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by fairity 5y ago
Yea, I guess the fact that parties value risk differently, gives a little bit of room for positive sum transactions. But, given limited supply (of company shares) and large transaction volume in equity markets, this effect should be muted.
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by fairity 5y ago
> Your definition of “winner” is someone who leaves money on the table No, my definition of winner (in a transaction) is someone who gives less than what they receive. > By that definition there is no market where they are two winners
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by fairity 5y ago
> One of the biggest misconceptions is that the stock market is a zero sum game. Its absolutely not. No, it's by definition a zero sum game. Fundamentally, owning shares in a company grants you rights to a fraction of all future co
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by fairity 5y ago
One thing that's bothered me is that YC doesn't actively help its founders pursue early exits. YC will support your decision to take an early exit if you find one, but they rarely help you find your way to one. There's a who
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by fairity 5y ago
> If I was to start a new company again, I'd still apply for YC again. Once you go through YC once, you have access to all the information and alumni community in perpetuity (via Bookface). I think it's natural to want to go t
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by fairity 5y ago
His net worth is stored in company shares, which doesn't get taxed until it's sold.
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by fairity 5y ago
> In real terms, both the stock market and real estate have been stagnant for decades What do you mean by this? Inflation over the past couple decades has come in around 2-3%. The stock market has appreciated by much more.
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by fairity 5y ago
> Employees are compensated on the work they provide during work hours. Industry-average compensation is primarily a function of supply and demand. Remote work increases labor supply and decreases costs of labor. Both of these factors
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by fairity 5y ago
I doubt this is actually happening due to lack of easily compiled evidence. But, I was curious and looked into price discrimination law a little more. Apparently this isn't illegal. Stated as a rule, price discrimination becomes unla
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by fairity 5y ago
Isn't WeWork uniquely positioned to accommodate employers who are looking for flexible post-COVID office setups? As more workers go remote, some will still want a physical office to work out of. That's something WeWork should exc
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by fairity 5y ago
I think it’s safe to assume any highly evolved alien species will have moral constructs that support self-preservation. Whether those morals extend to preserving other intelligent life forms (I.e. humans) seems unlikely since the prosperity
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by fairity 5y ago
If everyone begins melting pre-1982 pennies the day they're abolished, wouldn't the true value-maximizing move be saving them with the intention to sell them as a collector's item down the road?
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by fairity 5y ago
> Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook “may even be in a stronger position” following the iOS changes if it means more businesses start to make sales directly within Facebook’s apps instead of sending users to a web addr
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by fairity 5y ago
Be careful what you wish for. If ad publishers like Facebook generate less revenue per ad impression (which is what these tracking changes do), publishers will inevitably end up showing users more ads not less (to make up for the lost reven
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by fairity 5y ago
> But who are the FB ads rivals that aren't affected in a similar manner by this change? Google. Apple's privacy changes restrict tracking from within mobile apps like Facebook and Instagram. Google is primarily browser-based
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by fairity 5y ago
If these fees are truly overbearing, wouldn’t you expect new competing delivery services to undercut incumbents? The delivery space seems very competitive already which leads me to believe that the fees are representative of high operationa
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by fairity 5y ago
In many cases, you'd be making a big mistake not offering Paypal as a payment option in your checkout flow because it increases conversion rate in many industries. For my business, we split tested only offering credit card checkout ver
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by fairity 5y ago
What does the outcome distribution look like if you don't pay the ransom? What percent of orgs that did not pay the ransom get hit again?
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by fairity 5y ago
Because the statistic isn't true. Take the following quote from the article. It's laughable. > The question was straightforward, as Schawbel recalls: "If your pay is constant, how many days a week do you want to work?&quo
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by fairity 5y ago
> If everything is in a bubble, then what does it matter? If crypto is in a bubble and you don't own crypto, then what does it matter? Same with Tesla. It matters because you can: 1) divest from said assets classes or 2) short said
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by fairity 5y ago
> Hard work leading to social mobility has always been the exception, not the rule. Most will not beat the odds since if they did, those wouldn't BE the odds These claims simply don't hold up against scrutiny. In the US, childr
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by fairity 5y ago
How do you measure social mobility and what does the data show? I don’t have time right now to grab the data, bu last time I looked, there was actually a surprising amount of movement between the various quintiles of wealth from one generat
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by fairity 5y ago
> The reason is that when you have a mortgage, you're making a highly leveraged investment. You can lever up an equity portfolio as well. Moreover, the going interest rate for a margin loan is only 1-2% (less than the cost of a mor
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by fairity 5y ago
If you remove the editorialization of events, it seems like the primary motivation here is to merge the ##linux and #linux channels, which actually makes sense from a new user perspective. It was always odd to me that some channel names ha
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by fairity 5y ago
Are there usage statistics that support or invalidate the theory that a majority of active users have migrated from Freenode to Libera?
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by fairity 5y ago
> I see zero benefit to going through the final steps after they determined that their suspect had already died If the victim has living friends & family, it provides closure. Additionally, solving cases, however old, boosts public
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by fairity 5y ago
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but the post says that the optimal bet size f = 1-2p (where p is the probability of winning). But, this seems backwards. As p goes up, you should be betting more. Shouldn't the optimal bet size, f,
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by fairity 5y ago
My understanding is that this piece largely glosses over what is the only truly guaranteed way to escape taxes on capital gains: charitable trusts. As the article aptly points out, deferring unrealized gains does not necessarily lead to tax
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by fairity 5y ago
Hm, is it possible to define a range for "crazy high interest"? As the debtor, I'd be willing to pay up to the difference in long-term and short-term capital gains (~15%). I guess where I'm going with this is: I don&#
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by fairity 5y ago
Why isn't there an option to take out a loan where a repayment option is to transfer the capital asset (at whatever the value happens to be at the time of repayment)? I.e. I don't get why the risky part of this loan can't be

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