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by pyoung 13y ago
I think he did a good job at making the distinction. Not sure if you got the jist of it, but he clearly states that despite the heavy libertarian leaning culture, SV overwhelmingly voted for Democrats the last few elections, indicating the
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by pyoung 13y ago
This is crazy, are there any comprehensive lists of devices that were affected by this? I am a little curious to see what devices, of many that have failed, may have been affected by this. Not that it would really change anything at this
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by pyoung 13y ago
To add to that, charitybuzz is a for-profit corporation. Not that I am against that, but it is worth keeping in mind as there have been a number of scandals in the past, where money from charitable non-profits gets re-directed to 'non-profi
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by pyoung 13y ago
The lack of universal health care probably exacerbates the homelessness situation in the U.S. With that said, what you see in San Francisco is largely a product of the combination of homeless friendly policies and tolerable weather. Many o
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by pyoung 13y ago
I am not familiar with any of the 'science', but from what I understand you definitely want to do some sort of strength training. It helps with weight regulation, injury prevention, and overall health. The scientific 7-minute will probabl
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by pyoung 13y ago
Have you ever tried to feed kids brussel sprouts? That alone would require more effort than it was worth to cook them. I'm not poor, but I've definitely gone through a rough period or two in my past. During those periods I managed to eat
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by pyoung 13y ago
So you are saying that a lot of the short interest is coming from people hedging their long bets? I can somewhat relate to why one would take this strategy, as Tesla is getting a lot of hype, implying that the stock might break out (or alre
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by pyoung 13y ago
Got it, thanks. Do brokerages charge interest rates for allowing shorts to borrow the stock?
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by pyoung 13y ago
What?!!! Just so I get this straight. In order to short the stock you have to pay an annual interest rate of 46% of the stock value? I realize most shorts are probably only in it for short term, but that is still pretty insane.
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by pyoung 13y ago
Without quantifying the risks involved with your trading strategies, it is impossible to say whether you are beating the risk-adjusted returns of an index fund. Additionally, I am pretty sure index funds, even without risk adjustments, hav
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by pyoung 13y ago
Kicking myself for not grabbing it while it was in the $30's. Still probably a good buy, but I would recommend at least leaving some money aside for Ramen noodles and rent, just in case it blows up.
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by pyoung 13y ago
It's a bit of a stretch as most people probably don't consider stopping at a gas station as a major inconvenience. In Tesla's defense, they do not automatically include those cost options in the calculation (you have to check the box to in
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by pyoung 13y ago
If you can afford it, I would recommend buying one (or an Arduino or RasPi). Even if the most you ever do with it is run through some simple tutorials, it is still worth it. I have a few Arduino's and RasPi's, and to date, I have yet to ma
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by pyoung 13y ago
I think it goes both ways. Some founders actually believe in their companies and their vision, whereas others are just holding out for a bigger payday. While it is nice to hear stories about founders cashing out, we should also celebrate
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by pyoung 14y ago
The emphasis on supporting small casual transactions seems to have created a number of problems for the bitcoin infrastructure. Mt. Gox charges a small % for transactions (rather than a flat fee), a by product of this is it allows people t
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by pyoung 14y ago
I think Singapore does so well because of the low taxes and because it is one of the few Asian countries in that region that isn't hampered by corruption. Europe's economies are way too diverse to group together, some of them are 'business
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by pyoung 14y ago
The reaction to SOX by Wall Street was fairly mixed, some liked it because it meant the could put more trust in corporate financial statements. Some did not support the bill because of the usual straw man argument that 'regulation makes us
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by pyoung 14y ago
This actually seems like a large flaw in their fee structure. Every traditional online brokerage/trading service that I have looked at in the past has used a flat fee. This incentives individuals to reduce their number of transactions in
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by pyoung 14y ago
I agree that this is the appropriate way to look at bitcoin. It is not so much a currency at the moment, it is more like an asset, like stocks, bonds, or gold. If we assume bitcoin is an asset, we are not seeing deflation per se, we are s
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by pyoung 14y ago
"Nobody invests. If that's the case, then the amount of goods and services in the economy remains constant" No, if nobody invests, then there will be NO goods and services at all. That is a recipe for economic calamity, and would create a
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by pyoung 14y ago
I like your point about adoption. It makes sense that a deflationary currency would attract more people due to its speculative nature. Without this aspect of bitcoin, it would still probably be trading for pennies and languishing in relat
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by pyoung 14y ago
I imagine your mileage may vary depending on the functions and operations that you are performing. I did a simple test of python vs R and python was the overwhelmingly faster. I believe both languages are primarily written in C, and as su
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by pyoung 14y ago
I think he is missing a zero. 17 sqft is a mini-closet, not a mini-apartment. 170 sqft would still be pretty small, but doable.
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by pyoung 14y ago
According to the buzzfeed article, the feature was pulled from a discontinued project called Google Sets. So yeah, sounds like they had a cool feature built that is no longer getting updated and they decided to toss it in to google docs.
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by pyoung 14y ago
I disagree. Better advice would be, if you want to be a journalist, "have a solid back-up plan" or "pursue it on the side". Even before the internet, it was a tough profession to be successful in. Now it is even tougher, but there are st
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by pyoung 14y ago
A few months ago I bought a kit from Sparkfun to mess around with. Got everything built only to find out that something was wrong with the FTDI (I couldn't upload new sketches). After a quick e-mail exchange, Sparkfun sent out a whole new
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by pyoung 14y ago
This was speculated in the following article. Compared to announcing a round of layoffs, reigning in remote workers is probably much less damaging to morale, and they can always ease the restriction or set up a more rationale policy down t
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by pyoung 14y ago
But if you also have ~20 tabs open in your browser, and are streaming music etc... I am doing a thin client setup of sorts, and by the end of the day things start slowing down quite a bit. I do agree that $1300 is too much, at that price r
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by pyoung 14y ago
"it offers nothing useful in terms of creating progressive and fair tax rates." Neither does accusing people of propagating class warfare.
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by pyoung 14y ago
You also might want to look into R (I would recommend using R with RStudio, a fairly powerful, but easy to setup IDE). I have a feeling that if you know SQL, than learning a programming language is well within your abilities. The biggest d

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