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by kolbe 6y ago
But you aren't betting on the economy, you're betting on the perceived value of current publicly traded equities. For example, if a company you invest in goes bankrupt, you don't get that money back later when the economy rec
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by kolbe 6y ago
replying to this just because i don't know how to archive a comment on HN
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by kolbe 6y ago
It's really hard for me to tell on these issues what is real. I feel like they just have a certain number of senators who are allowed to look moral, but the end result always needs to be that surveillance wins. My gut says that Wyden j
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by kolbe 6y ago
This is what bothers me about USA 2020. We thoroughly divided due to relatively small differences in political options, but the real division that no one seems to care about is the political elites stealing money from the poor and middle cl
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by kolbe 6y ago
Why wouldn't data centers switch when they can get more computing power for less energy and at a lower initial price point? That's happening now with the current offerings.
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by kolbe 6y ago
Who would they lock their prices in with if not for speculators?
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by kolbe 6y ago
I have a rather cynical prediction for these apps: they will be mandatory for us to have to use various public services, and they will cost absurd amounts of money. This will be regardless of the efficacy because the goal isn’t safety or su
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by kolbe 7y ago
> Profiting from people who can afford stupid only encourages stupid. How? It would seem like a disincentive to being "stupid" (naive is a better word for it).
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by kolbe 7y ago
It would be nice if humans behaved that way, but in the game theoretic sense, it's not a equilibrium based on commonly observed human behaviors. And I personally think policies that expect to exist at a non-equilibrium point are doomed
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by kolbe 7y ago
You assume he’s telling the truth. Why would he make the truth public knowledge? It can do nothing but hurt.
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by kolbe 7y ago
In my opinion, BRK shouldn't really be in the S&P 500 anyway. I don't get why a company that owns AAPL should be in an index that already owns AAPL.
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by kolbe 7y ago
As of March 12th, you are wrong. But I appreciate your optimism that you will be right! We need more people with very strong unfounded opinions that they treat as fact if we want democracy to succeed.
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by kolbe 7y ago
Thank god Europe had the extended sick leave in place or else they might have a COVID outbreak right now.
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by kolbe 7y ago
I was recently coaxed into clicking on a fake company's web site that was clearly just designed to collect data on feasibility of flying taxis. Under several monikers, I very much exaggerated my willingness to take them at very high pr
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by kolbe 7y ago
Abandoning equity is relatively common, but not like this. Usually its because a VC cannot realize a capital loss until it abandons (or sells) the equity of a worthless company. Finix raised $35m about a month ago. There's no way Sequo
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by kolbe 7y ago
Seems like somewhat ambiguous semantic garbage to me. Especially when there is a much clearer three letter word to use (all) that would actually communicate the the point of the question.
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by kolbe 7y ago
Does everyone understand something I don’t about #1? It never said they were unique integers.
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by kolbe 7y ago
What would you say is better: him using an imperfect study, or you just expressing your opinion?
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by kolbe 7y ago
The velocity of MZM sits at around 1.3 right now, so it goes back after almost a year of being wasted. But who it goes to after that year matters as well. I would prefer Larry Page get the money because he will be able to intelligently allo
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by kolbe 7y ago
Here's the problem: you're asking governments to have first dibs over the actual owners of the capital. The whole reason that companies are doing buybacks is that they cannot turn all of their money from $1 into $1.05 anymore, and
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by kolbe 7y ago
It's more that the ideas seem pretty far fetched. And if you're about to quit your job over these ideas, my bet is that your family would prefer you to do the research instead of eating thanksgiving dinner.
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by kolbe 7y ago
OP is very specific behavior by one bank. What about Softbank marking up its own assets has anything to do with the idea that an investment philosophy spread out among thousands of times more people but with less money is even remotely cove
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by kolbe 7y ago
This sounds mildly interesting, but you make a lot of grand claims and support none of them. I would love to read about your concerns more deeply in a longform, where all these ideas can actually be related to one another, and with support
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by kolbe 7y ago
You are making assertions that are wildly far off from what the vast majority of educated people believe to be right. I would refrain from using the word "obviously" when it comes to us guessing what is going through your head.
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by kolbe 7y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_argument_whatsoever How about a false equivalency? You're right that if people are forced to do things like you claim, some of the consequences would come about. But making a law
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by kolbe 7y ago
Speaking of lazy things: your justification has entirely consisted of "history has shown" without even giving anecdotes, let alone data to support it. I will do some actual work and delve into said history. (1) Taxing the rich and
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by kolbe 7y ago
So, just play whack-a-mole everything you don't like by making a law? As if just telling the government to outlaw something makes it go away with no other effects. Go ahead and apply some systems thinking to what the unintended consequ
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by kolbe 7y ago
That would be extreme affirmative action, and would undermine myriad efficiencies built into the higher educational system. Schools like Michigan would have some students who are totally illiterate with SAT scores hovering around 800, and s
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by kolbe 7y ago
Give some support to your claim. If you don’t have the financial literacy to support it, then maybe reconsider hitting that “Reply” button next time.

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