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by pcarolan 10y ago
It wasn't news to any public investors that Fannie/Freddie is a quasi-governmental organization. Investors angered that they can't reap the rewards without paying for past/present/future risk and bad debt are also a
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by pcarolan 10y ago
Mortgage subsidization is the whole point of the program, not sure I see the issue in your argument. We get lower mortgage interest rates because they exist.
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by pcarolan 10y ago
The article is making the case that they've become socialize the losses and socialize the profits... and goes on to say that this is somehow bad because shareholders. It seems to me that the status quo is a good compromise if you belie
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by pcarolan 10y ago
Agreed. When Spotify stops putting Coldplay in my Radiohead station, I'll begin to worry.
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by pcarolan 10y ago
Music platforms don't just take off based on one or two successes, it's about accumulation. Plus that music is now firmly in their catalog. If they're able to play a long game, people will move over as they gather better excl
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by pcarolan 10y ago
I dont think its every girls dream to be a sex worker when she grows up. Its not about religion or morality its about quality of life. Its about humanity.
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Otto, a successor to Vagrant by hashicorp(ottoproject.io)
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Yahoo Gives 4 Board Seats to Hedge Fund Starboard Value(nytimes.com)
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Modelling shows move to 100% renewable energy would save Australia money(theguardian.com)
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by pcarolan 11y ago
Pre ipo Uber shares? Yes.
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by pcarolan 11y ago
Thanks, i'll check ot out.
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by pcarolan 11y ago
Maybe, but what is the slope of the curve?
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by pcarolan 11y ago
On the east coast they buy assets, in the midwest they buy sales, on the west coast they buy ideas. Valuation is subjective dependent on how you evaluate fpv. Risk quantification is not a science it is an art. Capital allocators are allowed
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by pcarolan 11y ago
If I were on the west coast, I would give no shits about east coast valuations. They lost that privilege when they marked mortgages wrong. Keep building rad tech, we'll keep buying it. Sales are all that matters.
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by pcarolan 11y ago
My first job was at a big insurance company in a nontechnical role. Once you realize that this is a marathon not a sprint, the most important thing to do is get the fundamentals right. Master testing in whatever language your employer uses,
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The Voyage of Southern Cross: A chronicle of the voyage of a small open boat(thepocketyacht.blogspot.com)
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by pcarolan 11y ago
Good idea. Good marketing, even if not new, this needs to happen.
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Amazon Sues Star Exec Who Is Defecting to Target(fortune.com)
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by pcarolan 11y ago
What's needed to realize Wilson's vision is an institution that glues allocated land together and networks with other land trusts towards the half-earth goal. The land wouldn't always need to be contiguous, though connecting
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by pcarolan 11y ago
Dust off your copy and go reread it under a tree.
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by pcarolan 11y ago
This sounds a lot like the open vs closed system debate we had/(have?) with computers. I'm glad that in my youth I could wrench on the internals of a PC and I'm glad that in my 30s I never have to because my Mac 'just wo
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by pcarolan 11y ago
I think he means waste as in unaccounted externalities such as putting co2 into the atmosphere without paying the social costs.
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by pcarolan 11y ago
The capture and transfer of wealth is really well illustrated by looking at profit per employee. http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-corp...
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Ask HN: What else do you read as regularly as Hacker News?
53 points by pcarolan 11y ago|68 comments
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by pcarolan 11y ago
Anyone have a rough estimate of what we've paid for enhanced security since 911?
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by pcarolan 11y ago
amen
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by pcarolan 11y ago
Agreed, the south shore chicago trains have feelers to harvest electricity as they go. Maybe a Tesla with a whisker on top could go indefinitely on long stretches of highway.
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by pcarolan 11y ago
I'd say you were just too early, everyone will benefit from them having pushed these ideas further.
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by pcarolan 11y ago
I think you need a hug.
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Was 1991 the zenith of video games?(google.com)
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