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by cft 6y ago
A top VC funded company obeys the same pricing laws as a public market one. It's part of the establishment. He is talking about bootstraped non-sanctioned S corps.
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by cft 6y ago
Since about 2008 stock prices have officially decoupled from the fundamentals, in the post-divident, Sarbanes-Oxley and QE era. The stock market no longer serves as a collective economic planning mechanism. This won't end up well.
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by cft 6y ago
I switched to Firefox because of Google banning Bypass Paywalls extension that is available as a Firefox add-on. When I was building my bootstraped company, Google really taunted us with emails like this, when our AdSense monthly earnings r
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by cft 6y ago
Can you explain how a Bitcoin blockchain analysis company can track this? For example, I transfer to an Electrum address from Coinbase. Then I make a transaction that has a single input spending that address, and two outputs, both with newl
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by cft 6y ago
I ran an Apache site with 10000+ daily visitors for 10 years on my own SuSE box from home. Firewalled the box and only left ports 80, 443, 25 and 22 open. Only had to update recently when I replaced the box with Raspberry Pi (I wonder how l
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by cft 6y ago
Apple unilaterally just reduced the maximum validity of HTTPS certificates in Safari to 15 months from 27 months. Not too long ago it was over 5 years. All this bit by bit increases the burden on the smaller independent non-commercial webm
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by cft 6y ago
Trivial to evade: Just transfer to your own wallet (e.g. Electrum) then back to yourself (from Electrum to Electrum again), and then to the poker site. They won't be able to prove that the intermediary (second Electrum address) was you
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by cft 6y ago
AdS has constant negative curvature. I don't think he proved that any spacetime with a negative curvature is unstable. But experimental data so far show that the universe has zero curvature.
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by cft 6y ago
That's exactly right: index investing is more like a mix of a pyramid scheme and central planning. It's decoupled the stock market from the underlying economic activity.
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by cft 6y ago
It is and it will get corrected. The question is how. The CPI could inflate to match the asset bubble, or the bubble could pop. The first is looking more and more plausible. When either happens, it will be ugly, but if the first scenario pl
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by cft 6y ago
This is the right start. But it's not a closed system: there's an import/export balance.
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by cft 6y ago
This is the inflation that everyone is afraid of. Since the money has been mostly injected from the top of the society, it has been confined to the asset bubble. If this money filters through to the bottom or there's significant inject
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by cft 6y ago
China is freer economically : its economic freedom trajectory is trending up while Bay Area's is trending down. You can also see the growth numbers in both places.
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by cft 6y ago
Politics, buddy, did a lot for Lenin, Mao, Hitler, Castro or Chavez. We aren't manifestly destined differently here.
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by cft 6y ago
They predicted "computer world" in 1981 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa7WrCqsTC0 "Crime, Travel, Communication, Entertainment"
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by cft 6y ago
I initially hired Berkeley and MIT interns as contractors and one of them worked for us as a contractor for a year while on leave of absence. He was paid about 6700/mo. I would be envious when I myself was a sophomore to get paid this
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by cft 6y ago
This is an important case for the future of the small business and bootstrapped startups outside of the sanctioned VC ecosystem. I know that my bootstrapped software company would not have made it without 1099s and multiple contractors. In
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by cft 6y ago
Apparently it was Darwin developing his theory of evolution, who first realized that the Earth and thus the Sun must be much older than a chemical burning process would support. That left him very puzzled since there was no physics theory t
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by cft 6y ago
Yes, puts are covered for now. There are several standardized levels of account access to buying/selling options. I think selling naked puts requires Level 5 while selling covered puts requires Level 3. I recommend practicing buying op
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by cft 6y ago
In that case you simply sell the call, instead of exercising (assigning) it. I switched to selling puts instead since then.
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by cft 6y ago
Call me cynical, but when I read the news of the breach I went and bought EFX call options for 3 months. Because even though I am not sure whether the "deep state" exists or it's a conspiracy theory, I was somehow confident t
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by cft 6y ago
I had Google phones since G1, I now use Pixel 3XL. This is the first time I seriously thought of switching off Android for good. What's puzzling is that I can't allow an app to run downloaded executables even if I know what the ri
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Android 10 breaks Termux: no apt install(github.com)
2 points by cft 6y ago|2 comments
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by cft 6y ago
I switched to Bing first for all queries that can result in non-PC content, and then discovered that technical search is better on Bing also. I first switched to Firefox because I wanted to read newspapers. I find it hard without Bypass Pay
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by cft 6y ago
Bitcoin core uses leveldb to store blockchain data. Short of writing your own node, you would have to import bigquery data into leveldb.
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by cft 6y ago
Termux is awesome. Using it even made me order a foldable Bluetooth keyboard, so i always have a dev environment in my pocket.
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Ask HN: Best Bluetooth keyboard for coding on an Android phone
2 points by cft 6y ago|1 comments
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by cft 6y ago
Buy Bitcoin
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Ask HN: I have been trying WF and Fresh delivery for a week in San Francisco
1 points by cft 7y ago|0 comments
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by cft 7y ago
It's not manipulated, simply the anticipated inflation due to zero interest rates and QE has already happened. It has been confined to the top of the financial pyramid only in the form of the asset bubble however. Eventually the inflat

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