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by hiq 5y ago
> The simple answer is that if a stock is expected to never pay any dividends, it's intrinsic value is zero. Which is obviously wrong, right? Any company that has liquid assets (and no debt) is at least worth the selling value of th
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by hiq 5y ago
> It's still FOSS, except if you are making millions using it and the entire issue becomes a luxury problem. I guess we can discuss what should be, but AFAICT it's just not FOSS according to the OSI or the FSF.
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by hiq 5y ago
> Since most crypto tokens produce negligible free cash flows relative to their market cap, they have approximately zero intrinsic value relative to their market price. What's the intrinsic value of stocks that don't distribute
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You're saying that they should make their software proprietary to solve the problem of FOSS maintenance. That's forgetting the implicit requirement that it should remain FOSS.
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> Bitcoin fixes this. No one has ever explained a better solution to inflation than Bitcoin. Does anyone seriously claim that Bitcoin is currently solving inflation? I've heard some claims that it will eventually be the case, but cl
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by hiq 5y ago
> Just do it. Install it, then help her if you have to, similarly to how you introduced WhatsApp I think the point is that you don't need to help her for apps like WhatsApp, they manage to figure it out because it's simple enou
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by hiq 5y ago
> They publish some source code but obviously we can’t verify the actual code running on iOS or (I assume) Android devices am I right? No, they have reproducible builds. Everything else you said apply even more to other apps, not sure wh
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by hiq 5y ago
That's a different threat model, no messaging app is trying to protect the sender from the receiver. Disappearing messages are meant to protect two parties communicating with each other against a 3rd party who would eventually gain acc
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How the Brains of ‘Super-Multitaskers’ Are Different (2015)(thecut.com)
1 points by hiq 5y ago|0 comments
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From your examples, it seems that you make a distinction between B2B (with possibly internal clients) and B2C. The general advice that would still apply to both would be: understand who your client is and what they need in the context in wh
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Schopenhauer: On Reading and Books(fs.blog)
101 points by hiq 5y ago|21 comments
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by hiq 5y ago
> Each of those uses significantly more energy than Bitcoin. These discussions should talk about the ratio between a certain measure of productivity (e.g. GDP generated for the country) to the energy use; energy on its own does not mean
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> Tech salaries in continental Europe are significantly lower than in the US or UK. With the exception of Switzerland.
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Does it? Why would they contribute to PureOS instead of Debian for packages that are in both?
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Debian without contrib / non-free would be RYF-compliant, that's basically the Trisquel distribution. Taking Debian and making it RYF-compliant is not really an achievement. Sure, it's nice, but it doesn't bring much to
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by hiq 5y ago
> Humans are the weakest link in any realistic security model. That's the point, a blockchain doesn't solve this. So what do you think it brings in this case?
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by hiq 5y ago
> For example, I had to close my Swiss bank account (I'm Swiss) when I spent a lot of time in the US (no green card or residency there). For what reason? How did they know you were there?
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by hiq 5y ago
> we use practically 0 Swiss trains. They are super expensive I guess you know that, but if you live in Switzerland you're supposed to have the discount card ("demi-tarif") which makes the train way more affordable. It&#x2
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by hiq 5y ago
> Source: Quick Google image search for the power sources over time plots. Which plot did you use exactly? Another comment written before yours seems to indicate it's not the case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by hiq 5y ago
Maybe I should have written "web browser bookmarks"? I do use web links and put them in various places, just not in the browser where they lack context. But still, maybe you end up with this unique link once in a while, and if it&
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by hiq 5y ago
It sounds like you could just close these tabs once you switch to another one, or maybe have a timer on them so that they auto-close after N hours. There are probably extensions for that. I use very few bookmarks now, the ones I have are ju
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by hiq 5y ago
You don't have to propagate the transaction to other miners.
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by hiq 5y ago
> I've not used airbnb so often, but even booking only a few weeks ahead I've had hosts cancel with essentially zero notice I have little experience with airbnb as well, but don't they help you find another one in this cas
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by hiq 5y ago
1. PTA in itself does not provide you all the tools to validate these, but it's low-level enough that you can implement any validation you want on top easily, if you're proficient with CLI tools. I don't think I would use it
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by hiq 5y ago
I'm not that familiar with the theory, in my case I just got started and now I'm used to it. Just to take the last example: 2021-03-20 Sprouts expenses:food:groceries $100 assets:cash $40
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by hiq 5y ago
It looks like you don't feel like doing full accounting, in that case I'd say it's fine to stick to whatever you're doing. Accounting not done properly (e.g. with missing or incorrect transactions) is not (much) better t
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by hiq 5y ago
I was trying to figure what this XIRR does: XIRR is the Excel function computing the IRR, which I didn't know about: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/irr.asp But this is actually equivalent to what I knew
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by hiq 5y ago
Not sure it's losing motivation rather than being confronted to one's wishful thinking. If I have so many plans for when I retire early, how come I do none of it now? If that's really what I want, how come I don't spend
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by hiq 5y ago
> The $180K is the max I could get in my industry How do you know that for a fact? I think you hint at this a bit in your previous comments, but if your city / field are small to the point that every employer is like any other and t
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by hiq 5y ago
> in the F500 corporate and contracting world Why are you stuck with this world if there's a clear ceiling? > at best I'm going to get a salary offer of maybe $180K If you get a $20k increase every 2 years starting from $160

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