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by soniman 8y ago
One thing that's good about Chromebook is that if I save something, it's in one of two places - Downloads folder or Gdrive. On Windows it could be in Downloads, Desktop, My Docs, some random file, Onedrive, Gdrive, etc etc. I real
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by soniman 8y ago
Not clear why he couldn't sell any of those sites.
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Feeding cows seaweed has been shown to reduce methane emissions. Awards for putting out coal seam fires, or awards for technology that reduces the cost of putting out coal seam fires.
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This guy says ignore the scholars, then says, this is the order the dialogues were meant to be read, and lists "tetralogies." Nobody knows what the order of the dialogues is or how they are grouped, if at all. The best way to grou
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Introduction to Probability with Texas Hold'em Examples Not a game but a book about a game, but learning the game helps you learn probability, permutations and combinations.
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This isn't what the OP is looking for but Introduction to Probability with Texas Hold ’em Examples is a fun intro to probability.
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This will lower quality of links by lowering the threshold for submitting links.
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Yeah it would be annoying but it's still good advice.
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One of the biggest mistakes I see at mom and pop stores is too low prices. I told the mom and pop Asian place at the local high-end mall to raise their soda can prices from $1 and I just went back and they'd raised it to $1.50. It&#x27
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You're right, they did give me Prime Student. Not a student though.
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Amazon keeps giving me Prime for free, probably because I never use it. I've probably gotten the equivalent of 2 years of Prime free.
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by soniman 9y ago
Basically they're going nuclear because Iran is. Saudi Arabia burns about $5B of oil in the summer to fuel air conditioners and it would be easy enough to run a natgas pipeline into the country (most Saudi natgas is used in the petroch
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We can estimate the value of AWS and marketplace by comparing to Azure, eBay, etc. So it's not that hard to put a number on those businesses. That leaves the legacy business, selling stuff on the internet. The history of "integrat
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Maybe someone can explain the unit economics of how Amazon makes a profit. Identify the product category (outside of the marketplace business and AWS) where Amazon has a cost advantage versus the most direct competitor - Best Buy, Petsmart,
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I've done this as an adult and what worked was Schaum's plus online videos. The idea that you will work through long textbooks is not realistic. Also an algebra cheat sheet esp the common algebra errors. Quick Calculus is also a g
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How Inflation Can Destroy Shareholder Value (2010)(mckinsey.com)
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Are cars going to be an example of this? New electric cars are more fuel efficient but they will have so much processing and laser power (for autonomous driving) that they will actually consume more energy.
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Impressive but digital only subs were $340mm.
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I had this same problem as the OP describes and my solution after a lot of frustration was taking some tutorials on Linux from Youtube. That actually might not be a bad place to start because bash is a programming language (right?). Teachin
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Smart. Hedging their bets.
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We don't know what the strategies are so we are not in a position to evaluate the alpha. See the protasis of my statement, beginning with "if".
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Jim Simons has given $27 million in political donations, all to Democrats. We'll see if the Republican IRS will get Rentech to pay taxes or if the clock has run out. https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/topindivs.p
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We don't know what the strategies are so we aren't in a position to evaluate their alpha. Second, the Medallion fund cherrypicks the best strategies, so we don't know what the global return is, just the Medallion return, whic
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If Rentech has a strategy which generates decent returns only with massive and illegal levels of leverage, it does not have a viable strategy, period. There are reasons why hedge funds have leverage limits, to prevent future LTCM catastrop
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It's funny how much good press Simons gets and yet he is a notorious tax cheat. The Senate issued a report in 2014 about how his firm Rentech is a blatant tax fraud. Rentech also got IRA rules changed so employees could avoid more tax
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Invoice factoring is lending . . . this is the actual process of collection. Two different approaches, I think.
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Yeah this is not a new idea. I worked for a company that did exactly this and couldn't find a single CFO who wanted to alienate all of his clients.
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There has to be an element of cool and fun. These are artists, they want to be where the cool people are . . . and that's not Amazon.
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It's not a t-shirt business, it's a marketplace where designers sell their designs and the designs are placed on t-shirts, mugs, carpets, stickers, etc. So basically these sites are like eBay but for artists. Like any marketplace
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Society6 and Redbubble are still losing money but they will also crush Threadless by the time it's over. This is a winner take all marketplace business, not a t-shirt business.

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