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901.
by cft 7y ago
Income inequality now is much less than during Astor and Rockefeller times. Yet the homelessness and the relative poverty is worse.
902.
by cft 7y ago
They not only don't vote them out, but they double down on their voting patterns.
903.
Pinterest Surpassed Snapchat as No. 3 Social Media App in the US(emarketer.com)
3 points by cft 7y ago|0 comments
904.
by cft 7y ago
In addition to buying BTC, I also long shorted select QE-related IPOs, such as Pinterest. When the bottom falls off, these will fall with vengeance.
905.
by cft 7y ago
Airpods are popular not purely on their own merits: new phones don't have a phone jack. So in the sense it's an exploitation of the existing iPhone pricing power.
906.
by cft 7y ago
San Francisco has become a place for junkies and Google sociopaths. Creative people have left and remaining creative people are leaving. It's a very bad place to start a company now (not to confuse starting a viable business with raisi
907.
by cft 7y ago
Note a spike in Earth science at 30% confidence. Probably reflects a lot of vested interest funding politically beneficial results in this discipline.
908.
Cryptocurrency investors want the body of Quadriga CEO exhumed(zdnet.com)
26 points by cft 7y ago|2 comments
909.
by cft 7y ago
The market assumes that Boeing is too big to fail and largely ignores this news. I made quite a lot on the short term BA calls after the Ethiopian disaster. Long term, the crony consolidation of Boeing, Lockheed and Douglas commercial airpl
910.
by cft 7y ago
I have a different theory. There will be a capped total of 21m BTC. In say 10 years, there will be a number of BTC "users". By "users" I mean people who in their ordinary business use BTC for value exchange. To facilitat
911.
by cft 7y ago
The USSR was a one trick pony: narrowly specializing in warfare. When this specialization became less relevant due to MAD, it fell apart.
912.
by cft 7y ago
If the EU firewalls itself, it will make it easier for the rest of the world. To many aggressive laws claiming foreign jurisdictions.
913.
by cft 7y ago
I have been using this resolution (with the console runlevel 3 only) and no prob with wifi.
914.
by cft 7y ago
I spent in Central America two years. Every middle class house in Guatemala or Honduras has a generator. Since these countries are the model for California establishment, CA residents should stock up on generators too.
915.
by cft 7y ago
But it will select a certain type of people
916.
by cft 7y ago
Except that it's drowning in noise. The SNR is definitely dropping.
917.
by cft 7y ago
funny how his SSL certificate expired.
918.
by cft 7y ago
It was submitted and subsequently banned
919.
by cft 7y ago
IRS treats Bitcoin as property. Accordingly, the recipients need to report every bitcoin transaction on Schedule D and calculate its cost basis ( appreciation or depreciation of Bitcoin). I am not talking about the reporting of the cumula
920.
Dinosaurs existed on the other side of the galaxy(twitter.com)
1 points by cft 7y ago|0 comments
921.
Ethos Capital aquires .org top level domain(internetsociety.org)
3 points by cft 7y ago|0 comments
922.
by cft 7y ago
Can you explain what happened?
923.
by cft 7y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Liebowitz : "In April 2019 Leibowitz missed a court date in a copyright lawsuit. He told the court that he missed it due to the death of his grandfather. The court asked him
924.
by cft 7y ago
Rust will fare well. Ruby won't.
925.
by cft 7y ago
Regulation at every level, not just FAA. Labor laws come to mind.
926.
by cft 7y ago
That's not an issue at all, for large transactions. The real issue is each payment being a taxable event, due to IRS treating it as property, rather than currency. You literally have to report each payment on schedule D and calculate i
927.
by cft 7y ago
Same is for example is true for the city employees in San Francisco. They don't become rich, but they are essentially tenured, and there are more than 30,000 of them, in a city of less than a million. In the meantime, the city is in ut
928.
by cft 7y ago
Not only transaction fees, but IRS decision to tax it as property
929.
by cft 7y ago
Exit stock positions into cash, short most "unicorns" that are pure product of QE: Pinterest, PagerDuty, etc. Exchange some cash for BTC, in case the Fed won't be able to contains inflation when the bottom falls out.
930.
by cft 7y ago
Then why didn't they remove GIL? Given the end of Moore's law and Python's performance, this alone would have justified the discontinuity.

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