YjSe2GMQ

10 ms·

31.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
I'm doing this class and I don't think there's any essential difference between gratitude and appreciation. Call it however you want, those are just names for particular practices anyhow.
32.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
Indeed. There's much more symmetry outside of the criminal law. Not sure if applicable to the US, but in my home country you can sue people if you want money from them (as one would expect), but you can also sue "to determine whet
33.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
You can't easily short Uber yet, it is not traded yet. You'd need to find a) a current stockholder that will borrow you shares, and b) a new potential stockholder to buy it from you. And even after it starts trading it'll tak
34.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
Ownership doesn't mean the same thing in liberal democracies and in more or less oppressive countries. It's an abstract concept which gets translated into reality day by day, depending on other people's actions. Sure, you may
35.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
Not to mention that the Fed made a "profit" on the liquidity injection. "Profit" because central bank doesn't really care about anything like profit, but the point is everything was repaid. That being said, there&#x
36.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
Yeah right. But other than self driving cars I fail to see how they'll un-dig themselves out of the money losing setup before burning through all the fresh cash collected in the IPO. Hopefully I'll be wrong.
37.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
Isn't Lyft also essentially a bet on autonomous driving? With (probably) an even shorter time horizon to burn all their cash? Otherwise it's hard to see them making enough profit to justify a 17B valuation.
38.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
I am willing to reduce morality to mere pragmatism. After all what's more than just experience, shaped by such pragmatism? And I think all moral systems are essentially built around avoiding pain. Even if you allow for supernatural bei
39.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
Uber issued bonds: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-16/uber-is-s... Rated by Moody's as B3 and by S&P as B-, which is the bottom of "Highly speculative": https://e
40.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
> but how? I think it's quite simple - subjective experience. Under the assumption that others experience things (much like you do) you can just ask or infer what would they prefer, and what would cause pain. You can be wrong about
41.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
Isn't 18650 essentially a generic part number, with numerous providers? These batteries don't even have to have the same capacity (I've seen many 2700mAh, 3000mAh and 3300mAh), just same package. I'd wager that this is t
42.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
It has to be geo-engineering. Where are you going to find energy to recapture carbon? Renewables and nuclear are a joke compared to carbon fuels: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption
43.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
Because it's the same thing. Angel, alien - what's the difference? "Holy books" will likely be exactly useless. If one can't tell the difference then one can't tell the difference.
44.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
UFO is a very potent story. And the US government had used it in the past as decoys (allegedly): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation#The_Truth... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul
45.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
Exactly. Also, the only real solution for stopping warming is geo-engineering. We'll not have enough clean energy to even think about effective (as in - actually making an impact) carbon recapture. https://en.m.wikipedia.org
46.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
That sounds great to me. We need more mentally healthy people.
47.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
FYI - this was already posted, 2014 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8682782
48.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
Can't tell if this is was written by a Markov chain or by a human.
49.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
"The Single Greatest Predictor of Future Stock Market Returns": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14948078 And here's the live (well, lagging a few months, but this is a very slow signal anyhow) version:
50.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
Not according to those guys: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-economist/ For example, they endorsed both Democratic and Republican candidates for president in the past.
51.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
Matter of taste I suppose. It's more like Wikipedia than other modern journalism. Some journalists use pseudonyms, for example Banyan, Butterwood: https://www.italki.com/question/377016 Edit: I'd say it has t
52.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
What's the potential problem for a consumer? No battery replacements? Someone's gotta be making parts even if Tesla goes bust.
53.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
Off topic, but I recommend getting a subscription of The Economist. Totally worth the money, and the weekly format combined with an almost complete lack of bias gives a nice leisurely pace to catch up with world's events.
54.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
Yup. It's in th same spirit as SATs - people also practice for that.
55.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
Well that's exactly what Trump is doing with his trade war [1]. The goals are: 1) removing trade/current-account imbalance (which has improved on its own due to the massive spike in Chinese tourism [2]), 2) allowing more Western c
56.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
It depends heavily on the weather, and on the season. No wind -> worse smog, more coal heating (in the winter) -> also worse smog. It does seem to be improving though: http://img.caixin.com/2018-11-16/154236111963
57.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
Well that's the hypothesis - that since reversion to the mean stock allocation has always happened it will continue to happen. There's things that can invalidate the assumption, like the widespread common wisdom of HODLing index E
58.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
Yup, I should have included the link you posted for a complete picture. The value of the stock allocation metric is in that it seems to be the strongest mean that the stock reverts to, in the sense that it has strongest predictive power. It
59.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
"The Single Greatest Predictor of Future Stock Market Returns": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14948078 And here's the live (well, lagging a few months, but this is a very slow signal anyhow) version:
60.
by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
I'm sorry but China shows no sign of reducing emissions: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/09/22/blogs/dotglobcarb... Also, have you been to Beijing? The smog is so dense that sometimes you

More ›