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by MarkMc 9y ago
I imagine you will eventually be offered progressively large discounts to add more streaming services: Netflix: $12 per month Disney: $15 per month Netflix + Disney: $22 per month
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by MarkMc 9y ago
> Where does that number need to be? Many people would say: It needs to be whatever results in roughly equal income growth across all income percentiles.
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I think HN automatically denotes stories where there are more comments than votes. It might also be manually demoted further by the mods.
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How far do you take it? For example, here is an article suggesting that female doctors are better than male doctors: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/12/female-do... Should a female docto
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Most people would be tempted to cheat, but would not actually cheat. So love must be pretty strong to counter such a large difference in physical appearance. There's no doubt that physical attraction plays a strong - perhaps domina
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by MarkMc 9y ago
Perhaps you and I have different definitions of the a word 'guess'. To me, it includes 'Making a logical estimate based on available evidemce'. Every investment decision is a guess.
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> but the odds are on the German and Japanese incumbents in the long run I'm not so sure. Toyota and Volkswagen are huge multinational organisations with extreme beurocracy and institutional inertia. The history of large incumbents
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by MarkMc 9y ago
> Amazons market cap is $475B. Assuming 10% ROI and 3% profit margin, Amazon must make $16 trillion in revenue some time in the future to justify the current price. 3% of $16 trillion is $480 billion dollars. At a price-earnings multiple
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by MarkMc 9y ago
I used to use TeamViewer for remote pair programming - even forking out $700 for a licence - until I discovered it had a huge security hole: https://www.optiv.com/blog/teamviewer-authentication-protoco... Won't tr
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> purchasing a small apartment now costs about the same as Sydney, with a median price above USD$1M Wow. What is the median salary in Shenzhen? And how do people who earn that afford million dollar apartments?
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by MarkMc 9y ago
Check out this graph of monthly active users: https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/26/facebook-earnings-q2-2017/ Over the past two years, the number of users has grown by around 30%. Rich areas like US and Eu
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by MarkMc 9y ago
This is a great article, but it doesn't acknowledge that there is sometimes a tradeoff between security and profit. For example, imagine a typical user who tries to choose a password: User: I want my password to be "monkey" S
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by MarkMc 9y ago
How do you feel about loyalty based on race? Is there a difference between race-based loyalty and citizenship-based loyalty?
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What shady things does UpWork do?
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You are right to say that working on location is generally much more productive than working remotely. And it will likely stay that way for the next decade or two, so it makes sense to continue developing commute-to-work infrastructure for
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I find it odd that the Chinese authorities allow text but not photos.
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The doctor would probably be even more uncomfortable being recorded, for the same reason that cops don't like wearing body cameras: Any mistake is recorded and can be replayed at trial. As a patient I would be quite happy for doctors
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by MarkMc 9y ago
Iceland has very cheap geothermal electricity and a very cold climate to cool the servers. How does China compete with Iceland?
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What about an audio warning: "Alert! You are about to land on a taxiway!". Wouldn't that be useful?
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An engineering marvel, but most likely an economic white elephant. The New York Times recently had a more critical report on China's bridges [0] China is addicted to infrastructure projects to boost its GDP. The problem is that these p
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That's an excellent point! I can think of another example: In the movie "Hidden Figures" the black, female engineers at NASA are much better than their white, male counterparts simply because it was harder for them to get in
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by MarkMc 9y ago
The TipRanks performance timeline is only 1 year. There are some short-term arbitrage-like opportunities available at this scale, but most opportunities are longer term - when the market has mispriced fundamental long-term value. I wouldn&#
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by MarkMc 9y ago
Somebody whose predictions are 100% wrong all the time would be enormously valuable - you just bet on the opposite outcome of the prediction ;) More seriously, the TipRanks performance timeline is only over 1 year. Perhaps GS is judging hi
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> For new & rapidly growing tech companies, up to 100% of value is in terminal value 10+ years out, so DCF framework collapses No, it doesn't collapse. Mr Andressen seems to be defining Discounted Cash Flow very narrowly - as th
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> With a stock, you can be right, and it doesn't matter. Stock is only worth what somebody will pay for it I don't see it that way. To me, a stock is worth the 'fundamental value', i.e. the future divided payments dis
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Actually I'm not pretending anything - I'm just stating the right-wing, free-market ideology. I happen to support a single-payer healthcare model because it will reduce overall health costs and maximise long-term GDP. But let me
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Can you point to an example in the US where someone has been fired based on an accusation without any evidence?
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My point is that gold has similar properties to Bitcoin. That is, there is limited supply, very limited government control and many people treat it as a store of value. You said earlier that "Currencies are enforced and controlled by
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> All they have to do is make the accusation. I doubt that. It seems that without witnesses or physical evidence the accusation will go nowhere.
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> When even being accused could be career ending I'm surprised by this. Would you really be damaged if someone makes an accusation against you without any evidence?

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