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by badfrog 7y ago
> is that really too low for driving around a car? Depends how you look at it. If you're looking purely at supply and demand of drivers, it's fine. If you think people working 40 hours a week should be able to afford decent hou
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by badfrog 7y ago
Is there any particular reason this version is getting so many votes here? A quick skim of the "What's New" section didn't seem like there was anything revolutionary.
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by badfrog 7y ago
I wouldn't really call it a hoax. They were pretty clear about what you were getting for the extra money. Whether it's a good deal is a completely separate question.
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by badfrog 7y ago
Or you can go inside the station and get pre-assembled, slightly-soggy sandwiches from their kiosk with no wait. IMO definitely worth the tradeoff.
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by badfrog 7y ago
> On 3 February 2012, Huhne resigned from the Cabinet when he was charged with perverting the course of justice over a 2003 speeding case. His wife at the time, Vicky Pryce, had claimed that she was driving the car, and accepted the lice
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by badfrog 7y ago
> Still, tons of bad news is still a ton of bad news. I think the point is that it's not bad news. Losing money can be good for a company if it's being done in a way that leads to long-term growth. Amazon didn't have a pro
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by badfrog 7y ago
> Summary: They've bred the red delicious with the honeycrisp. From the article: > The Cosmic Crisp (right) is the result of crossbreeding two varieties: the Honeycrisp (left), which growers find finicky but which gives the Cosmi
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by badfrog 7y ago
> Possibly even information relating to customers, or technical detail that can be exploited? Yeah for sure. Sometimes you need customer information to do your job (e.g. to repro a bug that only one person has seen). Facebook does a good
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by badfrog 7y ago
I actually like that feature. It forces you to see the video as the author intended, kind of like watching live TV.
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by badfrog 7y ago
Arbitrage is about buying something that you can immediately sell somewhere else for a higher price with no risk. What you're describing just sounds like getting a good deal. If you could buy 10% of a company for $1mm in Chicago and se
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by badfrog 7y ago
> Taxi industry may fail entirely? Sell puts on car max because market will soon be flooded with depreciating assets Why would you do that? When you sell puts, your upside is limited to the premium and the downside is close to unlimited
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by badfrog 7y ago
idk, but OP said that they can
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by badfrog 7y ago
Isn't that just choosing wise places to put your capital? Where's the arbitrage?
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by badfrog 7y ago
> you can’t spread your bets widely enough to hedge them What does hedging mean in startup investing? I'm used to the meaning in securities where you take an inverse position to limit losses.
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by badfrog 7y ago
> In 10 - 15 years you'll have a small fortune. More specifically, if you invest $150k per year for 15 years and get a 7% return, you'll end up with right around $4 million.
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by badfrog 7y ago
> Paul Graham's essays are widely known among the HN user base I'm not sure that's true anymore. I think there's a much wider variety of people here now than 10 years ago.
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by badfrog 7y ago
> It’s rude. I don't think this two word explanation is going to help people understand your opinion.
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by badfrog 7y ago
That's why it's a good rate online where you can play multiple tables. Unlimited VMs don't help you in a live casino.
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by badfrog 7y ago
> This is considered a large win rate by professionals. It depends on context. 4.8bb/100 is quite good for high-level online play, but wouldn't be enough to make a living at live poker. The biggest game that runs on a regular b
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by badfrog 7y ago
> a player's reads and inference about another player is definitely an input - especially at the highest level I think player-dependent strategy is more important at lower levels because the players are much further away from what y
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by badfrog 7y ago
> it seems to suggest optimizing your site for V8 a bit too much. +1. After seeing some opinions that Chrome is becoming the new IE over the past few weeks, I've switched to Firefox to do my small part in trying to prevent another b
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by badfrog 7y ago
I'd be interested to see some data on the real impact of "much faster". I can't imagine object parsing would be a large cost in the big picture.
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by badfrog 7y ago
We actually do it with fingers instead of writing, but same idea.
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by badfrog 7y ago
It depends which game, many do not use dice.
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by badfrog 7y ago
> ...or just add up the answers mod 10. This is how my board game groups pick the first player.
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by badfrog 7y ago
I'd gladly pay a monthly fee that gave me access to like the top 5 newspapers, but I'm not interested in maintaining all the subscriptions separately.
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by badfrog 7y ago
> you can afford it You don't know that
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by badfrog 7y ago
That's accurate for federal law, but I think a log of states are more strict. At least New York is: > The New York State Human Rights Law covers employers with four or more employees. It protects persons 18 and over from age discrim
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by badfrog 7y ago
Where I work there's roughly one director per 100 ICs, so it's certainly not something that everybody can achieve. I'd also expect that it would be harder to switch companies as a director than an IC.
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by badfrog 7y ago
What do you mean by off the record?

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