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by jcfrei 7y ago
Very broadly: * Enjoying movies and series on a flat screen will be replaced by experiences inside virtual reality devices. More specifically: * All actors will be turned into 3D models. * The experience will be mostly passive. * They can b
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by jcfrei 7y ago
The US doesn't have a great history when it comes to the effectiveness of breaking up monopolies. The breakup of the Bell system just resulted in regional monopolies for example. How would you break up Google? Into search, sites, youtu
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by jcfrei 7y ago
Amazon is in a growing market: e-commerce. Lots of other companies are not.
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by jcfrei 7y ago
I don't think I can follow your argument. What's intrinsic value? The market is supposed to arrive at a fair value for a stock (and there's no reason to assume it doesn't because that would create arbitrage opportunities
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by jcfrei 7y ago
Here's a recent example from the EU: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2018/302/oj It addresses geo-blocking customers of online shops (and redirecting them to national versions of the shop with dif
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by jcfrei 7y ago
> [...] the combination of which allows market actors to determine how much of my consumer surplus they can extract in every sense That would only be possible if the online stores could perfectly discriminate users based on price. Which
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by jcfrei 7y ago
Ah, I see you are talking about helicopter money with leverage restrictions for banks. The money distribution part is being discussed as a potential successor to QE. I don't think restricting leverage for banks is in anyone's inte
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by jcfrei 7y ago
> The banks assume the risk of a borrower not paying them back, and therefore get to be picky about who they lend money to. This used to be the case but is not so common anymore today. A lot of debt issued by corporations or households (
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by jcfrei 7y ago
If you look at the history the preferred way for the US government (and others) to raise lots of money in times of crisis was through "war bonds" (named "Liberty Bonds" in the US during WWI). Back then the government fin
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by jcfrei 7y ago
Governments can't just print money (at least not those with central bank independence, like the EU, US, etc.). However they can raise taxes. Central banks can print money but their mandate is to use their tools for the benefit of the w
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by jcfrei 7y ago
The wikipedia article you linked quotes a source which directly contradicts what you are saying. From: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/t... > Their lightbulbs were of a higher quality
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by jcfrei 7y ago
They are also not magically low latency. Maybe there are some QoS rules in place that deprioritize Stadia's video stream. According to the video the mobile connection was fine and the router just treats traffic over wifi differently.
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by jcfrei 7y ago
I think what you refer to as decentralized systems is for the most part applications on top of the TCP/IP protocol stack. Still I wouldn't call the examples you provided - with the exception of torrents - as decentralized. The int
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by jcfrei 7y ago
I really like the idea behind these types of decentralized projects. However I want to mention that they rarely take off. And it's usually not due to some technical or marketing related reason. The simple economic reason for the lack o
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by jcfrei 7y ago
> because in most markets moving the market you will lose money to slippage. The market price will retract after you bump it. That's not slippage. Slippage is when you get filled at a higher (or lower) price than you were expecting.
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VR Data Visualization Learnings from the Place Viewer(youtube.com)
1 points by jcfrei 7y ago|0 comments
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Twitter stock tumbles 20%, says advertising bugs weighing on earnings(marketwatch.com)
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How Do You Like We Now(bloomberg.com)
2 points by jcfrei 7y ago|0 comments
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by jcfrei 7y ago
One useful thing I could imagine is for cooking. If you got dirty hands you will (hopefully) be able to unlock the phone hands free and browse through a recipe.
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by jcfrei 7y ago
Tesla has a market cap in between Ford and GM. Their share price most likely reflects an expectation of even more sales in the future.
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A Conversation with Elon Musk about Starship(youtube.com)
1 points by jcfrei 7y ago|0 comments
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by jcfrei 7y ago
What's the incentive for Wall Street "to play dirty"? Analysts at investment banks need to retain good relationships with the CEOs of the companies (they are not allowed to disclose any market relevant non public information
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by jcfrei 7y ago
Tesla has been discussed here for a very long time. And on HN contrarian opinions appear to get more votes than mainstream ones. Back when it wasn't clear that electric cars would have a chance at becoming mainstream talking positively
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Tesla confirms Model S Plaid ~7:20 time at Nürburgring(electrek.co)
3 points by jcfrei 7y ago|2 comments
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by jcfrei 7y ago
Very interesting. This gives us a good idea of what kind of life we might find on a planet without an oxygen rich atmosphere such as ours.
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by jcfrei 7y ago
Lots of active funds just change the weights of their capital allocation a bit compared to their benchmark. So there's not necessarily more people or infrastructure required - just analyzing a few companies in more detail.
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by jcfrei 7y ago
If you are not afraid of a little experimentation check out /r/Minoxbeards on reddit.
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Top Cheeky F1 Innovations(youtube.com)
2 points by jcfrei 7y ago|0 comments
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by jcfrei 7y ago
Whether something is a science or not depends on the methods which are applied - not how much is known about the subject. You could argue that biology is not a science because we don't understand how lots of basic cell functions work.
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Adaptive Solar Facade (ASF)(systems.arch.ethz.ch)
1 points by jcfrei 7y ago|0 comments

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