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by samolang 12y ago
From Wikipedia: "The first futures exchange market was the Dōjima Rice Exchange in Japan in the 1730s, to meet the needs of samurai who—being paid in rice, and after a series of bad harvests—needed a stable conversion to coin." Su
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by samolang 12y ago
If you include a 35% tax on the sale of Alibaba shares, then the values drops to $45.1B. http://online.wsj.com/articles/alibaba-ipo-to-give-yahoo-win... http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/07&#x2
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by samolang 12y ago
Previous discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fplato.stanford.edu%2F...
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by samolang 12y ago
Here's another real story: http://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/25ycuo/ama_i_q... Guy had 7 dentists in his family. Built a website for his dad's practice, started successfully selling
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by samolang 12y ago
That's almost 15% of the company.
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by samolang 12y ago
In a lot of workplaces whenever one person is out, another person has to make up for it by doing the person who's outs work in addition to their own work. Not saying it will definitely be the case here, but it could be.
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by samolang 12y ago
> In other words, it helps Tesla more to have lots of companies developing electric cars to push back on regulatory barriers and consumer perceptions than it does for them to protect themselves against larger manufacturers copying their
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by samolang 12y ago
Convenience. I have like 150 gigabytes of music. I can't put all of that on my phone and even if I just put a subset on there I'd have to re-load it every time I get a new phone. What if I want to play the music out of whatever la
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by samolang 12y ago
Dang. Didn't realize that Amazon charged you past a certain number of songs. I have my whole library uploaded to Google as well. I usually use spotify, but it comes in handy sometimes (like when I want to listen to the Beatles).
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by samolang 12y ago
Both Amazon and Google let you import your existing libraries and stream them.
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by samolang 12y ago
Xfinity On Demand's user interface is atrocious.
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Lawrence Lessig Reddit AMA(reddit.com)
2 points by samolang 12y ago|0 comments
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by samolang 12y ago
Is knowing nothing about a candidate really any worse than knowing only what their paid advertisements tell you?
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by samolang 12y ago
Does any of this relate to my original question of whether or not junk mail subsidizes regular mail?
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by samolang 12y ago
Yes, I understand all this which is why I was hoping there was a good study or something done on the matter. Junk mail accounts for 48% of all mail volume, but only 26% of revenue. What would be the effect of increasing the cost of junk mai
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by samolang 12y ago
"Contributing to the agency's record $8.5 billion shortfall in fiscal year 2010 was a loss of $1.7 billion on several mail products that didn't cover costs, including advertising-mail flat packages—typically catalogs—advertis
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by samolang 12y ago
That article states that 48% of all mail, or 84B pieces, is junk mail and corresponds to $17B in revenue (works out to 20 cents a piece). Seems to indicate that most revenue comes from non-junk mail. Also, it states nothing about profitabil
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by samolang 12y ago
Do you have a source on that? I've always heard the opposite, that we subsidize the junk mailers.
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by samolang 12y ago
I've always seen it written as "the reddit hug of death". Not quite as heartwarming.
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by samolang 12y ago
I've read that the Nexus 6 is coming out around November and will have a 3,200 mAh battery.
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by samolang 12y ago
That stuff is nice, but this phone is significantly newer (as far as mobile phone go). It looks like the Nexus 6 is coming out in November. I would expect it to have similar specs.
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by samolang 12y ago
The Nexus 5 is only $350. This phone is nominally cheaper, but I wouldn't say 'killer'. I will think about getting it next time I purchase a phone though (I use a Nexus 5 now).
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by samolang 12y ago
The first comment I saw said it was impressive. The second said I should use Gnome instead of Unity. The third said I should try something called localepurge for a leaner install. The fourth said KDE was better than Gnome and Unity. The fif
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Xkcd: Heartbleed Explanation(xkcd.com)
4 points by samolang 12y ago|0 comments
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by samolang 13y ago
> If you start doing that you can't buy stuff anymore and you have to grow your own stuff yourself and stop trusting everyone else on the planet :) That's exactly my point. If you're assigning blame for something the US g
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by samolang 13y ago
It may be a smaller amount, but it is voluntary. Paying taxes is not voluntary.
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by samolang 13y ago
Have you ever bought a product/service from an American company?
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by samolang 13y ago
These libertarians oppose smoking bans imposed on private establishments. They believe that second hand smoke is fine if it only affects people who voluntarily enter the establishment (similar to how they're fine with people throwing c
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by samolang 13y ago
Say you live on an island without much technology. Everybody on the island farms manually, but everyone is still hungry because they can't grow enough. Then one day somebody invents a tractor. Now all of a sudden there is enough food f
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by samolang 13y ago
Here is a pretty good primer: http://www.reddit.com/r/finance/comments/utf5u/where_has_all...

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