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by aianus 9y ago
> I wonder where are these guys getting so much money to "dump" They invested in Alibaba early. One of the best VC investments of all time. $58 billion return.
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by aianus 9y ago
The low risk group (older, married, men and women) are the best positioned to absorb a rise in premiums so I'm not sure what problems would be caused.
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by aianus 9y ago
Yeah but I'm sure the banks that engaged in redlining against African American neighborhoods had some stats on property values and default rates that "justified" it as well. I don't think they should be allowed to use tr
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by aianus 9y ago
I pay double for insurance because of my age and genitals but that's ok because statistics /s
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by aianus 9y ago
Your private startup VC equity is not worth very much exactly when the stock market is doing poorly and you can't IPO or get acquired for BigCo stock. It seems very correlated to me.
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by aianus 9y ago
This is an incredible story. They should make a Hollywood movie about it. Thanks for sharing.
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by aianus 9y ago
Why would VC investments be decorrelated with the stock market? Big exits are usually IPOs, no?
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by aianus 9y ago
I upvoted you and I appreciate the link. However, regular taxi drivers in the UK and elsewhere are subject to almost all the same “suggestive of employee” points and have been uncontroversially classified as self-employed contractors for de
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by aianus 9y ago
I am not an employee of Uber. I accept their bids for rides when I want to and that’s it. I have no commitment or responsibility to them besides that ride and vice versa. Also, as noted in your article, regular taxi drivers in the UK have a
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by aianus 9y ago
I can set a limit buy on SPY at $0.01 but it will never be filled. That doesn't mean my limit orders aren't real or that I'm not really a market participant. Likewise I can contact Uber and tell them I want $5/mile and
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by aianus 9y ago
If refineries shut down and the price of gas goes to $10/gallon is that not a "real shortage" because there is still a market clearing price and I can still buy gas? I disagree. I think the fact that software engineers get of
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by aianus 9y ago
And if you install Lyft as well?
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by aianus 9y ago
I can ask, but they won't agree to them or send me any rides. Is that so different from, say, an unskilled landscaper asking for $50/h and being passed over for the long line of other landscapers willing to work for $10/h? I
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by aianus 9y ago
I drive for Uber part time and I don't feel the self-employed contractor classification to be 'bogus' at all. I use my own equipment, set my own hours, perform tasks with autonomy (I can choose whatever route I or the rider w
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by aianus 9y ago
The logic was that Windows had 98% market share and iOS/macOS only around 50%. Ergo no dominant market position to abuse.
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by aianus 9y ago
Trading results in price discovery. Accurate prices allow more informed investment decisions and the development of more real wealth. The alternative is something like a centrally planned economy which have generally been unsuccessful.
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by aianus 9y ago
It's not $8,000 a month though. I'd still take a developer career in the US over Europe any day.
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by aianus 9y ago
If you're getting $$$k in salary, you're also almost certainly getting top notch medical insurance. Also, you don't need private insurance when you're 67, that's what Medicare is for.
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by aianus 9y ago
You need to log the hours in the US, really? In Canada I just did 4 hours with an instructor and then went for the test and bought a car. Most people drive around with their parents for 8 months on a permit but you don't have to log an
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by aianus 9y ago
No Chip and PIN mandated at most checkouts and ATMs. It's much, much easier to print a fake credit card with a magstripe than a valid chip card. Also, Americans are richer and have bigger credit lines so the cards are worth more on the
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by aianus 9y ago
I've never had a credit card that didn't let me take out cash (at 20% APR of course).
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by aianus 9y ago
The testing center had their own car? Is this standard in Spain/Europe? I had to pay an instructor with a car to drive me to the testing center and let me use his car for the test while he waited around.
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by aianus 9y ago
Decentralized gambling like Augur
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by aianus 9y ago
Why? There’s no manual component to accepting money for an ICO, is there?
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by aianus 9y ago
GDAX but there will definitely be a KYC delay the first time you do it with phone calls and ID checks and questions about where you got the money. Second time, though, no problem. Less than 72 hours.
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by aianus 9y ago
I wonder if Nvidia et al could short Ethereum as a hedge while expanding production.
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by aianus 9y ago
> The easiest way to do that is by existing citizens having children. Seems to me the easiest way to maintain the population in any given developed first-world country is immigration, not raising new people from birth.
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by aianus 9y ago
Which coin shop is this with $0.01 spread and 0/0.20% maker/taker fees? I would like to go there.
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by aianus 9y ago
All I'm saying is economics is a poor reason to cook. You should absolutely cook if it makes you happier or healthier but not (purely) as a strategy to become richer when it's making you less happy.
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by aianus 9y ago
If you enjoy it then it's irrelevant if you're saving any money at all. But cooking to save money when you're a software engineer is almost certainly a poor use of your time. Better even to take on debt and spend your time st

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