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by tvladeck 13y ago
Twitter shares also fell by over 7% and the NASDAQ by 1.43%. Most likely this is not "on Oculus deal" (at least not solely) but for many reasons only Mr. Market knows.
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by tvladeck 13y ago
That's a truly impressive non-sequitur. What policies would you suggest to prepare for the risk of catastrophic or highly damaging climate change?
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by tvladeck 13y ago
> Let's all step away from the hype, politics, and hollywood portrayals to figure out what's really going on. Sure, but let's also enact policies that help make our societies and economies more robust to whatever that answ
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Q&A David Vladeck, Former Director of FTC Consumer Unit(blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by tvladeck 13y ago|0 comments
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by tvladeck 13y ago
For two years I ran a company called Building Hero (www.buildinghero.com) that marketed and financed LED lighting retrofits to commercial locations in New York City and San Francisco. Here are a few things to consider when wading into energ
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by tvladeck 13y ago
Thanks so much for sharing that. I'm pretty liberal, but it was awesome to read his explanations. Concise and considered.
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by tvladeck 13y ago
Groupon has a market capitalization of 7.3 billion USD.
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by tvladeck 13y ago
That's true, but not, IMO, a valid criticism of the article. This article emphatically does not say that if you do the stuff on this list that you will become successful. It makes the implicit claim that if you don't do this stuff
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by tvladeck 13y ago
Right. So the question then is not whether the premise is correct or not, but whether the information Sam is putting out is accurate, which is a different thing entirely.
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by tvladeck 13y ago
To all those people screaming "survivorship bias", isn't that what this whole post is about? Like, explicitly in the title of the thread? Of the companies that became very successful, what were some common traits? That's
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by tvladeck 13y ago
Thanks for the response. I hope so too! I work in climate policy so unlikely to come from me, but will keep the thought in mind if my hacker friends start getting on it.
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by tvladeck 13y ago
Chris, are you looking into non-currency uses for BTC, a la Albert Wenger [0]? My own feeling is that the protocol (secure ledger) is more generally valuable and can likely be put to work in a lot of uses. Is that your feeling as well or ar
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by tvladeck 13y ago
> I'm responding to the questions raised in the most convenient way. Absolutely not the case; here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6987798 , the relevant comment that sparked this discussion), you are simply ta
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by tvladeck 13y ago
I read the linked comment, and some of your other comments on the topic on this thread. You took this into meta meta (yea, 2x) territory. Not the actual issues, not the person who wrote the linked essay (pg), but the people discussing the p
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by tvladeck 13y ago
I personally find that people who admit their mistakes more trustworthy because it shows they can at least learn from them. In this case, the jury is very much still out on whether BTC will succeed as a currency , and not as a protocol tha
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by tvladeck 13y ago
He came around on the Internet (and admitted his mistake), and now believes there will be large productivity gains from Big Data. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/the-dynamo-and-b... Edit: I realiz
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by tvladeck 13y ago
(Just one data point, so take it how you like) I'm a customer for 1/3 to 1/2 the price. I would sacrifice quality along with a lower price. My profile is: -wants plants -knows nothing about plants -doesn't have any plant
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by tvladeck 13y ago
This isn't pretty. Gwern doesn't look good here, messing with someone that was clearly mentally ill. Even at the end when he breaks this opinion he positions himself in a smugly superior way, insincerely offering this analysis.
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by tvladeck 13y ago
If you're like me, and sometimes jump to the discussion before reading the article, please go ahead and read the article. It's one of those rare ones that is truly a summary of itself: super short, information dense, with every pa
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by tvladeck 13y ago
Is there any chance this was inspired by Priceonomics? http://priceonomics.com/mattresses/
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by tvladeck 13y ago
The point is that with public equity shares, the extrapolation from the price of a single share to the value of the entire company is much simpler. This is for two reasons: first, everybody owns the same security; second, the payoffs are co
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by tvladeck 13y ago
This article does mention this, but I think the point gets hidden: you cannot compare series * funding rounds with stock market valuations because investors in series * get downside protection. This is the "liquidity preference".
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by tvladeck 13y ago
I must confess that your first sentence aggravates me. It comes across as an accusation that I am not qualified to have made the comment that I did. With that in mind, yes, I have. But that's irrelevant. Anyway, you missed my point. My
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by tvladeck 13y ago
This really got me: > or a recognition from the FDA that, given turnover at 23andMe (and Wojcicki’s distraction due to her public separation from husband Sergey Brin), the task of initiating outreach fell to them. That's laughably l
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by tvladeck 13y ago
my solution is to have them in an encrypted evernote note
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by tvladeck 13y ago
An alternate take, using your example: good marketing and advertising can make a bad product good. In GoDaddy's case, by reaching a segment of the market that is unaware of the options. For this segment, it's not GoDaddy vs. Namec
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What’s the Right Call On Fourth Down? Ask This Robot.(nytimes.com)
3 points by tvladeck 13y ago|0 comments
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by tvladeck 13y ago
To this point: > Most of 23andme's customers were early adopters, especially when the price was much higher, I find it hard to believe the plantiffs in this lawsuit were duped into thinking it does anything more than claimed. You&#x
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by tvladeck 13y ago
This is awesome! Thanks. I love the what's possible with the technology but think that a currency actually under-utilizes its potential.
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Ask HN: What are some interesting applications of Bitcoin aside from currency?
12 points by tvladeck 13y ago|4 comments

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