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by pjanoman 3y ago
They're returning the equivalent of 3 million stock options. They gave themselves 11 million stock options between 2017-2020, which means they're still getting around $2 billion for being on the board. They're not returning e
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by pjanoman 3y ago
While I'm generally pro-HFT and market making, I'm seeing some comments that are equating market making and high frequency trading. They're not the same thing. As an HFT firm, you can have two kinds of strategies: Liquidity p
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by pjanoman 5y ago
I'd argue that hiding behind "we let the market determine it" is much more uninspired and unproductive. Economic research now a days is constantly showing that markets are extremely flawed. One example of that is society pres
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by pjanoman 5y ago
Honestly I get lost inside of AWS. Only recently was I able to figure out why I was getting charged $.82/month which, in the long run, is really nothing. But it's amazing how hard it was to figure out why I was getting charged for
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by pjanoman 5y ago
I think apple watch was post jobs. Additionally, while this is more abstract, I think Apple has continued to revolutionize consumer's privacy.
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by pjanoman 5y ago
Scarcity alone is definitely not enough to create value. The one piece of artwork I've made in my life is a scarce resource, but that doesn't mean I have people buying it up like its an NFT.
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by pjanoman 5y ago
Public policy constantly requires leaps of faith to try to make the country better. You can't know that providing housing to the homeless helps them until you actually try it for the first time. What is: Based on currently available nu
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by pjanoman 5y ago
Maybe some people believe that, but overall that seems to be more of a straw-man argument if anything. I believe what is more common is the thought that we, as a country, can provide housing for people who have no place to live without maki
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by pjanoman 5y ago
Seems like you can also get housing in Japan for $14/day which is much less than you can in LA, to my knowledge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_Japan#Internet...
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by pjanoman 5y ago
1) Many times, yes. If we want to analyze things logically, oftentimes people just need a safe place to stay so that things are stolen from them/they can avoid drugs/they can tell an employer that they live somewhere in order to h
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by pjanoman 5y ago
> There would almost surely be a censoring effect no matter what age cutoff you pick This seems to be an ethical argument to make the age cutoff 0: in other words, medicare for all. > surely at some level health econometricians are in
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by pjanoman 6y ago
What does youtube do that is monopolistic? Just because all users congregate onto one site doesn't mean that Youtube needs to be broken apart.
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by pjanoman 6y ago
Here's the distinction though: $400 out of the $900 million was returned. Thus, it seems like we can't get past your part A) in this case, as hedge funds had enough reason to think the payment was a mistake that they returned it.
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by pjanoman 6y ago
Users are completely free to not use an Apple product. They have lost no freedom of their own will. Users choose this ecosystem over many other options.
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by pjanoman 6y ago
Would you have preferred that they wrote down everyone's birthday, or not have wished you their birthday? I don't see how this applies to the LinkedIn situation.
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by pjanoman 6y ago
Maybe people close to Bitcoin know it won't be a usable currency, but unless you closely follow bitcoin, it sure seems like it is built to be a usable currency. Even the name implies this relationship, and the idea of a 'wallet&#x
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by pjanoman 6y ago
This seems to be a little bit different than other financial crashes where the "little guys" lost out -- in previous situations, most went in trusting that they wouldn't be gambling their savings away because of some financia
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by pjanoman 6y ago
Would it not be somewhere in the middle though? Instead of completely saying yes or no, maybe Canada would say "We'll allow you to purchase X% of all drugs produced in the country, as we need to hold onto some, but we'd love
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by pjanoman 6y ago
Silence is a strong word -- I'm certainly still able to hear news from Donald Trump, even if he was banned from Twitter.
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by pjanoman 6y ago
I'm not extremely well-versed in this issue, but it seems like investing in Airbnb is completely different than investing in real estate itself. I feel like the comparison is similar to investing in Amazon versus investing in a company
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by pjanoman 6y ago
At the end of the 2016 election, Donald Trump had a predicted 1/4 chance of winning the presidency. Does this seem like a massive debacle that Trump won under these conditions? Not to me. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com
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by pjanoman 6y ago
And for anyone that wanted how large a zeptosecond is; it's 10^-21.
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by pjanoman 6y ago
How do you fund this? I got semi-far with some friends on building a project similar to this, however, we stopped halfway through because we realized that video hosting quickly becomes quite expensive; without a monetization plan, there&#x2
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by pjanoman 7y ago
If a friend/coworker shares something that they're sad/angry about, sometimes they're not asking for advice. Sometimes they just want someone to relate to them and their struggles. #3 can sometimes be a detractor because
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Amazon tests Whole Foods payment system that uses hands as ID(nypost.com)
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by pjanoman 7y ago
Firstly, gay marriage has only been legal since 2015 federally — that's a type of abuse. But even if you don't think it is, the American Revolution had some type of value even though slavery was still a part of America's hist