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by rlucas 8y ago
I'm curious why you mention "small operators" twice here. Huawei is a huge player in an inherently global business, complicated by the fact that selling telecoms network equipment necessitates dealing with quasi-state actors
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by rlucas 8y ago
In Barq's vs. Mug -- quite true. Haven't had either in probably 10 years but Barq's "bite" is the caffeine.
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by rlucas 8y ago
It is plainly wrong to say the 1A has “nothing whatsoever” to do with private entities. Not only has the GP indicated one case (JWs) but there are shopping mall cases and many others where a “public forum” doctrine has extended 1A scrutiny
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by rlucas 8y ago
Although I'm not taking a position on whether the numbers are correctly reasoned, I think evaluating the value of the noncompete after the fact and as a static value (was his domain knowledge worth $90 M) isn't likely how it was t
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by rlucas 8y ago
And, because until and unless there is a prevailing adoption of the surrogate coin in place of its pegged reserve (that is, everyone just assumes and "knows" a USDC is worth a USD), the sponsor has to stand ready to maintain the p
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by rlucas 8y ago
Thank you for pointing out one of the big upsides to entrepreneurial bubbles. (Not necessarily all "speculative" bubbles.) The simplified form is that a "gold-rush" mentality in an entrepreneurial bubble, even though it
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by rlucas 8y ago
Buuuutttt, since it's not dollars you have to trust that a market maker counterparty will stand behind the peg when you do want to liquidate.
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by rlucas 8y ago
Have you lived anywhere else, like, say, the northeast? Seattle is a shockingly well run municipality among American cities of size.
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by rlucas 8y ago
In a word, no. To have a usable, stable exchange rate into something (other than a related cryptocurrency), there must be another party who stands willing to buy and sell the thing at that pegged rate. Read up on the history of currency peg
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by rlucas 8y ago
If you're correct, then the even more correct version is "the data is not up for sale yet. "
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by rlucas 8y ago
Yes, the idea of ceding to the power company (in exchange for a credit / rate reduction) the ability to turn off your power in whole or part is well known and is called "Demand Response" https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by rlucas 8y ago
I recall seeing it many times (and ... mostly sometimes heeding the admonition). A lot of times you’ll see a solution snippet with inadequate exception handling or resource cleanup (file handles, dB handles, etc.). I’ve also seen a lot of r
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by rlucas 8y ago
That's not how it works. Votes are typically collected and tabulated in a county, but that state's electors are generally allocated by a majority popular vote, aggregating all counties (a few states do proportional). "Winn
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by rlucas 8y ago
Pure methane is a bunch of molecules with just one carbon, which simplifies things a bit vs. a cracked and heterogeneous mix of longer chain (10+) molecules. You can incompletely combust a 10-carbon molecule and wind up with other hydrocarb
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by rlucas 8y ago
Are you serious? Your industry colleagues haven't been inoculated against name-chauvinism by the relentless parade including "Google," "Yahoo," the innumerable "-Fish" and "-Monkey" names, etc.?
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by rlucas 8y ago
I’m not in a position to argue the deeper details here, but superficially this thread has a tone that is pretty uncritical about benzodiazepines. For persons scanning the conversation and absorbing the ambient folk opinions here on various
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by rlucas 8y ago
I think "payment/settlement" here is clear, but not the link to network-native resources. Let's imagine you have an auto-scaling application. You hit a big spike (like several orders of magnitude) and have the (cryptocu
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by rlucas 8y ago
It is not strictly true that endpoints and the locus of trust always have humans in the loop. (Where they do, of course, I agree that blockchain has much more limited "fit" as a solution.) However, in what I call "network-na
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by rlucas 8y ago
What on earth does storage mean in this context: "Instead of FB having all of your data, it's stored on the blockchain"?? It doesn't mean actually, "store thousands of messages, posts, and photos literally 'on&
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by rlucas 8y ago
If you are in a dense coin/jewelry district of a medium-sized city, you can get darn close to the posted spot prices for mainstream coins. They will charge a bit extra but probably closer to a 5-10% rake than 20%. Source: I once negot
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by rlucas 9y ago
This is [one of] the dark side[s] of the "adaptive" or "personalized" Web. The more adaptive and less deterministic, the less collaboratively and reliably useful it is, even if it happens to be better at serving attenti
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by rlucas 9y ago
Why do you think the mortgage derivatives were broadly speaking underpriced? There are a lot of kinds of risks you can buy that exhibit "picking up dimes in front of a steamroller" risk, and are priced fairly. That is, 99% of the
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by rlucas 9y ago
It wouldn't be a CDS, it would just be a swap (like a currency swap). A bitcoin isn't a credit instrument, so there's no possibility of default. (Although it's also true that swaps usually anticipate a currency's
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by rlucas 9y ago
BP's spill is not a great example of the evanescence of traditional industry. Despite the "catastrophe" you reference, their market cap is still $130 B and they pay out 5% in dividends... (In fairness, there's a lot of
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by rlucas 9y ago
Old trick among big-money managers ... the other fun piece about giving yourself a questionably-recourse (or questionably-to-ever-actually-be-collected) loan is that it's not taxable until it's forgiven. But it's still plent
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by rlucas 9y ago
If you live in a city apartment, it’s likely locked (at least in part) with a key that the fire department holds. In Seattle in the mid 2000s we had a spate of hundreds of breakins due to ill secured fire dept master keys (in cheap lock bo
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by rlucas 9y ago
No, it can be against the law merely to have (and keep) a monopoly. It is against the law to acquire, or to perpetuate, a monopoly by any combination or conspiracy in restraint of trade. Although you're quite right that the move into t
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by rlucas 9y ago
Amazing multimedia sci-fi.
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by rlucas 9y ago
Except, that mother almost certainly knew of the recent excesses of violence played out on behalf of, if not explicitly the direction of, United Airlines, and made a judgment call about reducing risk that her child would be beaten up by a c
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by rlucas 9y ago
> The only winning strategy was to just not deal with them at all. A pattern I've seen in business is similar: when there's a bad actor who is able to pay exorbitant amounts for user acquisition, but then offers a bad product&#

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