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by MR4D 5y ago
I wonder if this might be considered an act of war [0]. [0] - https://www.britannica.com/topic/law-of-war/Legally-defining...
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by MR4D 5y ago
Visa charges you 3% but doesn’t have an online store that I can find your app on, and don’t run security checks against your app to check for malicious apps, etc. So I think we can agree that a realistic number for Apple is definitely above
903.
by MR4D 5y ago
> The real argument... I would agree with this except for one huge fact that has existed for close to 100 years - poor investors can put their money into options and blow up in a day, but can't put it into private equity. I'm n
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by MR4D 5y ago
The simple version (the longer version takes more time than I have to write today).... If 3rd party cookies are blocked, then it's hard for Google to know what people are looking at, and also hard to sell ads at the highest rates. Howe
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by MR4D 5y ago
Nicely offsets their crappy AMP stuff. Also allows them to sidestep all sorts of cookie limitations on personal data. Smart.
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by MR4D 5y ago
The ultimate snark from the article - “ If the RSA Conference finally decides on an answer, maybe it can mint that as an NFT. ” Awesome!
907.
by MR4D 5y ago
Both. But then again, Hedge funds for rich people also encourage risky behavior (leveraging up their models, as imperfect as they are from time to time is definitely risky).
908.
by MR4D 5y ago
A stock market crash is usually defined as a drop > 10 %. We've just seen a 20% (or worse) drop in cryptos in a single 24 hour period. So to me, calling this a "crash" makes perfect sense. Will it come back? Yes, but it&#x
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by MR4D 5y ago
> tasks like Spotlight indexing <personal rant> I'd swear that Spotlight indexing would prefer a freaking supercomputer when it runs. My whole system just starts to feel sluggish, especially if I just moved a bunch (say 1-5GB)
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by MR4D 5y ago
> edge cases That’s the first time I’ve ever seen someone describe Facebook as an “edge case”. If $900,000,000,000 of market capitalization counts as an edge case, I’d think you must be hard to please at Christmas - those are some really
911.
by MR4D 5y ago
Because the touchpad works. And my dev is in the cloud (mostly).
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by MR4D 5y ago
I clicked on your link, half expecting to get rick-rolled, and was pleasantly surprised to find myself back on this same page.... but also kinda disappointed. :) +1 for avoiding the temptation.
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by MR4D 5y ago
I think you are right to be skeptical, but this is GvR with Microsoft's money. So hopefully the combination of those two can make it work.
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by MR4D 5y ago
“How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.” Abraham Lincoln
915.
by MR4D 5y ago
If you read the article, the data includes information on informants (which is probably a ton). I'd imagine there is Grand Jury information in there as well. Plus, there is probably personal information (payroll). Not that it matters h
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by MR4D 5y ago
I'd imagine that a big concrete bunker in the ground effectively burying this thing would probably be pretty good security. Taking a look at how nuclear missiles are in silos and having a variant of that approach. Not saying it'
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by MR4D 5y ago
> Archegos Capital was largely Bill Hwang (and his family's) money. You make a good point. I completely forgot that part. Kindof important too.
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by MR4D 5y ago
Worse - it's gambling with other people's money and then charging 2-and-20 on it. Actually, now that I think of it, it's even worse that that! - its taking other people's money, then leveraging it, and then charging 2-
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by MR4D 5y ago
Looks like about 1/2 of Americans buy lottery tickets [0], and they spend roughly $1,000 per year on them each [1]. So, not so special, and I would argue a good proxy for the population at large. [0] - https://news.gallup.
920.
by MR4D 5y ago
I’m not the OP, but there’s a whole book on the topic. Fascinating read if you ever get the chance. A Keystone Cops level of professionalism displayed by the central bankers at the time. Lords of Finance - https://www.amazon.com
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by MR4D 5y ago
You got downvoted probably for the tone more than anything. Factually, you are correct and that is supported by research [0]. Roughly 1/3 of lottery winners go broke within a few years, which is a much higher rate than the population
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by MR4D 5y ago
I've thought this over, and my conclusion seems to be that people will take a reasonable amount of stress if they get a big performance improvement. I absolutely agree that for some people, it will be too much, and frankly, I don'
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by MR4D 5y ago
When Chia mining really ramps up, it will kill off SSDs faster than a T-rex in a petting zoo. I think the horror stories are going to just explode. If Apple has any weakness here (and this might be the butterfly keyboard all over again), th
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by MR4D 5y ago
As a huge Python fan, I think now is the time for the leadership to start thinking about Python 4 (especially since the 2->3 migration headache seems to have mostly gone away). I say this because v4 would be a good time to look at puttin
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by MR4D 5y ago
A better idea - have the navy build them and then sell the completed, operational plant (say, after a year of successful operation) to the highest bidder in an auction. Put whatever constraints are needed on the sale, and guarantee the con
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by MR4D 5y ago
103 pages of Linux commandline goodness! Nice overall reference, especially the parts on regex and awk. Table of Contents (for those who hate PDFs): Part 1: Overview and Logistics • Part 2: Basics • Part 3: Streams, pipe and redirection •
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by MR4D 6y ago
This is a really well done project - clear instructions and good illustrations. Most of all, it’s just plain cool !
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by MR4D 6y ago
I agree completely. Downturns are events where many participants learn how the market really works. It’s an ugly reality check, but thankfully we have them frequently. Otherwise you get really overbought and then events like the tulip mania
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by MR4D 6y ago
It means doing something very risky for little overall gain.
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by MR4D 6y ago
Thank you very much. That’s the first explanation that makes complete sense.

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