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by tansey 16y ago
I always see sites that decide either they allow everything or they shut down. Why is obfuscation never an option? What if you had separate sites dedicated to each of the following steps: 1. Start a bt site, advertised as a site for baking
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by tansey 16y ago
You're essentially treating each article as if it's an asset. Users are allowed to go long or short on the article, depending on their prediction about its final karma value. Are people then allowed to exit their positions? Can I place a st
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by tansey 16y ago
Facebook is planning to tax them 30%. If they leave and lose less than 30% of their customers, they will make money. Do you really think that 1 in 3 paying FV players will leave because they have to type in a new URL to play? They're alread
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by tansey 16y ago
"Make a program that people can bitch about at parties."
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by tansey 16y ago
"Well Mr. Moore, your background check came up with some problems." "Oh..well I uh..." "Yes, we see you have been convicted of rape, sexual molestation, and kidnapping..." "I can explain, I--" "Well despite that impressive resume, I'm afrai
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by tansey 16y ago
Also, just about everything Google does is highly parallelizable.
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by tansey 16y ago
Futures contracts are considered long-term capital gains, even if held for short periods of time.
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by tansey 16y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Wouldn't a percentage tax make more sense? If you just require a 1% tax on all transactions, it would basically be equivalent to what Cuban was saying (he mentioned a $0.05 tax for shares under $5), and it wou
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by tansey 16y ago
Devil's advocate here. 1. Maybe this would work in European countries, but I just don't think it would work in America. You're just going to cause your employees to become more disgruntled as they will feel like you're taking away a fundame
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by tansey 16y ago
The only conclusion I could draw is that they must have been highly inversely correlated to a company that tanked. A trading algorithm would potentially have a pair trade going where the tanked company's shorted while being long Sotheby's.
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by tansey 16y ago
You could install the proprietary add-on that landyman linked, or you could install this one, assuming you don't already have it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3682 Then just go to www.google.com/custom and make that your
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by tansey 17y ago
That is bunk. That blog article is pulling a few quotes from 2001. In 2001 we had a recession with high unemployment, and lowering interest rates was sound advice. If you find some quotes from 2004 or beyond where Krugman actually advocates