talltimtom

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by talltimtom 8y ago
Well obiously they aren’t showing “stake” and “soup” those are binary classifications. They are showing stake-like, soup-like and salate-like, which you can normalize to one. If you actually want to keep the last axis which is essentially a
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by talltimtom 8y ago
Currency is debt. If you have a 20$ bill that means essentially that the government owes you the equivalent in value. If everyone converted all their debt to currency that just means the state buys all the debt and prints sufficient governm
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by talltimtom 8y ago
Might just put a cap. I have a 5% account which sounds awesome, but it’s caped at 8000$ and then goes to zero.
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by talltimtom 8y ago
Why would the standard be to calculate a number that has no use and isn’t rooted in reality? If the rate is 3% annually and paid out daily, the the daily rate is the number that compounded yields 3% annually....
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by talltimtom 8y ago
Robinhood is a small operation that’s skimming pennies off your transactions to fund its operation. The alternative is banks who are doing the sambut times a hundred and banks are making a ton of money off their customers even with 100 time
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by talltimtom 8y ago
To big to fail doesn’t really protect them if they lose their costumers. A bank with tons of customers that’s bleeding cash due to a market crash is salvageable(and remember the investment in bailing them out payed off), a bank that’s bleed
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by talltimtom 8y ago
Maybe the polls were bad because the people conducting them were pushing to have sufficient difference between private and public polls in order to maximize their profits.
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by talltimtom 8y ago
> This wasn't fraud because these articles were true. And it wasn’t insider trading because the reports didn’t include new non-public information. If he had information about for instance he outcome of a phase 3 drug trial and bough
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by talltimtom 8y ago
> The savvy prediction of events exogenous to a company’s operations is very much not insider trading. So asking a representative subset of Tesla’s employees what their numbers are going to be prior to reveal is not insider trading? If t
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by talltimtom 8y ago
People have been prosecuted for sitting in on a court case and trading the second the ruling was made because it was deemed that the information was not yet public information. It’s definately not ok to trade based on insider information. D
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The laws also forbid sharing inside information, yet if you have a company conducts its own “research” to discover inside information from others before its published that doesn’t make it legal. The point of many trading laws is to prevent
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by talltimtom 8y ago
Randomware doesn’t care about the exchange rate. They just funnel cash through crypto’s because it’s a simple way for them to take digital payment. In the down market they can’t cash out as many dollars per bitcoins, but the victims also g
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by talltimtom 8y ago
“touch interfaces are ubiquitous.” I feel old, but honestly this was just, what? 10years ago?! does nobody remember how everyone in the entire mobile industry proclaimed Apple would fails because touch interfaces weren’t tactile. yet today
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by talltimtom 8y ago
“I'm confident he had good ideas. I'm also confident he had plenty of horrible ideas...” ... as you walk along you path you meet a man. 50% if the time he tells you sage advice that makes you a multimillionaire and 50% of the time
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by talltimtom 8y ago
“This is a laudable first step” There is no such thing. “Why take a step away from the oncoming truck, that one strp won’t save my life?”
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by talltimtom 8y ago
Well that settles it, I’m off to program some Go code in Emacs.
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by talltimtom 8y ago
“all the shady stuff ... things like put it on the front page and in the newsletter and whatnot.” I really don’t get how you could consider them helping to promote popular campaigns shady. I mean it’s the very point of the entire platform,
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by talltimtom 8y ago
It is a business loss. And if the business paid this though borrowed money it could end up going bankrupt, yet he’d still have the 42k$ that his company paid him.
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by talltimtom 8y ago
> and seems to blame others. Where do you get that from? He writes about his own faliures and even goes on about how he failed to play test sufficiently and did a poor job of marketing. How does that come off as blaming others to you?
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by talltimtom 8y ago
For accounting purposes he likely did actually pay himself the money, transferring it from the company to himself, and adding the perceived value of the game to tho company, which can write off the loss going forwards.
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by talltimtom 8y ago
It didn’t sell 42,500 net. He writes that his net profit was -42,500. Note the minus in front. He sold ~100 copies.
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by talltimtom 8y ago
> They get around usury laws by saying they aren’t making loans but advancing cash in exchange for a share of future revenue. Didn’t stripe also resently start doing this? Does anyone know if they gearing up a business as a predatory len
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by talltimtom 8y ago
> feel their sovereignty is threatened by Facebook That’s kind of like saying that coka-cola feels threatened if the CEO reports an illegal lemonade stand that’s blocking his driveway. The scales are not just different, they are absurdly
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by talltimtom 8y ago
... you are suggesting that information about new systems should be communicated to pilots only through self study of near crash reports? So if someone updates the system they just sit back and wait for the first time the system crashes or
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by talltimtom 8y ago
So you want them to bankrupt small companies while letting large companies getting away with not even a slap on the wrists? That seems strange. The law as written has leeway in the amount to make it more fair than it would be if you applied
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by talltimtom 8y ago
I get people saying “Well of cause”. But this is just a fluff piece. I honestly would love to see a scientific breakdown of just how often we are actually seeing people become addicted due to purely psycological or environmental factors. I
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My perspective is this. I am a quite experiance CNC operator and have used this particular model for over a decade. I don’t have a problem with it, even though I admit it took a bit of getting used to originally and I still agree that the c
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by talltimtom 8y ago
Extrapolating these trends would suggest that all popular songs will just be repetitions of single sentences in the year 2140.
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Just like 98% of all front doors are easily opened with brute force. Just because you can circumvent something, or doesn’t make it unusefull.
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If you feel like you aren’t paying more for something when you pay 5$ more just because I pay 20$ more, then have some magic beans to sell you. China is “paying for the war” or “losing” in the sense that more of their soldiers are dying (mo

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