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by obblekk 9y ago
> influx of people responding primarily to financial rewards (related). This is surprising. Based on the relative success of the financial industry, I would have guessed that it's easier to organize a company when people are motivat
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Ask HN: What's the Hacker News for different industries?
323 points by obblekk 9y ago|90 comments
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by obblekk 9y ago
But presumably marginal electricity is priced at 0 because there aren't many buyers on the market. As more people figure out how to use bursts of electricity, they'll become buyers and prices may rise.
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by obblekk 9y ago
If Robinhood, a start up with very few resources, can offer commission free trading, I'd bet Amazon could offer approximately 0 cost S&P500 funds. If the partnership with JP Morgan works, people could direct deposit money into thei
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by obblekk 9y ago
It seems like there have been many recent setbacks for FB on the privacy side. When do these setbacks begin to have material impact on the stock price?
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by obblekk 9y ago
The way I read the title was: \forall messages M s.t. \forall decontaminating functions F, F does not decontaminate M. I think what the paper actually shows is \exists message M, s.t. \forall decontaminating functions F, F does not decontam
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by obblekk 9y ago
I read this paper (it's only a few pages, completely non-technical). The entire paper assumes we get a certain type of communication and in the course of decoding it, destroy humanity. It would make an interesting screen play, but the
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by obblekk 9y ago
Does anyone else get a sense of de ja vu from the news this week? - Nuclear weapons development, specifically targeted at the US - Trade Tariffs - Improper security classification in the whitehouse - Israel, Iran threatening war - China bec
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by obblekk 9y ago
This article has a vaguely negative view of the high protein fad. However, if people are even occasionally switching from sugary drinks (pepsi, coke, starbucks, etc.) to protein drinks, that's probably net good for people's health
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by obblekk 9y ago
This article concludes by saying "... wouldn't two amazon's be better than one?" But I didn't find any case made for this claim in the article.
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by obblekk 9y ago
Fair point. Long term, being seen as a reserve currency is probably worth trillions vs. a few billions in short term fraud. But I guess all the numbers get fuzzy at that level of wealth.
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by obblekk 9y ago
Contrarian opinion: I think printing Tethers out of nothing is exactly the right policy right now. The current price of USDT is $1.01 on coinmarketcap. In the past few days it went as high as $1.03. This is happening because people are usin
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by obblekk 9y ago
China might actually successfully execute a reverse brain drain on the US. I can personally attest - the vast majority of the ML engineers (feature or infra or research) at 2 of the Big 4 are Chinese born. They're great at their jobs a
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U.S. Blocks MoneyGram Sale to China's Ant Financial(uk.reuters.com)
1 points by obblekk 9y ago|0 comments
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by obblekk 9y ago
Can anyone explain why SpaceX is not going to invest in falcon heavy long run (switching to BFR instead)? A recent video of Elon mentioned that it was really hard to strap them together, but if they've overcome that, why build BFR?
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by obblekk 9y ago
Where would a government department get this much actual money? Do they just have unlimited debit accounts? At some point someone in the treasury has to transfer the money and notice it’s above the budget right?
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by obblekk 9y ago
One of the early principles of python was there is one idiomatic python way of doing it. Usefully, this enforced a world-wide code style guide, making it easy to read python code. 2.7 and 3.x essentially forked the language, enabling differ
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by obblekk 9y ago
Is there a non-linear decline at the end? i.e. do the batteries at some point just give up and capacity starts declining very quickly?
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by obblekk 9y ago
> “Overall, this is a great redesign with new features that make it very easy to implement and use for businesses of all sizes, and managers of all levels of technical expertise. Uber’s clearly looking at business as a prime market for f
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by obblekk 10y ago
"""While minimalism is one aspect of one view of good design, it’s often overused, underconsidered, and misunderstood, resulting in products with surface-level appeal that don’t actually work very well because they were optim
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by obblekk 10y ago
This is only true for small amounts of money. Instead of using a single ETF or Index Fund to invest in U.S. stocks, Wealthfront's Tax-Optimized Direct Indexing directly purchases up to 1,001 individual securities on your b
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by obblekk 10y ago
I believe this is not allowed by the IRS because ETFs tracking similar indices would be considered 'substantially identical', but I'm not sure [1]. If it is allowed, then you're right - this would be the most efficient w
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by obblekk 10y ago
tldr: The Dow 30 index is a bit absurd, however it's not as bad as it seems because of portfolio theory. The Dow 30 correlates highly with the S&P500 index over medium-long periods of times (approx more than a month) [1]. This corr
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by obblekk 10y ago
What does competent execution mean? Execution of what?
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by obblekk 10y ago
Anyone know why so many web servers choose to internally reroute to different hosts? Couldn't they just send a redirect, forcing the client to make a second request which would get blocked?
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Researchers race to copy Obamacare data for fear it will vanish(politico.com)
2 points by obblekk 10y ago|0 comments
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by obblekk 11y ago
This doesn't work. If all apps (except Apple apps that no one likes apparently) are available everywhere then why switch ever? Also learning new apps is part of the switching cost. Rebuying paid apps and in app purchases is another. Th
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3 of the top 5 stories ever on HN are associated with Apple(i.imgur.com)
1 points by obblekk 11y ago|0 comments
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by obblekk 11y ago
Linearly increasing: True. I misread the axis. It still doesn't seem to have the form of something in a bubble or clearly unsustainable. 1. That's a fair point. But I suspect this has more to do with less developed capital markets
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by obblekk 11y ago
I think the bigger issue is that China faces labor competition on the lower end of the unskilled market from South East Asia and India and is trying to enter the lower end of the skilled labor market but finding out that the Americans, Euro

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