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Cash App Experiencing Issues with BTC Transactions(status.cash.app)
2 points by gvhst 6y ago|1 comments
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by gvhst 6y ago
MDMA Increases Cooperation and Recruitment of Social Brain Areas When Playing Trustworthy Players in an Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma https://www.jneurosci.org/content/39/2/307 Abstract ran through a text
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by gvhst 6y ago
In the old days they provided growth equity to businesses that generally wouldn't have access to that capital. Now I'd say your observations are pretty much accurate.
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by gvhst 6y ago
its a procedure with a painful recovery?
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by gvhst 6y ago
However, what isn't covered (and this is especially pertinent for ride sharing) is the time between ending a job and taking the next job. While I wouldn't expect anything like full-time pay, Uber/Lyft et. al. still get a bene
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by gvhst 6y ago
If you start to restrict carbohydrate intake this helps with the low energy and irritability in my opinion. Been doing a 18-6 fasting since May (with some cheat days) and feel incredible.
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by gvhst 6y ago
Not for HN, but the less technology literate individuals certainly doesn't think about this.
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by gvhst 6y ago
I don't think you're using the term Fiat currency properly. Gold is only worth something if other believe it is worth something. It's use in electronics and industry only makes up around 7% of total supply [0]. Yet, gold isn&
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by gvhst 6y ago
Classic fund manager who can't make returns in a new market regime and decides to cope by complaining on CNBC
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by gvhst 6y ago
While TSLA does seem to have a history of these issues I wonder how bad the problems are relative to other car makers who have had to make a large number of recalls over the years. I wouldn't be surprised if Tesla still has a higher de
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by gvhst 6y ago
That's kind of like saying that this super cheap SUV from 2003 is a better off-roader than the latest Ferrari. Like, true statement, but vacuous none the less.
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by gvhst 6y ago
I've listened to a number of his recent episodes in full and haven't really heard any culture wars topics addressed. Is this related to his recent episode with Joe Rogan?
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by gvhst 6y ago
The market size and business opportunity is not measured by units sold but by overall revenue. Am I missing something?
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by gvhst 6y ago
I don't think the direction we are going towards will erode the differentiation between private and public markets. A skill based assessment (required to have series 7/65/82, other designations like CFA will eventually be inc
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by gvhst 6y ago
Isn't sharpe invariant to leverage? If I lever up a position 2x my return doubles as does the volatility (StdDev) of the position. Metrics like alpha are better able to tease out if a portfolio is simply levered to a market factor.
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by gvhst 6y ago
BREAKING NEWS: During a recession people will try to save by buying cheaper but lower quality goods. There likely is also a non-trivial nationalism effect here. I don't think this has anything to do with the relative quality of product
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by gvhst 6y ago
Bill, I thought you were a pretty smart guy... Can't you think of anything that will increase public health knowledge and awareness (especially vaccines) that doesn't involve monitoring private conversations for goodthink? I think
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by gvhst 6y ago
I'd say that the biggest change is that you now can use that same app to effortlessly hail a car in New York, Hong Kong and Sao Paulo. The fact that I don't have to stress and figure out a new taxi system every new city I visit is
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by gvhst 6y ago
By what mechanism will people who didn't consent come into contact with LSD? As residue accidentally transferred by physical contact? By that logic peanuts and other tree nuts should be illegal because trances of its oils can kill thos
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by gvhst 6y ago
Because of the ACA insurance providers cannot deny people based off of pre-existing conditions [0]. There have been several challenges to this point coming from the right centering around how the individual mandate may make the entire law u
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by gvhst 6y ago
The Fed doesn’t do security selection. If the Fed isn’t equipped to analyze and select individuals securities. Additionally selecting individual names is a huge political concern. How do you decide which issues to buy? Personally I’d rathe
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by gvhst 6y ago
Same reason why it’s not accurate to include a worker who work 1 month and quit as having made $10k/year on an annual salary of $120k.
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by gvhst 6y ago
Not if they company is buying back shares at an inflated valuation, which sadly too often the case.
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by gvhst 6y ago
I missed pretty much the same amount of school during SARS in Hong Kong in 2003. This was before any sort of remote learning was possible, I didn’t do school work for pretty much a whole semester. I didn’t feel that this held me back at all
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by gvhst 6y ago
From the standpoint of a developing nation which relies on oil as a large chunk of the state’s income / portion of the economy, yes
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by gvhst 7y ago
Bonds have both an income return and price return component. If interest rates go down, Treasuries go up in price. TLT (20+ Year Treasury ETF) has been up nearly 20% since this bout of panic set in.
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by gvhst 7y ago
This isn't only because of COVID-19. The OPEC+ union between Russia and Saudi Arabia broke down yesterday. The Saudi's are now flooding the market with crude and are likely going to increase production to record levels. Crude is d
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by gvhst 7y ago
Aggressive driving will be captured and recorded by multiple cameras (potentially by multiple vehicles), making most court cases open-and-shut. I think that serves to put the fear in people.
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by gvhst 7y ago
While there were definitely a bunch of shady things going on (e.g. Paulson helping Goldman negotiate a 100% payout of AIGs CDS obligations) during the crisis, the treasury actually made a profit of $15.3bn on TARP.
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by gvhst 7y ago
The strategy is capacity constrained, they’ve returned all outside investor capital and distribute profit to employees to keep capital within accessible levels. The $1mm wouldn’t be able to compound as you’ve described as much of the profit

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