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by Lazare 6y ago
Musk has said he thinks that Tesla's stock is overvalued, and the company has sold stock to raise funds. Musk may hate them, but there's is little-to-no daylight between him and the short sellers at this point; both think Tesla&#x
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> That was the 20th century's fight. https://www.wired.com/story/china-is-still-building-an-insan... We shall see.
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This study says 13k: https://www.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/CATF_Pub_TheT... Estimates vary; some reckon it's more like 50k: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/articl
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by Lazare 6y ago
> In practice, in the real world, the consequences of accidents are extraordinarily bad and costly. ...not really. Fossil fuels kill a simply enormous amount of people. Coal is responsible for something like 13k deaths per year in the US
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by Lazare 6y ago
> I’m continuously baffled by those that claim that nuclear power is safe. Nuclear power is relatively safe. Nothing is 100% safe. Rooftop solar actually has a surprisingly high fatality rate from installers falling off of roofs ! Fos
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In theory, the SEC could decide to count those. In practice, that's basically unthinkable.
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> private blockchain So a database? > AFAIK it is live and actively used. Most things people seem to think are running on blockchain tech turn out not to be, so I'd be interested in any evidence here. Nonetheless. > operating
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by Lazare 6y ago
> Is there anything that PHP is developing or adopting that can not be had at other established languages? I would say no, but of course, the same is true of most other established languages. What's interesting about PHP is that it
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by Lazare 6y ago
> Endowments have much longer investment horizons and typically lower risk appetite that wouldn't typically have an investment policy tilted towards 100% equities. That does make some sense, but actually endowments typically invest
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by Lazare 6y ago
> getting a rocket to orbit isn't that big of a deal these days. Arguably true, but to the extent that is is true, it makes BOs failures to do so given how much time and money has been spent on it rather inexplicable, no? Either t
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by Lazare 6y ago
Option pricing is a separate issue; you can certainly do it wrong and get in trouble, but it's not insider trading either way.
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by Lazare 6y ago
There was a lot weird about that deal, but you've highlighted the one thing that is pretty clearly not insider trading. Had the CEO bought a bunch of shares, that would very possibly be insider trading, because he is (presumably) t
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by Lazare 6y ago
Yes.... We originally switched to Datadog because we were looking for New Relic alternative, ran across them, signed up for a trial, liked it, the end. But then like....18 months later we got contacted by our brand new "account manager
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by Lazare 6y ago
> Legal implications aside, it's still sad to see that 'do no evil' is so hard to agree with. I disagree that you can ever put the legal implication aside when discussing license terms. The legal implications are the entir
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by Lazare 6y ago
Mmm. Worth noting that PHP as a language has been moving pretty fast lately. The 7.x series is something like 2-3 times faster than 5.6 in most benchmarks, plus a lot of developer friendly features have landed, and some useful security fe
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by Lazare 6y ago
Nope. The press release from Kodak didn't contain any embargo information. Kodak told the press, but forgot to tell them not to report it. Just rank incompetence from Kodak.
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> Importantly, though, Kodak did not act as though the information had become public That fact isn't important in the slightest. > this is wildly incorrect bordering on fraudulent; at worst, it's insider trading. It's
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by Lazare 6y ago
It's really inexplicable. Old Reddit was fine, not great, just fine. The new Reddit UI is hideously bad. It was terrible when it launched, it was terrible months later, and it's still terrible now. I'm honestly at a loss. I
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by Lazare 6y ago
There are no inconsistencies here. We have an algebraic indentity, a + b = x + y. (Let's not even think about what those might represent; it doesn't matter.) The two sides must always be equal. Any transaction must maintain that e
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by Lazare 6y ago
The traditional accounting identity is something like "Assets = Liabilities + Equity", or in an expanded form "Assets = Liabilities + Contributed Capital + Revenue - Expenses - Dividends" (from Wikipedia https:/&#x
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That's your concern? Really? I'm not sure I agree with the rest of the article; it made some bad points and some good ones. And I certainly don't think it's clear that the fabric of society is in danger of breaking for
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by Lazare 6y ago
The general tradeoff here is: An IPO is a difficult, involved process. You jump through a lot of hoops, you have to write a bunch of documents, you do a road show, and at the end of it you don't even know how much money you're goi
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Not even that; the author didn't think through the math right. A SPAC is much more expensive than an IPO: 1. Sponsor takes 20% 2. Warrants give investors the right to buy buy shares cheaply 3. You still get the IPO pop (Nikola and Dr
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Google results are very different for different people. SSC is not returned at all when I search for his real name; a result many others have reported in the ongoing discussion about SSC on Hacker News. I'm not sure what that means f
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by Lazare 6y ago
A SPAC gives more certainty but less money. An IPO gives more money but less certainty. Most of the criticism of IPOs has been over their cost , and a SPAC is strictly worse. So...no. SPACs have been (and will continue to be) relatively po
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No. The "pop" is part of the cost of the IPO, but SPACs are more expensive than an IPO. If your thinking is "IPOs are good, but too expensive; what if there's a big pop I miss out on?", then you would never want t
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by Lazare 6y ago
The web UI is bad, but tools like chamber ( https://github.com/segmentio/chamber ) are excellent, so there's no need to deal with the web UI.
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A minimum wage is easy to enforce, but that's more of a bug than a feature. Minimum wages have two problems: 1) It's very hard to set it at a correct level. Too low and it does nothing; too high and it causes rampant unemployment.
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> So their overall approach is unique: Let the markets operate how they should and redistribute income after the fact. Some people have called this new type of political animal the “liberaltarian.” That is, of course, the model that Nord
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An often overlapping problem is designers splitting a game into "expansions" that they sell at launch as part of the KS. "Here's the core game, it's everything you need to play! Not too expensive right? ....but her

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