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by MarkMc 9y ago
Check out the ratio of gold price to Dow Jones index for last 100 years: http://www.macrotrends.net/1378/dow-to-gold-ratio-100-year-h... In 1917 it was about 5, now it's about 15. So threefold increase in a centur
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By threatening to send people who trade Bitcoin to jail: https://www.coindesk.com/bangladesh-outlaw-bitcoin-jail/
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I don't understand why it's a problem. Coinbase received $13,000 from User A and they pay it to User B. Why will Coinbase go bankrupt or customers be unhappy?
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You Can Now Run Microsoft Office Apps on Your Chromebook(lifehacker.com.au)
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Would transfer pricing still be an issue if Apple EU was a completely separate company?
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Dear System Administrator, We've just hacked your server and wiped the crypto keys for your users. As you know, all your backups are now useless. Send us $1 million in Bitcoin to get your crypto keys back. Sincerely, Hacker McHackface
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If Apple is forced to pay a big chunk of tax in the EU, why wouldn't they spin off their EU sales operations as a completely separate independent company? Apple US (or Apple Cayman Islands) could then sell iPhones to Apple EU and dema
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Not sure what your source is for that claim, but when you look at corporate tax revenue as a percentage of GDP the US is significantly below average: https://espnfivethirtyeight-files-wordpress-com.cdn.ampproje...
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Sure, there might be better metrics than 1-year survival and different treatments could have different metrics.
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Now who is being unrealistic? I accept that demand for medical services is not as elastic as in other industries, but to suggest that exposing a group of poorly-performing doctors would have no effect on their patient numbers seems rather
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Here's a hypothetical question: Suppose I examine the performance of 100 doctors and I rate ten doctors as being the very best, and ten as being the very worst. Suppose that 9 out of the ten 'best' doctors are indeed the be
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> I don't think the analogy fits. There's no single metric (like runner speed/time) to evaluate competence. Let me suggest such a metric: A T-value. That is, the degree to which the actual outcome deviates from the expect
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> I often think about how we lack truely objective assessment of patient outcomes We don't really need truely objective assessments. As an analogy, imagine we randomly added or subtracted 3 minutes to the finishing times of all th
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The article's author Atul Gawande more recently published a study showing that you are 3 times more likely to die if you are treated in some hospitals compared to others [1] Both the article and study suggest what I believe is a major
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Needs [2004] in the title
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Actually, protesting against their own (French) government would also be the wrong entity. The right entity is the US government, because almost all of the profit on iPhones sold in France is created in the US. For the same reason that Fo
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I really wish I could see the progress humans make over the next 60,000 years. Shout out to all my ancestors in 62017!
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Springbok Solutions Ltd | C++ Developer | London, UK | Full-Time or Part-Time | REMOTE | £50-60K I’m looking for a C++ developer with at least 3 years experience to help me port a large macOS Objective C++ application to Windows. You must b
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True, but that's not really a 'single tap'. More like 'tap then wait until the slider appears then drag finger just the right distance'
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> they like to demonize bitcoin which actually does something gold could never do The practical utility of Bitcoin represents only a very small fraction of its price. The price of bitcoin has climbed more than tenfold in a year - so what
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Well Dart can be compiled to Javascript. In fact I think that was why it was created, then a few Googlers said, "Maybe we can use this to build mobile apps too"
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For what it's worth, as a long-time Java programmer I found it very easy to pick up Dart. I was porting a Java program and found I could copy and paste the Java code into my Dart app, then fix the compile errors (mostly by deleting th
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My favourite: "How ancient lentils reveal the origins of social inequality" https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/11/lentils-orig...
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Yes, the keyboard is so disappointing. The plastic of the keys is so thin and harsh it feels so cheap. Yes, I really miss the inverted T arrow keys - my right hand can't orientate itself any more. Yes, touch pad was a mistake - a singl
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If US population growth rate over next 100 years was same as in the 20th century then it might stand a chance of regaining the crown of biggest economy (and strongest military). But that seems unlikely due to widespread anti-immigration se
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Just an educated guess, plus personal experience. For example, consider how much "Number of Facebook users * average user income" will grow over the next 10 years. Over the past 40 years world GDP per capita has risen about 4.5%
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I recently bought Facebook shares at $1.79 each, so my view is the polar opposite of Peter Thiel. Here's my estimate of what will happen to the components of Facebook revenue over next 10 years: 1. Number of Facebook users * average u
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True, although the number of active users is only a small component of Facebook's enormous growth. In past 4 years Facebook have grown their user base by 80%, mostly in lower-income countries. But over the same period revenue has grown
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Victorian taxi drivers planning multimillion-dollar class action against Uber(theage.com.au)
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That's a problem for Japan, but not rich western countries which can simply accept more immigration.

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