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by hnews_account_1 7y ago
1) It's a visible hand now. Adam Smith was a while ago and much has changed across economics. Enough that what you'd think are timeless truths have also become false. 2) We have a name for this hand - the federal reserve of the un
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by hnews_account_1 7y ago
Oh please. We all know that scam. Unless you can create magical math out of thin air that produces a positive npv after negative fcff for multiple years, it is complete and utter bullshit. Take it from someone who has spent way too much tim
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by hnews_account_1 7y ago
Indeed. And while those financial numbers may show the truth if you squeeze it in a certain way, they're epically useless in the long run. 2 examples for my non financial friends: Tesla has had negative cash flows for 5 full years unti
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by hnews_account_1 7y ago
Isn't netflix's tech implementation exceptionally good? I've heard much praise about how much they've leveraged python in their systems. I'd expect them to be much more on top of their security than financial compan
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by hnews_account_1 7y ago
No. He's describing one side of the equation, which is companies forcing you to produce a favourable report. That is almost common knowledge at this point in the industry and he's absolutely spot on. What I'm including beyond
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by hnews_account_1 7y ago
The entire sell side business is filled with sycophant analysts being paid under the table for producing good reports. The entire training set is bullshit if all you have as your "correct" dataset are these corrupt fuckers.
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by hnews_account_1 7y ago
Onedrive is unbelievably cheap in India. I think I initially bought it for ~Rs. 3700 for one year. Every fucking year after that they've been raising prices and sending me an email about it. And every year I check up on competition and
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by hnews_account_1 7y ago
In my experience, if you're not doing programmatic access into your synced folders, onedrive and Dropbox perform similarly enough to not make a noticeable difference to the average user. But if you do large amount of read / writes