edblarney

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by edblarney 10y ago
"Before the Revolution, an audience was a made up of individuals who simply consumed what was projected; after the Revolution the audience became a collective, with an important role in completing what was projected" This is hard
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by edblarney 10y ago
Hey, if you bought MSFT yesterday at 2:09 pm and sold it at exactly 2:29 PM you could have made a 2% return in just 20 minutes! So amazing. Now just do that every day and you could make 1000% in a year! ... is the logic you keep using.
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by edblarney 10y ago
Sorry, you're correct. I didn't mean alpha. I meant benchmark.
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by edblarney 10y ago
What you are saying is 'all you have to do is buy low and sell high' and you can make money on the market. Do you understand the fallacy in that logic?
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by edblarney 10y ago
We don't need a socialist wealth transfer system, we just need better rules. Increasing cap gains would be a start. Getting rid of Q/E would be another. Making individuals liable for things they do while at companies that break th
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by edblarney 10y ago
Since the 1980's the US has gone on massive borrowing. When the US borrows, it prints TBills. TBills are what backs the dollar. Very crudely - more TBills = more liquidity. Also, things like 'quantitative easing' have flushed
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by edblarney 10y ago
"Also you really don't know what you are talking about. If you bought nearly anything after Nov 21st 2008 and held, you'd be way in the green since then." Apparently it's likely you who 'doesn't know what
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by edblarney 10y ago
"Love that I'm getting down voted for saying anybody can participate which is a fact." 'Anyone' can chose to play poker against people who are much smarter than them, who count cards, who use computers, who have 20
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by edblarney 10y ago
"That sort of mentality is ill-informed of finance and the market" Uh, no it's not. "The market is not only for millionaires and billionaires. " Yes, it most definitely is. And most people who 'know finance&#x2
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by edblarney 10y ago
JFK did not sign a law stating that across all America, pay averages for women and men must be the same. He signed a law stating that a 'female plumber should be paid the same as a male plumber of equal qualifications'. Broadly -
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by edblarney 10y ago
Yes. If you want to start a startup, it requires excess liquidity among a group of individuals willing to take risk. In Montreal, there are very few high-net worth individuals, and almost nobody invests 100K chunks in small businesses. In A
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by edblarney 10y ago
This is a stark reality. For a Canadian, Waterloo might be ok. For most Americans, it would be like moving to Alaska. I tried to hire into Waterloo, and for Americans, Canada in general is a really tough sell. We brought in some Americans,
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by edblarney 10y ago
"If only to protest with their wallet." Except that 'the wallet' is in the US, not somewhere else. I say this even as a Canadian. The money is not here.
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by edblarney 10y ago
People who claim that 'women earn 77 cents on the dollar as compared to men' - when studies overwhelmingly show that this is false when taking into consideration roles and hour etc. - are definitely 'dividing genders'. P
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by edblarney 10y ago
This is sarcasm, right?
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by edblarney 10y ago
"Walmart didn't have technology as a core competency" Wallmart has absolutely amazing tech as a 'core competency'. You don't deliver more goods than anyone on planet earth without this. But it was ops-ish. Not
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by edblarney 10y ago
+100 This took me 10 years to realize. I find myself getting rid of everything clever, my code reads like a boring instruction manual. I'm starting to deeply re-think how code interviews should be conducted. Instead of asking smarty-pa
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by edblarney 10y ago
FB got messaging out because yes, it's a big deal - it's THE deal in mobile. Snap is not really messaging - it's 'sharing moments'. It's not really very good as a 'simple messaging app' - unlike FB, w
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by edblarney 10y ago
If Wikileaks is in any way editorializing the information, that is not specifically related to things like 'redaction of names to not put specific lives at risk' - then it is existentially damaging to their credibility. It'
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by edblarney 10y ago
In Canada they are very strict. After a minor operation I got exactly one oxycontin pill :)
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by edblarney 10y ago
"Quite honestly given your questions [about vacation policy] and the fact that you are considering other options, [we] may not be the best choice for you." You wouldn't want to work there. " but the team has decided to k
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by edblarney 10y ago
The material differences between FB and Snap are not their offering prices or share structures. The material difference is the product - who it will appeal to, and how long it will remain appealing. When FB went public, they had a product t
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by edblarney 10y ago
"at which point it will become worthless? Like Facebook?" Every company goes through the hype phase. What is 'left over' is usually the raw utility of the product. 'Parents' got onto Facebook and continue to us
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by edblarney 10y ago
If that's true, it's ridiculous. The issue at hand is that it's a 'locking mechanism' - something that only specific people can do, by virtue of the fact that they have a key, or knowledge, or whatever. Whether it&#
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Thiel Fellowship: Where are they today?(businessinsider.com)
12 points by edblarney 10y ago|3 comments
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by edblarney 10y ago
I don't think that the biometric issue has anything to do with it. It's the content. If you have something 'in a safe' - can the police arbitrary require you to unlock that safe to produce whatever is inside? It's u
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by edblarney 10y ago
I don't quite agree that there's more demand than supply. That does not have to happen for a speculative bubble.
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by edblarney 10y ago
Point taken. Less so than before, but it's still fairly weird in many areas. LA and the Bay both have odd sub-cultures and not-so-far out of the city you get some fairly hippy types, but it depends on a lot. Palo Alto I don't thin
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by edblarney 10y ago
I don't agree. Uber is playing against a highly regulated market, with controls on supply, and also massive institutional incumbency which means inefficient pricing (the cab owners take huge out of the wages of the drivers), as well as
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by edblarney 10y ago
It's true - but the early adopters are usually related to the industry anyhow. So they are almost the same thing.

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