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by jcfrei 7y ago
> There are no rules against exaggerating information about a company you don't operate. I doubt that this reflects the regulatory complexity. "Everything is securities fraud" as Matt Levine often says.
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by jcfrei 7y ago
No, if Markopolos's allegations are correct then this is exactly how financial markets are supposed to work. They are about price discovery - the reward for this information integration is the profit that Markopolos and the Hedge Fund
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by jcfrei 7y ago
They say they don't ring a bell at the top. But maybe there's a server that goes down...
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by jcfrei 7y ago
I hope so too. There should be a service that allows game developers to just import the real world. On top of that they could then customize specific locations according to the story or gameplay. Especially valuable would be an algorithm t
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by jcfrei 7y ago
A very valuable effort. Global mapping data should eventually enter the public domain.
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by jcfrei 7y ago
As other commentators pointed out: Savings and investments are two sides of the same coin here. The money which is used for saving will be invested somewhere - even if the person who owns it just keeps it in an account on the bank. The prob
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by jcfrei 7y ago
This describes my general Linux experience well: A very stable kernel, with which I never had serious issues on a headless server. But applications in the userspace (apart from the standard GNU packages) are usually a tossup anywhere betwee
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by jcfrei 7y ago
So (one of) the advantages compared to a Peltier element is that you no longer need a cold side?
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by jcfrei 7y ago
Matt Levine provides a nice summary: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-07-23/facebo...
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Can We Live to 120 on Metformin?(longevityfacts.com)
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by jcfrei 7y ago
> Their sync is top-notch. Which is exactly what prevented me from switching even though I run Linux. I've tried other file synchronization products and the speed was always significantly lower.
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by jcfrei 7y ago
In other words, most people are not aware how dangerous certain conditions are under which they are occasionally driving (snow, fog, etc.). And that most of the time the only reason they didn't have a crash is luck. It might even be so
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by jcfrei 7y ago
This has been solved on a theoretical level for a long time. All it needs is financing and political will to build the storage facilities. Despite a long-standing agreement among many experts that geological disposal can be safe, technolog
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Bill Gates on Startups, Investing and Solving the World's Hardest Problems(youtube.com)
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Facebook removes birthdays from web calendar feed(facebook.com)
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by jcfrei 7y ago
> BoJ's money printing is dwarfed by Fed's and ECB's money printing. Japan has been doing it since 1989, Softbank cant be explained by Japan alone. BoJ's money printing is on the same level as ECB and Fed. Most recent
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by jcfrei 7y ago
I didn't see it mentioned in the article but I think it's an important factor: The massive intervention by the BoJ in the corporate bond market of Japan. The BoJ is even buying bonds with negative yield. There's just so much
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Flying-V: Flying long distances energy-efficiently(tudelft.nl)
397 points by jcfrei 7y ago|277 comments
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by jcfrei 7y ago
If you are interested in such topics you can read up on valuations in a corporate finance book. With high growth companies like Tesla the majority of the valuation comes from expected future growth. If the expected growth changes the valuat
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by jcfrei 7y ago
This is an idea that keeps coming back every 2 years or so. While it is enticing to think about, these ideas never manifest into anything. With most decentralized projects there usually hasn't been a big enough financial incentive to e
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by jcfrei 7y ago
Your numbers seem to be in contradiction to what ITER projects on its website ( https://www.iter.org/FactsFigures ): 830 m3 plasma volume, expected power output ~500MW for 500-600 seconds.
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by jcfrei 7y ago
Great article. These appear to be the exact kind of engineering lessons you would expect a new company like Tesla to learn the hard way. And it explains why incumbent car manufacturers might seem less innovative on the surface.
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by jcfrei 7y ago
You describe a textbook case of the tragedy of the commons, which is exactly what is happening. If we really wan't to address the problem then there needs to be new legislation, customers changing their behavior adequately is probably
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by jcfrei 7y ago
Advertisements exist to inform you about yogurts that your local grocery shop doesn't have.
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by jcfrei 7y ago
The fact that this is the most money losing company ever to IPO should raise some eyebrows.
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by jcfrei 7y ago
With the newer 350kW charging stations you can charge up to 80% in about 15 minutes (ie. for a Model S battery). So not much more than filling up with gas. Granted cars which support this will be available at the earliest next year.
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Interactive Hand Pose Estimation Using a Stretch-Sensing Soft Glove(igl.ethz.ch)
1 points by jcfrei 7y ago|0 comments
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Firefox Reality Coming to SteamVR(blog.mozvr.com)
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by jcfrei 7y ago
> It's so heavily regulated that professional racing is no longer an engineering challenge. If you look at the different approaches taken with regards to aerodynamics (particularly this season) and engines then there's still pl
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by jcfrei 7y ago
My handwaving analysis would be that advertising around search is slowing and instead mostly growing around content - this is because the web has matured and users are now educated on what it has to offer. They spend less time searching and

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