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by dia80 14y ago
I'm amazed at how the NZ institutions are putting their hands up and the courts seem to be working. It seems so different from so many of the stories/comments here regarding similar stuff in the US. Corruption Perception Index: NZ = 90 (1st
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by dia80 14y ago
If your not going to investigate a guy with electronics that could reasonably be thought to resemble a bomb part on his wrist who are you going to investigate? The risks are totally asymmetric, if there are any doubts you are not getting on
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by dia80 14y ago
There are two obvious ways in which expanding the money supply can go wrong. 1) Bernake et al. are feckless idiots and will leave the money presses running long after inflation rears its head, a la Zimbabwe, causing hyper inflation and the
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by dia80 14y ago
The number of your people a bus would have to squish to screw your company.
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by dia80 14y ago
Which is more practical? A: "Hi, can you please supply us with 50MW for the next 12 hours?" B: "Hi, can you please supply us with 2.16Tj at a rate of 50MW?"
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by dia80 14y ago
Is it certain they will see the post? What if they don't login for a few days?
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by dia80 14y ago
Well done, a lot of people are going to be unhappy about this. I think it takes courage to take the pain upfront and concentrate on doing one thing really well.
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by dia80 14y ago
"Overweight people are now a global problem" My first thought was they are exerting too much pressure on the surface of the world and endangering the integrity of the crust... need to get out more...
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by dia80 14y ago
Genuine question: In what use cases does mongo kick mysql's ass? I've used it a couple of times in hobby projects and enjoyed not maintaining a schema. I read so many of these 'gotcha' style articles and for example one commenter here wants
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by dia80 14y ago
Surely if it's true he needs to release his tax records and play "Don't give in to criminals". Might even make him look good / a victim. The chance of seeing the inside of a jail massively outweighs the chance of these guys getting any mone
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by dia80 14y ago
1999 called ...
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by dia80 15y ago
You can buy a Jan 13 $10 put for $2.05 so you have an upside of $7.95, just under 4:1 payoff in the event of a proper bankruptcy. That's not a lot so you can see a fair chance of disaster is already priced in. As a casual investor the optio
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by dia80 15y ago
They are extremely expensive reflecting the cost of borrowing the stock. If the weren't you could buy the stock, lend it out and then buy a put and sell call to make a 'synthetic short' and pocket a risk free profit. No free lunches.
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by dia80 15y ago
Yes, it was, and that's why it is nearly impossible to short. I've been paying 30-40% annualised to borrow the stock for shorting and the rate spiked to nearly 60% recently. Being short is more expensive that most people think.
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by dia80 15y ago
The insiders lock in period ends May 2nd, that's 30 days to keep it together before they can start cashing out. If they last that long they have 12 days before Q1 results. It's going to be tricky to unload meaningful quantities of stock bef
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by dia80 15y ago
Gel-electrodes, 27v DC - clocked at 100ma when I tested it. 27v to get required field strength across the site of my injury, just a back of the envelope guess. Both electrodes on my back 1 above 1 below the site of my injury. It's a long st
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by dia80 15y ago
Without. I think the current increased beyond what I measured while testing because I started to sweat. v0.02 will have some substantial design changes.
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by dia80 15y ago
A cautionary tale. I'm getting a skin graft on Monday after I gave myself 1% full thickness burns with 3 x 9v batteries. I'm a paraplegic and I fell asleep with electrodes on my back so I'd didn't feel anything but awoke to some pretty na
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by dia80 15y ago
I'm not sure how this article made the front page. The swathes of awkwardly (machine?) translated German and the fact there appears to be several "CEO"s mentioned makes it very difficult to understand.
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by dia80 15y ago
Groupon is in a dramatic race against financial gravity. The insiders will be desperately struggling to keep the share price up until May when the lock up period ends and they can flee the burning theatre. To do that they need to produce on
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by dia80 15y ago
As a side note I can see several people in this discussion refer to files as 'property'. While you may have intellectual property rights over the content of the files the only actual property is servers and HDDs which you certainly do not o
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by dia80 15y ago
Groupon will trade less than 25% of its current share price and may restructure / fold
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by dia80 15y ago
I read the comments on one of the articles he refers to. Given the potential for fanboism and holy war the topic (platform orientated career advice) inspires and that a larger fraction of readers probably feel qualified to comment on this p
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by dia80 15y ago
Ahh, OODA. That kept me on top in 2 vs 1 games of AOE2 against my colleagues for a long time. They started beating me when they got better and I just couldn't think fast enough anymore. For anyone in any kind of competition I would highly r
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by dia80 15y ago
Greece has huge international debts due now. If these new loans were used as a stimulus instead of debt repayment they would default now and escalate the crisis the lenders are trying to contain. If you managed your house well in the good t
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by dia80 16y ago
I listened to a lecture by the author of "The Creature from Jekyll Island" where he made some outrageous claims about the ownership of the Fed. I was trading US Govt. bond futures at the time and we went to some pains to understand the fede