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by gibybo 12y ago
I think the primary reason you don't see large amounts of sophisticated market makers is that the Bitcoin exchanges don't provide rules that are very favorable to them. The per-trade fees are high and liquidity rebates rare.
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by gibybo 12y ago
The correct solution requires that you get out of the boat and put two cannibals on it. The statement that the boat holds "only you" and one other person very strongly implies that is not allowed.
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by gibybo 12y ago
You must be stating the missionaries and cannibals problem incompletely. If only one person can fit on the boat at a time (which is essentially the case because you didn't say the person operating the boat is a missionary or cannibal,
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by gibybo 12y ago
You can't tease us with such a question and not tell us what it is! Or perhaps you're still using it and don't want to reveal it publicly? :(
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by gibybo 12y ago
It was almost certainly shot with 35mm film. Film is analog so it doesn't have a well-defined resolution, but modern 35mm is pretty comparable to 4k (maybe a little less, depending on the quality of the camera/printing/etc)
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by gibybo 12y ago
Typical compression of 4k video ends up being more than a factor of 10 smaller.
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by gibybo 12y ago
You don't need to setup a corporation or payroll to get these benefits. Anyone can deduct business expenses. You end up paying the same payroll taxes either way.
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by gibybo 12y ago
The regulatory body that governs options restricts them for IPOs. There is a period of time (I believe it's 2 weeks) after IPO that options are not allowed to be traded in public markets, so you have to wait until then. At that point,
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by gibybo 12y ago
This would have no net effect on the supply of shares, so it would not decrease their share price (aside from temporary fluctuations while you are doing the buying/selling).
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by gibybo 12y ago
Yes you're basically right, but it is (perhaps unfortunately) a common way to express it in English. I.e. 2x fewer calories would imply 1/2 as many calories, 5x faster would imply 1/5th the time, etc.
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by gibybo 12y ago
Is there anything preventing the employees/founders from just immediately selling the Marin stock for its cash value? It's a public company so it should be trivial to sell for very near the same value given in the deal.
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by gibybo 12y ago
I used "//" to get around the http regex (but this requires using an https host as you mentioned), is there another way to get around the regex?
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by gibybo 12y ago
Using the oil packets and purchasing the most cost effective plan (28 bags for 255/month), Soylent gives you 220 calories per dollar. For a relatively sedentary averaged sized adult male (2100 calories/day), it will cost you about
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by gibybo 12y ago
I'm not familiar with the others, but Motley Fool's CAPS certainly does... I.e. http://caps.fool.com/player/gibybo.aspx shows accuracy, score (this is % return after subtracting the index), average score (sam
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by gibybo 12y ago
Ranking people by their recommendation performance is going to be very misleading for most people. There is this natural intuition to look at the top performers and try to learn from them. In reality, the rankings would look almost identica
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by gibybo 12y ago
From what I've seen, you generally need a 12-24 month lease to rent a house. I can sell my house whenever I want (or leave and rent it out to someone else), but if I'm stuck in a 24 month lease I'm stuck for the next 2 years.
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by gibybo 12y ago
Still though, aren't most consumers using their ISP's DNS servers, which will cache the same response for all of their customers in a region?
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by gibybo 12y ago
Their example for a 'high traffic' site struck me by surprise. With all the caching that goes on with DNS queries, 1.2B in a month seems incredibly high. I wouldn't have even imagined google.com getting that many requests to
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by gibybo 13y ago
I think you misunderstood the article. It's not about choosing how much to compensate someone. It's about how to allocate equity given a known compensation total.
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by gibybo 13y ago
This is probably the best equity compensation plan for pre-IPO companies I've seen so far. Vesting schedules for a fixed quantity of equity have always irked me for the same reason Max explains: they assume a constant value over the li
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by gibybo 13y ago
If it had 90% of movies and TV shows (weighted by popularity), I'd easily pay $100/month. Of course I could get it all for free by pirating it, but not having to would be tremendously more convenient.
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by gibybo 13y ago
It's unlikely to be the cause of your quality issues, but there is in fact a magical setting for stream quality in the Netflix player. With the player open (but not fullscreen) and streaming a video, press ctrl+alt+shift+s to select bi
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by gibybo 13y ago
The stock market averaged about 7% annually during that period (and it was a slow period. the average for most periods is roughly 10% annually).
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by gibybo 13y ago
While you are correct that it would require pretty above median savings, it wouldn't require anywhere near $125,000 back then. Interest is a very powerful force over 40 years. From 1949 to 1989, the stock market averaged 7.2% annually.
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by gibybo 13y ago
Vesting options at a startup are really like second-order options. If they were granted to you immediately they would just be ordinary options: you have the option to buy the stock at the strike price. However, since they must vest over a p
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by gibybo 13y ago
I'm not so sure that it's searchable. 3^81 is quite a lot. I don't know of any solved game with that many. Tic-tac-toe, connect 4, checkers, etc all have less. I think 3^81 is comparable to 9x9-Go and Chess which are both uns
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by gibybo 13y ago
30" used to be massive too, but TVs has steadily gotten bigger and now 30" seems absurdly small. TVs used to fit in 25" holes in entertainment centers, then in small nooks in walls and corners. They will continue to take up l
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by gibybo 13y ago
I watched a demo setup for a Sony 4k TV. It was ~60" IIRC and the differences in scenes from a few movies were subtle but noticeable when I was standing about 4 feet away. The difference in text was pretty big though. I think everyone
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by gibybo 13y ago
Capital gains varies a little depending on the asset (currencies, precious metals, real estate, etc have special rules), but generally it's 15% for long-term capital gains (1 year, not 2 years) and your regular income tax rate for shor
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by gibybo 13y ago
If Buffet only offered half the EV, it's likely you could sell your stake to another investor/insurance company/etc at something closer to the EV (maybe 90%+), so I think Buffet would have to offer close to that as well. You

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