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by pdog 10y ago
It's win–win–win. If cities make improvements to their transportation infrastructure based on this data, ultimately it helps Uber deliver better service to its customers.
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by pdog 10y ago
What does it take to become a citizen of Norway? Asking for a friend.
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by pdog 10y ago
> The average investor made just over 5% in 2016. Of course, the total stock market is up 15% YTD (including dividends), so a simple index fund did better than most investors.
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by pdog 10y ago
Just invest in Yum Brands (NYSE:YUM) and GameStop (NYSE:GME) as a proxy.
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by pdog 10y ago
The central thesis of Piketty's Capital [1] is that inequality is a core feature of capitalism. He backs this with meticulous research[2] into centuries of wealth, income, and tax data. You can argue about what is the "right&quot
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by pdog 10y ago
What self is there to understand? Does a computer chip know what it's processing?
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by pdog 10y ago
Dr. Jaques divided people into eight strata based on their innate capabilities and limits. Most of us if we're honest with ourselves are on the level of Strata 1–4. (Even to presume we're Stratum 4 is being generous.) Strata 5–8 a
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by pdog 10y ago
Why did people think otherwise? Chapter 5 of K&R [1] is titled Pointers and Arrays and basically explains that arrays and pointers are equivalent. [1]: https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Brian-W-Kernigha...
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by pdog 10y ago
Fukushima was a failure of risk engineering. It's sad that you seem to think that we need to "accept" man-made disasters.
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Why Bitcoin's Rally Crushed Every Other Currency in 2016(bloomberg.com)
2 points by pdog 10y ago|0 comments
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by pdog 10y ago
This isn't surprising. Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick are both admirers of Ayn Rand and likely supporters of Donald Trump (although they probably couldn't express their support prior to November 8th).
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by pdog 10y ago
This isn't really passive income outside of the 2% dividend yield of a total market index fund, which isn't all that great. A $500,000 investment only yields about $10,000 annually. (Not to mention the significant risk of a market
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by pdog 10y ago
Invest in a cheap French or Eurozone total market index fund. It only makes sense to invest in a fund that matches your local currency.
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by pdog 10y ago
Especially since memory paging is no longer an issue. The solid-state drives in these laptops are fast enough to read and write several gigabytes of memory per second.
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by pdog 10y ago
> When I see a problem elsewhere in society - investment banking in the 2000s for example - people propose heavy regulatory solutions. That may work, but wouldn't be so much of a battle if the culture were better. The toxic cultu
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by pdog 10y ago
Flagged for politics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404
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by pdog 10y ago
Flagged for politics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404
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by pdog 10y ago
China has surpassed Silicon Valley when it comes to the original vision of self-sufficient entrepreneurship and freedom from stifling bureaucracy. Mark my words. Beijing is the biggest competitor to Silicon Valley in the coming years.
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by pdog 10y ago
Why isn't this a blog post? I gave up reading after the first tweet because it's in such a horrible format.
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by pdog 10y ago
So what? This form of "price discrimination" already exists at universities, e.g., with certain graduate, MBA, and continuing education programs that function largely as profit centers. There's no reason for different schools
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by pdog 10y ago
Why is the federal government the largest single lender to students? This is a direct transfer from taxpayers to a few public and private institutions. If colleges and universities were responsible for student debt, they never would have ma
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U.S. Statement on Reliability of Election Results(nytimes.com)
8 points by pdog 10y ago|7 comments
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by pdog 10y ago
We're witnessing history as part of a larger Hegelian dialectic. We're not going back to the isolated nation state (that ship sailed a long time ago). However, it's clear that unfettered globalization will give way to somethi
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by pdog 10y ago
I'm worried about the sudden drumbeat of post-election "fake news" articles. It's really just a subtle form of censorship (and an attempt to control the social media narrative).
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by pdog 10y ago
Why not verify "trusted" domains and show a tiny checkmark, the same way you verify users? At least there's no censorship with this solution.
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by pdog 10y ago
None. Seriously, try a low-information diet and see how materially affected your life is.
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by pdog 10y ago
> The Dow futures dropped 7,000 points overnight. Human sacrifice. Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria.
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by pdog 10y ago
Why is there not a single work of fiction or poetry in that list? Surely Mr. Buffett think you should read more than just business books.
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by pdog 10y ago
I never thought people would pay for privilege of having an always-on, data-gathering microphone in their living room, but here we are.
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by pdog 10y ago
> The city has not completed projects on the scale of Robert Moses since his tenure. Good. I think we all learned our lesson from Robert Moses the first time around... > It's time for New York to think big again. No! Think sm

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