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811.
by lend000 8y ago
One alternative: there are no tax breaks, the company has no reason to stay in the city and leaves, and the city is much worse off financially. These kinds of tax breaks and incentives between cities create an interesting market that acts a
812.
by lend000 8y ago
You could make a similar comparison with evolution -- if the jungle is so competitive, how does the monkey find any food? The answer is that there is fruit available, but the monkey has to invest energy and expertise (both now and via billi
813.
by lend000 8y ago
I've also had this idea -- I wonder if it's chance or if this is something that geneticists have thought of as well and attempted. Sampling cells from a few different reproductive cell lines should theoretically provide a strong a
814.
by lend000 8y ago
Any arb strategy requires holding reserves, so while the amount of the asset you can afford may increase by 4% per month, it's not a great business to be in if you're measuring from the start of a bear market. Same goes for a lot
815.
by lend000 8y ago
Do any airlines have high-def video cameras on planes? Seems like something that would be financially feasible with modern technology and would provide very useful data for unexplained phenomena like this. I imagine I'm not the only on
816.
by lend000 8y ago
Unless you're a strong believer in free will, someone who is lazy, sleazy, unintelligent, etc. (has little "merit") did not 'choose' to be born that way, or even if they say they did, they did not choose to have the
817.
by lend000 8y ago
Github notifications are definitely problematic. I hope this business gets acquired by instead of copied by Github.
818.
by lend000 8y ago
It says they injected RNA into the new sea-slugs -- did they try injecting a placebo as well? It does not specify how they did it, but I assume injecting RNA is somewhat traumatic for the sea slug and becoming more reclusive with its siphon
819.
by lend000 8y ago
Jumbo means lots of reassembly on the most common end-link, Wi-fi (which cannot support larger datagrams without huge drop rates due to the error prone nature of the medium). Uncorrectable errors are pretty rare on wired links but regardles
820.
by lend000 8y ago
A good indication that you aren't a great trader is that you try to sell services based on being a great trader.
821.
by lend000 8y ago
Allegedly 90% lose money on trades, but 50% of the capital makes/loses money in a given market window (however most of the winning capital is owned by a smaller number of players than the losing capital, mostly banks, quant funds, and
822.
by lend000 8y ago
I was unable to find the actual breakdown of helium consumption by application, but I assume party balloons are pretty high on the list. Most of the other commercial uses (such as in medicine, welding, diving, etc.) tend to use smaller amou
823.
by lend000 8y ago
I often wonder how many problems would be fixed by adding a 2 term limit to the House and Senate.
824.
by lend000 8y ago
It seems you either missed the point of my comment or disagree with me on the fundamental level (to which degree an individual owns himself in a society). Society has absolutely no right to you working a certain amount in my opinion. The he
825.
by lend000 8y ago
That's a different story. Externalities should be taxed to the extent of the cost of the externality to society (if not outright banned, which is not practical for most common externalities like running a combustion engine, breathing,
826.
by lend000 8y ago
Agree with this, Intel is as boring as big bureaucratic government contractors, much to my dismay (and quite different from 90's software giants, which seem to move at a faster pace). Their processing and manufacturing lead can only ke
827.
by lend000 8y ago
I disagree with wealth taxation -- wealth can be tied up in illiquid assets (longtime family home, grandma's jewels, etc.) and even more importantly, a tax on wealth kind of makes it like you don't really own property, you are jus
828.
by lend000 8y ago
I am surprised by how infrequently I see the arbitrary progressive tax bracket levels being brought up in these debates. The fact that you are considered ultra wealthy and paying at about the top bracket at ~200k per year is absurd. Meanwhi
829.
by lend000 8y ago
This is very cool. Is there a way to adjust search results for total number of posts? By searching for `hjt 'a'`, I can get an idea of how many total posts there are by month and approximate adjustments in my head, but it would be
830.
by lend000 8y ago
Consider the analogy of playing tennis against a tennis commentator (who wasn't formerly a professional). Sure, the commentator understands the game at a deeper level than your average joe, but it's a very different kind of unders
831.
by lend000 8y ago
You can't read into it much for such a low volume exchange. It's akin to a small sample size resulting in behavior that can stray farther from the mean. This article also makes a glaring omission of using the Tether/USD index
832.
by lend000 8y ago
Those references are not the authors, and keep in mind that professors usually would not be professors if they had a sufficient understanding of markets to beat them. No one cited in the article has seen a live exchange with as low of volum
833.
by lend000 8y ago
These "experts" are just journalists who wouldn't be writing articles if they had enjoyed any success analyzing orderbooks. This article is perhaps the most clueless garbage I've read on the topic of crypto, and there is
834.
by lend000 8y ago
I suspect some in the HN community assume that because public school curriculums were generally so easy and aligned with textbooks such that they got all A's regardless of the teacher, that the teacher does not matter. No, the teacher
835.
by lend000 8y ago
All this means is that better methods will need to be invented to score teachers, not that it's impossible. For example, one thing I've seen missing in these studies is a system design that attempts to control for the distribution
836.
by lend000 8y ago
> There are companies like Google/Alphabet willing to build out infrastructure if only they were allowed. This is true, and I agree that enabling infrastructure development is an important aspect. > any monopoly on such infrastru
837.
by lend000 8y ago
There is a lot wrong with internet/general utility regulation in the US, but I think it's mostly the last-mile cable logistics which are preventing competition in heavily populated areas, and that results in localized monopolies o
838.
by lend000 8y ago
This all rests on the assumption that Tethers are not backed by dollars as they are supposed to be. If they are backed, it is just a form of liquidity which is in no way manipulating the market, just creating ease of capital transfer betwee
839.
by lend000 8y ago
Is there a more legitimate source for this announcement? Seems like HN has fallen prey to fake news.
840.
by lend000 8y ago
A good feeling is a reward... feeling that you are 'doing good' for a cause you are interested in can create that good feeling, a.k.a. a reward.

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