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by graedus 9y ago
I don't think it rates as "hipster", but Foundation works fine. https://foundation.zurb.com/
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by graedus 9y ago
You're paying with your data, same as with Facebook and many others. These extremely successful businesses are obviously able to make plenty of money using that data.
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by graedus 9y ago
Author has now added the "Do What The Fuck You Want Public License" (v2) [0] [0] https://github.com/p1v0t/Sort/blob/master/LICENSE.md
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by graedus 9y ago
IANAL My understanding is that proof of intent to break the law is not the legal standard needed to move forward with prosecution[0]. It's being used as cover for insufficient political will to prosecute a powerful protected class - W
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by graedus 9y ago
Presumably things are discussed in those terms at the shareholder meetings. The "feel good pseudoscientific bullshit" is of course PR and should be ignored.
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by graedus 9y ago
> a really smart thief with enough money behind them might not even need to steal any Bitcoins. They could just destroy cold wallet keys in a very stealthy way and profit from the appreciation of coins they hold elsewhere. This is a cool
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by graedus 9y ago
> The key difference between an asset and investment is that investments produce returns. Right, but an asset can go up in price and stay there if demand increases and/or the currency the price is denominated in is losing value over
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by graedus 9y ago
> I think this is easier said than done. Agreed > And once that happens, why sell half of it, vs all of it? 3 times the current value is a LOT of money and that usually takes at least 8-10 years in the equity market. Now that it happe
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by graedus 9y ago
The unit error is in the comparison between USD/year (a rate) and USD (a value at a single point in time)
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by graedus 9y ago
So a basic problem arises when this belief causes people to vote against their interests for policies that benefit the actually-rich to their own (incorrectly expecting that they will be rich next year) detriment. Tax cuts for the rich and
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by graedus 9y ago
It only becomes remotely intelligible if you include these extra constraints: - Assume all other houses in the area also appreciated the same amount as the poster's house (say 2x). - Assume the poster will only consider a move within t
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by graedus 9y ago
I think the post you're responding to is being critical of the unexplained/unexamined axiom that "deflation is bad", which is usually an underlying assumption in the financial press.
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by graedus 9y ago
Presumably those fans are buying those things at least in part because they want to have the album, concert experience, or merch . With twitch donations/tips you get comparatively very little in return - your username might pop up in
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by graedus 9y ago
I'm guessing the argument is that some significant portion of the demand for NVDA parts is due to crypto mining (I don't know how significant). If you imagine that demand dying down then NVDA doesn't look as good I suppose.
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by graedus 9y ago
Thanks for the information. About how often do you have to replace the filter in that unit?
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by graedus 9y ago
Maybe they arrived at that gray by increasing the transparency of the normal text color.
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Hunting for Radio Frequency Interference(youtube.com)
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by graedus 9y ago
Really interesting. There are a few scenes like this in the excellent art film Homo Sapiens[0][1] that stuck with me. Overgrown Japanese landscape with vending machines (don't remember if these were actually powered though). [0] htt
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by graedus 9y ago
> cheaper, more expensive Huh. It's cheaper (worse quality) but costs more money?
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by graedus 9y ago
Or, bail them out (emergency liquidity, QE1, etc) but also nationalize them at least on a temporary basis so that as they recover, the profits do not go to private pockets but rather are socialized.
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by graedus 9y ago
Yes they do. Here's a Bloomberg headline I just ran across today: "Rich Retirees Are Hoarding Cash Out of Fear" [0] The word hoarding is often used to cast ordinary and prudent saving of stable, non-speculative currencies li
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by graedus 9y ago
Cool. What's the bot written in, just out of curiosity?
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by graedus 9y ago
The massive cost of the great financial crisis to everyone except the financial elite is deeply underappreciated by most people. High finance and central bank operations (QE etc) are generally perceived as both dauntingly incomprehensible
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by graedus 9y ago
Good point. I wonder if this might be measurably worse. A click-bait image might have the power to grab your attention from your peripheral vision in a way that pure text, however click-baity, can't.
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by graedus 9y ago
I think even with the broader context it doesn't sit right with me, because he could have easily made the completely serious and valid point about banks needing to be competent at their core functions without characterizing "doing
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by graedus 9y ago
Off-topic, sorry: Levine gets a lot of praise around here, and he does have a great talent for breaking down complex finance topics so that they're easy to understand and often entertaining to read about. That being said, sometimes he
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by graedus 9y ago
Link can be found in the footer. In my experience it's more commonly placed in the top nav which is more prominent.
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by graedus 9y ago
> The problem is, it could be years before there is a collapse, or it could be tomorrow. That's a lot of yield you might be losing out on. A near similar argument could be made in 2014. You probably could have doubled or tripled you
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by graedus 9y ago
> So I would say you're not an odd duck, there's just a different set of values you're trying to signal. I agreed with most of your comment, but this sentence seems to imply that all decisions are purely or at least prim
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by graedus 9y ago
Indeed, or a USB drive.

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