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by scott00 10y ago
It's a very recent fork of ownCloud, so if you know what that is, most of your knowledge transfers. It's basically self-hosted Dropbox/Google Drive/OneDrive, with some initial support for other cloud-y things: web-based
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Doubts About the Promised Bounty of Genetically Modified Crops(nytimes.com)
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There are financial and regulatory reasons to structure it that way, even if you don't intend the bonus to vary much with firm or individual performance. Financial first: deferring compensation from continuous throughout the year to a
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The whole premise of the survey part of this paper strikes me as very flawed. The idea was "show some professors histograms we know are normal, and see if they see bimodality that isn't there". The problem is, they didn'
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My first read of your request made me think you were looking for books mainly for personal intellectual growth. There are a lot of answers in that vein, as well as a few that seem suitable replacements for an undergrad econ degree. A second
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> How old are you? Just a few years ago, despite making a very decent amount of money and having no marks on my credit, it took an entire year for me to get a credit card. Reason: lack of credit history. A lot of people have similar stor
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If a company can get debt financing, it's a great choice for them. But there's not a lot of investors interested in loaning money to a company with no assets and little to no revenue. At least not at reasonable interest rates. And
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The FAA is making changes to the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). They do not have the power to change the United States Code (USC), which is the collection of what we commonly call "laws". However, the CFR has the force of law
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> Wouldn't that have at least been a real effort and protected them from being charged with fraud? They were charged with securities fraud, not plain old every day fraud. My guess would be that just their "conservative scenario
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I believe the repricing behavior you describe is far more common now than the more aggressive strategy. Several years ago, before the exchanges got rid of "flash" orders, a variation of the more aggressive strategy was common, but
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That's definitely an interesting difference. Do you think excluding Information degrees results in a more relevant number? If so, why?
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Some statistics helpful to put the numbers in the article in context: * Percent of San Francisco MSA that is black: 7.9% * Percent of Atlanta MSA that is black: 32.8% * Percent of college graduates that are black: 10.0% * Percent of CS coll
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There are two layers of counterparty risk here. One is to the broker who holds custody of your ETF shares. This aspect is thoroughly regulated and insured by the SIPC: not much to worry about. It's the same kind of counterparty risk yo
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Putting physical US cash in a safe deposit box is actually illegal in the US.
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A few potential reasons they're interesting compared to annuities: they're more honest about the risk, the risk is easier to understand, the risk is incremental rather than binary, and the lottery aspect might encourage better sav
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Buyers are often only interested in buying 100% of a company. If an all or none bid comes in, either the people who want to accept or the people who want to reject are going to be unhappy. When setting up a company you have to plan how to d
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by scott00 10y ago
This is an interesting article (about an interesting case) but the title is rubbish. There isn't really a single answer to the question "Is bitcoin money?" It depends on the context. Different laws dealing with money transmis
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In the type of transition outlined by the author, the idea is that those issues become moot. You'll stay on the job (getting paid) until you've got a new one and your replacement is trained. Then you'll start your new job (al
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by scott00 11y ago
No idea how reliable this is, but here's what Forbes has to say about USV's performance: "66.96% IRR for its 2004 fund, a 38.88% IRR for its 2008 fund, a 29.04% IRR for its 2012 fund and a 61.44% IRR for its first opportuniti
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Driverless vehicles probably do have the potential to decrease accidents and allow better use of travel time, but I wouldn't bet on them reducing commute times. To the extent that they work to lower commute times with a fixed populatio
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by scott00 11y ago
The 14th amendment is not relevant to actions taken by the FBI. It's an arm of the federal government, and the 14th amendment serves mostly to clarify that state governments (in addition to the federal government) must refrain from vio
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It's a bit more subtle than that: they tend to decrease the incidence of side impact collisions (which have a high injury potential), and increase the incidence of rear impact collisions (which have a somewhat lower, but non-zero injur
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There are also some interesting incentives that go the other way. By getting the big property managers involved, tenants or regulators that are upset by how things are going have a new target for their wrath that: - is making money from t
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Block by default and whitelist the exceptions.
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I think your best bet is to solve the youtube filter/access problem in a different way. If you have a cable modem and/or wireless router, it may let you filter web traffic by MAC address (mine does). If your sister uses a differen
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You need to know more about an investor's view of the world to figure out whether an investor thinks this is good or bad. Given the capital-intensive nature of the business, I think many investors would be expecting TSLA to spend at le
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I think it's a coping strategy formed in response to an absurd mission. Going by national stats on drug use, I would guess that most cops have, at least at some point in their life, been friends with drug users and tolerated drug use,
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by scott00 11y ago
I think coverage by the mile or the hour for primary drivers would be of interest to a lot of car owners in US urban areas. An existing player, Metro Mile, markets their product as pay-per-mile, but the majority of the cost actually comes f
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One problem with this strategy is that when things go crazy, traders with unsophisticated execution technology start to get terrible fills on their market orders; they complain to their brokers who complain to the exchange, who busts the tr
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> I'd love to see some kind of ETF with an expiration date that would behave like a bond, give diversity against default risk and be denominated to be a tool for the ordinary investor. They actually already exist: http:/&#x2F

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