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931.
by piker 7y ago
Not far off these days. Might not see play in most formats. Would be cool in standard or limited though.
932.
by piker 7y ago
But consider results in consumer technology: Palm versus Blackberry versus iPhone.
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by piker 7y ago
In the unrelated later article about the "Chicken Libor" later in the document, he says: > Anyway it totally worked? “Georgia agriculture officials suspended the index late that year after some poultry companies declined to pro
934.
by piker 7y ago
That's the why this isn't a perfect quote. Some proponents of insider trading laws pose that exact question and pursue insider trading violations in the interest of protecting the "fairness" of the markets.
935.
by piker 7y ago
You're stealing value by profiting on information which you had some duty to protect. For example, a company executive who knows that one of the company's products is about to be recalled generally owes a duty of loyalty to the co
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by piker 7y ago
> Remember the Matt Levine test: insider trading is about theft, not fairness. While appreciating the usefulness of this quote, one should also understand that usefulness is limited by the actual enforcement of insider trading laws and i
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by piker 7y ago
One distinction is whether or not there's a duty of confidentiality owed by the possessor of the information with respect to the source of the information (the "non-public" element of "material non-public information&quo
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by piker 7y ago
What's "artificial" about the price increases?
939.
by piker 7y ago
Interesting paradigm. It's like wicked learning environments are the SLAM of life.
940.
by piker 7y ago
So you agree then that given the existence of free will, it's better that the author tweet this story than [not] blog it and thus allows folks like yourself to ignore it while others who don't mind can read and enjoy.
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by piker 7y ago
There isn't a lawyer in the world that can reliably answer that question in 1 hour that would only charge $200 for that hour.
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by piker 7y ago
> more radiation than the nuclear industry emits buried the lede there
943.
by piker 7y ago
The effect of the strike on profitability must be offset somewhat by an increase in revenues due to surge pricing. [Edit: Is that incorrect? Why would this be down-voted.]
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by piker 7y ago
Nope. > Life expectancy was inversely related to levels of rurality. In 2005-2009, those in large metropolitan areas had a life expectancy of 79.1 years, compared with 76.9 years in small urban towns and 76.7 years in rural areas. When s
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by piker 8y ago
> Laffer curve on bond markets Yield curve, Laffer curve unrelated
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by piker 8y ago
Expert systems? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system
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by piker 8y ago
So that's it, then? Some thing, say, a million light years away from another thing is in practice entirely inaccessible to civilizations existing on that other thing, requiring a minimum of a million years to reach?
948.
by piker 8y ago
Wow that noise is terrifying. Compare: https://youtu.be/oU4Rk0NATNs?t=168
949.
by piker 8y ago
Higher resolution official release seems to be: https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/blackholes/download...
950.
by piker 8y ago
Is this image lossy compressed by Twitter? Is there an official release?
951.
by piker 8y ago
Available here: https://sites.uni.edu/morgans/astro/course/TheStar.pdf
952.
by piker 8y ago
> Even some advocates of the change admit that it has downsides for inmates and their families. Ryan Rickert, jail administrator at the Lowndes County Adult Detention Center, acknowledged to The Commercial Dispatch that inmates were disa
953.
by piker 8y ago
> I still believe in that bright future pre-cyberpunk science fiction was promising us. Citation enough? Not to impose your will against free speech, no.
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by piker 8y ago
[edited for tone] The proposition that something requiring a "deep dive" is now "mainstream" seems internally inconsistent. Also the proposition that offensive content being available on the internet following such a dee
955.
by piker 8y ago
This is fair. However, note the "as a whole" above.
956.
by piker 8y ago
It's hilarious that the author is citing television. Is there anyone on the Earth who believes, e.g., British television is better as a whole than US television? They must really like slow-to-never-developing low budget, single camera
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MIT and Nasa engineers demonstrate a new kind of airplane wing(phys.org)
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958.
by piker 8y ago
... plus a massive stamp duty on the transfer ...
959.
by piker 8y ago
The parent's implication being that this is one of the cases where people could reasonably believe it isn't necessary.
960.
by piker 8y ago
Yes, kind of. US Tax-Exempt entities directly engaged in "unrelated business activites" can be subject to "unrelated business income tax" or UBIT at the federal level. But that's unlikely to deter an agency of the f

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