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New ETF will track social-media-hyped stocks(markets.businessinsider.com)
17 points by fbelzile 6y ago|1 comments
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by fbelzile 6y ago
I think a big problem is that the number of employees required to run many types of businesses has been steadily decreasing over time as technology improves. McDonald's for example went from 440,000 employees to 205,000 from 2012 to 20
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by fbelzile 6y ago
GME just went up almost 100% in the last half hour of trading. Probably a flood of people trying to visit WSB.
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48% of Square's revenue came from Bitcoin in 2020 [pdf](d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net)
10 points by fbelzile 6y ago|1 comments
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by fbelzile 6y ago
Or just, email me when... or call me when... At least it gives me a hint about the best way to contact you about something.
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by fbelzile 6y ago
This is awesome. It has my favorite one: "ping me" Man, I hated hearing this. Just use normal words, please.
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by fbelzile 6y ago
Agreed. If you're going to start an ad business today, it should feel the least amount "sleazy," gimmicky? as possible. In case that was done on purpose to get more of your attention, that is.
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by fbelzile 6y ago
Because of the historical high cyclically-adjusted price to earnings ratio (CAPE) of the US market [1]. I agree that historically low interest rates counter part of this argument, but overall, I still think there will be a reversion to the
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by fbelzile 6y ago
Right now, many US stocks are overvalued and are at high risk for a correction within the next few years. Using historical averages for the last 20 years, the CAPE ratio for the US market is projecting returns to be only -3% to +3% for the
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by fbelzile 6y ago
I added the text to clarify the question later.
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Ask HN: Does Google look at !g queries to help improve search results?
17 points by fbelzile 6y ago|8 comments
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by fbelzile 6y ago
In this case, the grounds for dismissal are for wearing headphones during working hours. Drug test results can be positive for things done outside of working hours.
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by fbelzile 6y ago
Not defending drug use at work, but if you're to be fired it should be for the performance related issues you mentioned caused by the drug, not because of the drug itself. Edit for more context: Depending on the drug, substances consum
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by fbelzile 6y ago
You're right that I'd classify those as artificial monopolies. Wouldn't you agree that the world would be a better place if we had less of them? Especially for general computing devices like a phone (unlike gaming consoles an
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by fbelzile 6y ago
No, you buy the phone hardware and a license to use iOS. The App Store is a service provided by Apple that you should have a choice to use or not. The Apple Tax is what you're 'buying' from Apple when using the App Store serv
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by fbelzile 6y ago
You mentioned it yourself, most third party developers still use the Google Play Store on Android. The same will be true if the App Store continues to provide a better user experience. You might need to pay a little more for a game from the
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by fbelzile 6y ago
You're missing the point. Nobody is arguing that Apple has a monopoly on the smartphone market. The problem is that Apple built an artificial monopoly in the distribution of apps by making the App Store the only curator of the platfo
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by fbelzile 6y ago
I agree that there's no hypocrisy, but I think Apple is acting consistently as a platform owner in both cases. Yes, iOS users should being made aware of tracking software but it doesn't mean that they should continue being the sol
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by fbelzile 6y ago
What are you talking about? Both Microsoft and Apple have had great success developing macOS and Windows while allowing third party developers to develop and distribute apps without an additional tax. There's clearly room in the market
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by fbelzile 6y ago
I'm just guessing here but they might be hedging against future trade restrictions set by China against US companies like Tesla. If another trade war was to happen, people in China might be able to buy a Tesla using Bitcoin vs having t
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by fbelzile 6y ago
I might get down-voted more, but I'm going to dig in because I don't think you know what you're talking about. I'm not sure of the qualifications held by the tasters in the study and the quality of the descriptors used,
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by fbelzile 6y ago
Wine tasting is an art of deduction. The first step of any wine tasting is to look at the color, rim variation, legs, etc. From there, you take account the smell and taste. At a professional level, this is always done in a particular order
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by fbelzile 6y ago
Along the same lines: if your store has multiple locations, allow me to filter by location. Sometimes I don't care so much about the exact product (think audio cables), I just want to be able to go to the closest store and pick it up.
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by fbelzile 6y ago
No, macOS just makes it seem like apps can't add files anywhere. They only recently made it a requirement to ask to write to certain locations like your Documents, Downloads folder, etc.
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by fbelzile 6y ago
> Make the Start Menu Full-Screen I'm surprised by this one. I couldn't stand Windows 8 because of the full screen start menu. Maybe it was because it was too animated. But I think it was more because I didn't like getti
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by fbelzile 6y ago
This is a good story, but Google can still literally kill any business that relies on the Play Store or Chrome Store with a flick of a switch today (like mine). No human even has to get involved. At any moment, some code running on a Goog
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by fbelzile 6y ago
To be fair, even Apple chooses to use different wording about it's own privacy labels. They opt for a friendlier "allow personalized ads" instead of the scary sounding "allow X to track your activity across other compani
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“Allow this app to personalize advertising for you?”(mobiledevmemo.com)
1 points by fbelzile 6y ago|0 comments
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by fbelzile 6y ago
This was me. I lost money on GME betting on the fact that more shorted shares still had to be covered. The short squeeze wasn't a complete failure. It happened, it was just much smaller than many predicted. I still wonder what would&#x
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Silver price surges amid investor frenzy – but Reddit users say it isn't them(cbc.ca)
1 points by fbelzile 6y ago|0 comments

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