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by gomox 8y ago
If the buyback is funded with credit, it's done on margin. I'm not sure how prevalent that has been during the last bull run.
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by gomox 8y ago
I understand the numbers, but they are highly misleading, which is my point. When you say it costs $X to do $Y, including in $X the cost of 20 other times you fail to do some other thing that isn't $Y is unexpected. Likewise re: opport
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by gomox 8y ago
The expensive bit are the clinical trials. They are required for approval, but they are research.
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by gomox 8y ago
This often quoted number includes the investments in failed drugs (an outstanding majority) and 1.5B of an 11% cost of capital "opportunity cost" (i.e. money not gained by investing in other stuff). It is therefore highly misleadi
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by gomox 8y ago
This is a fairly superficial article recapping what I would call "the naive narrative" about the crypto price drops. I.e. it's the information you would get if you asked a random person at a conference why they think the pric
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by gomox 8y ago
In trustworthy exchanges, trading fees. On Binance or the like, nothing, or market risk (i.e. other market actors profiting from your wash trading), depending on the level of cartelization you assume in the crypto whale demographic.
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by gomox 8y ago
Actually the system in Paris barely works anymore.
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by gomox 8y ago
Here's how a random invite looks like for me: https://imgur.com/a/I9NlO4X
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by gomox 8y ago
When you go to the actual conference in the calendar event, do you still see a Hangouts URL and UI? Maybe we are on different sides of an A/B test.
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by gomox 8y ago
That thing you are describing used to be Hangouts, but is now Meet.
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by gomox 8y ago
Now there's also "Meet". And "Duo". Or how about that time when they tried to merge SMS into Hangouts? What a trainwreck.
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by gomox 8y ago
That's a dramatic misrepresentation. Source: operated startup selling to LATAM customers, used Stripe.
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by gomox 8y ago
Very interesting. I always assumed that the SP500 index composition was some sort of loss leader for SP where the brand awareness created by the SP500 name served as proof of legitimacy for some other service. Never thought the index compos
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by gomox 8y ago
Riot.im makes vim's UX seem intuitive.
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by gomox 8y ago
I find your comment fascinating but even though I think I understand perfectly what an index fund is, I don't quite understand what it is that S&P sells for so much money. Could you clarify this for me? I.e. who buys from you, and
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by gomox 8y ago
How can you be sure about this? Disclosing the existence of a short makes people doubt the bias in every piece of information you bring up. Keeping a position secret might be more effective than disclosing. I know when I watched that Herbal
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by gomox 8y ago
I would have to agree. Booking.com is on its own league.
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by gomox 8y ago
Based on the astounding level of UX dark patterns on TripAdvisor's existing design I can't say I have high hopes for whatever "revamped design" they come up with.
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by gomox 8y ago
NFC has nothing to do with this as I am talking about a regular U2F YubiKey that I could use by physically plugging into a computer in the rare scenario where I might lose my phone.
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by gomox 8y ago
Even though my intuition is that the lousy product manager who made that decision did it because of this reasoning, I would venture that 99.999% of the people prefer to find their phone when they lose it than having this guarantee by defaul
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by gomox 8y ago
For some reason Google Smart Lock doesn't allow you to use a U2F Yubikey as a backup to the phone-based prompt. Seems totally absurd as a Yubikey is the perfect backup to a lost phone. Also did I mention that if you use 2FA, Google&#x2
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by gomox 8y ago
You can't really kick these things on uphills (I've only used Lime scooters, but I'm assuming others are similar). They are very far off the ground for any practical kicking, and since it's the front wheel that is powere
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by gomox 8y ago
I used Limes in Prague recently and based on my experience on those mild hills I was actually wondering if they have different ones in San Francisco, because I don't see them being of much use there.
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by gomox 8y ago
Im pretty sure for each loud motorcycle that drives by your street there are 20 angry neighbors wherever the owner lives :)
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by gomox 8y ago
I find the pitch story compelling and the idea intriguing, but having people download an app for it strikes me as frictional and a bit invasive. Essentially you are asking me to volunteer relationships that are usually in a somewhat fragile
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by gomox 8y ago
Loud motorcycles should be violently taxed and restricted to low density zones of operation. I can't think of any other behavior that is as destructive to the common good for so little benefit to the individual. "I like loud sound
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by gomox 8y ago
That is absurd. It's working Internet Money that you can use.
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by gomox 8y ago
As someone fairly knowledgeable about the Ethereum ecosystem I am pretty impressed by the mostly accurate portrayal of the social intricacies of the scene. I wonder how long this took to research.
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by gomox 8y ago
Can you expand on what you mean by that?
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by gomox 8y ago
Can we please have blockquote syntax now?

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