jcfrei

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by jcfrei 6y ago
Globalization is certainly a very important factor but technology also has to be mentioned. In lots of industries it has massively reduced the bargaining power of the working people. Mostly because increasing output is much less dependent o
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by jcfrei 6y ago
What are you implying with "these policy positions are at odds with power brokers in the USA"? The politician you describe would most likely not win the popular vote because the most important voting base for most politicians is
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Successful maiden flight for the TU Delft Flying-V(tudelft.nl)
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by jcfrei 6y ago
Evidence points to the contrary: Taxes reduce profitability and therefore limit risk taking behaviour by companies. Same is most likely true for individuals because it reduces their income.
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by jcfrei 6y ago
"[T]he government will over the course of your life take 45% of your stock" seems a bit misleading? You can either retain ownership and increase your compensation (which is more expensive) or sell your shares to someone else and p
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by jcfrei 6y ago
It's just crazy how flush with cash some SaaS companies are. With a current ratio of 2.8 (cash over short term liabilities) it's no surprise they want to diversify a bit.
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by jcfrei 6y ago
I am also optimistic about the long-term value created by DeFi and the new business models it will allow. But for now I think the sole reason it exists is because people use it to get leverage for speculation.
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by jcfrei 6y ago
I'm curious: Would it be worthwhile porting the entire stack required for http(s) (tcp/ip, ssl, etc) to an fpga? Would it be faster than running it on a CPU?
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by jcfrei 6y ago
In the US (and other countries) a lot of wealth is accumulated in 401ks or other pension like schemes. When people see that their retirement funds have a high value then they are more willing to spend money in the present. But since pension
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The Eurozone’s grappling with crisis, class war and the North-South divide(yanisvaroufakis.eu)
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by jcfrei 6y ago
This one's a bit more up-to-date: https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n...
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by jcfrei 6y ago
Make sure to prioritize Delaware ;)
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Swiss Government Makes Moves to Encourage Crypto Businesses(coindesk.com)
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by jcfrei 6y ago
So is this one of the emerging multi billion dollar companies built on the new gene editing tools?
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by jcfrei 6y ago
> These cars could in theory be even faster. The constraint is not the budget or testing though. You could make much faster cars with even less money if you removed some of the constraints (particularly in minimal car weight, engine size
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by jcfrei 6y ago
Kernel (Linux) and android runtime (previously dalvik vm) plus some native libraries are C(++). The rest of the stack running in the user space is Java though (with support for native code).
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by jcfrei 6y ago
Thanks!
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by jcfrei 6y ago
> There are collections for much more memory-efficient (and faster) maps and things, and also efficient (and fast) JSON parsing etc. I have evaluated and benchmarked and adopted a few of these kinds of things. That sounds very interestin
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by jcfrei 6y ago
Here's my take: Looking at a programmer as a single type of profession is relatively useless - what matters is domain expertise. Example: If you are a decent C++ programmer without any specific domain expertise then your salary in the
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by jcfrei 6y ago
Kinda sounds like the vision Adam Neumann had for WeWork.
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The Anticompetitive Effects of Common Ownership [pdf](pubs.aeaweb.org)
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by jcfrei 6y ago
Exactly. I'm not a libertarian or Hayek fanboy by any means but these types of companies are what you would expect in a world of shrinking investment opportunities and lots of excess capital (as evidenced by the falling interest rates)
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House Without Heating: Office Building in Austria(detail-online.com)
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by jcfrei 6y ago
> More than 100% of pre-crisis income for the service industry is being financed through the expanded unemployment and small business grant programs. Do you have any sources for that claim?
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by jcfrei 6y ago
Current prices reflect the ongoing monetization of gov and corporate debt. If the Fed today announced they will refrain from any further QE then markets would really fall.
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by jcfrei 6y ago
I would call this upselling rather than advertising. You can only do that if you have already established a distribution channel to your clients and I would guess a large part of advertising is intended to create such a first channel.
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Mend the Disconnect Between Wall Street and Main Street(bloomberg.com)
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Did the Fed never buy corporate bonds?(twitter.com)
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by jcfrei 6y ago
I think the explanation the Cantillon effect gives is wrong. The monetary injection spreads uneven not because the effects on purchasing power are delayed between different groups but because it mostly increases the value of financial asset
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by jcfrei 6y ago
> Asset inflation is precisely the point. No it's not. The mandate of the FED is (among others) to maximize employment. The FED hopes to achieve this by stabilizing asset prices, therefore stabilizing pensions and housing prices, wh

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