tomatocracy

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by tomatocracy 8y ago
I have one of the Linksys WRT-AC series (WRT-1900ACS but they are all pretty similar I think) - they're very well supported by OpenWRT (stock firmware is a derivative of OpenWRT in fact at least on some of them). Hardware specs are goo
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by tomatocracy 8y ago
I felt the books started off quite well but rapidly ran out of pace - there was just a lack of big picture development. It had a lot of potential. I gave up after book 5 (I think) but I only really enjoyed books 1 and 2 (and parts of book 3
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by tomatocracy 9y ago
I don't see how blockchain fixes any of the clearing/settlements issues in a way which is better than a trusted third party (or which doesn't involve trusted third parties). Let's take settlements. Some instruments are (
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by tomatocracy 9y ago
I think you're getting side-tracked into credit risk which is not what the paper is about at all. But your example is useful to understand why credit risk is not as simple as that. For a start, considered in the context of formal loans
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by tomatocracy 9y ago
There are no EU level regulations on drivers hours for vans, bikes etc, only for lorries (and those have enforcement problems in parts of Eastern Europe which means rogue operators are effectively free to operate across the EU with individu
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by tomatocracy 9y ago
Indeed - Meltdown has an "easy" fix and now it's known it should be possible to design chips which are not vulnerable. Spectre is, as you say, harder - but more because the line of what sort of state should be separate isn&
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by tomatocracy 9y ago
The prosecution was not of the head of the force as an individual but of the office of the head of the force (effectively equivalent to the force itself being prosecuted - a legal quirk due to the way the force is legally constituted). And
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by tomatocracy 9y ago
Probably not for the general case. Voting rights are almost irrelevant to the average shareholder in public equity (including institutional holders unless they have large blocks). If they truly disagree with management, they'll just se
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by tomatocracy 9y ago
I run Debian with sysv too and had the same issue early on. Fortunately, that one is easily fixed - if you drop the following into a file in /etc/apt/preferences.d, it will stop that from happening: Package: systemd Pin
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by tomatocracy 9y ago
The US is the only major country in the world that has such a ridiculous and distorting rule for corporate taxation as the repatriation rules. This single rule drives a very large portion of the global tax avoidance industry. It drives econ
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by tomatocracy 9y ago
What's interesting is that at the level of rating that Tesla has, most bond investors are active traders of one form or another rather than "buy and hold" investors. The most common strategy is to look for credit migration (i
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by tomatocracy 9y ago
It's a market, same as any other, and there's a cost-quality curve same as many markets. That curve might move over time but it won't change the fact that the people who own the images get to decide on what terms they are use
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by tomatocracy 9y ago
ETFs are the reason this is a big thing. The CME contract enables ETFs with viable size and for both long and short BTC (otherwise they would only really be possible as long ETFs, although the ETF could be shorted itself, and long ETFs woul
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by tomatocracy 9y ago
Most futures tend to be cash settled in general in fact e.g. Eurodollar futures (the most liquid contract in the world) which have an underlying tied to 3 month LIBOR (i.e. effectively a bank deposit rate - very liquid indeed) are cash sett
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by tomatocracy 9y ago
Freelancing for sports photography has been common for a long time. Many photographers covering an event but only one may get the picture which illustrates the key point scored/etc well (because luck and skill both play a part). As to
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by tomatocracy 9y ago
There are many phones out there that are easy enough to fix the common problems with the right tools (heat gun, opener tool, set of small screwdrivers and picks). Replacing a dead screen is about an hour's work for a beginner and there
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by tomatocracy 12y ago
That's not really true. Apple faced two pressures which forced them to drop DRM from their music store: (1) Amazon MP3 who used lack of DRM as a point of differentiation over Apple and (2) the threat of regulatory action in Europe due
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by tomatocracy 12y ago
True, except it's not only that people don't bother to report holiday cash transactions - there are formal exemptions from capital gains tax in the UK for (i) cash which is for personal use while travelling outside the UK and (ii)