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by malchow 12y ago
"internal politics and policies" Some might say that those do not amount to an acceptable excuse. The cost only makes sense when the ultimate goal is worth more than getting 15m uninsureds onto cheap health plans. The ultimate goa
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by malchow 12y ago
Here is the full testimony to be delivered tomorrow: http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF02/20140731/102587/HHRG-...
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Poorly Managed HealthCare.gov Construction Cost $840M, Watchdog Finds(online.wsj.com)
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by malchow 12y ago
What platform do you use to automate the trading? I was always surprised that innovative companies like Interactive Brokers never invested in a simple to use scripting language that would allow people to try out ideas out in the markets.
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by malchow 12y ago
If you're willing to give us a range, what's your COGS on the snow? Great animated GIF on the home page!
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by malchow 12y ago
Loosk like EPB, the electric utility co. in question here, is offering 1Gbps over fiber for $70/mo. https://epbfi.com/enroll/packages/#/
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by malchow 12y ago
Love your initial presentation. The business side console looks a ton more useful than https://talktothemanager.com/ . Might need to find a way to mesh into existing Twitter back workflows for larger enterprise customers. Th
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by malchow 12y ago
I just enabled Roost for a political site I run with 750k uniques because of this clever little Show HN. Thanks, guys. The site's users (who are in the 45-65 age bracket, and so are not exactly at the vanguard) are 33% Safari over the
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by malchow 12y ago
@wmf, OK, I did not know that background. But I can easily imagine that the AWS infrastructure is geographically diverse enough that Netflix is using Level3 only as a CDN, not as an NTP.
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by malchow 12y ago
It's a fair distinction. Here, I believe, the movie is going AWS Seattle to L3 to the front door of Verizon's consumer network in LA, and Netflix is paying for it all the way to the front door. Is that accurate? Or no?
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by malchow 12y ago
@sheetjs: I'm sorry, but I simply cannot follow the logic in the Verizon argument that you quote. You quote: "Netflix chose to attempt to deliver that traffic to Verizon through a few third-party transit providers with limited cap
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Kahneman's $65,000 “happiness benchmark” now $75k; $95k in California(advisorperspectives.com)
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by malchow 12y ago
Congrats to Steve and the magnificent team at RIQ!
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by malchow 12y ago
"Netflix sends out an unprecedented amount of traffic" is one of several misleading locutions in this piece. Verizon customers request these packets. The ISPs' problem is that they aren't willing to change their pitch to
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by malchow 12y ago
Is it Alan Rickman narrating the introductory video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbjMrQtoZlU That would be one hell of an easter egg.
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by malchow 12y ago
Milton Friedman was very supportive of a single, national, flat, 'basic income' type redistribution.
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by malchow 12y ago
I have a friend who sometimes asks, to stoke conversation: "What's one thing you believe that no one else does?" One answer? The law school boom isn't over. I have a J.D. from Stanford (though I spend my time investing a
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by malchow 12y ago
This is intriguing. Large implications when applied to private datasets ---- think Factiva, etc. There the data schema differ so wildly that natural language can really make it more useful. Publicly traded equities is the facile, simple pla
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This piece of bread charts youth unemployment in Spain(data-cuisine.net)
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How libertarians might prove useful -- and vindicate Calvin Coolidge(powerlineblog.com)
4 points by malchow 12y ago|5 comments
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A fun history of the ancient Roman winemaking industry--and capitalism(malchow.com)
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by malchow 12y ago
The Latinate syntactical construction norms that moved over to English included, among many others, one around prepositions (from the Latin prae, meaning before) being placed before the object with which it is linked, never after. It cert
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by malchow 12y ago
Area number one: not ending headlines with prepositions.
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by malchow 12y ago
Actually, if you are willing to stack, analyze, evaluate creditworthiness, account for, and collect from several dozen DSPs and ad networks, you really can replicate and improve upon the AdSense offering. Very few instantiations of this str
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by malchow 12y ago
"Growth has been good for decades, so why do we still have 10% of people who are poorer than the remaining 90% of the people? Debating policy based on a chart showing one clean* variable -- growth -- and one that a faceless bureaucracy
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The streaming portion of Apple's purchase of Beats? ~$500m.(online.wsj.com)
1 points by malchow 12y ago|0 comments
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by malchow 12y ago
Apple paid ~10% of its $35b 2013 free cash flow* for Beats, a company with a software-side growth story and actual positive free cash flow of its own driving investment in the software piece. Apple: spinning off cash, buying companies that
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by malchow 12y ago
How many non-zero integers were in the price of the device, though? My computer is also worth more than 10 zeros.
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by malchow 12y ago
Antr, you gesture to "substantiated, well supported, warrants/subpoenas/etc" but fail to ask the more relevant question. Private banking enterprises within Switzerland have provided tax haven services for U.S. and Europe
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by malchow 12y ago
How about: a representative Congress mandates strong net neutrality rules and Comcast runs a 20% margin business instead of a ~83% margin business?

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