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by erdevs 10y ago
From the article: > "...Moore’s Law, which states that the number of transistors that can be squeezed onto a semiconductor chip of a given size doubles roughly every two years, has held true since the mid 1960s..." I thought it
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Yes, they are not always correlated. Obviously. What point are you trying to make? > The two common examples of diversified survivors of the last GFC are Citi and JPMC. Are you actually holding Citi and JPMC up as examples of some ki
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What terrible science. And terrible science journalism. Link to underlying study: https://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/mktg/assets/File/Lambert... So many holes in this. First of all, the study construction
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> Are people going to be okay with getting no interest and instead paying large-ish fees every month to cover the cost of bank branches, ATMs, debit cards, websites, money transfers, checks, and so on? Looks at bank statements: .... Ze
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You seem to keep taking my positions and reducing them to absurdity. > So I do not think we can work on the assumption that we only need to worry about deposit taking institutions and let investment bank collapse. I did not say that. Or
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> Bail-in will only be useful when the banks have built up enough bail-inable capital, and depending on what is the definition of bail-inable capital, most banks are not there yet I'm glad to hear you say this. There is definitely
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The problem is that liability still falls upon depositors in a bail-in. So, at the end of the day, it's still the unwitting public's money on the hook in the worst case scenarios, even if it's not a "bail out". The
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I fully concur with you that the sorts of investments that depository banks can make should be more highly regulated, as should their leverage ratios. I didn't include that on my top list for "taming Wall St " because we we
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You're overselling the bail-in provisions here. Frank-Dodd and the bail-in regulations it includes certainly introduced some much-needed improvements. But let's not pretend that the bail-in is either proven in practice nor a cur
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Absolutely agree with what you are both saying, in that DC enabled Wall St by foolishly deregulating investment banking and banks. Of course, that does not absolve Wall Street of blame for managing risk poorly, for fraudulent behavior, for
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Then again, Hollywood is now increasingly dependent on China, increasingly tailors film to the Chinese market and cultural demands, and is taking more and more financing from China: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree&
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I don't see how Wall St will be "tamed" until the following criteria are met: * No individual bank is "too big to fail". Today we have several banks which are all too big to actually let fail, which means we'r
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by erdevs 10y ago
True. Though what would happen if you launched your lunar vehicle from a platform on international waters? Loophole? Or do we now get to mix in Maritime Law as well as the Outer Space Treaty, which is an even cooler jail story in the maki
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Thanks for explaining / clarifying. > I don't view this as a victory of Didi either, they simply defended their home turf. I think this is where we disagree. It was definitely a victory for Didi. They beat Uber in China, whi
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Related article: https://www.techinasia.com/grabs-2015-financial-numbers-reve... Another aspect that I haven't seen discussed a whole lot yet in relation to Didi's purchase of Uber: Didi's $1B investment in U
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Didi is now backing Uber’s fiercest rival in Southeast Asia(qz.com)
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So weird to see people trying to put a positive spin on this for Uber. Uber lost in China, flat out. > Negate Lyft's efforts to run around Uber in China by empowering Didi to crush them What? Didi and Lyft struck a deep partnershi
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by erdevs 10y ago
Ugh, this is a poorly written piece. Points are muddled, poor segues, poor references/unbacked claims, and a meandering story. Not what I'd hope for from Levy. From the article: > "..in fact, Uber felt it was treated fai
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by erdevs 10y ago
> > > As late as this past June, Uber was predicting it would pass its rival within a year. > This is simply not true. Yes it is true. Kalanick's investor updates from 24-12 months ago were all gung ho on China and how Ube
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It seems to me that China outplayed the West here by a wide margin. For some reason, the West has let China get away with extremely protectionist trade policies the likes of which no one else in the world would dare even attempt. I think t
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by erdevs 10y ago
Wow, really sorry to hear about the struggle. And I hear you on this process undermining confidence. I think going for a startup is a great idea, and it's awesome you have the family support to do this. Any ideas on what the startup
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by erdevs 10y ago
If you think winter might be coming and want to prepare financially, the #1 most important piece of advice is this: Lower your expenses. Nothing gets you into trouble more than having a high expense load. Get as close as you can to spendin
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Is there any response from the women in the video herself? How did she interpret it? I watched the stream. Definitely not a sensitive remark and frankly the guy came off as a jackass across the board, from brushing off the research group&
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This is pretty cool. :-) Building games on something like Alexa could be really fun. I can see adventure games in particular working well. Are there any mobile adventure games or choose your own adventure stories that use your voice for co
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Anybody at other bitcoin exchanges have info/ideas to share on what may have happened here and how other exchanges can avoid similar pitfalls? It's intriguing that withdrawal limits were bypassed. I wonder what sort of monitoring
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You seem to have conveniently removed from the quote you cited the following sentence in the very same paragraph, which says, "They have heavy governmental investment in infrastructure (eg internet, cell networks) and they heavily regu
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I meant that greater intelligence and drive mean higher likelihood to invent or incorporate technology, higher likelihood to succeed driving its adoption as a business, etc. To try to make this more concrete and tractable. Imagine this ove
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I liked several recommendations from this article, but it seems to be missing some important practices that influence success/failure in many product dev efforts as well. What I especially liked from the article: * The Product Lead se
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I wonder if the reason roll-to-roll processes haven't caught on is that there is so much capital investment in IC/wafer processes at scale that the unit economics just don't add up (until/unless very large capital invest
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"...recently fabricated a flexible transistor that operates at 110 gigahertz" I know there have been other transistors from R&D projects which operate at 690+ ghz as well. But does anyone with much better EE and chip manufact

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