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by piker 8y ago
This is the best TLDR ever written.
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by piker 8y ago
The book Sapiens has a few pages on this. Essentially, the thought seems to be that we're an edge case that's been able to jointly optimize for intellect/large brains and small efficient bodies by overcoming the limits on bra
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by piker 8y ago
Why does this article call them CTAs? Being a "commodity trading adviser" is a CFTC regulatory status, not a trading strategy. Those issues are orthogonal. One would have expected them to be referred to as algorithmic traders or a
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by piker 8y ago
Not a correct reading. They had negative nine figures of "profit".
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by piker 8y ago
This analogy somewhat fails given that buildings and equipment are a generally fixed cost/asset, whereas compute power, storeage, etc. are probably more of marginal costs for a technology company such as Lyft. It would suggest they als
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by piker 8y ago
A cynic might note that it is in Vanguard's interest to be conservative here to (1) drive down client expectations and (2) increase the required savings rate in its financial planning models. There's no upside for Vanguard to be h
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Techstars and Partners are launching a space industry accelerator in LA(techcrunch.com)
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by piker 8y ago
That sounds trivial.
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by piker 8y ago
Interestingly up, but responding with 403. Being unfamiliar with AWS' web hosting platform, is there a service that would fall back to denying access if certain sub-modules or instances were pulled?
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by piker 8y ago
Even assuming there's a de minimis exemption for small businesses, one unintended consequence could be increasing employment costs which would negatively effect business formation by disproportionately favoring established entities tha
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by piker 8y ago
> A frozen battery will barely regenerate at all, at 0°F it’s actually disconcerting when you lift your foot and the car just... coasts. The display does have a gauge showing how much regen is available, so it’s not a surprise but it lit
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by piker 8y ago
I read it to imply that C is fine without classes.
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by piker 8y ago
> “If he makes a mistake... he'll find out he made a mistake when the devil welcomes him to breakfast,” said Madinger. That quote is great! Is it a common saying in dangerous fields?
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by piker 8y ago
> Word, yes. Word is a turd. Word needs to die. It's not clear you'd find a lot of lawyers (i.e., a class of power small-document-scale Word users) that would agree with this sentiment.
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by piker 8y ago
> This is one technology I won't be an early adopter of. Oh, but you will.
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by piker 8y ago
>However, talking about facts that have occurred is ALWAYS my legal right. This has nothing to do with the crime the person committed, or the time served, or any other punishment. I am allowed to talk about events, and the legal process
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by piker 8y ago
Part of the social contract does seem to dictate that the relationship between criminal and victim is governed by law. For example, if you were to respond to the attack by defending yourself in the moment, resulting in the assailant's
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by piker 8y ago
Noted and agreed. See the comment below. The original response should have been phrased as aspirational. Clearly there's no right to be forgotten in the law today. However, query whether it's possible for the law to truly "fo
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by piker 8y ago
That's a fair point. The comment should have been more carefully phrased as aspirational. Recognizing that's not the current state of affairs, it does seem that not "forgetting" is akin to not "forgiving" in mo
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by piker 8y ago
It's not your right to dispense such justice--that in fact belongs to the state in a civilized society. I think this example proves the exact opposite of what you desire. Someone who has spent time in jail and had their record expunged
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by piker 8y ago
Isn't the math on solar really simple? (1) Annual amount of energy the sun generates on the surface of the earth minus (2) the annual amount used by non-human forms of life and natural processes equals (3) annual human energy balan
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by piker 8y ago
Tell that to Netscape. Point being, there's anecdotes in both directions. Only time will tell if Tesla's brand is truly industry defining or if it's just the vanguard of a broader industrial shift.
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by piker 8y ago
The theoretical "go private" option under current circumstances is probably out. Tesla would have to rely on Regulation D[0] to privately place its securities in connection with going private. Being deemed a "Bad Actor"
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by piker 8y ago
To be fair, I don't know if exploring/researching/soliciting input on monetization ahead of the "implementation" standstill is bad faith at all.
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by piker 8y ago
If he had power of attorney, in many jurisdictions he would have had certain duties to you which may have significantly restricted his ability to do undermine your interests.
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by piker 8y ago
> it is also the heart of globalisation and the very heart of the internet Except that real estate is intrinsically a geographic issue. Manufacturing and distribution aren't.
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by piker 8y ago
> (except for broker fees which are usually quite small) Not quite. Commissions are charged on equities. Markups are charged on bonds. Markups are the difference between what the broker paid and how much a retail investor has to pay the
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by piker 8y ago
"What would you do with the money if you won $25,000,000 in the lottery?" There. Just saved you n dollars where n is the number of times you want to play that game.
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by piker 8y ago
"No bucks, no Buck Rogers", as it goes.
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by piker 8y ago
"Google IS deciding to go back to China PR" is correct in American English. The entity is singular.

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