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New cyberattacks targeting U.S. elections(blogs.microsoft.com)
10 points by cascom 6y ago|0 comments
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by cascom 6y ago
You miss my point the friction is often with colleagues (in addition to manager/employer) as the co-worker who is seeking a reduced workload often acts holier-than-thou with regards to needing someone to work more on their behalf, rath
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by cascom 6y ago
Now you’re suggesting something that will likely not satisfy some sort of “disparate effect” testing
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by cascom 6y ago
I’ve seen this play out with colleagues/listened to the griping - where the resentment comes in (in addition to the items already discussed) some of the self righteousness of the people with kids vs. non-kids “I really can’t be doing t
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by cascom 6y ago
Many of the airlines in the us allow this as well - but more expensive - you can basically send something on a specific flight for like ~$100 https://www.unitedcargo.com/shipping/productsAndShipping.jsp...
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by cascom 6y ago
The unfortunate fact is that if you’re a restaurant owner (putting aside ultra high-end for the moment) if you want to increase revenue, you can either turn tables faster or increase the check size, if you raise prices people either want hi
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by cascom 6y ago
I was at a restaurant in Houston and they ordered the dishes in each section by size (I.e. the appetizers started with the smallest dish and worked their way up in size)
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by cascom 6y ago
I think that this is actually one of the more compelling arguments that the threat of terrorism is overblown - there is literally 0 barrier to someone committing/attempting to commit these attacks - and yet they happen incredibly infre
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by cascom 6y ago
You’re forgetting inflation and income taxes! If I had a $1b I would have to earn 5% + 2-3% a year just to break even - but if some portion of that 7-8% was income/capital gains than I would have to earn even more... and that’s befor
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by cascom 6y ago
My point is that many entrepreneurs have the majority of their wealth tied up in their business, and many people that may be worth 30m might have 10m of that in personal real estate - all of which is hard to value precisely without trying
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by cascom 6y ago
I honestly think your underestimating the amount of wealth stored in private companies, real-estate, art and other il-liquid assets
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by cascom 6y ago
This gets really sticky in a few areas: 1. Il-liquid assets and their values + the expense of constant appraisals 2. See #1 When they don’t produce cash - sure your stock ‘s “worth” $30m but doesn’t pay a dividend and you can’t sell it...
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by cascom 6y ago
I suspect that is viewed as a feature, not a bug by law enforcement
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by cascom 6y ago
Are Teachers requesting that they be furloughed without pay or that school district taxes be refunded to tax payers? If not, it seems a bit rich to ask taxpayers to pay for a service they are not receiving. Additionally - part of that servi
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by cascom 6y ago
I’d rather we do a reverse split of the dollar - say 10:1 - 10 old dollars = 1 new dollar, essentially take us back to 1950’s pricing, coins become relevant again! + it has the added benefit of undoing all the changes in laws/refs that
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by cascom 6y ago
By that measure most of Silicon Valley is not “rewarding”. While reasonable people can debate HFT’s benefit to society and resource use, how does HFT raise barriers of entry to markets?
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by cascom 6y ago
I’ve been using Gnucash for my personal finances for a several years now, and really love it - it’s not dead simple, and requires an understanding of double entry bookkeeping, but where it really shines is flexibility. A couple of examples
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by cascom 6y ago
These bailouts need to be punitive to investors or behavior doesn’t change. We need these bailouts to keep people employed and to maintain the infrastructure/service, but if you take a government bailout, it should be automatic chapter
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by cascom 6y ago
How do you not get eaten alive by the negative roll yield (super contango) if you don’t have access to storage?
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by cascom 6y ago
Typically most tankers are owner operated, under a long-term charter or on the spot market they are doing jobs that days/weeks/months It’s a pretty efficient market See this article (Suspect rates have climbed even further as the
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by cascom 6y ago
The context here is oil - the benchmark contract and the one referenced in the article is the NYMEX CL (WTI/Cushing) it’s a deliverable contract. https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/energy/crude-oil/light-sw
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by cascom 6y ago
By definition all open futures contracts have to either a) be Physically delivered Or b) be closed (remember that for futures contracts there is someone on each side (prepared to deliver 1,000 bbl and prepared to receive 1,000 bbl) Now if
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by cascom 7y ago
Curious to hear other people’s thoughts but don’t think you can look at negative rates in a vacuum, but rather also have a view on inflation as well as asset prices (housing, equities, etc) E.g. in a world of negative interest rates and 0%
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by cascom 7y ago
Yup - it’s a great way to lose real customers - but I suspect it’s a trade off they’re ok with
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by cascom 7y ago
In the spirit of debate: 1. I wouldn’t call it coddling - going from say 5% chance to a 15% chance 2. I would hazard that the vast majority of legacy admissions are perfectly capable students - just as would have trouble telling the differe
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by cascom 7y ago
The time, scale, infrastructure question seems to be missing from this conversation. For example a roast chicken dinner with rice and vegetables that serves ~4 can be had for ~$10 - which is pretty healthy and seems very cost effective. But
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by cascom 7y ago
Who offers a non-abusive tv?
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by cascom 7y ago
This is a good pretty discussion of the issues (podcast) if you are interested. One of the takeaways is that this is an unintended regulatory effect from newer banking regulations https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2182742
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Why the Repo Markets Went Crazy [audio](bloomberg.com)
1 points by cascom 7y ago|0 comments
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by cascom 7y ago
Definitely - 95% of the people I know who fly private don’t have chauffeurs (for example) - which would be a much greater time savings over the course of the year. I think it just shows that either a. The time argument is a rationalization

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