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by camjohnson26 8y ago
And left a $10 million vesting stock grant on the table.
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by camjohnson26 8y ago
Active funds generally underperform during periods of economic growth and we're in the longest running bull market of all time right now. Ackman makes mistakes but he is still very insightful and backs his opinions with dollars. No one
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by camjohnson26 8y ago
Famous for taking big risks that sometimes pay out and sometimes fail dramatically.
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by camjohnson26 8y ago
You're saying that an increase in demand won't increase the price. Obviously there are other factors that affect the price too but being in an index fund is absolutely one of them.
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by camjohnson26 8y ago
Looks like investor Bill Ackman, famous for shorting the housing market before the bubble burst, had the same theory back in 2016. It's an interesting perspective. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bill-ackman-actu
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by camjohnson26 8y ago
Or named their tweets "toots". It's like they want it to fail.
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by camjohnson26 8y ago
There's obviously an inequality problem between races in America but why don't we just provide affirmative action to low income people of all races? It could be as simple as boosting the chances of admission for all low income app
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by camjohnson26 8y ago
It's true that there's a difference between discrimination and racism. Racism is under the surface and hard to quantify, but it's a real thing that affects people. Discrimination is more obvious and in your face.
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by camjohnson26 8y ago
You're a minority because following the letter of the law isn't always the safe decision. It's illegal to cross the double yellow lines, but if a car is pulled over on the shoulder then I'll cross the lines to give them
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by camjohnson26 8y ago
Still they would get low odds and the risk/reward ratio makes that a terrible bet since it would only take one accident to lose all your money. For like a 1% return.
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by camjohnson26 8y ago
There was maybe one active assassination market and it didn't even have that much interest. The world cup and the current cryptocurrency markets were where most of the bets happened.
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by camjohnson26 8y ago
Why would anyone take the other side of that bet?
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by camjohnson26 8y ago
The main problem on Augur right now is volume. Only a few markets have orders to trade against, and it seems like the cryptocurrency markets are the most actively used. I tried to use the platform to make a small bet against Tesla, but obvi
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by camjohnson26 8y ago
To shut down Augur you would have to shut down the Ethereum network, which would require coordination between world governments to pull off, and still probably wouldn't completely shut down the network.
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by camjohnson26 8y ago
That's not a fair comparison. Mt. Gox grew too quickly and couldn't keep up with the massive security requirements for a cryptocurrency exchange. Not to mention they may have had employees embezzling money. Augur has taken years t
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Augur Launches(medium.com)
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by camjohnson26 9y ago
Anyone with an open mind should read Darwin's Doubt by Stephen Meyer. He looks at possible explanations for the Cambrian Explosion and concludes that Intelligent Design is the best explanation. Evolutionary Biologist Jerry Coyne has wr
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by camjohnson26 9y ago
Is there an interface for trading these?
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by camjohnson26 9y ago
This is the point so many here are missing... blockchain allows free markets to exist where they didn't before. Look at Sia, there's so many people trying to make money hosting files that you can get 5 Tb of storage on the network
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by camjohnson26 9y ago
Yep. Mt Gox = MTG: Online Exchange
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by camjohnson26 10y ago
What can you actually do with this, other than chat and send payments? There's only 2 apps in the recommended section and they're both basic.
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by camjohnson26 10y ago
Is there a better guide to the service? The handbook is accurate but really short. Would also help if it was easier to browse channels.
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by camjohnson26 10y ago
I tried sling.tv but canceled it, too much lag and terrible UX experience. Seems like the lag was even worse on chromecast. This UI is already much better, so if the DVR works as expected it will finally replace cable for me. Live sports is
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Ask HN: How do you keep up with local tech news?
1 points by camjohnson26 10y ago|0 comments
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by camjohnson26 10y ago
Are there any forums in the vein of hacker news that are just for discussing financial topics? I love hn for the tech stories but agree that it's not as good for markets and investing.