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by jpmattia 12y ago
> They must give their clients time to move the data, no? And if they don't and the data is cut off (destroyed, etc), what recourse would the clients have?
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by jpmattia 12y ago
While Greenspan certainly did his part to inflate the housing bubble, he had little to do with the incredible slowness that Bernanke had recognizing the problem. For example: Bernanke: There's No Housing Bubble to Go Bust (2005) http
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by jpmattia 12y ago
Honestly, Citadel is getting exactly what they deserve: Ben Bernanke missed the biggest economic event in three generations, despite having all the resources of the Federal Reserve. If they think they're tapping into his rolodex, do
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by jpmattia 12y ago
Yeah, that was weird. Any ideas why the multiple executions occurred?
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by jpmattia 12y ago
> But the winners of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics, John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain and William B. Shockley, who have been widely credited with inventing the semiconductor, did not receive even a fraction of the wealth that their in
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by jpmattia 12y ago
> and I'll add that they are too unfun, and their sales departments are pushy and intrusive. I think you missed something big: They are too rich. As the saying goes, "Where are the customers' yachts?" Just as the
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by jpmattia 12y ago
I find it odd that the article did not comment on why the scam works: Many folks have the perception is that the IRS is an unreasonable, strong-arming organization. (Not that I've had any large issues, but I've found the agents t
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by jpmattia 12y ago
Your example is actually quite good: Are there people who think they are better informed than the chairman of the Federal Reserve? And to amplify: This was Ben Bernanke's assessment as late as March 28, 2007 > At this juncture, h
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by jpmattia 12y ago
That's correct, but remember that stocks go both up and down. Back in the bubble, a lot of people got very burned: They tried to save the diff between short- and long-term cap gains and ended up losing far more because of variations
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by jpmattia 12y ago
Looks like the Fortune article missed a big point: The exercise of the options often requires a big pile of money to be paid by the leaving employee to the company (ie, the strike price of the option. This occurs regardless of tax issues.
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by jpmattia 12y ago
off topic but related: Has anyone had any luck getting emacs to run on an ipad+keyboard, with sensible key-bindings (including a mapping for meta)?
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by jpmattia 12y ago
Relevant: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-th...
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by jpmattia 12y ago
> They're saying that the videos, if monetized, make the drone flying a commercial activity, which is banned. Strange, I didn't know there was any non-commercial component to the first amendment. How did newpapers and newcas
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by jpmattia 12y ago
> and obviously (because he is no longer in the picture) decided to sell or give away enough equity in the company to the point that he no longer held a controlling interest. Not completely obvious: It is possible that his shares were
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by jpmattia 12y ago
Not really, according to the update the entire result is sim. From your link: > According to Tafazolli, the new class of Detector (a completely new approach) was tested through computer simulations (these simulated a real mobile/w
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by jpmattia 12y ago
This is a beautiful hack. Because terrific work causes us to think of additional questions, I'd add: The only thing I found missing is that there is more than one polarization. So to accurately map the field, you'd need to perfo
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by jpmattia 12y ago
As a guy that has done some hardware for router interfaces, this was an interesting post regardless of source. There are lots of built-in monitoring functions for the hardware interfaces. For example, the laser driver for the transmitter o
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by jpmattia 12y ago
Nicely put, though I'd point out > It might break some usual physics intuition, It really shouldn't in light of Noether's theorem: The fact that time independence of the action S gives rise to energy conservation in t
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by jpmattia 12y ago
> The BLS puts out 6 different unemployment statistics for every period. U3 is the "official rate", but you can also look at the other ones, including U4 = U3 + "discouraged workers", U5 = U4 + "marginally attac
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by jpmattia 12y ago
> For Edison and Ford at least I guess a lot of those later patents were done by underlings and the boss man put hsi name on it. In principle, the rules for inventorship for patents differ substantially from the rules for authorship in
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by jpmattia 12y ago
> it's way easier to navigate a smartphone than it is to operate a key If you don't understand the truth of that statement for some people, then consider yourself lucky.
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by jpmattia 12y ago
> How hard is opening a classic lock with a key? In addition to the other use cases that folks have replied: You are young now, but you will find there are older people whose hands do not work quite so well. Keys, bottles, and a host
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Box Raises $175M Pricing U.S. Initial Offer Above Range(bloomberg.com)
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by jpmattia 12y ago
> They want to butcher the company up, collect their pound of flesh and be off. You have to read between the lines even when reading between the lines: The investors are really saying that they don't believe she would deliver de
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by jpmattia 12y ago
Do you recall if Asimov had anything to say about Newton's disastrous investments? BTW: I saw Asimov speak way back when I was in high school, circa 1981. He was great in person.
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by jpmattia 12y ago
I'm sorry to hear that it extends to many fields. > but who have unwittingly entered into a predatory industry How exactly is it predatory? Rheumatology, which rarely engages in "cures" and whose "treatments" ar
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by jpmattia 12y ago
A bit of a wild guess, but many of those look like self-diagnosing or "fringe" from folks dealing with autoimmunity issues. Is that right?
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by jpmattia 12y ago
> and I see requests for testing for all sorts of bizarre things It would be interesting: Can you list a bunch?
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by jpmattia 12y ago
> "Bam! Here are Maxwell's differential equations. Now deduce things from that based on hand-wavey arguments". I don't mean having the students perform the experiments themselves, just describe what somebody else did
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by jpmattia 12y ago
> Everyone commenting on the exchange rate, but nobody commenting on the negative interest rate? BTW: Real interest rates have been negative for a while in the US. Even the 10yr Treasuries are there now. http://delong.ty

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