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by anamax 6y ago
What's "reality"? P/E need not have anything to do with NPV, which is the key. Suppose that I'll charge you $1000 today and next year and then give you $1000/year "forever". The P/E analog this
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by anamax 6y ago
One can have a borderless internet without having borderless companies. Let's take Facebook. We could have Facebook.US, Facebook.EU, Facebook.UK, Facebook.CN, etc. In a borderless internet, you'd still be allowed to use the one t
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by anamax 6y ago
It's useful to split the US into two pieces - NYC/NJ/CT/MA and the rest of the country. Death rates are roughly similar within those two groups yet very different between those two groups. (The "hotspots" out
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by anamax 6y ago
There are two hard problems in computer science. Naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors. The first is about people, not algorithms.
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by anamax 6y ago
A long time ago, I convinced a company to put floor-to-ceiling white boards on every wall of a conference room. A not so long time ago, I convinced developers to use the automated QA system as part of their development process. The QA folks
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by anamax 6y ago
The wheel of reincarnation turns again. Back in mainframe days, "channel controllers", the subsystems that controlled storage devices, were very programmable. At some points in time, it made sense to off-load as much as possible
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by anamax 6y ago
Should prosecutors be able to add incriminating statements to a confession transcript? (I'm talking about damning statements that the defendant didn't make.) The CA Attorney General at the time said yes. A CA Appeals Court said
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by anamax 6y ago
> Fixing native software development will eventually mean making the web native, so that your OS is just a browser. The OS will become a set of poorly debugged device drivers?
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by anamax 6y ago
Why shouldn't they botch the bridge? The folks who did the financial projections botched those. (The projected ridership times the promised fare was never enough to pay the bonds. Since it will cost money to run and maintain...) Ot
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by anamax 6y ago
There's another issue. Things close the edge are risky. Things close to two edges are even more risky. Risk isn't reduced by reward.
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by anamax 6y ago
There's a lot of confusion about taxes and wealth in this thread. Suppose that I'm paying someone $100/week to get my iguanas polished. If my taxes go up by $100/week, the obvious place for me to make it up is to stop p
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by anamax 6y ago
As to whether rich people will move, https://nypost.com/2020/08/05/cuomo-wealthy-residents-should... .
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by anamax 6y ago
> You're sitting on greater than 50 million dollars? Outside of Disney comic books, money doesn't sit around. The money "in" my savings account is just bits in a database. The value it represents has been loaned by t
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by anamax 8y ago
Whether you want to learn product management or have a product management problem, that page has the answers.
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by anamax 12y ago
> Has it? I rather thought their growth curve had peaked and in some countries FB usage is falling. In particular, at least here in the UK, kids are allegedly abandoning FB for other messaging systems because their parents have finally f
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by anamax 14y ago
> The Republicans are the ones responsible for the ridiculous union pensions, because those were what they offered in concession during the 60s and 70s instead of paying the workers a fair wage at the time. What are you babbling about?
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by anamax 14y ago
> But if you want a prediction that applies to geology, evolution predicted - long before physical mechanisms were known for it - that specific land masses must have been connected in the distant past. Evolution did no such thing. I can
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by anamax 14y ago
> Because kids going around with misconceptions about what really caused the American Revolution is less dangerous than kids going around with misconceptions about reproductive issues. Umm, if it doesn't matter whether it is true, why a
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by anamax 14y ago
> Because Akin was minimizing rape. No, he wasn't. He was trying to respond to the "what about rape" argument wrt abortion. I'm pro-abortion, but he's correct in saying that only a small fraction of abortions have anything to do with r
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by anamax 14y ago
> Now let me guess. You don't believe in evolution, Wrong. > Evolution matters to geology because specific fossils are often used as a cross-reference for the age of specific rocks. Evolution doesn't tell you how old a fossil is. E
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by anamax 14y ago
> Does following the scientific consensus on issues like anthropogenic global warming, evolution, and sex education make you a Democrat? The correlation is with misunderstanding all three and coming to bogus conclusions. Let's take evol
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by anamax 14y ago
> It's a fairly settled issue in social science, though, that abstinence-only sex ed doesn't work. So? The alternative to abstinence-only sex ed isn't perfection, it's a bunch of stuff that doesn't work all that well either. Your links
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by anamax 14y ago
You want lenders making risky loans - that's where the growth and innovation comes from. Plus, risky loans are how poor people, companies, and countries make it. Safety leads to narrow margins, and they're a serious problem. If you're run
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by anamax 14y ago
> Comparing GM, Ford, and Chrysler all going bankrupt simultaneously GM was the only problem because Ford wasn't in trouble and Chrysler was (and still is) negligible. > auto industry is highly concentrated in a single geographic ar
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by anamax 14y ago
Speaking of tax rates, the economist claims that the median federal tax rate, including all payroll taxes, is 11%. Yes, median is not average, but the relevant question is how individuals respond to the proposed 70% tax rate. http://www.e
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by anamax 14y ago
> So they're as bad as each other then? :( Even if they're equally bad in total, they're bad in different ways and that can matter.
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by anamax 14y ago
> Romney said in the same spiel that the free market always works better. And he's right because the free market has far more diversity. To put it another way, govt is pretty much the definition of systemic risk. The free market has fo
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by anamax 14y ago
> The risk was already taken by the original lender, it was risk of default and was the reason for charging interest. ... So The risk assumed by debt collectors is less legitimate, and a collector's claim is on shakier legal basis Not s
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by anamax 14y ago
> If the US GDP increases faster than population, then the per-capita income will always increase as well, even if the employment-population ratio plummets. Yes, but irrelevant because GDP is not produced by non-workers, it's produced b
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by anamax 14y ago
> If you really think liquidating GM and Chrysler's assets would have resulted in anything other than a net destruction of wealth for the U.S. I don't know what to tell you. What good is a car factory if the entire supply chain has brok

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