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by jcfrei 9y ago
Why not? It might help them save some of their funds for retirement. But what could be even more valuable to an Ethiopian farmer is access to a futures market. Then he could hedge the price risk for his crops.
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by jcfrei 9y ago
Deposit accounts just cover a fraction of the financial services we regularly use in the developed world. They still lack retirement schemes, insurance and investment funds, etc. Blockchains (due to working in a trustless environment) could
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by jcfrei 9y ago
The full suite of banking services that are accessible to you (sending money to any person in any country, buying shares, investing in funds, mortgages, insurance, etc.) are accessible to fewer people than you might think. Most people from
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by jcfrei 9y ago
The raison d'être of Bitcoin is that it makes the entire banking infrastructure (ie. the equivalent of the huge settlement industry currently in place to keep global finance running) accessible to everyone with a smartphone and interne
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by jcfrei 9y ago
I'm assuming US regulation is not much different than Swiss regulation here but nobody is ultimately stopping you from investing in those companies. You can invest in any company you like and as much as you like it's just that you
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by jcfrei 9y ago
> And without exception, I observed that they were initially loaded in the back door by geeks, without asking permission, because they got shit done and helped people with their jobs. This is precisely what I see happening
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by jcfrei 9y ago
Interesting, so I guess this still limits the number of entities that can interact with each other on one server but allows for much more non-interacting entities spread out over a large world. But couldn't then lots of players (maybe
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by jcfrei 9y ago
Would it be a worthwhile idea to open up health care internationally? Maybe insurance companies could create global standards for medical procedures, so that clients could choose in which countries they want to perform a procedure and then
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by jcfrei 9y ago
Your argument would be fine if there was a competitive market on the supply side of on demand videos. But there isn't. Youtube has a monopoly.
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by jcfrei 9y ago
They probably meant patronizing
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by jcfrei 9y ago
Besides the obvious remarks about people not caring a lot about their privacy and not wanting to pay a cent for a social network the biggest problem is a coordination problem: Facebook satisfied a nearly universal desire for online social i
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by jcfrei 10y ago
It appears to be just another one of these fluff pieces gold bugs keep on sharing. Full of allegations and semi-truths in order to suggest that gold is all that matters. > It consisted in the promise that in exchange for getting those 3
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by jcfrei 10y ago
I've read somewhere that this is somewhat unprecedented in the history of economics. Traditionally hoarding cash was frowned upon by investors and the stock prices of companies with large cash reserves traded at a discount. That negati
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by jcfrei 10y ago
Because manufacturing your own car in large quantities is very difficult. Tesla is a good example on how difficult it is to scale up production numbers. And even though the market / products themselves are changing rapidly the required
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by jcfrei 10y ago
I doubt Apple will ever launch its own car. However it seems that quite a few large IT firms consider DaaS (Driving as a Service) a viable B2B market. If you can create a superior suite of machine learning tools (including always up-to-date
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'Hide Not Slide' Orders Were Slippery and Hidden(bloomberg.com)
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by jcfrei 10y ago
To me Unity always felt like it was designed for people using laptops with trackpads, because they go to great lengths to make sure you don't have to move the mouse pointer very far. All the shortcuts based on the super key are another
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by jcfrei 10y ago
Couldn't such an auction be performed entirely online? An online dutch auction where institutional and retail investors can buy shares in an online live auction? There might be some technical hurdles to solve to ensure everybody is upd
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by jcfrei 10y ago
> This is true, but the person filling your order does have a responsibility to ensure that your order is filled at the lit exchange price or better. If you find contrary evidence,the regulators would possibly be willing to pay you a lot
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by jcfrei 10y ago
> You can't get filled at a worse price than the lit exchanges are showing. Can you be more specific? I believe you are talking about a market order. Unless you have full access to all order books you can't really know whether
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by jcfrei 10y ago
Since they route your orders for you I'm guessing you don't get very good prices - ie. you get a larger spread than other market participants.
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by jcfrei 10y ago
Retail investors only account for a small percentage of the market.
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by jcfrei 10y ago
I'm skeptical that pharma companies should require equally high levels of marketing spending as other industries. After all most expensive pharmaceutical products are bought through an expert (ie. your physician). There's not a hu
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by jcfrei 10y ago
In your comment you suggest that most of the profits of pharma companies go into R&D but that's not the case. There's a lot of rent seeking behavior by these companies due to poor legislation. This kind of behavior (incentives
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by jcfrei 10y ago
Very interesting points. So as the other comment has pointed out, traditional automakers will have difficulties selling through their dealerships. Do any of the established players have any plans for their own dealerships / showrooms?
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The Decentralized Startups(avc.com)
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by jcfrei 10y ago
I didn't know you could already do this for a living. Care to share what kinds of smart contracts?
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by jcfrei 10y ago
There has been a - now defunct - working group which tried to address the issue of setting cookies on sub URIs: https://www.w3.org/TR/csp-cookies/ Particularly interesting is the proposal by someone from Akamai:
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by jcfrei 10y ago
As others have mentioned, you could just serve ads and content from domains which you wouldn't want to block, like www.google.com. And if an app receives its content encrypted (eg. SSL) you can't do a lot of filtering at the netwo
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by jcfrei 10y ago
The most promising front against ad blockers is forcing users to access your content with an application you control. That's why more and more websites want you to install their apps (Google search is installed by default on lots of an

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