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Satyajit Das: Innovative destruction, not disruption(youtube.com)
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by spangry 11y ago
Good point. It's a bad example. In hindsight, what I was trying to get at in the third idea was slightly different to the other two. The first two are methods to capture some of the value they generate. But it's a risky propositio
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by spangry 11y ago
I've commented on this in the past so here's the short version (long version here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11077269 ): As heretical as these sound, I think there are only three ways for Twitter to gener
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by spangry 11y ago
I don't really get the article's point on bitcoin and AML/CTF. The legislation works by requiring financial institutions to bind real-world identities to accounts, at the point of registration. Many bitcoin exchanges comply w
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by spangry 11y ago
This is an important point. Marginal income increases for the already wealthy does little to support domestic consumption. In economic parlance, the rich have a low marginal propensity to consume. In China's case specifically, the rich
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by spangry 11y ago
Not a dumb question at all. Markets often behave irrationally, but they aren't that stupid. Market expectations (-14.5% export growth) definitely factor in seasonality. So it's very bad news. To make matters worse, import growth
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by spangry 11y ago
Link bait or not, it's objectively grim news. Chinese February trade data shows exports -25.4% yoy (vs. -14.5% market expectation), and imports down -13.8% yoy (vs. -12% market expectation). Market expectations factor in seasonality. S
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by spangry 11y ago
That link leads to a 404. That aside, it would be disappointing if it's addressing the 'evil killer robots' straw-man rather than the 'increasingly efficient optimiser that kills everyone as a by-product of its optimisat
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by spangry 11y ago
Internet-age monopolies are an interesting issue, although I'm not sure what you mean by 'money has a natural monopolizing effect'. Markets with always decreasing average costs are prone to natural monopoly (e.g. fixed line t
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by spangry 11y ago
That's awesome, and good on those guys. Markets can only be competitive when information is ubiquitous and barriers to entry are low. This, I think, is one of the less talked about revolutions brought about by the internet: the creatio
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by spangry 11y ago
There's some conversation about this fairly far down the page. It would appear that the HN crowd are not even slightly concerned about the privacy implications of 'passive' biometric identification. Given HN is a fairly intel
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by spangry 11y ago
True, but that warrant can only be obtained from the judicial branch of government by law enforcement officers conducting a criminal investigation, and only if it meets the following criteria (among many others which I've excluded for
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by spangry 11y ago
I must admit I don't do a morning scrub-down a la Vincent in Gattaca :) It's true that DNA can also be 'non-obviously' collected. But there are two key differences between DNA and voice auth, when looked at from the pers
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by spangry 11y ago
This is what really concerns me, and why I've avoided using 'google now' on my phone. With this data, google could easily construct a 'voice signature' for every one of their users. And those voice signatures are ju
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by spangry 11y ago
Here's an example from Australia: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/how-asics-a... Not deliberate censorship (excluding the 1200 they did intend to censor, of course). I've had many dealin
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by spangry 11y ago
Pretty much spot on, on every point. I've been starting to worry about the whole 'war' possibility as well. We might find out about the latter in a couple of weeks when the Saudis and about 10 other allies conduct massive &#x
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by spangry 11y ago
Actually I think the main cause is overly concessional capital gains tax discounts, which are exacerbated by, and amplify, the effects of untaxed land rents. By any conceivable measure, including price to personal income, residential proper
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by spangry 11y ago
Heh, I am also a 5 year Canberra public servant and am pretty close to my breaking point. I've heard it said that Canberra is a good place to settle down and die. When you're on the outside, you figure all the clever folks in the
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by spangry 11y ago
Same problem in Australia. Just to define some terms for non-Australian folk: - Negative gearing: A deduction received on net rental income losses (e.g. I'm a landlord who pays $100 in loan interest, receives $60 in rent, so I claim a
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by spangry 11y ago
Also one of their few friends in the middle-east who also happens to be a big customer for Russian military hardware. But yeah, the Saudi's are engaging in pretty classic cartel behaviour, in response to Iran and US shale: https:&#x2F
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by spangry 11y ago
Not to mention the fact that its production is, at various times: a) The result of cartel manipulation (OPEC) b) A tool of economic warfare (ISIS), and punishment (Russia) Unfortunately both of those are happing at the same time as well.
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by spangry 11y ago
The politicians and national security bureaucrats advocating this are idiots. At least that's the charitable interpretation. The world is not static. Mass surveillance leads to mass demand, and therefore mass markets, for privacy produ
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by spangry 11y ago
I can anecdotally attest to this. When I had a piano recital coming up I used to practice very intensely, but would 'hit a wall' at some point. When I came back to it the next day I'd find my playing had improved significantl
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by spangry 11y ago
It's possible that jaw clenching and grinding could cause the neck pain and tinnitus. Or it might be a sign of a disorder like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporomandibular_joint_dysfun... And take a look
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by spangry 11y ago
That's a unique mix of symptoms! Was just reading about tinnitus and apparently there's a high correlation with anxiety disorders. Are you under a lot of stress at the moment? I don't suppose you know if you clench or grind y
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by spangry 11y ago
Anxiety/Panic disorder suffer here too. I've found the same: exercise is definitely helpful, but unfortunately not sufficient in my case. If you want to try in addition: I've found mindfulness meditation to be extremely helpf
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by spangry 11y ago
What's your view on use of medication to treat depression, anxiety disorders, ADHD etc? And just to be clear, are you categorically stating that any panic or depressive disorder can be cured with breathing and exercise respectively?
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by spangry 11y ago
At least for regular stock exchange, I can see why they're necessary (although it took me an embarrassingly long time, given my profession, to figure this out). When a company does an IPO, they're raising capital. All good and pro
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by spangry 11y ago
Nice selective quoting there. You have no intellectual honesty at all. Just for the record, I was very specific about the magnitude and nature of the coming crisis in the post I linked (and that you apparently read, but omitted parts that d
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by spangry 11y ago
On the upside, psychiatry and neuroscience are beginning to merge. The disease model of mental illness is such a poor abstraction. And diagnostics in psychiatry is mostly contained to subjective self-reported symptoms. And then treatment is

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