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by hpkuarg 6y ago
Is your roommate on a VPN? It looks like Verizon is having trouble only with traffic to certain destinations (perhaps Google and AWS).
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
The most regulated way to short it is via CME Bitcoin futures[0]. However, it's quite heavily leveraged at 5 bitcoins per contract -- meaning each contract is ~$157k of notional value at today's close. This, combined with the vola
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
I've always liked how many countries separate head of state from head of government, because I see the two as separate roles: one whose job is to be the most excellent person of that nationality, and the other to be the political leade
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
What a great movie! Still my favorite Tarantino film to date. I suppose the whole accents thing was directed for the primarily Anglophone viewer (since some of it depends on reading the subtitles, if you do not understand the language), so
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
SmartOS might interest you. It's not BSD (derived from Solaris), but it is marvelous for OS-level containers.
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
Big city mayors, some of whom then turned around and dined indoors at $400 a plate kind of restaurants.
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
> Apple dramatically ramped up iPhone production in India and Brazil Increased production in India and Brazil don't do anything for the loss of U.S. manufacturing.
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
A crash in the real economy, if you will. Equity prices may or may not follow. There's a good chance that one year from now, the S&P 500 will be substantially lower than it is today.
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
The next few years will be a very interesting time in global markets, so whichever way it goes, I'm sure you'll have something to write about. ;-)
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
Mount Pinatubo, in the Philippines, erupted in 1991 at VEI-6 (the same as Krakatoa in 1883), to similar artistic delight. Ken Rockwell has a series of photos[1] that beautifully illustrate the otherworldly quality of light that the particul
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
Yes. These /BRR contracts trade on Globex like most other futures contracts, meaning around-the-clock (23/5) trading. Liquidity is fine for single contracts in the front month -- bid/ask spreads are one to three ticks, and yo
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
CME offers Bitcoin futures[1], available for trading via Globex. It's a futures contract, so you won't hold any BTC position (long or short), and it's actually cash-settled, so you don't have to worry about delivering or
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
Direct democracy also leads to dumpster fires of a policy choice like Proposition 13 for your southern neighbors. No guarantees it wouldn't have passed through regular legislative channels, I suppose...
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
New Mexico is possibly the most underrated state in the union, when it comes to the beauty of the landscape.
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
Americans do have kettles, they just suck at 110V.
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
"The fraud cycle follows the business cycle."
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
They did elect Cleaver Greene to the Senate, after all. ;-)
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
Man, Russia has way more people than I thought. For some reason I expected it to be less than 100 million total.
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
I think the GP misspoke when they said "option traders". Market makers want to be delta-neutral -- they don't want to care whether the underlying goes up or down, since they buy and sell both puts and calls and profit from th
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
University of Phoenix was founded and is based in Phoenix, Arizona, so if you want to put scare quotes on a part of it, maybe "University" of Phoenix is the better way. ;-)
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
> like to do with power and not sex "Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power."
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
We don't need some complicated cash transfer scheme -- land value tax will let the market solve this problem over time, and ensure that no economic rent inures to the landowner, who (as you rightfully mention) did nothing to create the
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
Second time in this thread you've mentioned the right IRC channels. Does one need to invoke some secret code to find out what they are? :-)
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
I believe some highways are purposely built slightly crooked (like an S) over long flat stretches, to keep drivers more engaged and less likely to fall asleep. I'm not sure if there are any that are built that way to look straight on M
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
That is absolutely not what rent-seeking means. Users of the SaaS are still gaining value from it -- otherwise they wouldn't be using it anymore. It is only economic rent, and rent-seeking behavior, if the OP instead focuses their ener
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
Interesting discussion. Take some of the districts shown in your source: NY-10, a Democratic district, is like half of Manhattan plus bits of Brooklyn. PA-13, a Republican district, is 98% rural Pennsylvania with some small towns thrown in.
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
Half of the top ten in that list cannot be called "extremely liberal" (or for some, even moderately liberal) -- Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Florida, and Arizona; even fewer in the next ten. I don't disagree with you vis-a-vis the an
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
Like we needed any more proof that we live in a simulation.
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
That's fair! I do acknowledge conceit in my comment, but you can attribute that to my jealously (as an eastern seaboarder) of the landscapes of the American West.
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by hpkuarg 6y ago
Likely only by virtue of it sitting on Federal land (the District of Columbia). That is, if by the National Park designation you mean to imply a level of grandeur and majesty that the likes of Zion or Glacier National Parks bring. To be fai

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