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by sf_rob 9y ago
Couldn't they employ tax gain harvesting for users that are interested in the short/long term capital gains differential in TLH? They don't do this, but I'm curious. i.e. cycle long term gains after one year of ownershi
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by sf_rob 10y ago
My experience with Amazon support is that they won't refund 3rd party counterfeits until you've argued with the seller for weeks and come back with the documentation of the counterfeit and lack of refund. I spend thousands on Amaz
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by sf_rob 10y ago
As with you, I'm not opposed to overbooking, but: 1) Overbooking should be handled at the gate. 2) I'd like to see an incredibly high legal ceiling for compensating passengers who voluntarily reschedule. $800 (4x the ticket price
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by sf_rob 10y ago
This puts the risk on Amazon, so I'd be curious to see if this would be worth the no-shows. Then again their Lockers already auto-return after a few days, but I think that having "already paid" is likely a commitment device.
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by sf_rob 10y ago
This is also an unfair comparison, since it's unclear how inelastic demand is for full size luxury sedans vs mid size luxury sedans. I'd bet that if BMW stopped selling the 1-4 series, a decent chunk of their followers would buy
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by sf_rob 10y ago
Tesla's batteries appear to be holding up very well to cycling degradation (batteries also degrade with time so there hasn't been as much of a span to evaluate how that factors in to the real world). 92% at 100k miles. https:&#x
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by sf_rob 10y ago
Even a lot of bay area renters are anti-development. "They're just going to build luxury condos and destroy the neighborhood character" is the go-to phrase.
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by sf_rob 10y ago
Ya, the cynic in me thinks the subsidy is to bleed Lyft not retain users until driverless cars are a thing.
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by sf_rob 10y ago
>the (few) libertarian sources that are considering basic income While it's not necessarily popular in libertarian circles today, the negative income tax (which is closely related to UBI but not identical) has a long history among l
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by sf_rob 10y ago
Plus being from Square I imagine the data will be biased by the suggestion to tip / preset amounts.
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by sf_rob 10y ago
They did at my crappy small chain (in a Southern state without as many worker protections). It was automatically done in their payroll software based on declared tips/hours (where most servers didn't declare cash tips and were th
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by sf_rob 10y ago
I stopped following the politics of the scaling debate some time ago, but it appears at a glance that BU has a good trajectory for next iteration protocol: http://xtnodes.com/#all_nodes
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by sf_rob 10y ago
These are seemingly non-correlated assets. Saudi Arabia is (apparently) minimizing their diversifiable risk, not minimizing their investment in risky sectors altogether.
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by sf_rob 10y ago
As someone who hasn't built a PC in a decade, I appreciate a site that stack ranks components. PC Part Picker still seems to require quite a bit of selection. While most enthusiasts are willing to do a little more research to optimiz
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by sf_rob 10y ago
Ah I didn't notice that that was your longer comment above this and misinterpreted you. I'm not convinced that the deflationary spiral argument applies to what I view as a settlement layer, but it's definitely concerning to B
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by sf_rob 10y ago
>Long term value Bitcoin is inherently deflationary as coin creation slows to 0. >Volatility Volatility is due to uncertainty and speculation. If Bitcoin survives and is used significantly for transactions volatility will decrease (i
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by sf_rob 10y ago
Which is the same model as Bitcoin; although my understanding is that consensus would be less likely with Bitcoin since there is a larger and more diverse set of miners.
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by sf_rob 10y ago
This article aggregates the miles/disengagement in a nice table at the bottom. Definitely worth a glance. Waymo is 8x better than the nearest competitor (which, as mentioned, is probably an unfair comparison since we don't know
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by sf_rob 10y ago
You're correct that it defeats one of the points of multiprocess, but you still get parallel performance gains trivially that will scale well as more cores are added as well as isolation of crashes where it doesn't kill your whole
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by sf_rob 10y ago
>No processes From my understanding, the initial rollout of multi-process has a single render process (in addition to the main browser process). There are ongoing experiments to determine the optimal number of processes, so it's li
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by sf_rob 10y ago
The fact that markets haven't tanked suggests that investors aren't predicting major negative events in the future. That doesn't mean investors are correct, but I would think that if "[b]usiness is figuring out that the
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by sf_rob 10y ago
And forgot the year and a half long debate over scaling that has caused an increase in prioritization fees and delays.
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by sf_rob 10y ago
Counterpoint: Efficient market hypothesis folks would claim that the expected value of all potential Brexit outcomes were already priced into the market value of Siemens, and that you were just on the right side of a dice roll. If you &quo
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by sf_rob 10y ago
The problem is that institutional investors seem to really care about CPC. Even when RPM is up due to greater CTR, CPC drops have allegedly affected their stock price.
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by sf_rob 10y ago
He argues that self-driving cars will likely be commoditized so that they will not have a competitive advantage there. Combine that will low switching cost for users and their debt will be more of a competitive disadvantage than their netw
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by sf_rob 10y ago
Exactly, we were checking in Java assignments in the form of a ZIP file in 2009 that we had validated with print statements. It wouldn't have been that much more work to structure the algorithm assignments in that class in a way more
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by sf_rob 10y ago
I disagree with this sentiment based on my own experience. I did great in my BS CS program from a highly ranked program, but was woefully underprepared for industry and quite frankly a bad software engineer. Graduates from traditional pro
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by sf_rob 10y ago
>"A third track, Business Analytics, will be eventually be added as an additional option." ( https://pe.gatech.edu/online-masters-degrees/analytics/progr... ) Looks like the business track isn't of
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by sf_rob 10y ago
Ya, this article heavily underemphasized the research Google has done in conversational systems. These devices won't have mainstream appeal until you can just talk to one with minimal instruction. Although at this time Google Home is
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by sf_rob 10y ago
Google's multi-login approach is in the awful middle ground of "works some of the time". At this point I just use multiple browser profiles rather than waste energy on the edge cases that they have failed to support. Having

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