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by absherwin 12y ago
No one knows what the demand curve for space looks like. Those who feel SpaceX is crazily undervalued implicitly assume two things: A steep demand curve* and that SpaceX will continue to drive down prices by large amounts. *This is equivale
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by absherwin 12y ago
This math works because the average person over 65 receives approximately $24,000 in federal benefits which would be cut in half. There are other groups who lose but this one is by far the biggest.
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by absherwin 12y ago
They're lowering prices by 50% for the next day. Two interpretations: -They want to take advantage of the publicity to sign up as many people as possible, hoping a decent percentage stay at the higher rate. -They hypothesized the price
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by absherwin 12y ago
For those people who see this argument as inapplicable, you're right for many people today . Sam worries about UberX rates going up. The exact opposite will happen. They have steadily pushed prices down since inception. They've a
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by absherwin 12y ago
This article is based on the flawed assumption that where the rocket explodes is irrelevant. His criteria for success is frontal impact which the author claims is the only way to destroy this midair. Regardless of this, if the impact alters
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by absherwin 12y ago
Always is an odd characterization of something that occurs 10% of the time. Edit to respond to comment: The context is a an executive talking about whether accounts that FedEx classifies as internet pharmacies should be counted towards sale
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by absherwin 12y ago
From an internal memo about more stringent credit policies for internet pharmacies: "Many of these companies operate outside of federal and state regulations over the sale of controlled drugs, which require diagnosis and prescription b
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by absherwin 12y ago
I doubt there's a formal collection but I'd be equally surprised if they don't have early stage projections from many of the companies. As silly as they can be, they're often part of pitches. From my limited personal exp
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by absherwin 12y ago
YC has now funded enough companies that if it has the data (likely in a bunch of spreadsheets) to do a more accurate version of this. Expenses aren't really flat, growth isn't purely exponential and today's estimates aren&#x2
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by absherwin 12y ago
-Bad: Do nothing -Better: Object to everything and you might win the lottery -Best: Object reasonably that they may be taken seriously -Beyond amazing: Admit everything in such a sympathetic way to minimize guilt* *G
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by absherwin 12y ago
Spoiler: The students interviewed are a month into their fellowship. Reporting on decisions that fellows from a couple years back actually made would be more enlightening.
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by absherwin 12y ago
How many Uber drivers have you talked to? Every driver I've asked has been quite happy with the job. While they might avoid open criticism, often they've provided sufficient details about their other or previous job that it's
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by absherwin 12y ago
Reputation should solve this problem given that life is a repeated game as long as we also are able to be long-sighted. A more formal argument can be found here: http://economics.mit.edu/files/4754 That suggests the cu
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by absherwin 12y ago
This is misleading. The article cites a single company that inadvertently violated Google's rules by failing to mark paid links. This seems to be part of the ongoing saga of companies making errors, sometimes honest, and being penalize
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by absherwin 12y ago
The key assumption with this line of thinking is that a model built on a population who don't base their decisions on 80000hours principles will perform well on those who do. That seems unlikely to true if a passion for fixing a partic
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by absherwin 12y ago
Lavabit didn't actually have the information in a format that was readable. In order to get it, they needed to change the way their system operated to decrypt the information the next time a particular user logged in. If one can force
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by absherwin 12y ago
"Other people... build systems that can provide meaningful security for their users." Do all of the implementations, particularly on mobile, actually provide such security? If a court is willing to order TLS keys to be turned ove
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by absherwin 12y ago
If they literally copied your website, this is a simple case of copyright infringement. Source code, descriptive text and graphics are each individually subject to copyright. You should be able to file a DMCA request to remove the offending
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by absherwin 13y ago
Making stupid statements and performing harmful actions are vastly different things. Focusing on the former: making stupid statements does have consequences: Others may question the judgement of the person making the statements. For whateve
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by absherwin 13y ago
Every idea you cite as stupid was once believed to be true. Respecting the right of people to make stupid statements makes it much easier for us all to realize someday which of own beliefs are stupid.
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by absherwin 13y ago
Approximately $1.76 million Starting in 1837, gold coins in the US had 0.48375oz of gold per $10. So $27,000 in coins would be worth $1,755,432 given a price for gold of $1344 per oz. This excludes the value of the copper with which the gol
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by absherwin 13y ago
I'd assume not since your reply misses the point. The government's wiretap order and the subsequent contempt proceedings suggests that despite the technical problems of Lavabit, the government did not get the data they sought. Ha
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by absherwin 13y ago
While many misinterpret the the facts, there's a kernel of truth in those discussions that you gloss over. GMail is not secure against the NSA or even a state judge's warrant. That has numerous advantages for society but regardles
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by absherwin 13y ago
Apologies for the confusion. The comparison was against a new-style class as described in the original post. All of the types have two ints. The code is now linked so you can inspect and respond. Edit to respond to edit: Built-ins and slots
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by absherwin 13y ago
Using ctypes here is slower in CPython 2.7.5 than a simple class. Summing 10000 points takes 1.81ms using a simple class vs 2.22ms using the code above. ctypes is designed for compatibility not speed. Using slots is 0.06ms faster while name
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by absherwin 13y ago
You're absolutely right that one needs to adjust for short-term liabilities since some of that cash would have gone to pay them (Longer-term liabilities would likely continue on to Lenovo). As big a question in this case is the amount
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by absherwin 13y ago
There are two types of tax losses. There are those related to previous losses that Google captured on acquisition. The $700MM a year estimate relates to the anticipated future losses of Motorola. While Google is losing that benefit, it is b
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by absherwin 13y ago
They shredded closer to a sixth of the initial price less whatever IP benefit they received. Motorola had ~$3B in cash when acquired. Google previously sold their set-top box unit for $2.35B and realized about $1.7B in tax benefits from pre
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by absherwin 13y ago
Imagine that the President of this divided country allocated four times as much spending per capita to his political base and his son had earned hundreds of millions during his time in office. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by absherwin 13y ago
This suggests there's a major problem in the mid-level management that's communicating the message. Telling a front-line manager to put someone in a bucket to meet the quota results in bad feelings, poor decisions that lead to los

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