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by lend000 6y ago
If anything, the market is pricing in the risk that Elon Musk will be removed as CEO by the SEC for another potential violation of public securities laws.
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by lend000 7y ago
I fortunately was stocked up on supplies for the first 10 days of symptoms (after which I thought I had recovered but still was quite careful). However I don't have the luxury to stay inside for 6 straight weeks at a time, nor would it
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by lend000 7y ago
It's interesting, and somewhat reassuring that they mention people recovering from the hospital after two months, as I believe I've had coronavirus symptoms for about 6 weeks now without much change. My symptoms have never been qu
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by lend000 7y ago
Amazon is propping up the major stock market indices [0]. While Amazon's services and hiring are playing a role in stabilizing the economy, it can't do it alone and its outsized impact on stock indices is misleading as a general e
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by lend000 7y ago
> Profits to miners decrease 50% if price stays the same. Nit: Revenue to miners decreases 50% if price stays the same.
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by lend000 7y ago
I am also curious about this. As I understand it, an immune individual could have any mathematical subset of antibodies from the base set, which is the collection of all proteins that can bind to something on the surface of a COVID-19 virio
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by lend000 7y ago
Marx was a bit further removed from day to day decisions on rocket architecture than Musk if I understand correctly.
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by lend000 7y ago
It's an excuse not to think. Now, if you feel that YOU are not qualified to evaluate the idea, that's a different story. Don't act on the idea until it comes from someone you trust. But that's no reason to tell others it
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by lend000 7y ago
Oops. Edited, misread the last launch headline. Just Earth orbit, although still an important milestone for America to have shuttle capability again.
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by lend000 7y ago
On average, sure. And that may be a rational reason for a busy investor to reject a pitch meeting, but that's never a reason to dismiss an idea once you've read it, or in a forum where there is no cost to that idea existing (such
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by lend000 7y ago
Name one aeronautical engineer phD who deserves more credit for giving America the ability to put humans in space next month than Musk. He's quite involved with technical decisions. His social media behavior is irrelevant here -- this
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by lend000 7y ago
This appeal to authority always bothers me. Polymaths are capable of making bigger contributions in any field they involve themselves in than the average phD can in their own field of expertise. Look at Musk, Tesla, Von Neumann, Hughes, Da
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by lend000 7y ago
I can't imagine I would get much junk mail delivered through UPS and FedEx.
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by lend000 7y ago
If you are fortunate enough to have some capital in this crisis, what better opportunity will you have in your life to start a company? A significant amount of incumbents (a.k.a. your competition) will be wiped out or have reduced market sh
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by lend000 7y ago
After 5 days in a row of not being able to get a delivery slot for another grocer, I used a similar tool. Even with the help of the tool polling the website every minute, the slot filled before I was able to complete the order the first few
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by lend000 7y ago
You can't stop rent unless you also stop property taxes.
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by lend000 7y ago
I believe if you elect to be a pass-through LLC (eligible for this rule change), you cannot pay yourself a salary in the same way as if you were a non pass-through LLC or S-Corp. It isn't as easy to cheat the system as most people thin
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by lend000 7y ago
If I am understanding this correctly, there is no money flowing to rich Americans, but they will have additional opportunities to deduct losses on their 2020 taxes (basically paying less in taxes after a major stock market rout) that would
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by lend000 7y ago
> It was obvious to everyone that WeWork was going to flop Always easy to say this so confidently in hindsight, but did you or anyone you know become a millionaire shorting WeWork after it went public? Wag, I get. But I was bullish on th
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by lend000 7y ago
They got comfortable with Moore's Law, which in fairness, had held for a long time, and continued to use the model that increasing feature density quadratically was a linear problem. Now, it turns out that once you get near the 10nm ga
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by lend000 7y ago
I basically mean a tech product MVP that can be built from your garage (or a few remote garages) in a few months without a huge amount of capital. So I'm not talking about hard-tech startups where social distancing and less investment
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by lend000 7y ago
If you're in the fortunate position to have some capital during this crisis, this is an ideal time to start a soft-tech or low cost R&D intensive startup that can be seeded remotely. Competition will be largely wiped out relative t
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by lend000 7y ago
Nice use of matplotlib. I'd like to apply this to US states as well. Although even between states the variation in test rate is so great that it's hard to gather much from it. I personally use hospitalizations as a more accurate m
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by lend000 7y ago
The question we have to ask, is as an at-risk person, do you have a higher chance of contracting the disease over the course of its activity if you are quarantined for two months but most people aren't, or if everyone is quarantined fo
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by lend000 7y ago
From a purely economic standpoint, most of those deaths are not significantly reducing GDP. As others have said, with a virus more contagious than influenza, the only real choice is for lots of people to get it. I'm all for a partial q
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by lend000 7y ago
When better to establish that long term behavior when there is an immediate, credible threat? Even if it does slightly increase pressure on the medical mask supply (who will be prioritized with the certified masks, regardless), how many liv
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by lend000 7y ago
Masks are not complex. It does not need to be an N95 certified mask to significantly reduce respirated droplets. You would be surprised by the ingenuity of entrepreneurs, but of course, this thread is not about logic but instead about jealo
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by lend000 7y ago
Econ 101: Today, masks are $500. Tomorrow, 100 companies in various industries begin to repurpose their factories to produce masks and arbitrage the price down until it isn't profitable anymore. Supply increases; thus, there are more m
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by lend000 7y ago
I wonder how many masks would be floating around by now if there were no laws or public shaming for raising prices in an emergency.
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by lend000 7y ago
Perhaps someone with a better understanding of virology can clarify this for me. My understanding is that the coronavirus binds to relatively generic cell receptors present on lots of different cell types (ACE-2 and possibly others) and thi

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