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by pcarolan 4y ago
You also can't yell fire in a crowded theater when there isn't one. You could make the argument that someone did.
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by pcarolan 4y ago
You’re assuming homogeneous agents. In other words, no leaders; no whales. The real world doesn’t work like this.
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by pcarolan 4y ago
It was a mismanaged crisis, I think on that point we agree.
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by pcarolan 4y ago
The gap between assets and liabilities on thu/fri (as i understand it) was single digits. SVB tried to raise capital, but instead long-term customers pulled their deposits and told their portfolios to do the same. Some kind of restruct
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by pcarolan 4y ago
The problem was the community (or lack of). This was *their* bank. These are the titans of Silicon Valley and they couldn't get together in a room and work it out. Instead everyone took to Twitter. To call it a prisoner's dilemma
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by pcarolan 4y ago
In Australia, this is regulated and they can charge no more than 1.5%. https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/pricing/card-surcharges This could be changed overnight with 1 piece of legislation.
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by pcarolan 4y ago
Yikes - yup
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by pcarolan 4y ago
Lowest price last 12m was $125.
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by pcarolan 4y ago
“Berkshire bought another 20.8 million Apple shares worth $3.2 billion, raising its stake to 5.8%, according to the filing” How does Berkshire get a price of $111 per share? Current price is $153.
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Ask HN: How do you test SQL?
663 points by pcarolan 4y ago|315 comments
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by pcarolan 4y ago
Ticketmaster's primary value prop is a heat shield for artists. The artists get to blame Ticketmaster while charging the highest market clearing price, and Ticketmaster gets to make a nice profit being the 'bad guys'. If the
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by pcarolan 4y ago
Can someone with ADHD give an example of a website that is well organized and architected that they find helpful as a counterexample to this site? I'm curious as someone parenting someone with ADHD what that would look like.
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by pcarolan 4y ago
The answer is simpler, ads are the support model for free services. If you want adfree, you need to pay for it. The demand curve for adfree however seems to be almost flat. This means spammers can survive on incredibly thin margins. Spammer
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by pcarolan 4y ago
Infinite Jest is feeling more prescient every day ( the titular theme is about media addiction ). Worth the steep climb.
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by pcarolan 4y ago
The base model Macbook Air in 2010 was $1299 which means that you get compute and product improvements following Moore's law at deflationary prices. Humans have a hard time understanding the value of power laws. What Apple has done has
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by pcarolan 4y ago
I disagree. The colorful consumer oriented mac ibook clamshell g3 was USD $1,599 when it came out in 1999. That's $2,800 in today's dollars and it was orders of magnitude less powerful than this Macbook Air. The value per dollar y
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by pcarolan 4y ago
Can you recommend at good product at that price point?
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by pcarolan 4y ago
I appreciate the commenter’s honesty in stating they didn’t read it at least. Sorry for the author who has nice comments below that most people won’t get to read. Great article.
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by pcarolan 4y ago
This comment chain at the top of a good article is more annoying than the ads were in the article.
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by pcarolan 5y ago
I also wonder how much ADHD disinformation is driving this: https://www.psypost.org/2022/03/misleading-videos-about-adhd...
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by pcarolan 5y ago
Right, so why did the trend explode during the pandemic?
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by pcarolan 5y ago
I am helping a family member recently diagnosed with ADHD during the pandemic. I looked up this google trend and my jaw dropped. Clearly the world has yet to come to terms with the social, emotional and psychological effects of this pandemi
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by pcarolan 5y ago
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by pcarolan 5y ago
[Basecamp]( https://basecamp.com/ ) + [Hey]( https://www.hey.com/ )
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by pcarolan 5y ago
Same. I was 14 at the time it came out and I can still remember how I felt walking out of the theater. Everything I love about the movies was there and it inspired me to want to lean more about computers.
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by pcarolan 5y ago
Remove the words "of CS" from this paragraph and give this paragraph to every college (and high school) freshman. Well said.
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by pcarolan 5y ago
This is incredibly impressive and does a great job of capturing my voice. Well done!
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by pcarolan 5y ago
Agreed, I bet every auto manufacturer on the planet hates this decision though. The software platform will become more valuable as cars become more electric and self-driven in an economy where attention shifts from the road to the screens i
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by pcarolan 5y ago
I love Toyota for their reliability and design and drive one every day, that said, their software is unbelievably bad. I'm speaking about their entertainment systems circa 2016. It seems modern cars are becoming more and more software
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by pcarolan 5y ago
Ray Manzarek from The Doors (named after this book) used to say something like "I don't need drugs any more because the doors are open". Here's a similar quote: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ray

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