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by nerfhammer 6y ago
but a stock is partial ownership of a real business, which has revenue and owns other assets
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
also some would only put a snippet in their RSS feed rather than the whole article
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
So there's the argument that all housing that is affordable now was luxury when it was new. New is at least somewhat inherently luxury. Banning such would be like banning new cars to keep the price of cars down
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
FTA: "intended to send the computer device to a friend in Russia, who then planned to sell the device to SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service"
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
Whole Foods was doing that before Amazon bought them, and so was literally every other supermarket or retail chain
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
crowdsupply is almost entirely just making pcbs, which are literally the most straightforward thing in the world to get manufactured
97.
by nerfhammer 6y ago
maybe firing random neurons keeps the connections alive
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
they're also administering these shots out at a much faster rate relative to delivery whereas we've only administered less than 20% of the doses that have been delivered so far (11.4 million delivered, 2.1 million administered). T
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
also, book value, though it's usually much smaller than market cap. if a stock ever fell below its book value you could buy it out and liquidate its assets to make money, so the book value should be a price floor for the stock.
100.
by nerfhammer 6y ago
slowly transition your assets away from growth stocks to bonds and dividend-issuing stocks as you age
101.
by nerfhammer 6y ago
Pfizer wanted to release as quickly as possible and didn't want to bother doing another study to tell
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
IG was tiny at the time, not the behemoth it is today. They hadn't even released on Android yet.
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
The German tank problem is easier because it assumes the tanks have sequential serial numbers.
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
they know that most purchased books never actually get read so they're afraid of pricing models that are based on how much people actually read. they're used to being able to sell dead trees and not having to worry about that.
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
There's only one, and it's a human-animal hybrid with a bird head https://archeologie.culture.fr/lascaux/en/themes-0
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
One thing that strikes me as possibly interesting about this is that there are human figures depicted, something that strangely virtually never appears in cave art.
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
did they place the charge directly underneath rather than in such a way that it would blow the wreckage directionally out to sea?
108.
by nerfhammer 6y ago
One random thing: one of the photos in the announcement has a Chinese (I think) keyboard layout https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/product/mac/standard/A... matches https://www.apple.c
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
yet rent is less than half of that of San Francisco or New York
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
Tokyo
111.
by nerfhammer 6y ago
fwiw finding a recycling center in California is a pain. It's not like in the northeast where many supermarkets have can/bottle recycling machines. Homeless can collectors often sell the cans for 50% of the value or less to some g
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
Except for the train tunnels themselves which are only double tracked instead of quad tracked
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
One thing I've always wondered about was SFMTA's giant underground stations that could fit six actual Muni trains on the platforms, or the giant Caltrain+BART station at Milbrae that could fit about 2.5 times as many trains as it
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
very possible. it could be a lose-lose-lose. but in any event it's more complicated than just trying to juice auction prices as a cash grab.
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
If there were no reserve price there would be eight ads on every single search no matter how abstruse the search and irrelevant the ads were to it. Especially since currently only a small percent of searches have ads, Google could actually
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
> The problem is that the social media architecture as it is, is optimizing for engagement by any means necessary The problem with the problem is that seems to be what people actually want by definition
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
> Otherwise they disappear into meetings with people who have nothing to do with your product or team, presumably for very important reasons. Why do managers spend 70% of their time on mysterious external meetings? What are they actually
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
maybe it's not about what the workers want, it's that it ends up allowing so many new companies to start up that wouldn't have otherwise
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
I would agree that it's easier than it used to be and easier than it might seem, but for an absolute beginner it requires several more skill sets to be able to get started with.
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
the actual tweet (doesn't seem to be linked in the article) https://twitter.com/traf/status/1307707156788060160

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