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by riggins 13y ago
the netflix numbers are actually pretty easy. At $8/months, it's ~$96/year ... which is close enough to $100 to make for easy math. Quick and dirty numbers (on just the domestic streaming). At 30M subs, run rate revenue is approximately $3B
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by riggins 13y ago
MSFT is the company most often mentioned as an acquirer. I believe they have the Xbox set up so Netflix works right out of the box.
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by riggins 14y ago
"Your view is not objectively correct. To insist otherwise is fascism." it's safe to say I'm not sure what you mean. certainly if someone says 'we spend 20% of federal outlays on welfare' and I say 'no, it's about half that', one or both, a
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by riggins 14y ago
"I suppose its pointless to spend all those police resources fighting that?" Huh? Are you replying to someone else who made a claim about resource allocation (bc I didn't)?
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by riggins 14y ago
"People downplay the magnitude of 9/11, but as I noted somewhere else today, it involved more deaths than Pearl Harbor" that's one point of reference. Here a different point of reference. It involved about 1/10 the number of annual automobi
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by riggins 14y ago
"People don't react to terrorism because they're afraid of being blown up personally." I would disagree. My experience is that people view dying in a terrorist act as an especially horrific way to die and hence especially scary. I have had
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by riggins 14y ago
"For a long time Londoners had to put up with IRA bombs but "Kept calm and carried on" " I really feel like a "keep calm carry on" ad campaign could do some good. Shift the mindset from 'ACKKK TERRORISTS!' to 'I can handle this'
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by riggins 14y ago
"at worst, it depreciates by 50%, you still get $1k back from every month you paid off the mortgage" Not sure what you mean by 'get $1k back from every month you paid off mortgage' Here's rough justice. $300K, 6%, 30 yr fixed mortgage. Annu
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by riggins 14y ago
"I'm french.... My country is not the best country in the world but we did not end up with some terrible thing like Guantanamo" Let me preface this by saying I'm a big fan of France. In fact, I think France was a good ally recommending caut
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by riggins 14y ago
First Break all the Rules is relevant to this discussion. It also has the virtue of being very data focused (they did thousands of surveys to come to their conclusions). here's a summary of the key conclusions. http://www.refresher.com/!br
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by riggins 14y ago
There's no inherent reason that people have to be total pricks in the workplace. there's some economic theory that's inconsistent with that claim. in short, in the absence of an ability to concretely measure work product, firms are forced
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by riggins 14y ago
here are a couple papers. http://ftp.iza.org/dp6580.pdf http://www.economics.uci.edu/files/economics/docs/micro/f07/...
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by riggins 14y ago
In a similar vein. GED recipients have been less successful than originally anticipated. Social scientists were surprised because these are people who are intelligent enough to pass the curriculum but they weren't achieving greater success
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by riggins 14y ago
regarding 10,000 hours ... from Moonwalking with Einstein "What separates experts from the rest of us is that they tend to engage in a very directed, highly focused routine, which Ericsson has labeled “deliberate practice.” Having studied t
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by riggins 14y ago
I give Surowiecki for knowing that quote. It perfectly describes the situation.
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by riggins 14y ago
"I've said many times that when a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact." -Warren Buffett
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by riggins 14y ago
interesting contrast to the recent HN post about how poor the responders to a 'HN: Who's Hiring' post were.
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by riggins 14y ago
I'm curious about enrollment trends. Having taken online courses from the start my sense is that enrollment/participation is slowing. The bulletin boards of some classes are pretty dead on the first run. Its not crazy to think that the peop
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by riggins 14y ago
I had no idea this sort of disability-gaming was occurring a) I did think that people generally knew that disability claims go up during periods of economic dislocation. b) I wouldn't call it 'gaming'. Toy example: Economy starts at equil
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by riggins 14y ago
They're basically asking for a bankrun you've nailed the key outcome. I mentioned this on another thread, but this has to raise the risk of a European bankrun.
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by riggins 14y ago
I don't have any special insight. I'm just articulating my surprise that all the turmoil hasn't triggered a bank run sufficient to cause a crisis. When you can lose 7% of your savings overnight, even money in the mattress starts to look mor
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by riggins 14y ago
The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought.” -Rudiger Dornbusch If I was Greek, I wouldn't have money on deposit at a Greek bank. It surprises me that at a minimum
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by riggins 14y ago
I think if you look around, there's a relationship between how tolerant/non-tolerant a country is and the frequency of 'gay' searches. which makes sense. Non-tolerance will make anonymous/private transactions more appealing.
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by riggins 14y ago
it never occurred to me that a discussion on an internet bulletin board about whether space aliens are likely to be hostile was a 'technical or scientific discussion'.
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by riggins 14y ago
that's not what evolution means. Biological evolution is only one of many meanings of the word evolution. (I promise, I'm aware that bugs have been biologically evolving for longer than humans.) http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/evo
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Any time someone says something like this, that's proof that they don't actually understand evolution. I won't be snarky. I'll just point out that evolution has multiple meanings and I think that it's obvious from context that in this cas
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by riggins 14y ago
It would be great it was true Extraterrestrial life would be great? I'm not sure. I think the 2 most likely scenarios are: 1. ET would be far less evolved 2. ET would be far more evolved #1 wouldn't be terribly interesting. So what about
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I wonder what the best course of action would be in such a situation? pay attention to reality how it is, not how you wish it was. i.e. don't believe models are chasing 60 yr old physics professors.
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interesting thoughts all around.
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by riggins 14y ago
And how are lasers an improvement over conventional anti aircraft missiles? This is purely educated guess, but my guess is that lasers make the problem much much easier and hence much more effective. Instead of needing to calculate a tra

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