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by ralph84 7y ago
Worth noting that The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is not an actual Nobel Prize. It was established by a central bank so they could award people who justify the existence of central banks.
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by ralph84 7y ago
Activists at work used to focus on things that would improve the lives of workers. Now they just want everyone to be as miserable as they are.
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by ralph84 7y ago
Global time zone maps are already really weird. There are plenty of places where traveling east doesn’t change the time zone for thousands of miles, or changes it by something other than one hour.
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by ralph84 7y ago
Quintillion is owned by a NYC private equity firm. When has private equity ever cared about PR? But I'm surprised the woman hasn't sued Quintillion to get the equity. I don't see how the company could argue the CEO wasn'
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by ralph84 7y ago
The first crash was by an airline that regularly crashed 737s, so everyone assumed it was the airline's fault not the plane.
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by ralph84 7y ago
Ma Bell was leasing telephones since the days of Alexander Graham Bell. In fact you weren't allowed to use any telephone except one leased from your telco until the breakup of the Bell System in the 80s. Not sure that is what we want t
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by ralph84 7y ago
Many of those majority Muslim countries have been or are currently in civil wars between Muslims. None of them would be considered bastions of human rights in how they treat their own Muslim population. It's not bizarre at all that the
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by ralph84 7y ago
> They borrowed short, lent long and then pretended it was as sustainable business. You've just described almost every company in the financial sector.
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by ralph84 7y ago
Geographically the vast majority of the US doesn't have tap water.
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by ralph84 7y ago
This. I really don't get all of the clutching of pearls here. It's clear that investors aren't buying WeWork as-is and it's going to need radical changes to its valuation, management, and possibly business model to acces
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by ralph84 7y ago
Samsung's was https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/08/samsung-source-code-leak/
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by ralph84 7y ago
Once you get to Google or Apple scale, you’re essentially a government and run into the same problems with central planning that governments do. It’s absolutely the right move to return the money to shareholders and let them reallocate it t
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by ralph84 7y ago
Most exchanges have an auction process that sets opening and closing prices. They let everyone get their orders in and then run an algorithm to find the price that will execute the most volume. They could do the same process every 5 minutes
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by ralph84 7y ago
GitHub is not blocking Venezuela. The list a country is on is more than just a matter of terminology.
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by ralph84 7y ago
Venezuela is not fully-embargoed. The fully-embargoed countries are Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Syria.
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by ralph84 7y ago
Only problem with your theory is that the number of fully-embargoed countries by the US has decreased over the last 20 years, and all of the still-embargoed countries except for Crimea have been on the list for longer than 20 years.
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by ralph84 7y ago
Boeing doesn't make a lot of the components on their planes. The plane doesn't fly until Boeing is satisfied with how those components work.
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by ralph84 7y ago
Boeing's other current big commercial aircraft development program is the 777X. They are working through engine issues before first flight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777X
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by ralph84 7y ago
Somewhat tangential, but I hope someday we can move more towards having stocks trade regularly but not on microsecond timescales. All of the fragmented liquidity being exploited by HFT is not a net economic gain. The exchanges already have
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by ralph84 7y ago
Nothing is ever new in IT. A similar incident happened 22 years ago. Buggy and/or misconfigured gear disaggregates and reannounces routes and creates a blackhole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS_7007_incident
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by ralph84 7y ago
There’s a big gap between safe and palatable. Anyone who says just drink from the tap has never lived somewhere where the water source is very hard groundwater.
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by ralph84 7y ago
Or keep it there where you have one of the most powerful companies in the world to defend it.
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by ralph84 7y ago
I like the odds in the US better than anywhere else. No other country has a better track record of protecting freedom of speech.
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by ralph84 7y ago
"* but good" is the vast majority of successful tech companies. iPhone wasn't the first smartphone. Facebook wasn't the first social network. Google wasn't the first search engine. Etc.
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by ralph84 7y ago
It's absolutely not the role of index funds to dictate strategy to the companies they own. The whole premise behind an index fund is investors don't know which strategy is best, so just buy everything. Where funds could have an im
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by ralph84 7y ago
Growth is inherently limited for any hipster brand because once it becomes mainstream it's no longer hip.
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by ralph84 7y ago
I give out my credit card number hundreds of times per year. Credit cards wouldn't be very useful if you never gave them out.
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by ralph84 7y ago
There are more ways to innovate than just offer the same thing for less money. You can offer more things for the same money, which is what FlyHomes is doing. That is actually the more common and more financially viable form of innovation.
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by ralph84 7y ago
We can leave Microsoft and Apple aside because their IPOs were so long ago, but there were certainly many periods in their history where a "tech savvy" investor would have wanted to drop them from an indexed portfolio because grow
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by ralph84 7y ago
Theoretically agents could do these things, but most don't. They want deals to close. Giving you reasons not to buy doesn't close deals. If it turns out you don't like the house they'll be happy to sell it for you later.

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