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by iaw 10y ago
I think this is a pretty prescient move. I am having a harder time every year having a normal life in the Bay Area. One thing I wish is that {insert current employer} would do the same thing and then subsidize Fiber in the new area to ensu
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by iaw 10y ago
He can get to the region, with weights, and home within an afternoon
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by iaw 10y ago
You're more likely to end up having a ton of wonderful hikes through the park system. He doesn't just go out there to check his gold ;)
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by iaw 10y ago
Depends on how far he had to raft, it could be a hundred yards between where he enters the river and where he leaves it. He's been hiking those forests for years.
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by iaw 10y ago
There's I think 5 states that it's been narrowed down to. I actually have a map open on my computer now that reduces the searchable area to 10%. It is out there, but don't make assumptions about what/how Fenn did his th
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by iaw 10y ago
> People who are criticizing Mayer's deal are failing to realize that Mayer had better options than taking over as head of yahoo. Could you provide sources for this? What opportunities were available to Mayer better than being an e
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by iaw 10y ago
My tolerance for volatility and loss is higher than the traditional investor. Beyond Burton Malkiel's random walk there's Modern Portfolio Theory. There are three pools of asset-classes that I consider: Bonds - Historic low rates
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by iaw 10y ago
See virmundi's comment. I've been able to make sizable returns by not buying when things were overpriced and then buying when they are under priced. This doesn't mean all of my money, but enough that it's worth the ti
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by iaw 10y ago
Have you read the classic article (Atlantic maybe?) about the origins of the game Monopoly? The original purpose was to point out the unsustainable nature of land ownership amongst other things.
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by iaw 10y ago
This is the critical questions. I'm betting on an implosion and saving a ton of cash + a little extra bonds for the fire-sale.
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by iaw 10y ago
By income or by wealth? If you make more than six figures you are in the upper income bracket regardless of how much you save or what your regional cost of living bracket is.
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by iaw 10y ago
The article addresses this.
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by iaw 10y ago
When the Winklevoss twins became aware of BTC (or at least shortly after they started talking about it publicly), some classic market manipulation ploys began appearing. It could be coincidental, but I've always been suspicious that th
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by iaw 10y ago
Wikileaks stopped being about 'radical transparency' when Julian Assange felt personally threatened by Hillary Clinton and Google. Since then the Wikileaks agenda appears to be more about attacking and undermining US policy and s
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by iaw 10y ago
Did you read about the lawsuit against Michael Dell after taking Dell private? Essentially he was sued because there was a price differential between the PE firms bid and the "true" market value of Dell, both of which were drasti
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by iaw 10y ago
Their growth figures look really bad relative to Facebook at the same stage.
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by iaw 10y ago
I was thinking that past a certain threshold of moves the probability of clicking a mine in most strategies will drop to zero, the question I had was if there were a specific strategy where that probability would never increase past 0. From
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by iaw 10y ago
I've downvoted your comment because the article is referring to a very specific localized housing bubble in Toronto due (potentially) to the behavior of foreign investors. This is not an article about startup or the US stock-market bub
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by iaw 10y ago
I've downvoted your comment because the article is referring to a very specific localized housing bubble in Toronto due (potentially) to the behavior of foreign investors. This is not an article about startup or the US stock-market b
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by iaw 10y ago
I think the challenge arises in ascertaining whether or not there is an adverse incentive driving their reporting on a given story. In the case of Snap it seems safe to conclude that someone asked them to write positive stories. The need t
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by iaw 10y ago
This makes me wonder: Is there a strategy such that it can consistently solve every minesweeper configuration? I always assumed that the 50/50 guess was unavoidable on some maps but I don't know if that's true.
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by iaw 10y ago
Ironic if Russia doesn't even need the Crimean peninsula because of global warming.
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by iaw 10y ago
> I haven't read that concern recently, so I'm hopeful that scientists no longer feel that way, but it is alarming to see this day has come. As others have said, this only became more proven. Even with a non-linearity at out-of
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by iaw 10y ago
What do you expect that the NRA would say that would be of interest?
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2.1% of your budget for a single campaign of that size does seem like a reasonable tradeoff.
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Presuming absolutely no shared financial interests and pretending there are no remaining synergies. The people who run ebay have to be close with the people that run Paypal... The strategies that built paypal were in line with the ebay eth
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by iaw 10y ago
> If prices go up then demand drops That is not a true statement in Economics. Price is a result of the supply & demand functions, the scenario you're thinking of is a reduction in supply with unchanged demand leading to an i
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by iaw 10y ago
I'm not asking you to send me a resource that has led you to your current conclusions. I'm asking that you formulate an argument that I can read that will make me believe that your arguments are well-formulated here. You made a v
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by iaw 10y ago
If we get down to <10ms does that mean that real-time video processing becomes feasible?
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by iaw 10y ago
> " As a student of philosophy I have seen way to many socially constructed chimeras and memes to not notice modern ones." There's a willful ignorance in this sentence that belies your youth and intelligence. I suspect yo

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