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The Real Story of How Amazon Built the Echo(bloomberg.com)
94 points by nickles 10y ago|109 comments
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by nickles 11y ago
>> Don't mean to be contrary here >> How is this not just Keurig-ing the process of tossing veggies from the local into your blender Not contrarian at all. From TFA: "Finally, there are the environmental questions abou
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The Government Did Cause the Housing Crisis (2011)(theatlantic.com)
4 points by nickles 11y ago|7 comments
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by nickles 11y ago
TARP has yielded a $64.5B profit [0] for the government. It was a loan, not a gift. It should be noted that the financial bailout was profitable, while the auto bailout netted a $9.5B loss [1]. [0] https://projects.propublica.org
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by nickles 11y ago
>> http://advancedlinuxprogramming.com/about.html This appears to be the first edition of the book, published in 2001. Is this book still useful, considering it's 15 years old?
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The Hidden Cost of Convenience with Food Delivery App DoorDash(bloomberg.com)
2 points by nickles 11y ago|0 comments
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by nickles 11y ago
That assertion is patently absurd. There are absolutely people and organized groups who perpetrate horrible acts solely to terrorize others. They are not some 'fiction' created by a 'power tripping' government. However,
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Americans Can’t Help Themselves from Borrowing More on Credit Cards(bloomberg.com)
2 points by nickles 11y ago|4 comments
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The Plot to Steal the Color White(bloomberg.com)
46 points by nickles 11y ago|33 comments
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Hints of heart trouble surface weeks before cardiac arrest, a new study finds(wsj.com)
1 points by nickles 11y ago|0 comments
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by nickles 11y ago
For files: import json with open("foo.json") as f: foo = json.load(f) For strings: import json bar = '{"foo": "bar"}' foo = json.loads(bar)
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by nickles 11y ago
> if it's being invested by a bank or a wealth manager it's going to be invested in existing companies, whose operations will be squeezed and distorted to provide the maximum possible return as fast as possible. What do you mea
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by nickles 11y ago
The Botany of Desire is based on a book by the same name. The author, Michael Pollan, has written quite a bit about food. Another book of his, The Omnivore's Dilemma, thoroughly examines the industrial food chain (in addition to others
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by nickles 11y ago
0.1% is far from trivial. If you purchased SPY at the open and sold at the close today, you would have paid 0.1% of the open and 0.1% of the close, or 38% (back of the napkin math) of your profit on the trade in tax. And, that's in add
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by nickles 11y ago
You mean investors, at a minimum, will pay at least 3 times what they used to pay to invest their money. That's far more substantial than you are making it out to be. SPY is an ETF tracking the S&P 500. It has ~180 billion in asset
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by nickles 11y ago
Many low fee funds charge exactly 0.1% annually for the magement fee. They are frequently designed to be 'no load' funds, which, under regulatory requirements, may charge a maximum management fee of 0.25% per year. Additionally, t
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by nickles 11y ago
> Indeed, in recognition of the fact that Ashley Madison data contains confidential information and constitutes stolen property, a Canadian court, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, issued a restraining order requiring several websit
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by nickles 11y ago
> If you want to outperform the market, however, you need to find a GREAT hedge fund that charges 1% management fee (at most) and an incentive fee...otherwise it doesn't make sense to pay a flat fee to a MF and get just average perf
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by nickles 11y ago
The farmer may achieve a more favorable outcome if assigned the property rights, but the Coase Theorem aims to address the notion of efficiency. In an efficient market, no party can be made better off without another being made worse off.
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by nickles 11y ago
Gotcha
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by nickles 11y ago
>>Free markets when supported by strong property rights can have strong protections to prevent harm or pollution. >Can someone explain how this is supposed to work? I don't mean to sound rude/biased but this sounds like o
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by nickles 11y ago
Just wanted to point out that you restated what was said in the parent. >In practice, there may be costs associated with negotiations (e.g. lawyers), it may be infeasible to negotiate between all parties (e.g. if there are many farmers a
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by nickles 11y ago
In Economics, the Coase Theorem[1] predicts close to this outcome, although it speaks to efficient outcomes and not necessarily harm reducing outcomes. When strong property rights exist (and it is feasible for all parties to negotiate), the
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by nickles 11y ago
In certain circumstances, the price of nonvoting shares may not move with the price of voting shares. Consider a circumstance in which an activist investor seeks to gain control of a company. The voting shares will rise in value as a result
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by nickles 11y ago
This is very cool. Are there any restrictions on using the API?
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by nickles 11y ago
> and it harms just as much as alcohol While I agree that marijuana should be legalized, note that there is some consensus that alcohol causes more harm (societally and to the user) than marijuana [1]. While the societal damage would cha
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by nickles 12y ago
Thanks for the response. I've been working on a project to manage Internet connected lights automatically. It sounds like you've got the lights doing exactly what you want, but are there things you'd like to do that you can&#
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by nickles 12y ago
Could you describe you LED bulb setup? How many bulbs and rooms, why keep them on late into the night, etc.?
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Apple Pay competitor CurrentC says customer email addresses were hacked(cnbc.com)
11 points by nickles 12y ago|3 comments
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by nickles 12y ago
Spamming Hacker News is a very easy way to waste CPU cycles.

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