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by drited 11y ago
I asked what the alternative for the ECB was and you suggested the alternative was to invest in Greece. Are you suggesting that the ECB should invest in Greece to build up its economy or are you conflating my question regarding what the alt
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by drited 11y ago
What's the alternative for the ECB? Give €129 bn to Greek banks to replace the deposits that are bound to flee this week only to see it lost when they default after saying no in the referendum? The Greek banks would have been bust long
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by drited 11y ago
Cool thanks for the reply!
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by drited 11y ago
Interesting, who creates the to do lists in Trello? The team member or team leader? If the latter, do they call the team member to discuss in advance or do they hash the detailed requirements out on Trello by adding comments to the to do?
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by drited 11y ago
Assuming office politics/relationships are the reason for this, this effect would of course be eliminated if everyone was working remotely.
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by drited 11y ago
That's a straw-man argument. He didn't say Android was worse than iOS. He said Google was abusing its dominant position to expand into new markets.
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by drited 12y ago
Would they typically hold longer form talks kind of like public company analyst days where they get into more detail over an hour or so and several potential investors who have dialled in grill them on what is being presented? Apologies for
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by drited 12y ago
Pinker's comments on Taleb's critique are worth a read, available here: http://stevenpinker.com/files/pinker/files/comments_on_taleb...
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by drited 12y ago
I thought it was interesting that Berkshire intentionally hasn't harmonized its systems across subsidiaries. It reminded me of one of Taleb's ideas on robustness from his book Antifragile, where he argues that a system of individ
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by drited 12y ago
Haha yes his love of a good bargain overcame his self-professed technophobia in that case! I'd guess he's just being modest with his frequent professions of technophobia though. I'd guess he knows a lot about technology busi
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by drited 12y ago
It's expensive, but Sony's digital paper product looks pretty sweet: https://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/show-digitalpaper/resource.sol...
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by drited 12y ago
I was left wondering if, in an inception kind of way, she made the story about that happening in her personal life up as a hook to get a lot of readers to read the vice article. After all she talks in the story about how incorporating a th
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by drited 12y ago
Hydrogen is better than batteries in this respect though, so when comparing zero emission options it still appears to be a good bet for Toyota, if it can be implemented on a large scale.
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by drited 13y ago
"Is the story of Einhorn or Cohen or Icahn doing things like insider trading or activist investing equally compelling" Why do you put activism in this sentence along with insider trading? Are you implying that it is morally repre
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by drited 13y ago
The people who have had half their brains removed (Hemispherectomy) and are functional had it removed when they were very young and the other side wired to adapt. Depending on age of operation, there may be more or less significant impairm
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by drited 13y ago
To expand on the dementia issue, poor lighting can lead to disturbances in circadian rhythm and issues with sleep. Fixing this may help with dementia. Further research needed in the area. Sources: http://www.webmd.com/alzh
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by drited 13y ago
They'd want to be making returns north of 20% per year just to offset the fees alone if the numbers abalone outlined are correct. Edit: to elaborate on how I calculated that: 1. We don't know transaction size so I just focused o
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by drited 13y ago
Dotcom days also implies flawed business models that are unlikely to ever be profitable for the company, nevermind investors. I think it was a relevant use of the word considering the point of abalone's argument.
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by drited 13y ago
Did you know that the Stripe was a Ycombinator funded startup? If not, I get why you posted that and guess you wouldn't have posted it if you knew. If you did know however, I don't see why you'd have an issue with this. Lin
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by drited 14y ago
To avoid that problem you could always hire a second contractor to supervise the first contractor.