jonknee

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by jonknee 8y ago
I actually don't think they'd be shocked, it's not like there's a ton of activity in the segment. They're crucial tools needed by small numbers of people.
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by jonknee 8y ago
That's why I said "in the scheme of things". It's a tiny business. I love cameras and will probably have a medium format digital camera at some point, but it's a tiny business that can't move the needle in a $3
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by jonknee 8y ago
And in the scheme of things there is almost no market for medium / large format cameras (digital or otherwise).
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by jonknee 8y ago
Google / MS / Amazon don't need any credibility and Nikon and Canon already have it? It's a niche business without a ton of growth potential? Google already got into the pro photo market by buying Nik and decided it was
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by jonknee 8y ago
Well that and there is almost no market for new film cameras.
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by jonknee 8y ago
> As passenger attention shifts from watching the road and scenery. Why would it shift from scenery? Not having to watch the road means you're free to take in the views. That same classic PCH car shot can be done while looking to th
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by jonknee 8y ago
Yes, which is up over 10% on this news. The good news is consumer trucks are massively profitable which can fund making autonomous vehicles.
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by jonknee 8y ago
You're buying or selling the future position with another party and cannot control what they are doing. Most futures are cash settled and they affect markets all the same. Nearly $200b worth of S&P 500 E-Mini contracts traded toda
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by jonknee 8y ago
Some overseas exchanges allow it (Bitfinex probably the largest), but that would also introduce some counter party risk. Large owners of BTC could be playing in the futures market or loaning their stake to hedge funds / prop shops.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Or they're adding new power users as they add new users in general...
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by jonknee 8y ago
Traders aren't limited to one market or the other and there are plenty of arbitrageurs who will buy/sell futures and do the opposite in the spot market to squeeze out any discrepancies. If the futures are "expensive" you
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by jonknee 8y ago
You don't have to play in arena one or the other. You can say, hedge a long BTC position by selling futures contracts. Or if the markets get out of balance you can buy in one and sell in the other until they come into sync. If you sell
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by jonknee 8y ago
High margin might tamp demand for the Coinbase crowd, but I don't think it matters a ton to the big players who wanted to be able to short BTC. The futures market isn't a place most retail investors should be anyway.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Tesla has recalls as well, like this recent one for a faulty power steering component: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/29/tesla-recalls-123000-model-s... Rarely are recalls for serious defects (those are usually
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by jonknee 8y ago
Mercedes had a hardware problem and Tesla had a software problem, I really don't see how this is a win for Tesla. Tesla has done physical recalls before as well, not everything is a software bug. https://repairpal.com/r
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by jonknee 8y ago
They sort of do, it's the general public.
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by jonknee 8y ago
It's extremely embarrassing/telling that it took Consumer Reports to point out their new car doesn't stop well.
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by jonknee 8y ago
It could be more clear, but the strategy is the same. Sell a contract now and hope to buy it back cheaper in the future. It doesn't matter too much how it's settled.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Well do you think a T. rex is going to be able to drive? If you visit the website [1] the large header text says: > Audi development engineer Thomas Müller and his team sent “Lu Ban” and “Kong Ming”, two piloted Audi A7 Sportback prototy
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by jonknee 8y ago
Tesla sells a car that everyone from the sales people to the CEO says can drive itself, has a feature called Autopilot where the car drives itself and you're saying no one should be confused that the car can't drive itself... Rega
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by jonknee 8y ago
Well then maybe they shouldn't call it auto pilot? I mean, how dumb of a name could they have chosen if they didn't want people to think the car can drive itself? They should also retrain their sales staff because on my test drive
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by jonknee 8y ago
I don't follow it super closely but there is exactly 1 car manufacture that I can think of guilty of pushing the self driving myth. The established car makers seem to market it as an assist, not as an autopilot. Tesla is the outlier, e
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by jonknee 8y ago
I'm surprised collision isn't even higher, there are so many stories of body repairs taking incredible amounts of time because of no part availability. Few certified shops and even fewer available parts means good luck getting you
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by jonknee 8y ago
How is this an Amazon PR piece? The author hasn't worked for Amazon in many years and towards the end there is exploration of future barriers to Amazon.
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by jonknee 8y ago
These are all compounds that have already gone through people's system. It's bad, but not the end of the world.
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by jonknee 8y ago
To be fair, the Sound has hundreds of trillions of pounds of water. 97,000 pounds of anything isn't going to make a big difference. But it would be awesome if we could stop polluting it.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Why? Property records are public in most countries. It doesn't seem ridiculous.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Nor do they supply the aircraft and fund their own travel.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Target registered $252 million in expenses for the breach. Insurance covered $90 million or so, but either way that would add up to a lot of robberies.
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by jonknee 8y ago
No, because you'll get robbed without ever knowing it (see Target or any number of other large POS hacks).

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