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by hedgew 8y ago
I'd love to see more of these genuine, high-level business conversations. It can be difficult to learn and understand what really goes on "at the top", because probably every top exec is under some pressure to appear superhum
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by hedgew 8y ago
Augur will probably be used for betting but really it's a prediction market. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market Prediction markets are an interesting tool for determining the most likely answer or res
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by hedgew 8y ago
The ISSpresso linked in the article was interesting. I like how clean and robust the controls look. Totally unlike most consumer products. I'd pay well to have more controls like that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by hedgew 8y ago
Each year the internet and its services are less and less for hackers and more and more for the general public. This is reflected in how everything is designed. The average person has totally different needs and usage patterns than power us
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by hedgew 8y ago
Here's the key sentence which roughly translates into "Losses are not deductible" > "Sopimussuhteeseen liittyvät menetykset eivät ole tuloverolain mukaisessa verotuksessa vähennyskelpoisia." Additionally, Example
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by hedgew 8y ago
It is. Net profits are not taxed, but the profits of any profitable trade are. Trades resulting in loss are ignored. The tax authorities interpreted cryptocurrencies not as a currency or as a financial asset, but as "trade agreements&q
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by hedgew 8y ago
It only applies to cryptocurrencies.
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by hedgew 8y ago
That doesn't sound right. The authorities in Finland specifically tax gains made with cryptocurrencies. You only pay tax if you make profit on any individual trade. But you can not deduct trades that made a loss. It's not exactly
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by hedgew 8y ago
All they're doing is looking for bank transactions to crypto exchanges in citizens' accounts. What this article doesn't tell, is that the current cryptocurrency taxation in Finland is unreasonable. You pay 30-34% tax on any p
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by hedgew 9y ago
A Scandinavian economist once said to Milton Friedman, ‘In Scandinavia, we have no poverty’. Milton Friedman replied, ‘That’s interesting, because in America, among Scandinavians, we have no poverty, either’ (quoted by Kotkin, 2009).
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by hedgew 9y ago
In Europe, I pay $20 for unlimited mobile data at 100mbps.
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by hedgew 9y ago
I got curious and had to check the numbers, just to know what's real: Australia: 7.7 million km² United States: 9.8 million km² Europe: 10.2 million km² Russia: 17.1 million km² Africa: 30.37 million km²
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by hedgew 9y ago
Many of the more reasonable criticisms of the memo say that it wasn't written well enough; it could've been more considerate, it should have used better language, or better presentation. In this particular link, Scott Alexander is
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by hedgew 9y ago
This is obviously unethical. That it might not be illegal is our failing. They provide false solutions to a fear that they themselves create. What's next? Giving every child a free phone on their 13th birthday? They already "gifte
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by hedgew 9y ago
According to their numbers, 3% of their users have gotten married through the app. I wonder what that number is for Tinder?
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by hedgew 9y ago
Anki is sort of designed for this. You would have to manually add the highlights, though.
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Gender Imbalances Are Mostly Not Due to Offensive Attitudes(slatestarcodex.com)
3 points by hedgew 9y ago|0 comments
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by hedgew 9y ago
I quite liked the European competitor's original name, Joylent. To avoid legal issues they eventually changed the name and somehow ended up with "Jimmy Joy". That name was so intensely disliked that they renamed it again in a
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by hedgew 9y ago
What a massive claim! Of course, after carefully reading the article several times just to make sure, it's just one attention-grabbing line said in one speech, by one person. To prove this sort of claim, you'd need to challenge th
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Does Diversity Pay?(journals.sagepub.com)
1 points by hedgew 9y ago|0 comments
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by hedgew 9y ago
One significant problem is that teams have much more negotiating power than individuals. Which is why teams that stay together are consulting agencies. To put it simply: The software development department of a company might bring the compa
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by hedgew 9y ago
The way I see it, this is the employer's problem. In a good company, what benefits the company, also benefits the employee. In this case the employee and the company have different incentives, and the company does not care enough to so
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by hedgew 9y ago
I am confused too. You can compare the market caps in a sense. A company with 1000 shares worth $10 each has the same market cap as a cryptocurrency with 1000 tokens worth $10 each. The $10 price is the highest price people are willing to b
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by hedgew 9y ago
I'm so, so skeptical of the current cryptocurrency valuations. $200 mil for a browser with no users. $1.5 billion for a coin that was twice renamed to hide that it was premined. $500 million for a Reddit with less than 1/10000 of
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by hedgew 9y ago
What will happen once Bitcoin is replaced by a clearly superior technology? It is quite likely that cryptocurrencies and related tech will revolutionize many aspects of our lives. But that is also exactly why Bitcoin will decline. Its curre
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by hedgew 9y ago
Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuvmV5O-qTA
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by hedgew 9y ago
1. An AI might not need long exponential growth to make humans obsolete. Maybe the computing power of one data center is enough to outperform and dominate humans? Imagine if you had infinite patience, and experienced time 1000x slower than
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by hedgew 9y ago
The amount of low-quality, negative comments here is surprising. I read the whole article carefully and it seems quite reasonable.
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by hedgew 9y ago
I was never a big fan of Wunderlist, it was too much eye-candy and too few features for me. But it was the best todo app the whole family could use. Support for all platforms, simple list sharing, and the ability to set custom backgrounds a
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An issue whose time has come(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
1 points by hedgew 10y ago|0 comments

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