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by ddeck 12y ago
Main discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9309459
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by ddeck 12y ago
They are certainly not independent given they are allocating between the same underlying investments, but I fail to see how they are freeriding given the data. Many have looked at this and presented the data far more eloquently than I could
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by ddeck 12y ago
Well VC is a very small part of the asset management industry and you are correct that that's not really the area I was referring to. The bulk of asset management is in listed equities and government/corporate bonds and this is wh
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by ddeck 12y ago
The entire asset management industry is a candidate for the bullshit job title. Within the equity asset class for example, aggregate performance is worse than passive investments and there is ample evidence that substantially all managers a
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The Rent Hypothesis(esoltas.blogspot.com)
157 points by ddeck 12y ago|139 comments
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by ddeck 12y ago
Not sure why you're being down voted without comment since you directly answered the parents question with broadly accurate information: Anatomically modern humans first appear in the fossil record in Africa about 195,000 years ago (
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by ddeck 12y ago
According to this study referenced by Wikipedia [1] ("Why Men Die Younger: Causes of Mortality Differences by Sex" [2]): >In her extensive review of the existing literature, Kalben concluded that the fact that women live longe
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by ddeck 12y ago
According to their report, they haven't received any data requests from Saudi Arabia, Syria or Burma, but they did hand over data to the governments of 57 countries in the first half of 2014 alone [1]. It appears content was also censo
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by ddeck 12y ago
Also worth adding that the ERL runs EdgeOS, which is actually a fork of Vyatta 6.3 with some added features and certain hardware accelerations. [1] Vyatta was acquired by Brocade in 2012, after which the community edition was sidelined and
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by ddeck 12y ago
Telegram store your message and conversation history on their servers, whereas Whatsapp run somewhat like SMS - they pass your message on to the destination and then forget about it. Clearly every point in the chain matters, but it always s
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by ddeck 12y ago
I believe the issue is that unlike web chats and apps like Telegram, Whatsapp doesn't store conversations on their servers beyond what is required to deliver messages to the required destination device(s). This presents obvious problem
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Richest 1% will own more than all the rest by 2016(oxfam.org)
2 points by ddeck 12y ago|0 comments
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Investor rush to artificial intelligence is real deal(ft.com)
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by ddeck 12y ago
I'm sure volumes have a lot to do with it, but I doubt it's the display that is driving the cost here. I recently bought a replacement 6" E Ink screen for my kindle at it cost $30. This device has a 4" screen, not sure o
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by ddeck 12y ago
The actual size of the SNBs EUR holdings hasn't grown that much (EUR174 bn in Q3 2014 from EUR90 bn in 2010) and EUR allocation has actually reduced (to 45% from 55% over the same period) [1]. I believe the most recent comments by the
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by ddeck 12y ago
>They do this because to peg the currency to the Euro meant they had to buy an unlimited amount of foreign currency to make up for it, which gets very expensive in the long run. It's the reverse situation that is typically unsusta
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by ddeck 12y ago
To be clear, the SNB is not "spending" money. They were intervening to prevent the CHF from appreciating, not the reverse. In this situation, they (as the central bank) are creating new money (CHF), which they sell to anyone who w
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by ddeck 12y ago
For a very interesting commentary of the immense power of central banks, I'd recommend the documentary "Princes of the Yen", a film adaptation of Richard Werner's[1] book of the same name. https://www.youtube.
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by ddeck 12y ago
Logitech 2.4 GHz keyboards use 128-bit AES [1] [1] http://www.logitech.com/images/pdf/roem/Logitech_Adv_24_Ghz_...
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by ddeck 12y ago
Logitech 2.4 GHz keyboards use 128-bit AES symmetric encryption. As I understand it, the encryptiion key is generated at the time of pairing in both the the keyboard and the receiver independently, and thus never transmitted wirelessly. Th
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by ddeck 12y ago
From the article: >"We asked Google to work with us to protect customers by withholding details until Tuesday, January 13, when we will be releasing a fix," Microsoft's senior director of research Chris Betz said in a blo
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by ddeck 12y ago
>Hardware like that makes me yearn for one with no wireless and a pair of Gigabit Ethernet ports to use as a firewall and server. You may want to take a look at these: http://www.hystou.com/products/fanless-compute
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by ddeck 12y ago
>It always amazed me how such an energy-hungry place, where electricity is expensive, is built so cheaply that insulation doesn't factor at all. Energy-efficiency is totally unknown when it comes to housing. I agree that it's
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by ddeck 12y ago
People often carry umbrellas in areas where rain is less predictable. I've left umbrellas in restaurants etc. before, but... a) I know where I left it, and b) a decent umbrella costs $3 where I live, so I'd need to lose 20 before
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by ddeck 12y ago
Whether "good" or "bad" (not sure what that means in this context), it should be the owners of the company that decide whether or not to accept a bid for their ownership, not the company's management. Management and
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by ddeck 12y ago
While you are correct that 48V is definitely sufficient to cause injury/death in certain circumstances, it's not the current that matters here (e.g. a 1V/5000A supply would have a lower risk of shock). What will hurt/kil
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by ddeck 12y ago
I'd also recommend this approach. FX is a cash cow business for banks. Money changing is one thing, where the business has cash management risks and cost, but FX on a wire transfer is close to 100% profit for the institution. They trad
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by ddeck 12y ago
>I find this idea pretty interesting. That the amount of jobs stays the same even though robots do more and more of the stuff humans did in the past. So far it seems to hold true. This is only true so long as they are growing. That gro
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by ddeck 12y ago
>But anti-nuke makes headlines, and gets people fired up, and is better for the oil and coal industries. Agreed. Much as routine, daily road deaths don't typically make the headlines, the guy down the road dying of lung cancer is
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by ddeck 12y ago
Main discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8624160

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