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by onebaddude 13y ago
Pity that it's the Austrian school that has little credibility left in economics, as they have a few interesting things to say.
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by onebaddude 13y ago
>Well worth watching the videos Oh god, more "we just accumulate more and more debt" tripe. How about learning accounting 101; when you take on debt, what goes on the other side of the balance sheet? The fact that people "
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by onebaddude 13y ago
> I think your complaints are pretty well addressed in first few paragraphs of Elon's blog post. Not really. I take everything that Musk says with a grain of salt. Tesla's goal of making a mass-market car is all well and go
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by onebaddude 13y ago
Exactly. I was a bit taken aback that the tone of this submission was, "See! Bitcoing worked !" Uh, no one outside of a few small circles has any idea what it is. And any currency as volatile as Bitcoin is broken.
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by onebaddude 13y ago
>Over the last two weeks especially, many in the upper echelons of international finance are moving into the bitcoin space in a mich bigger way than they had before. Do you have a source for this? I haven't heard of any major hedge
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by onebaddude 13y ago
> Vehicle fire now completely covered under warranty, Have you considered that the reason they are doing this is that insurance companies may look at the fires and begin to increase premiums on the Tesla cars, or refuse fire coverage al
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by onebaddude 13y ago
> Can you imagine Honda, Audi, BMW or any of the others reacting that way to something like this? Yes, I can. Do you really think he's doing this out of the goodness of his heart? These fires are both a legal and PR nightmare. Nob
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by onebaddude 13y ago
I think electric cars are great technology as well, but some of us are tired of reading about how a what is essentially a heavily-subsidized, California rich-person's "toy" is the greatest thing to happen to the automotive in
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by onebaddude 13y ago
> "Also, the average profit of Chinese exports is just 1.7%" What is the average net profit margin on American exports? Due to the nature of much of what the Chinese export, we can assume low profit margins, but we need some
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by onebaddude 13y ago
> The interesting thing about this chart is how unprofitable manufacturing is And it isn't just manufacturing; resource extraction is similar. Look at Glencore[1], the Swiss mining conglomerate: $1.5BB in profit on $214BB in reve
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by onebaddude 13y ago
> over dramatize it into something like the bogus Gasland documentary Generally, I feel the same as you. But, I understand that we need the over-dramatic to balance the under-the-radar.
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by onebaddude 13y ago
This article came into my Google News feed this morning. I thought it was baffling: Connected entrepreneur raises millions of dollars in VC money to build...LastPass? I don't understand.
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Entrepreneur has solution to too many passwords(theglobeandmail.com)
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by onebaddude 13y ago
> But in 10 years of 252 trading days of 6.5 trading hours, there are 58968000 seconds. If you'd traded AAPL a million times every second, you'd have made $30132648000000000 This makes no sense whatsoever.
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by onebaddude 13y ago
> to develop more efficient crops. Forgive me, I'm a bit out of my element here: I assume you're talking about "genetically modified foods"? How do you plan on dealing with the anti-GMO doomers? That perspective s
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by onebaddude 13y ago
>What innovative things has Nintendo been doing besides the Wii? Are you joking? Making a PC that hooks up to your living room television is a good idea, but doesn't scream "innovative" to me. Valve is, just now, trying
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by onebaddude 13y ago
>So because there are some corrupt people in Silicon Valley So because there are some corrupt bankers, one is simply best served to dismiss an entire occupation as "proven to not be trustworthy"? Your lessons in logic are laugh
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by onebaddude 13y ago
>According to the EMH, stocks always trade at their fair value on stock exchanges, making it impossible for investors to either purchase undervalued stocks or sell stocks for inflated prices... ...on average. Which is what makes "b
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by onebaddude 13y ago
And the SV/VC/Tech startup culture is just brimming with altruistic, wonderful people? Sociopathy isn't restricted to finance. Silicon Valley has seen its share.
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by onebaddude 13y ago
I agree with your stance on the subject. It's out of line for them to pass over the puzzle like that. Kudos for standing up. On the other hand, your actual response, with all the slave talk, was pretty juvenile.
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by onebaddude 13y ago
>The only way to buy insurance would be to lie and commit fraud. I'm sure that's what's happening, probably unintentionally. And you're okay, until a crime is committed, someone is hurt, damages are done or the place
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by onebaddude 13y ago
>This is an absurd idea. Enormous amounts of alcohol are consumed in airports and aboard planes You aren't getting on a plane when you're evidently intoxicated, either. Nor are they serving you alcohol to the point of intoxica
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by onebaddude 13y ago
>i think this is an interesting sign that we may actually not be in a massive tech bubble. Multi-billion dollar valuation, zero profits? I don't know if we are or are not in a tech bubble, but this is definitely not evidence that we
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by onebaddude 13y ago
>Bankers do their best to make sure average people can't participate in IPOs Please, elaborate on that for the rest of us. How exactly is it that "bankers" prevent you from participating, and why would that even be in the
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by onebaddude 13y ago
>but still the "eyepiece" can cause problems like glare, reflection, transparency problems. I'm going to go out on a limb and assume you don't drive much. I spend a lot of time on the road (60,000+km this year). Ther
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by onebaddude 13y ago
Add me to the list of people who sometimes feels this way. This is the most inspirational commentary I've read on HN.
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by onebaddude 13y ago
Is there any context to this? I see some commentators here saying "that's great!" Is it? I have no idea. Considering the Apple marketing machine is going full force, it doesn't seem like a jaw-dropping number. But, a
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by onebaddude 13y ago
>MacBook Pros actually have the ability to ramp up the CPU's draw when on AC power so high that even when plugged in, they will cause battery drain So why not limit the CPU to: (Speed at which batter drains) - 1%?
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by onebaddude 13y ago
>Most people who manage to afford to buy a smartphone, use the thing until it dies. I've been making this argument for a while, whenever someone cries about fragmentation, mainly from my personal experience. I'm a "techy&
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by onebaddude 13y ago
So your solution to an expensive cable bill (which allows me to watch many sports from the comfort of my home) is to go to a bar, for hours , multiple times per week and pay for deliberately overpriced food and drink? Are you cord cutting

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