/wikileaks/status/7944506234041139...
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by JamisonM 10y ago
I think that people assumed Trump was "crazy/racist/myogenic/untrustworthy" because there is ample evidence that he really was each and every one of those things. Most of the evidence is in court documents and on ta
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by JamisonM 10y ago
I don't like Trump, but sometimes a giant orange middle finger is needed to break out of a rut. These are generally the sentiments that are comforting but do not actually make any practical sense. Policies matter, decisions that will
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by JamisonM 10y ago
[My Twitter feed gives] me all the viewpoints I need to form an opinion. Given that hubris seems to be the theme of this topic I have to say this is particularly appropriate.
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by JamisonM 11y ago
I don't think that the article said "China can't build working pens therefore they suck" and I also do not think it was offering any sort of commentary on "culture" in the first place. Instead it was offering
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by JamisonM 11y ago
You can choose to sell less of the asset but you can also quite simply buy up massive amounts of reserves in a different currency. The CAD's value relative to the USD was motivated by the need to buy CAD in order to purchase the oil. T
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by JamisonM 11y ago
Even the way we do provincial transfer payments is sane. While one industry is booming (Oil, manufacturing, tech) other "have not" provinces get payments through the federal government. This brings a measure of st
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by JamisonM 11y ago
You took the time to look for something about Blackberry patents, you could have also taken a moment to confirm that he has long since sold off his Blackberry shares. http://business.financialpost.com/fp-tech-desk/rim-c
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by JamisonM 11y ago
The thing that troubles me the most about AirBNB is the general feeling I get from them that they feel concerns about their social impact are simply not worth addressing. Not just disagreeing about the degree to which the things you cited m
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by JamisonM 11y ago
$10BN companies have laws passed that go against their interests all the time, car companies, who have a combined value far in excess of $10BN (particularly when you consider up and down the supply chain) face all sorts of regulatory hurdle
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by JamisonM 11y ago
Yes, this a ridiculous PR puff-piece. JD saw something coming and got into the business along with a bunch of other companies. There are a lot of competing GPS technology companies that make products just as good if not better and sell well
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by JamisonM 11y ago
I think that this comment addresses that pretty well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9679557 If you are doing a business deal where you are confident the person you struck the deal with is in control of going forwar
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by JamisonM 11y ago
I actually own a LeTourneau land-moving scraper! My main comment was motivated in part by the fact that trustworthiness is a two-way street, when one agent attaches a lot of value to honouring an obligation and the other does not then the f
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by JamisonM 11y ago
Sometimes I wonder if the attachment of moral ideas to what are really just business contracts is part of the way modern individuals are being played by modern corporations. In my business experience breaking a contract is something to be
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by JamisonM 11y ago
If you dry up before you can really get rotting you will be pretty well preserved. The bottom line of that being that if your corpse is well-prepared before burial and your casket happens to be either well-sealed or otherwise escape water p
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by JamisonM 11y ago
If making the size of a item of data different required a lot of effort to change your problem is one of a far more fundamental nature than YAGNI.
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by JamisonM 11y ago
I don't think it is much of a stretch to assert that the vast majority of code in the world that accomplishes important business goals is not "high performance" and in most cases doesn't need to be "high performance
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by JamisonM 12y ago
The premise of the article, at least at the start, that CBOT contracts are not useful to Kraft because Vomitoxin limits are too high is misleading. The author appears to be ignorant of this fact, but as a farmer I can assure him, and everyo
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by JamisonM 12y ago
My claims on recovery rates of debt are based on my experience in the banking industry. There are many public sources of information on this topic that you can refer to with respect to expected recovery rates of debts based on age. Provisio
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by JamisonM 12y ago
The debts have to be over a year old, by any reasonable banking standards (even unreasonable ones) those are NPAs, by any accounting standard they are deemed receivables that will not be recovered. They've been written off. This is why
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by JamisonM 12y ago
Most of this is fairly incorrect. The risks involved lending money to poor people are largely unchanged by this and the bottom lines of all of the businesses involved are essentially unchanged. All of these outstanding amounts are delinquen
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by JamisonM 12y ago
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/15/us-croatia-welfare... The government program involves major local banks, leading telecom operators, the four biggest Croatian cities and several publi
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by JamisonM 12y ago
How many other countries have you run a company in? (For the record, my count is 2.)
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by JamisonM 12y ago
I am just asking for evidence, and I looked into the answers to all the questions I listed above and saw either answers that seemed positive or neutral with respect to economic performance and the environment for entrepreneurship. The senti
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by JamisonM 12y ago
Sounds like a lot of vague arm-waving to me. How is Denmark's government debt to GDP ratio? Private debt to GDP ratio? Employment rate? Workforce participation rate? Economic growth? How do all those things compare to its peer group? Y
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by JamisonM 12y ago
It is at least a perceived longstanding issue, how large a problem is it really? How large an economic impact does it have? I suspect that the government did not actually investigate those factors. Denmark's unemployment rate stands we
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by JamisonM 12y ago
I believe your interpretation of this data is incorrect. Given the relatively infrequent contact children would have with magnets strong enough to be dangerous as compared to all of these items that are found in every home in America and mo
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by JamisonM 12y ago
I am not being a dick. That what I said is true is so obvious I am not going to bother digging up a bunch of stats to justify it. It is a waste of time. This comment ended up doing the work for me, and demonstrates my point. But then based
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by JamisonM 12y ago
Add up all the rare earth magnet toy sets in America. Add up all the scissors, pencils, and knives in America. Look up the injuries/fatalities to children caused by each. Viola!
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by JamisonM 12y ago
Actually at a much, much lower rate. Think of how many of those things there are in a single house or neighbourhood and then think of how many child fatalities a typical house or neighbourhood experiences.

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