dougSF70

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by dougSF70 4y ago
They reran Harold Lloyd shorts on kids' TV in the UK perhaps in the 1980s - growing up in the sticks I'd watch anything and found his silent short films a good way of killing time.
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As soon as your write about a successful strategy and publish it, it no longer becomes profitable. Trading pairs of stocks is one such example, firms made money from identifying stocks that have a negative correlation with one another. This
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I am guessing you are the CEO of a manufacturing company based in Wichita, Kansas that needs to migrate its on-prem Pentium III powered server to a cloud solution?
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by dougSF70 4y ago
Here is the obit from the Guardian with some more choice inventions/discoveries David Jones, who has died aged 79, was a physical chemist and writer who, through his columns under the pseudonym Daedalus, entertained readers of New Scie
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I had not realized this problem would exist.
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Like beauty, excelling is in the eye of the beholder. Someone is paying them fees, so they must deliver some value to some firms.
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There used to be a column in the Uk Magazine "New Scientist" called Daedalus. The writer would conjure inventions that would seem to work but there was an obvious flaw, if I recall correctly. The BBC did a documentary about him an
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by dougSF70 4y ago
The product failed to live up to the marketing. But the purpose of the marketing wasn't to sell Watson "products and services" it's purpose (imho) was to capture more of the type of work that IBM excels at (hardware, ser
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I should imagine the daily life of being a VC is pretty mundane, with the occassional burst of activity...smart people need an outlet so why not write that blog, make that podcast, go to Barry's Bootcamp.
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Surely if anyone is guilty of the dopamine rush of wanting the new thing its VCs...in that case perhaps this VC is giving himself advice in public.
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by dougSF70 4y ago
I agree, firms thought the era of cheap money (10+ years) combined with ramped up demand caused by pandemic would last for a good while longer. They forgot about Galton's reversion to the mean...
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Tech Layoffs vs Chess.com vs New Year's Resolutions
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I was going on to make a comment about how many firms that have IPO'd of late are never been profitable. These firms have not paid any dividends and may never. Yet these firms are hyped up to lure in the retail investor, yet the eviden
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by dougSF70 4y ago
> Put another way, since 1928 dividends plus inflation accounted for 99.7% of the nominal wealth produced, as of 2008, by investing in stocks. This would imply that the average investor will generate wealth by investing in equities that
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by dougSF70 4y ago
Does the current VC model only work in a bull run driven by cheap money? One the one hand cheap money driving growth of unprofitable startups subsidizing a market and on the other hand cheap money is ready to acquire these firms and /o
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Are these the 18000nalready announced or is this a new round?
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You can walk into an apple store and buy 8GB models all day long but 16GB models are special orders...this has always seemed sketchy to me
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But with inflation driving up interest rates, that wealth will appreciate sitting as cash.
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If you want to improve your cognitive function and you drink alcohol, stop drinking. I stopped 8 years ago and felt more mentally alert within a few weeks.
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Building something from nothing is very hard. The only thing that prepares you for it is building something from nothing. Being an employee at another start up doesnt really give you the right experience. I am on my 4th try and have learned
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by dougSF70 4y ago
Seiko 5 automatic movement is on a par with the Rolex automatic movement according to my friend who is an official Rolex repairer.
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Yes, but. Most real world engineers could also be software engineers too. I studied Mechanical Engineering and had to learn Fortran and Pascal as part of my undergrad. What I find strange is that some of the best software engineers are not
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by dougSF70 4y ago
If the students were studying loquaciousness then ChatGPT would give them an advantage, otherwise while the output is good is probably a 'C' grade rather than an 'A' grade.
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And they shouldnt be allowed to trade or issue tradeable tokens. Something like the Glass-Stegall act, abolished by Clinton.
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The seem to be banks and exchanges. NYSE and Nasdaq are exchanges but don't hold customer funds they execute trades and that is it. These crypto exchanges are more like banks...and that is the problem. Until banks allow crypto accounts
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They Faught The Lawn and The Lawn Lost is a headline writer's dream.
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In the absence of consumer protections in crypto it seems the authorities want a high profile trial to send a warning to others and to would be crypto "investors".
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by dougSF70 4y ago
Why not search for a life coach, theres probably a lot of overlap between the two roles.
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They will probably start lower down the organization, getting evidence that wrongful behavior was sanctioned by management. Ignorance of the law is not a defence. He will go to jail.
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Should be made difficult to IPO a loss making business.

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