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by hristov 10y ago
This is the result of our society screwing over the middle class and working people in general for many generations. It used to be the average joe could get a factory job after graduating highschool and be able to afford a modest home and s
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by hristov 10y ago
It is interesting that they would make this into an ASIC, provided how notoriously high the development costs for ASICs are. Are those costs coming down? If so life will get very hard for the FPGA makers of the world soon. It would be inter
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by hristov 10y ago
They are selling it. Goldman Sachs is selling the stock on behalf of Tesla.
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by hristov 10y ago
That is true. Also, Goldman Sachs is so experienced with conflicts of interest that they are just very good at handling them. You see Goldman Sachs experiences so many conflicts of interest all the time that they have obtained expertise in
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by hristov 10y ago
Probably valuations dropped low enough that yahoo can be valued as a classic media company instead of a tech company. What generally scares Buffet from tech is that the price of tech stocks is greatly inflated to reflect expectations of fut
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by hristov 10y ago
This means nothing. The big difference between alcohol and other drugs is that there is a relatively straightforward correlation between the amount of alcohol in the bloodstream and the current effect of alcohol on the brain. Somebody testi
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by hristov 10y ago
They got really screwed by their first banking partner. This is when having a good lawyer would have helped. The correct course of action would have been to politely tell the bank that they would not free the bank from their duties under th
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by hristov 10y ago
The very top of the market is already plummeting. I am talking about the nosebleed part of the market of 10+ million dollar apartments in new york, london and miami. These are already falling in prices as most hedge funders had a very bad 2
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by hristov 10y ago
I suppose that reddit threads with 1000+ comments will mention a lot of things. Seeing how they have so many comments and so much text and all.
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by hristov 11y ago
Of course there is a freedom argument to it. The freedom to contract line of reasoning is faulty because it ignores relative bargaining power or desparation. When you are worried you won't be able to pay the rent you are not likely to
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by hristov 11y ago
It is not only a packaging problem, there is a fundamental physics problem that cannot be avoided. When power is produced by the front wheels they create a force between them and the ground. This is the force that causes the car to accelera
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by hristov 11y ago
Front wheel drive is the norm for small cars because it is cheaper and more space efficient. Furthermore, the problems with front wheel drive a proportional to the ammount of torque the car produces. A lot of small economy cars are designed
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by hristov 11y ago
You are right. I meant to say understeer. I changed it. Thanks for pointing this out.
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by hristov 11y ago
He said the traction control engaged when accelerating out of some corners. That may be the result of high torque or a badly designed car. I really hope they do not make the mistake of making this a front wheel drive car. A front wheel driv
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by hristov 11y ago
As the article explains this is not a record for fiber in general but a record for a certain type of lower cost lasers. The headline was overly sensational.
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Andy Grove speech on the economy (2001, start at 7 min)(c-span.org)
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by hristov 11y ago
I used it a couple of times. One time my ex-girlfriend asked me to use it on her, but she did not tell me what her question was. I am pretty sure the question was about our relationship. Anyways, the result was the worst I-ching hexagram yo
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by hristov 11y ago
I should thank Mr. Locklin for bringing this little known car some attention. But I must also say that I am incredibly annoyed by the nasty chauvinistic "top gear" style of his writing. I have liked cars since I was a kid but now
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by hristov 11y ago
Chemical waste is a problem but it is not nearly as deadly or difficult to handle as nuclear waste. Just one obvious example -- you can put lead into metal blocks and store it virtually anywhere (well away from drinking water). Nuclear wast
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by hristov 11y ago
Were you also a self taught spammer or did you go to school for that?
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by hristov 11y ago
Yes it was incredibly successful because Buffet decided to turn it into his own holding company where he aggregated all his other purchases. But it was the other purchases that were successful, not the Berkshire business itself. The Berkshi
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by hristov 11y ago
The decline of sears is an interesting subject, but this particular blog post is just blogspam. Better to link to the actual article this blogspam post is inspired by: http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2016&#
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by hristov 11y ago
It should be noted that taking over Berkshire was probably the biggest mistake of Buffet's career. If journalists were comparing the purchase of Sears with the purchase of Berkshire they were already predicting trouble (probably uninte
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by hristov 11y ago
Skiing is already risky enough he shouldn't have TV stations adding to the risk. It is wrong to say "well it is risky anyways, so who cares about one more source of risk." This is like saying that someone is already rich anyw
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by hristov 11y ago
What this article left unsaid was that the project was started before the time of Margaret Thatcher but ended in production during Margaret Thatcher's premiership. Margaret Thatcher is well known to oppose the public rails and all othe
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by hristov 11y ago
I do hope rents start falling. In this economic environment of prolonged super low interest rates we shouldn't have shortage of housing.
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by hristov 11y ago
Bullshit. I am sure the ~100k mercenaries in Iraq did a great job of stopping al Queada. In fact mercenaries seem to encourage terrorism because they tend to be responsible for abuses and unlawful killings on foreign soil. Mercenaries were
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by hristov 11y ago
Both Germany and Japan ban insider trading. It is debatable whether their regulations are lighter and whether their regulations are sufficiently lighter to make a difference.
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by hristov 11y ago
Nope, what would happen is that everyone without inside information would simply not trade in that security. You would not have a stock market because only people that know the company very well would dare buy stock in it. The cost of capit
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by hristov 11y ago
I have tried the Tesla autopilot and completely agree with you. The tesla cruise control is very good at controlling the speed and the brakes, but once you give it control of the wheel it gets very dangerous. The car is prone to making a sh

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