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by Traster 5y ago
The entire point of this is that he had a family shop - he didn't have investors. He was investing with his own money along with a load of leverage. The real losers here are people like Credit Suisse who booked billions in losses to co
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by Traster 5y ago
Man I feel like an idiot. I read the first paragraph and I'm like "that's just versions" and then I read the next few paragraphs and I'm like "Yeah but your dependencies are going to screw you". I'm n
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by Traster 5y ago
I’m kind of surprised by this, I’ve bought mpow stuff and it’s decent value for money (and I’ll take a captcha to prove I’m real if necessary?). To me this indicates more that every competitor must be doing this rather than singling out a h
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by Traster 5y ago
Isn’t this a demonstrate he isn’t censored? He’s literally one browser tab away, and yet even that was too much for his followers. I think this is more effective as a demonstration of how users of these sites only function within these site
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by Traster 5y ago
The problem with this governmental intervention is that you can't have it both ways. These companies want the governmetn to step in to hlp them with their problems, but let's take a look - are they going to contribute back once th
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by Traster 5y ago
This is one of the reasons why I've always been fascinated by people who claim Amazon has a customer focus. It is impossible to get what you awant from Amazon. If you go to Amazon they are going to make sure you get what they want to
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by Traster 5y ago
Think Beenie babies are closer to NFTs that *coins.
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by Traster 5y ago
I think this actually works in Amazon's favour. It's a completely intractable problem to find the best widget from 17 pages of almost identical widgets with completely unstructured data to sift through. So what do customers do? Th
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by Traster 5y ago
I think this is a counterproductive view. Gas turbines are bad for greenhouse gas emissions, but the fact is that gas turbines have displaced coal generators in many places in the US reducing net emissions. Are gas turbines a part of a zero
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by Traster 5y ago
Literally the first person who replied to you linked to the wiki page about it.
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by Traster 5y ago
Knowing the history of W3W I'm not particularly keen on them, but I don't think this is actually an incredibly strong criticism of the system. Yes, it's possible to make mistakes with this system, and there are probabilities
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by Traster 5y ago
I think the thing you need to content with is the fact that when someone says the Republican party uses racism to win votes what they're doing is linking you to a wiki page with long and detailed documentation of the specifics of what
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by Traster 5y ago
Just pointing out that the article does literally talk about the legislative efforts that are happening internationally to tackle this. Which is exactly what you were questioning.
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by Traster 5y ago
There are already tonnes of proposals, none of them get traction because there's no pressure to act. That's where the hate comes in - people need to be outraged in order for politiicans to be motivated to change things.
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by Traster 5y ago
From the article: >“President Biden has proposed a new, fairer system for taxing large corporations and digital companies but the UK has not come out in support of the reforms. The silence is deafening. The government must act and help t
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by Traster 5y ago
No one said that all people want to do is hate Amazon, but if you want to get this fixed you have to highlight and build hatred of this system (including both Amazon's role in it and the regulatory capture) because that's how yo
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by Traster 5y ago
I think the difference between Tax evasion and tax avoidance becomes moot when the corporation you're talking about spends huge amounts of money on shaping tax policy.
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by Traster 5y ago
Ok, so when are they going to stop operating in the market then? They're consistently losing money they should just shut down right?
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by Traster 5y ago
To be honest I suspect it isn't actually a differentiator. It's good for Google that they can produce this chip and trim their hardware costs by some percentage, but it's not going to give them a competitive advantage in the
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by Traster 5y ago
For hedge funds they used to commonly do 2 and 20 - 2% fee on investment + 20% of all profits. So if you invest $1Bn, they're getting $20m straight up, and if they make 10% on your investment ($100m) they'll make another $20m. I&#
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by Traster 5y ago
>People looking for extreme safety might want to at least put a tiny bit into Bitcoin or some other crypto. This. This is why people put money in bonds and gold. It's not a get rich quick scheme, it's an uncorrelated asset. Whi
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by Traster 5y ago
As a rational actor, all returns are the same when adjusted for risk, so you continue to stick your emergency savings in the bank, and diversify your less immediate investments. As a real investor you're probably just going to flee dom
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by Traster 5y ago
I think this is a pretty silly article. Yes some PSUs are more efficient than others, but we're talking about the difference between 80% worst case to 95% best case. So at best you're lowering conspution by around 10-15%, which is
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by Traster 5y ago
I don't know whatyour point is. He literally says: >Yes, it can save on disk use, but unless it's some very core library used by a lot of things (ie particularly things like GUI libraries like gnome or Qt or similar), the disk
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by Traster 5y ago
The problem is that you're not going to have this choice. You'll be that guy insisting he wants a phone that's thicker but has better battery life - no manufacturer cares what you want because they have to operate at a scale
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by Traster 5y ago
Yeah I don't mean manager as in "has a team of 5 people" I mean someone responsible for big teams, I'm just using manager as the generic, it could be a "head of" or "General Manager" or "Director
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by Traster 5y ago
The thing is that this advice is not good advice for most startup founders. Founders already have to have a huge amount of self-belief before they have any chance of succcess. That's not a problem silicon valley has. Silicon Valley has
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by Traster 5y ago
It doesn't seem very consistent to go out, canvas the opinion of all your celebrity mates and write an article and publish it about haters with the key take-away being "ignore the haters". I also think there are some pretty d
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by Traster 5y ago
There's this point in Civilization (1) where you get Knights and your attack is 4 and mostly you're going against Phalanxes who are defense 2, and even with various advantages you still have a massive edge. That's where I fee
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by Traster 5y ago
Isn't this kind of... stupid? > So around 5% of all years since 1926 have seen average returns. In fact, there have been just as many yearly returns above 40% as returns in the 8% to 12% range. Well yeah sure but 3 of the 5 years th

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