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by RickHull 15y ago
> If they didn't then that entire part of the industry would become hyper competitive, unstable and probably a zero-margin (or even loss-leading) business. Well, that's what all colluders and monopolists say. I don't see any problem wi
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by RickHull 15y ago
> I think it's a bit absurd that these prices aren't somehow determined by...say... a market rather than what a few guys at a bank "believe". All a market is is what the participants believe. LinkedIn was not forced to do this through
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by RickHull 15y ago
You are looking at the market price today. Morgan Stanley's consideration is the market price in the future. I believe the market price today is overvalued, and it will come down in the future.
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Evidence for ongoing HAARP weather modification in the US?(youtube.com)
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by RickHull 16y ago
1, 2, 3, 5, 4 Arguably only the 5 (or the 4) is out of order. Simply remove it and order is maintained.
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by RickHull 16y ago
=> is known as a fat comma or a rocket in Ruby circles.
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by RickHull 16y ago
I have never heard of Kai-Fu Lee, and I gather he made his name via Google, so the context was useful for me.
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by RickHull 16y ago
> Google ... to offer a service that doesn't make you hate yourself every time you have to interact with them. Except Google is not exactly known for their stellar customer service, either.
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by RickHull 16y ago
> All innovators are unconventional. The real problem is that it's hard to distinguish "best" practices from conventional practices. Innovators are necessarily unconventional, but the ones we care about are also necessarily demonstrabl
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by RickHull 16y ago
I think the real issue is that the phone video experience will continue to improve, so the market for a dedicated video device is decidedly more about prosumer features than gee-why-not convenience. i.e. the Flip still has a niche today, bu
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by RickHull 16y ago
> Why is it a cop-out to be ambivalent? Well, I would say it kind of is, but it kind of isn't.
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by RickHull 16y ago
> I don't think they've managed to keep up with demand. They, or our ISP overlords, perhaps.
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by RickHull 16y ago
Pardon the meme, but here is an instructive example of both sides: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndX2RFHmMNg (HOW CAN SHE SLAP)
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by RickHull 16y ago
Blogspam, really? That term implies lack of attribution and little or no value-add, neither of which is the case in the lesswrong.com post.
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by RickHull 16y ago
Did you just tell me to go fuck myself?
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by RickHull 16y ago
A good way to frame this behavior that makes clear why it is revolting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking The economic concept of rent is where a firm in an advantageous position uses that position to extract wealth without doing
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by RickHull 16y ago
Or: Practice makes permanent. (Inject qualifiers as needed)
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by RickHull 16y ago
> with the local police ordered to make 24 hour unannounced spot checks to make sure Mike wasn't secretly committing Art in the small hours of the morning... Classic
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by RickHull 16y ago
> Feminism is fundamentally about equality for everyone, not just women What on earth does this even mean? If I am to take the first part at face value, then they sure picked a bad label for this idea. As for the second part, what w
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by RickHull 16y ago
> Reading this thread, the historical demographic trends were very interesting. Do you think they are irrelevant? If so, please explain why. I'll bite. I don't find skin color particularly interesting, nor am I interested in it as a
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by RickHull 16y ago
> how can software be truly free (as in freedom) if it's not free to be used commercially? Ignoring that Free Software is in fact used commercially everyday, it is important to realize that certain freedoms must be restricted in order
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by RickHull 16y ago
Stock in a company is equity. You own a slice of the company. If the company pays dividends, you are entitled to a portion of its future earnings.
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by RickHull 16y ago
> Speculation has had negative effects in practice: The tulip crisis Guess who got hurt in the tulip crisis? ... The speculators. Their harm tends to be self-contained.
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by RickHull 16y ago
> The FDR administration recognized, however, that in order for the market to properly function, there needed to exist another kind of player - the speculator. The entire purpose of the speculator, as originally envisioned ... My point
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by RickHull 16y ago
You borrow shares of the index today and sell them immediately. You will need to return those shares at some point, depending on your contract. The day the shares are due, you can buy them at the market price and complete the deal.
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by RickHull 16y ago
> But he's done an excellent job of explaining it in layman's terms. I found myself on an emotional roller coaster whilst reading this piece - at moments I was enraged, then again at moments felt like I could suggest something that woul
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by RickHull 16y ago
> So they do their magic, and -- again let's assume the article is correct and this was actually the cause -- wheat prices jump like crazy. If you are not going to explain prices in terms of supply and demand, you need to have clear, co
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by RickHull 16y ago
> the banks are not in the actual business of using oil to produce goods and services of economic value, but in fact have exclusivity to deal in these contracts Can you talk more about the exclusivity here? That seems like a regulatory
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by RickHull 16y ago
Note: That wall o' text makes it hard to pick out your key points. > The "speculator" was placed into the mix with a limited role for providing liquidity This makes no sense. Who did the placing? Every market has speculators, and even
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by RickHull 16y ago
> supporting your junior high science fair project Twitter client What are the support costs? I would think you publish the API and it's up to the client to manage it from there.

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