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by gibybo 7y ago
Yes, but on a $ basis rather than a % basis.
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by gibybo 7y ago
There would be no disbursements from one fund to the other. Fund A would purchase an asset slowly over time. When it has finished purchasing the asset, fund B would purchase that asset quickly at a scale large enough to increase the market
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by gibybo 7y ago
Note that RenTec also runs two other funds that are larger than the Medallion Fund, but both under perform the index. On a completely unrelated note, if I were interested in creating a fund that appeared to have market beating returns for d
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by gibybo 7y ago
This only applies if you have a margin account, right?
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by gibybo 7y ago
300 wh/mile seems to be about what most electric cars achieve. 10 miles/day * 300 wh/mile * 30 days = 90 kWh. The average monthly energy consumption per capita in the U.S. is about 1000 kWh[1], so in order to double that with
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by gibybo 7y ago
Do the investors in WeWork just allow him to do this? Did he hide it from them? This seems like an obvious self-dealing situation any experienced investor would be watching out for.
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by gibybo 7y ago
The original 9 page paper by Satoshi is probably the best place to start for a technical introduction: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf The Bitcoin wiki has a lot more information, although it can be hard to navigate: https
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by gibybo 7y ago
That is correct, there is a maximum number of transactions that can occur on the main Bitcoin chain (it was ~7/second at the beginning, and I think it still is) so there is effectively an auction to get on the chain. As ignaloidas expl
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by gibybo 7y ago
A typical block has on the order of 1000 transactions and they occur on average once every 10 minutes. The 30k number that the website gives in the beginning is talking about the number of transactions that have not yet made it into a block
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by gibybo 7y ago
>Ethereum is replacing proof-of-work with proof-of-stake in 2020, which should help with this. I seem to remember that proof-of-stake has been coming 'next year' for about 3 years now.
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by gibybo 7y ago
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
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by gibybo 7y ago
>how would you feel if online retailers put together a private list of problem customers who sent a suspicious number of returns They've been doing that for years already: https://www.thestreet.com/story/1307811
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by gibybo 7y ago
>If the bank is hiding the risks, that's another issue - I agree. I think the point is that this creates a lot of incentive for the bank to hide the risks that they wouldn't otherwise have. Perhaps more importantly, it doesn&#x
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by gibybo 7y ago
They are tracked and avoided, just like all the other satellites already up there. Low earth orbit is a large place, you could increase that number by many orders of magnitude before you'd have to start worrying.
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by gibybo 8y ago
The black hole that they revealed is about 1,000 times larger than the one at the center of our milky way. So even though it's also 1,000 times further away, it's about the same angular diameter in the sky. Same size but less stuf
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by gibybo 8y ago
I think we're in agreement, but Tesla has a lot of customers buying into the "Full Self Driving" promise. If you look at the "Full Self Driving" package currently available for $5k on their website, you'll noti
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by gibybo 8y ago
>At best, Google will be making cars that pull over to the shoulder and call for help in a few years. Ya, that's pretty much what I was getting at.
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by gibybo 8y ago
>back in Jan/Feb May 2017 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/866482406160609280
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by gibybo 8y ago
If I could bet $100 to win $1 that they don't end up in a self-driving fleet at the end of the lease, I would.
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by gibybo 8y ago
"full autonomy" means lots of different things to different people. Some people think of it as being able to drive anywhere at any time in any condition. This is unlikely to ever happen before AGI. What matters in Tesla's cas
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by gibybo 8y ago
The hardware is like $1-2k, the $5k is just what they charge for the feature.
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by gibybo 8y ago
It's funny that you mention Warren Buffet, because basically everything he has done to expand capital has been through Berkshire Hathaway, which pays ordinary income tax on investment gains rather than the lower capital gains rate.
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by gibybo 8y ago
Also worked for me in Chrome's incognito
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by gibybo 8y ago
>But isn't it possible to bet against a stock? Yes, there are a few ways to do it. >As in someone promising you to buy stock X at price Y at future date Z? So when the stock dips, you make money. This would be either a put option
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by gibybo 8y ago
>Either things get worse for everyone, or humanity starts to control itself. Controlling itself doesn't have to mean population control. It just has to mean taking care of our environment in a sustainable way. The number of people w
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by gibybo 8y ago
>What will conjure up the constant resources Probably the sun and small scale fusion for at least the next thousand years or so. Eventually other stars/large scale fusion/some type of energy production we haven't discovere
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by gibybo 8y ago
>If the price were to include a carbon tax, it would likely be at least ten times higher and we would very quickly get rid of our beloved gas guzzlers. Wouldn't you expect a carbon tax to be similar in price to the cost to get the c
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by gibybo 8y ago
He sold his as FSBO. It's highly unlikely the real estate agent brought the buyer since they hate FSBOs. It's much more likely the buyer found the house himself/herself.
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by gibybo 8y ago
>That also means that i never going to get it anywhere else on my body (once any one site in the body gets infected with herpes the rest of the body develops immunity) Do you have a source for that? I have somewhat suspected that was the
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by gibybo 8y ago
Couldn't you develop some sort of servo-controlled thrust deflector that allowed you to effectively reduce the net thrust without throttling the engine itself? It would be similar to thrust reversal on jet engines, but you would only d

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