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by fanzhang 9y ago
Your first sentence describes the intuition where if customers tip waiters more, companies will pay waiters less. I've actually heard that in many places, the customers actually tip enough that it goes beyond the ability of companies t
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by fanzhang 9y ago
To be fair I think there is a subculture where a hack run with hands under 1 minute is considered an accomplishment.
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by fanzhang 9y ago
FYI, here is the original reason for he was fired for the curious: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/politi... I know it's not related to the eviction process immediately, but I think
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by fanzhang 9y ago
Maybe this suggests that it would be good for local regulations to say there should be a grace period of say 15 days. But then again, this probably would mean that the landlord would demand an extra half month of deposit at the start, whic
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by fanzhang 9y ago
Has either of the above ever happened historically, not counting jumps of just 1 person?
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by fanzhang 9y ago
Yeah content marketing / developer marketing is really valuable -- to the company. That's why companies spend a ton of money on it. It doesn't necessarily imply there is massive value for the reader, although that can be th
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by fanzhang 9y ago
I'm of the opinion that while this is not an unusual move for bitcoin in its history, holders from the start who now have way too much of their wealth in coins should definitely cash out to a more reasonable amount. There are lots of b
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by fanzhang 9y ago
This doesn't seem very likely because the bitcoin calendar future curve is in contango: http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/equity-index/us-index/bitcoi... . In other words, further out futures dates are tra
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by fanzhang 9y ago
After looking around, I agree that standard ways of rooting the phone do involve wiping it. However, it still remains that the secret is sitting in plain text on a hard drive on the phone. If you unplug/unsolder the hard drive, you co
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by fanzhang 9y ago
If someone gets a hold of your lost phone, without the secure enclave, rooting it is easy with physical possession. Whereas with a secure enclave, physical access with a locked device doesn't give the secret away.
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by fanzhang 9y ago
Well suppose the CEO of ACME Pharma knows a major drug trial just failed. If she sold massively and pushed the price down, wouldn't that cause the lower price to be reflective of the actual real valuation of ACME (which is lower becau
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by fanzhang 9y ago
Agreed it would suck to hold a bank account (Paypal, Coinbase) and then get deprioritized because your account isn't important enough. It would be interesting to see what fraction of accounts have a "serious contention" with
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by fanzhang 9y ago
Coinbase customers probably prioritize receiving an extra 10%+ value on their accounts above those features.
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by fanzhang 9y ago
Also commodities if I remember correctly, which are regulated as well. Also there's a big theoretical and serious discussion in financial economics on why insider trading is even net bad. In some ways aren't stock analysts "
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by fanzhang 9y ago
Generally the Kelly Criterion is the optimal play strategy for the entire game if and only if your utility in final payouts is the log of the payout. In the Haghani & Dewey 2016 experiment log utility is violated in two ways: - A $250 c
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by fanzhang 9y ago
It sounds like you have an affirmative theory of what the housing shortage is caused by. If so why not share it?
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by fanzhang 9y ago
Economics and statistics understand perfectly well the distinction between gambling returns that happen in parallel versus gambling returns that happen in series. For example, in financial economics, suppose you're investing and the re
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by fanzhang 9y ago
Wow, real human interaction is so rare these days that it makes a large impact when you see it.
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by fanzhang 9y ago
The other side believes the same thing though. This boils down to the age old question of whether the method matters, or just the results. If we're okay getting our goals with bad methods, do we have a right to get angry next time, sa
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by fanzhang 9y ago
I bet that the "know how to hustle" is a backwards theoretical story. In reality VCs just empirically find cold calls to be much worse because it's diluted down with a lot of really random people. If that's the case th
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by fanzhang 9y ago
Just because everything you do generates a social signal, doesn't mean everything you do is strongly influenced by the desire to generate that social signal. As a analogy, everything I do might generate some amount of sound. When I&#x
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by fanzhang 9y ago
Agreed. Especially when you consider the article considers the following areas as a unit: "New York Metro Area" "LA/Orange County" and of course the whole of "New England" -- yup an area that takes almost
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by fanzhang 9y ago
I think you're confusing "health insurance" which has a strong social redistribution component, with pure insurance, which is a business transaction to pay off on the chance something happens. Pure insurance is when a consume
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by fanzhang 9y ago
Does anyone have a transcript of this video?
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by fanzhang 9y ago
My last experience with a taxi was going to Logan airport. I called one; dispatcher said it'd come in 10 minutes. Never came 15 minutes later. Called another, same thing. Ended up flagging a taxi down (taxis rarely drove by where I
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by fanzhang 10y ago
There is no recording of any BoE official asking Libor to be changed, which I had partially expected. Instead, a Barclay employee is on record saying: "The bottom line is you're going to absolutely hate this... but we've had
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by fanzhang 10y ago
When I first joined ten years ago, most discussions were highly technical, or oriented towards doing a startup with no politics on either side. The politics stayed in their own threads. I agree that the forum has been on a ten year trends
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by fanzhang 10y ago
Are bankruptcies the right metric to measure a CEO? For example, startup founders as a cohort probably lead a lot more companies to bankruptcy (or disbandment) than laundromat owners. Yet probably the average startup owner is producing co
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by fanzhang 10y ago
Could it be that the float on this stock is so small that when index funds try to buy the stock, the price is pushed up massively? A theoretical problem with market-cap-weighted index funds is that a fund that holds x percent (usually very
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by fanzhang 10y ago
Thought experiment: if you could destroy half of Bezo's wealth with the push of a button, would you do it? (Not dollars, but actual wealth -- imagine he has thousands of houses and you are allowed to legally demolish them with the pus

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