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by dtwest 7y ago
"For example, if a stock goes up 10% up pre-market because it beats earnings, it usually stays at that price level during the day. Just because people see the price up in pre-market." 1) No, it is not just because people see the p
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by dtwest 7y ago
1) Why? Futures do not prevent the market from "deciding for itself". Global equity markets don't just trade on New York time. Getting rid of futures would not fix the problem you are trying to solve, while creating many new
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by dtwest 7y ago
LA is not the densest metro area in the US. It is New York City by far. But this comment got me curious, maybe I'm missing something. This article shows that LA is pretty close to NYC in terms of average density. But NYC is still more
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by dtwest 7y ago
I interpreted this particular article's main point as being: Don't assume Japanese people are more honest than people in other countries, there are many social and cultural factors at play that influence behavior. Generalizing a g
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by dtwest 7y ago
How would one handle that many factors? I am very curious what the techniques for doing so would be. I'm no expert but my initial reaction would be that you need more than 5834 adults in a study that controls for all of those factors.
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by dtwest 7y ago
This is a debate about language conventions, I can assure you that 0% of Americans claiming to be European in this sense actually think they live in Europe or are actual Europeans. There are some that speak the language and have exposure to
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by dtwest 7y ago
I thought this was a great comment until the petty jab at the end. Being concerned about this issue and being "disgusted at the idea of Chinese people learning science" are clearly different things. Don't let a few bad apples
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by dtwest 7y ago
It's just a typo in the first comment, they are talking about the same thing given the context.
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by dtwest 7y ago
For what it's worth, the cartoonist, Heng Kim Song, is Singaporean. American coverage of India's space program has been very positive from what I have seen. If often includes praises of how cost effective it has been, and how wast
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by dtwest 7y ago
The US has meddled in European politics ever since the World Wars, and if they had not, you'd probably be a Russian. The US has asked Germany to increase their own defense spending and provide symbolic support for a stupid war. But wer
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by dtwest 7y ago
The article isn't talking about "huge financial details", whatever that might mean. It is about projecting information from alternative sources before the official numbers are released.
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by dtwest 7y ago
If it is ridiculous to compare drones to cars, it is also ridiculous to compare drones to kites. All three have different risk profiles. To have something that could weigh the same as a bowling ball fall on you is different than a kite on t
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by dtwest 7y ago
Exploit - to make full use of and derive benefit from. You are interpreting the comment in the most negative way possible. The system needs to change, and we need to help these people in a different way.
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by dtwest 7y ago
Do you think it is good they are digging in the trash? Surely there is a better alternative to this. You may not like the wording but the parent is not wrong.
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by dtwest 7y ago
The idea is that if everyone plays by the free market rules, the average country will be better off. If every country plays by these rules except one, which uses mercantilist tactics to win zero sum games, that one country will have an adva
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by dtwest 7y ago
I don't follow your logic, you're saying that if the human mind isn't computable, all our research of AI is a waste? What if weak AI systems are extremely useful? What if we don't need to mimic the human mind to create i
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by dtwest 7y ago
Or maybe even earlier by Cicero. Seems like a common sentiment through history. Thanks for the link!
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by dtwest 7y ago
This reminded me of the Twain quote: "I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead." Sometimes I don't know how to solve my problems with tiny amounts of code. It often takes skill and effort
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by dtwest 7y ago
Since you're talking about proper historical context, it should be mentioned that none of the "nations" you speak of of were nation states in the modern sense. Many of the local populations were experiencing theft from their
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by dtwest 7y ago
Anecdotally, I was diagnosed with asthma as a child and walked around with an inhaler for a few years. I liked it, it tasted funny and seemed like a cool gadget at the time. But I did not have asthma. And I'm convinced there's no
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by dtwest 7y ago
I do not know the details, but it is my understanding that the Netherlands exports a large amount of its agricultural production. One could say, let's only produce what we need, and methane production will go down. However, if that was
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by dtwest 7y ago
To be clear, my source is showing the spread, not the absolute cost to borrow. I didn't say we are over, under or properly levered. If you are implying we are over-levered, go ahead, just provide some evidence. The evidence Washington
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by dtwest 7y ago
Both the article and the comments here are cringeworthy. I come to HN for the insightful comments, but for some reason, whenever finance is discussed, people do not look at data and start arguing about their feelings. This is a complex topi
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by dtwest 7y ago
Do you think China wasn't aware of how well the US had it? They had no intention of letting it stay that way. The US did not force them into it, they wanted to do this all along. Recent political action may have sped things up, but thi
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by dtwest 7y ago
That is true. That said, the French Communist Party and Stalin aren't exactly the same thing.
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by dtwest 7y ago
This is interesting. I wish there were more data points, they only show opinion in France in 1945, 1994 and 2004. The USSR may have saved Europe from Germany, but the USA saved Western Europe from the USSR. The French in 1945 were likely aw
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by dtwest 7y ago
Queens and Brooklyn can't get up to that level of density unless we build more transit lines. This is very difficult to do in NYC. Without additional lines, the city's road infrastructure would not be able to handle the additional
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by dtwest 7y ago
"It is a drug in the same sense that anything can cause addiction and withdrawal or be unhealthy. Caffeine is, by itself, a drug in a different sense. It causes a slight addiction and can cause slight withdrawal." This seems like
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by dtwest 7y ago
I had to comment, nobody in finance pays attention to the Dow. It's a meaningless index. Look into how it is constructed if you're curious as to why. But to your point, it makes up 0.78% of the S&P500 which is not insignifican
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by dtwest 7y ago
China has a long history of war. The US doesn't even have a long history. Your historical view is zoomed in too far. All large nation states are guilty of aggression, that's how you become a large nation state.

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