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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
And we can go a step further yet by assuming that the reason they want to sell that going to their customer is that they're buying it elsewhere. They're doing the arbitrage.
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
Well if you believe this we can go the extra step and assume that the exchange is _causing_ the wallet "maintenances" to run up the price of a coin they want to sell to their customers.
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
You don't believe demand isn't being constrained in the way I described? So you believe that people are looking at cats on facebook, and stop because they're worried about the environmental impact of facebook's datacente
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> I understand that this is just a back-of-the-napkin calculation, but I feel like the heating will have a more noticeable impact on the local environment (think 5km³), rather than considering all of our planet's oceans all at once.
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> Of course you could argue that the lower cost of this cooling method will create a larger demand for cheaper servers/data storage, which increases net harm, for which I have no answer. That argument doensn't apply here: deman
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> At what point does this become a problem? They're using the naturally cool sea water to regulate the temperature in the container, but that heat needs to go somewhere... it heats the water. Makes as much sense as the people who th
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
I object to the comparison entirely. Basic statistical concepts are orders of magnitude more complex than a loop with a couple of ifs. As a software engineer you CAN'T fail fizzbuzz. Whereas in statistics I can come up with problems th
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
Bing is actually quite good. Not as good as Google, but much better than Github.
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> When I opened this thread, this was downvoted. I can understand why, it's kinda dismissive of the article. However, I can also understand the frustration and would generally agree. Although I didn't downvote, I often downvote
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> Is that a valid thing to do? If "will power" was a strongly inherited trait, and the theory is that will power leads to increase household income in adult life, then this controlling would remove most of the signal. I suspect
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
Firefox extension to bypass the WSJ and FT firewall. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/read-ft-wsj/
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/read-ft-wsj/ Firefox extension to read FT and WSJ.
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
I have the sneaking suspicion that if they'd remake ONLY the graphics, you'd hate it. The reason is that those hold games usually have horrendous gameplay/controls. You kind of accept it because they look old. But if they did
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
See, if only Visa would be running on the blockchain, none of this would happen /s
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> How many more "super private browsing mode" Firefox users will there be? Potentially hundreds of millions of daily users. Tor has hundreds of millions of daily users?
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
That was a perfectly valid and factually correct observation. HN downvotes are getting a bit ridiculous. You can't say anything, you'll get downvoted. I really really don't understand this. And it seems to be getting worse.
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
I guess you didn't read until the end. > When you're finally wealthy, you'll realize that it wasn't what you were seeking in the first place. But that's for another day.
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
Ok, care to explain the math to me then? You sound like you know something I don't.
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
And saying that he's gonna exclude ZTE from US-Iran sanctions because that would cost China a lot of jobs. Is that consistency on trade as well? Did he run on China first policy?
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
There's no barrier to entry. Some people claim that there is a barrier to entry which is that "Uber has all the drivers". However every big city I go you see local players. Not only Lyft and Yandex, but regular cabs, or regul
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
He wouldn't go for "pure value investing" even when he started. He started first with all sorts of arbitrage plays, and later on he put together a partnership where he used his investor's capital to acquire a controling
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> For example Uber, they own few vehicles, have few employees, and no exclusivity. How do you run a fundamentals analysis on that? A lot of traditional models would tell you that company is worth near nothing. Don't forget almost no
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
How is it possible that Uber has $6.5bn in cash? Weren't they losing almost $4bn a year?
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> Don't care about that sphere of activity, never going to do any of theses. > Can you be more precise? What are the laws about that and should'nt it be Paypal job to support that? Never wanted to compete with Paypal either.
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> I feel like I have a pretty clear idea of the rules in the cases you describe. For GDPR I have no such confidence. I seems reasonable, but I would argue it's due to the law being new, not to some intrinsic property of it, no?
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
Thank you. It's a bit sad that you require a whole new client. I think that will add enormous friciton to adoption, no?
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
So sort of an intermediary between how the internet works these days, and how it should work in IPFS view. Does the "deliverying JS to browser" thing that I described make sense at all?
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> What other laws (...) You can't sell guns and drugs online. If you're taking money, you have to make sure you know your customer (KYC). I would also like to hear other examples.
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
Can anyone be bothered to explain to me how this works? I know that IPFS is some sort of distributed content-addressable thingy. So I expected that ipfs.io would deliver some JS to my browser, which would get it to look-up some distributed
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by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
Video isn't stupid. It's good work. For keeping hardware/software free.

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