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by matt4077 8y ago
538 had specific probability estimates for hundreds of races both 2016 and 2018, and it’s perfectly possible to evaluate them. In fact, they regularly do so themselves: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-fivethirt
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by matt4077 8y ago
Sure, yes. Disruption, freeing us once and for all from, like, the shackles of deposit insurance ?
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by matt4077 8y ago
This is getting insane... Would you, please, apply your point to the original statement, namely: they would hold the same percentage of profit and control that their stock certificate was originally issued for. Then, pray tell, in your op
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by matt4077 8y ago
No, the argument is that debt-financing at times is simply cheaper than equity financing. Equity carries more risk, because stockholder are paid after bondholder in the event of bankruptcy. Therefore, equity investors (stockholders) demand
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by matt4077 8y ago
> I guess you assumed I was arguing that companies who do buybacks must dump all of their money No, wrong again. People take issue with your representation of stock buybacks as "short-term market manipulation". The major effect
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by matt4077 8y ago
So, then, with only a single owner left, owning the last remaining share: Who else gets parts of the profits, and which other people get to cast votes in elections to the board? Edit: Quote from your link By reducing the number of outstand
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by matt4077 8y ago
It's still morally bancrupt, hijacking ads and replacing them with their own, then holding the money hostage until the actual creators give in to whatever cut this software-enabled protection racket demands. It also does nothing agains
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by matt4077 8y ago
I believe Amazon has built a somewhat more dreadful work environment than traditional factories. First, it seems like they have optimized every last detail to the point where people are robbed of their individuality. If your wrist watch tel
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by matt4077 8y ago
I hate to break it to you, but physical magazines are somewhat linked to their internet equivalent. If your local papers’ website is offline, “I’ll just by buy the physical paper” might not actually be a workable strategy, for obvious reaso
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by matt4077 8y ago
Insinuating that anybody disagreeing with you must be corrupt (I. e. have a financial interest) is the sort of assumption of bad faith that destroys any serious discussion.
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by matt4077 8y ago
It seems like most people are deeply cynical now, as in “all politicians are corrupt, anyway”, “journalists are corrupt/incompetent”, etc. Or, at least, that’s how they justify running every last publisher into the ground for reasons a
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by matt4077 8y ago
Advertisement is a required feature of a market-based economy, because it (also) informes consumers of the choices available. Without ads, the chances of breaking into an established market are extremely low.
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by matt4077 8y ago
I'd share your sentiment if she were, say, complaining about her literary talents being wasted working on ads, or as an elementary school English teacher. But as she's working in an Amazon warehouse for just about minimum wage, so
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by matt4077 8y ago
Rightly or wrongly, she may have been put off by the lack of respect for the humanities so prevalent within the startup scene. Point of evidence: the gradual replacement of the term "author" with "content creator".
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by matt4077 8y ago
I remember (mis)using the local bookstore as my personal library during my childhood (late 80s, early 90s). The proprietor was somewhat in the mold of this author, and I learned a lot both from her as well as other patrons who stopped by, c
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by matt4077 8y ago
<something you have> + <something you know> = <something you are> Sounds ok to me, at least in the weird arithmetic of this tired talking point that invariable makes an appearance every time the subject is discussed, usual
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by matt4077 8y ago
The article is unfortunately unclear on this, but I believe they succeeded only on the Android phones, not with the iPhone X they also tried it on. To wit: "[..] four Android models and an iPhone X. Bad news if you’re an Android user:
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The Internet of Idiots: How We All Participate in LikeWar(forbes.com)
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by matt4077 8y ago
That actually reads like a sort of meta-joke, on the central planner’s obsession with efficiency.
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by matt4077 8y ago
Poor people with debt actually profit from inflation. Losers are people with cash savings and equivalent, plus those expecting pensions not indexed to inflation.
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by matt4077 8y ago
Maybe try finding examples for your conspiracy theories that aren’t old enough to have graduate high school.
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by matt4077 8y ago
That would have been after 1990 (well, November 1989). Remember the wall? I’d guess a change in visa rules, with possibly some pent-up demand.
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by matt4077 8y ago
This mixture of self-confidence and uninformedness is somewhat sad. As but one POI: open access also costs money, and Elsevier runs several open access or mixed journals.
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by matt4077 8y ago
Well, the consequences of this aren't really known yet, so let's be slightly more careful with the cynicism... I'll also add that you would usually want this to be a civil matter. First, because the standard of proof is far
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by matt4077 8y ago
"It started really bad, but [...] some good came out of it in the end." That's a defence, without question. It does include an acknowledgement of the harms of what happened, but by pointedly ending with a hand-wavey invocatio
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by matt4077 8y ago
Funny, how the misogynistic mob finds a defender here, seeing the good within the hate. Meanwhile, the dozens of incidents cited of sexists and racists rarely get more than a "I, too, believe this is the end of free speech".
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by matt4077 8y ago
This reads like a parody of every thread on nuclear technology on HN or, before it, slashdot. It’s always „decades away“, but there’s always pebble bed/molten salt/thorium/whatever technology that’s far better, basically func
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by matt4077 8y ago
You’re willfully misrepresenting the accusations, and completely ignoring the reaction to them that many considered to be even more problematic. But let’s not rehash this particular flamewar.
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by matt4077 8y ago
The mere existence of the emotion of „shame“ shows that this mechanism is old, probably older than Homo sapiens. It’s simply a way to get people to behave in a society, without invoking the heavier tools such as the law.
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by matt4077 8y ago
Because platforms are businesses, and businesses are run by humans, some of whom manage to preserve their humanity, and don’t want to see their work being used by lowlifes spreading mindless hate.

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