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by MR4D 5y ago
I work in finance. It IS a hack, and a bad one, too. I expect this will end badly as they keep kicking the can down the road. A recession - a real one - would help us rest this problem, but the Fed is afraid of hosing all the 401k retireme
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by MR4D 5y ago
But the marginal cost of an additional dollar of revenue for Google was close to zero - for Tesla it’s much higher. Google’s lead grew as it grew (Metcalf’s law). Tesla’s won’t for the same reason that everyone doesn’t want to drive the sam
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by MR4D 5y ago
I wonder why the Mozilla foundation never came up with a search engine of their own. Something tells me it could be quite popular. Too bad they get so much money from Google. Otherwise this might be cool.
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Tech antitrust pioneer Lina Khan will officially lead the FTC(theverge.com)
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by MR4D 5y ago
To me, this is simple: If the pages are not behind a login, then they are PUBLIC, and open to any sort of data gathering. If the pages are behind a login, then they are PRIVATE, and have all the protections alongside it. Frankly, this b
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by MR4D 5y ago
Well, then you need to set up a Federal Cryptocurrency Reserve System (FCRS) in the US, and a European Cryptocurrency Central Bank (ECCB). And if that happens, you probably need a World Cryptocurrency Bank, and an International Cryptocurren
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by MR4D 5y ago
Sure, but you have to stomach the 6% commission you’re paying to the brokers, which really limits this situation to transitory market conditions instead of a get rich quick strategy.
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by MR4D 5y ago
I should have clarified - banks don't take on market risk.
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by MR4D 5y ago
The value of the land at Burning Man is much lower than the Bay Area, even though it has many of the same people. I think the infrastructure is pretty important. Disregarding it entirely seems a bit much. Even a bad neighborhood in Philly h
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by MR4D 5y ago
Short of a 1031 exchange, I'm not sure how you would do that.
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by MR4D 5y ago
Debt is not a loss unless you default on it.
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by MR4D 5y ago
> which I assume aren't taxed? It depends on which kind of retirement account. Might be in Roths and Roths-401Ks which are taxed when the money goes in (treated as regular income), or IRAs and regular 401Ks which are taxed as regul
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by MR4D 5y ago
> ... bank taking on the risk... Banks don't take on risk. Seriously. That's another conversation to have, but the simple answer is do you want the value of your checking account impacted by someone else's purchase of Ga
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by MR4D 5y ago
> everyone's taxable income is a matter of public record That's an interesting approach. I have a couple questions out of curiosity. Does that include their "offshore" income? By that, I mean income earned outside of
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by MR4D 5y ago
Unless a huge earthquake hits it, the Bay area will always be worth more than central Kansas. At a minimum, there is one simple reason for this - the amount of infrastructure investment over the years (power, sewer, roads, etc), of which th
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by MR4D 5y ago
Your example of loans is tax deferral , not avoidance. As for your examples in general, those are really good. Collateralized loans on stock we usually call "margin loans" and are easy to get. Also, anyone in real estate will rec
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by MR4D 5y ago
Your argument doesn't seem to agree with the evidence. Feudal economies were actually powered by wealth taxes. So putting in a wealth tax won't do anything to avoid it becoming a feudal society. Further, confiscatory taxes[0] (of
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by MR4D 5y ago
How do you get the usb drive to the user ?
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by MR4D 5y ago
“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. “ –Richard P. Feynman Wise words for anyone wishing to try out an algorithm on Wall Street.
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by MR4D 5y ago
Understanding and knowing about mean reversion is essential to anyone writing an algorithm used in real world finance, along with a bunch of other terms. It is also clear from other posts by the author that this has not been tested in the r
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by MR4D 5y ago
Clearly the author does not have real world experience with this algorithm. If so, it would be clear that buying anything at the opening price is not easy.
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by MR4D 5y ago
> the end Cicero was silenced by those who were taking power. This is a spin on the fact that he was a participant in the murder of Caesar. Cicero was trying to take back power that had been lost to a very popular Leader by participating
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by MR4D 5y ago
Dumb question, but if everything happens on my computer, and it’s 100% free, then why do I need an account? It seems like one of these is not like the other.
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by MR4D 5y ago
> And the largest piece of hubris and madness in critical systems is allowing over-the-internet updates. What would you suggest in its place? You'd need to replace the internet with something - postal mail, Fedex, courier deliveries
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by MR4D 5y ago
We'll find out on the 24th https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/3/22466394/microsoft-windows...
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by MR4D 5y ago
Why is OBS so slow on Mac? Is there a hardware issue here, or is it a software issue with OBS? It’s fantastic, but the speed difference on Windows is so much better.
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by MR4D 5y ago
Ether. X-rays. Black hole. Dark matter. I think it’s going to stick as a name even when the details have been largely worked out, especially considering the other examples I listed.
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by MR4D 5y ago
TLDR: "Jobs's recognition that the company should only have one P&L might be just as important to Apple's becoming the $2 trillion company it is today." I agree with this. Although the idea that there was only about
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by MR4D 5y ago
I had to reread your comment a few times, and then I figured out why it was so hard to parse: For me, my monitor powers my laptop. More specifically, my two 32" 4K monitors are plugged into the wall, and then both have USBC cables into
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by MR4D 5y ago
Glad to see that the Epic/Apple war hasn't boiled over to this. From the website: "What platforms does UE5 Early Access support?" "Unreal Engine 5 Early Access broadly supports the same platforms as UE4—next‑generat

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