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by stupidhn 9y ago
> It’s not clear all that care improves how long or how well people live. Patients receiving aggressive medical care at the end of life don’t seem to live any longer, and some work suggests a less aggressive approach buys more time. Thi
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> Such models would have to take that into account I believe the liquidity of the asset is inherently taken into account in the price at which the exchange is made.
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> All while saving a bucket of money I'd double check my math, because economic law says that's unlikely.
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> There's only a finite number of people who need mid-day cab rides. Yeah, it's a contradiction in the business model. Everyone will be able to afford to own a Tesla because everyone will be able to make money from the cars d
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> I looked at getting a metal roof, and standing seam was going to cost about $16k. Same. There seems to be a subset of HackerNews who thinks that most homeowners can pay $50k for a roof and $35k for a car. It's cool high-end stu
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by stupidhn 9y ago
You're not considering the future value of the dollars you're paying up front? What about subsidies disappearing? And making $2000 a month off the cars is delusional. Why would they even bother to sell you the car if they could
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> They're now doing Model 3's for $35K. What do you mean it isn't the point? They haven't even started production on the Model 3, let alone delivered one for $35k, which is very unlikely to happen. So it's yet
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> Elon Musk says orders will begin today. Pricing details have yet to be revealed How does that work?
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> Can someone explain to me why Bitcoin is compared to a Ponzi scam so often. The early adopters are paid profits based on new "clients" incoming funds, who then sell to even newer "clients". A ponzi relies on the g
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> If you want money Bitcoin certainly isn't useless, but "money" is something that is widely acceptable in exchange for goods and services. Living in the tech bubble might skew your view somewhat, but I don't think
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> but can't it be argued that moderate inflation is a good thing? Better in relation to deflation. Money works like any other commodity; there is supply and demand. We hedge towards inflation to ensure that the currency circulates
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by stupidhn 9y ago
If you think it's going to crash, why not sell it all and buy later? Or do your powers work only one way?
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by stupidhn 9y ago
Write your own call options. The challenge will be finding a counterparty. But look at The Big Short ; they're out there.
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> Are you talking about Victoria? No, but it's a problem coast to coast, apparently. > every time I actually try to access healthcare it seems to work much better than my friends led me to believe it would. You sound healthy.
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> Sweden has all of those problems It seems like healthy people spend a bit of time in wealthy nations with socialized health care and see nothing wrong with the system. Live it. Have friends and family suffer illness or disability and
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> There is no waiting lists or rationing and many countries do well with this setup. Look at Canada, where this stuff is happening in spades. I'm living it.
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> This always seems such a strange view to me Well as someone from Canada, living in a provincial capital, who can't get a doctor (for years), I'd say I agree with the OP. I guess the family doctor waiting list I've been
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> The only rational response is an organized campaign to convince American citizens to remove Trump from office as soon as possible. There was plenty of opportunity 6 months ago during the election, when Trump presented it as part of hi
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by stupidhn 9y ago
This is nothing against you, I do it too: I find it hard to reconcile people arguing that they love content, and how it's "undervalued" on one hand, then stating that they pay <$1 for the product.
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> What seems to be happening is that the price of the Model 3 is creeping up. Of course it is, and it will surprise no one but the eternal bulls. Tesla has nailed the tech, but auto manufacturing is big and they're new at it (despi
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> Someone help me understand how come a person/entity who merely owns 3.6% of a company has the right to be this aggressive about the future growth and policy-making of the company? Some help me to understand how an owner of a co
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> Yes. Highly Undervalued. I look forward to the weekly videos from my favorite Youtubers almost as much as my favorite big budget HBO/TV shows. How much of a monthly contribution are you making to the content creator?
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> What is it that prevents anyone from learning anything without getting a degree? The people with advanced degrees want to protect the value of their investment. As others have noted, the reality is you can generate a ton of value to b
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by stupidhn 9y ago
So what happens if Uber is "innocent" and Levandowski is guitly as an individual? Seems odd that they could benefit from him stealing the tech, even if they didn't know.
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> They've gotten better at culture And you quantify this how?
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> QZ has become a spam and advertising cesspool. These companies keep popping up promising to "disrupt" the media world (I'll throw Medium in there as well), and end up right back at the basic model, spamming readers with
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> Granted, Americans have gotten a lot better at food and culture in general in the past decade ever since the hipster/foodie-ism thing American culture, in general , has improved thanks to 10 years of hipsters? Where are you fro
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by stupidhn 9y ago
People are also afraid of fish farms.
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> So, from weak data to Moneyball in less than 10 years is actually fairly impressive. And it's taken over every sport thereafter: soccer, hockey, football and basketball.
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> "Or Ellen Pao, who sued her former employer, the male-dominated venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins The court found in favour of KP on all counts, so not sure why this is being trotted out as an example. Is an accusation "

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