harryh

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by harryh 6y ago
a number of articles reporting that a substantial number of Americans cannot afford an unexpected bill of $300 That reporting is wrong. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-04/the-40...
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Pretty sure that is required language when spending money on political advertising.
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by harryh 6y ago
Almost every major CA problem is connected to Prop 13 in one way or another. It's remarkable how much it has screwed up state and local governments.
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by harryh 6y ago
Sure. Something important happens. Whoever reacts the fastest has an edge. I don't really know whether we're measuring "reacts the fastest" in terms of microseconds yet these days, but fastest is fastest no matter how mu
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by harryh 6y ago
None of those models will fully disconnect participants their real world experience and the incentives that creates. At the end of the day if I can see something in the real world and react to it faster than you can, that will give me an ed
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by harryh 6y ago
It's important to understand the original business model of IEX (and IEX's hedge fund backers) and why they put in the speedbump. When large well informed funds want to trade large blocks of shares the price tends to quickly move
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by harryh 6y ago
It doesn't matter if you don't advertise orders until the end of the second. There is a whole world of information out there outside if your particular exchange. People trade on that information, so they will wait until the last p
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by harryh 6y ago
The amount of money being made in the arms race has gone down hugely over time due to computerization. Spreads are 1/10th of what they used to be (or smaller in many cases). There's really no need to fight this fight with taxes.
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by harryh 6y ago
There are several problems with trading at 1 second intervals (or any other fixed interval): A) What do you do when bids and asks do not match up? Who's orders get filled and who's do not? There are several possible answers to thi
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by harryh 6y ago
To the degree that Seattle is inherently expensive, then sure. But to the degree that it is unnecessarily expensive because of laws that make it illegal for people to build sufficient housing on property they own, then those laws are bad.
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by harryh 6y ago
Seattle is a city. If you want to live someplace that "doesn't feel like a city" then....don't live in a city. While, perhaps, you moving might "contribute to that sprawl" that impact will be more than offset
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by harryh 6y ago
I can only really speak in much detail about Christianity and Judaism but this is a pretty big misinterpretation of how marriage is supposed to work in both of these religions. While both are generally against divorce they also specify guid
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by harryh 6y ago
In contexts like construction or sports referring to an all male group as "girls" or "ladies" is derisive or, at the very least, sarcastic. It's interesting to consider the implications of that.
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by harryh 6y ago
Well that brings me back to my original question (which you did not answer). Do you think if people consistently referred to a group of people that included you as "hey girls" you would find it....a bit strange?
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by harryh 6y ago
So when you refer to a group of mix gendered people as "guys", it's an indication that you don't respect the women in the group? They haven't earned if from you yet?
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by harryh 6y ago
Do you think if people consistently referred to a group of people that included you as "hey girls" you would find it....a bit strange?
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by harryh 6y ago
1) The "my friend" at the end of OPs comment is the connection to Mitt Romney. It's a relatively famous quote, much to my dismay. 2) No corporations are not people. That is, quite obviously, a non-sequitur. They do, however,
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by harryh 6y ago
I really wish people would stop repeating this line thinking they are making some kind of interesting point. Go watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St1wSWtm_BI Romney's point was that corporations are made
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by harryh 6y ago
In order to get from "one orange as a present once a year" to "bags of oranges every day" each day has to (on average) see a small amount of growth.
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by harryh 6y ago
Here it is in graph form: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/average-real-gdp-per-capi...
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by harryh 6y ago
The world is vastly richer today than it was in the past due to the development of new technologies and improved social systems.
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by harryh 6y ago
This is wrong. High trust societies where individuals can be expected to fulfill their obligations tend to prosper. Low trust societies where individuals cannot be trusted in this way tend to languish. Paying back debts according to an agre
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by harryh 6y ago
AWS credits aren't charity. They're an investment by Amazon that they hope will lead to future AWS revenue.
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by harryh 6y ago
re [1][2]: It's not clear to me how donating 10s of millions of dollars to prestigious universities in order to secure a grand total of 2 spots for his kids has made the world worse.
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by harryh 6y ago
You can FedEx an absentee ballot. There is no requirement to use USPS.
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by harryh 6y ago
Investment Bankers are performing a service for companies that IPO. For this service they get paid. One of the ways that they get paid is buy allocating IPO shares to favored clients. If you change the system so that they cannot get paid th
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by harryh 6y ago
Because rational actors won't submit bids at all in a system designed like that. If they do, they'll almost certainly enter a situation in which they end up owning stock that last traded at a price less than they paid.
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by harryh 6y ago
How do you go from "no cherry picking" straight to a wikipedia article on a single incident?
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by harryh 6y ago
The title for this post is misleading and should be changed. Minimum wage works can afford rent, just not at the (quite high) standards set in this study: - no more than 30% of income on rent - 40th percentile for rental prices in the loc
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by harryh 6y ago
I dunno why you're getting downvoted. I think this idea makes some sense. If you're doing something shady to your employer, it seems to me that it would feel a lot safer to do so while working from your home office by yourself the

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