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   by mdemare 12y ago

   "From what I'm seeing, the entire US Taxi/Limo market is $11bn in value." That sounds incredibly low. That's twice the value of KING, and cabs are a lot bigger than Candy Crush. Maybe you mean the market is $11bn&#x
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   by mdemare 12y ago

   Yes, IIRC, 51% of Dutch women make less than 70% of the minimum wage.
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   by mdemare 12y ago

   It does by no means follow that the current level of household debt must lead to any dramatic changes. A high household debt implies that there's relatively less money left over for domestic consumption, compared to similar countries w
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   by mdemare 12y ago

   I don't think so; see: http://lesswrong.com/lw/q2/spooky_action_at_a_distance_the_n...
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   by mdemare 12y ago

   Not trusting is the default. It is up to Coinbase to prove that they can be trusted.
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   by mdemare 13y ago

   You mean like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignition_interlock_device ? It's operational here in nl, about 100 people a week are forced to have one installed.
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   by mdemare 13y ago

   I hope the development tools get some love, since they're completely borked in the last couple of releases.
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   by mdemare 13y ago

   Isn't it obvious? West-Virginia's well-funded coal mining lobby doesn't like the competition from Bitcoin mining and moves one of their pawns to block it.
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   by mdemare 13y ago

   "It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black."
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    by mdemare 13y ago

    It is possible for the exchanges and miners to get together and change the protocol, to mark the stolen bitcoins as invalid? The thief is probably going to dump the stolen bitcoins on the market - not exactly a good thing for the bitcoin pr
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    by mdemare 13y ago

    The author mentions "The Fifth Discipline" a couple of times. Has anyone read it? Worth reading?
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    by mdemare 13y ago

    Apple's cash pile is 1/3 of their market cap. That means that is they'd use it to buy their own shares at the current price (they can't, they need to pay taxes on most of it first) their P/E ratio would drop to abou
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    by mdemare 13y ago

    Shorting and buying put options are not the same thing.
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    by mdemare 13y ago

    They're not priced as a growth stock. P/E is about 13, and that's including their huge pile of cash. Average P/E for the S&P is 19.
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    by mdemare 13y ago

    Live financial result earning conference call here: http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/14pijnaefvpijbnfdbvpij... Starts at 22:00 UTC
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    by mdemare 13y ago

    I wonder how well the 5C sold. I see a lot of 5Ss in the wild, but hardly any 5Cs.
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    by mdemare 13y ago

    Hmm, in my experience, 85 yo Dutch women are unlikely to drive a Mazda Miata. Although maybe mine examiners are more thrill-seeking than the average 85 yo. Fun!
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    by mdemare 13y ago

    Discussion earlier today about the first article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7076121
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    by mdemare 13y ago

    Yes, raising the minimum wage would help, but part of the problem is that when the very poor start working, they're no longer eligible to all kinds of subsidies (food stamps, medicaid). Greg Mankiw explains it very well here: http:&#x
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    by mdemare 13y ago

    This phenomenon is well known and usually called a "Poverty Trap" or a "Welfare Trap". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_trap One of the things that can mitigate this is the Earned Income Tax Cre
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    by mdemare 13y ago

    But why did it have to be Zynga's Mark Pincus...
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    by mdemare 13y ago

    You don't know that.
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    by mdemare 13y ago

    An investment is productive - buying a share in a company allows that company to increase production, which should increase their profit. Lending money to a company allows that company to invest, and increase their profits. Buying BTC is no
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    by mdemare 13y ago

    If you want to protect yourself against USD depreciation, buy Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS). Ultra safe, ultra boring. But why would you want to? Inflation is bad if you have lots of money but no (prospects of) income. Reti
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    by mdemare 13y ago

    Hmm, it takes 5+ seconds to get a response, and it chokes on the same test phrase as Google, thinking "Ik hou van vette lettertypes." is Norwegian...
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    by mdemare 13y ago

    Why is this better than the Google or Bing translate APIs, which also offer language detection?
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    3Doodler 3D Printing Pen Hits $1M(kickstarter.com)

    1 points by mdemare 14y ago|0 comments
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    by mdemare 14y ago

    The vast majority of Rails apps fail those conditions. I'd say that it's not the Rails Way to follow those precepts, so I believe your comment dismisses Rails in one stroke. I'm not sure if that's a very productive line of thought.
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    by mdemare 14y ago

    Mostly disagree. Pure functions are beautiful and have their place, but not every function should be a pure function. And a Rails controller method is the opposite of a pure function - it has a database connection, several file descriptors
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    by mdemare 14y ago

    And the TomTom data is fine. When Apple maps fails to find a POI, I open my TomTom app, and it always knows it - offline too. Apple's screw up is giving TomTom a bad name...