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by tvladeck 13y ago
Worth mentioning that a single barrel of oil has a relatively fixed amount of each fuel type (i.e., gasoline, diesel, kerosene, etc). So when tax policy in one place favors one portion of the barrel, the "extra" other fuels have t
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by tvladeck 13y ago
Do the brackets in the text mean they weren't quite finished editing before it got published? Or was that on purpose?
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by tvladeck 14y ago
> “We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error,” Tyler Winklevoss said. Well, I don't even know what to say about that. Bitcoin is pretty awesome tech but I don't think
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by tvladeck 14y ago
not 100% true. you have to pay taxes in dollars. the currency is backed by the value of not going to jail.
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by tvladeck 14y ago
All of the stuff that Heroku are doing now to mitigate the routing issues for their Bamboo customers are things they should have done when it first became an issue. They are not going above and beyond in any way to make up for the lost time
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by tvladeck 14y ago
considering that this is coming as a response to the fact that they charged people without notice, it's not enough to just refund the money (as that option should have been available in the first place when they changed their terms). ma
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Women and Marriage at Princeton(economix.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by tvladeck 14y ago|0 comments
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by tvladeck 14y ago
Currencies have existed in a huge variety of forms over time. Basically anything can work as a medium of exchange as long as everyone has a high degree of confidence that if they are paid in the currency, that they too can pay someone else
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by tvladeck 14y ago
Remember: "What we want from a monetary system isn’t to make people holding money rich; we want it to facilitate transactions and make the economy as a whole rich." - Paul Krugman EDIT: To be clear - this quote is not intended (by me) to be
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Testing a New Class of Speedy Computer(nytimes.com)
86 points by tvladeck 14y ago|22 comments
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by tvladeck 14y ago
This is why deflation matters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Babysitting_Co-op
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by tvladeck 14y ago
Mixed emotions. I remember at the end of college and right after (I graduated in 2008), many of my close friends were on GReader and we would share and communicate directly through it about interesting things we were reading. It was an awes
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by tvladeck 14y ago
Well, it's actually fairly complicated. Banks underwrite the sale of equity in an IPO, meaning that in one way or another they are providing a guarantee to the issuer - i.e., in the price of the sale, in the amount sold at a certain price
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by tvladeck 14y ago
ok - my bad. you have to hold down the ctrl/command key when you are dragging.
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by tvladeck 14y ago
This doesn't work for me. I tried putting "chianti" and "merlot" in just like the little video, and after dragging across the cells I just got "chianti" and "merlot" repeating.
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by tvladeck 14y ago
I thought that was a good joke.
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by tvladeck 14y ago
Hmmm... but you could always reset your username by email, right? You could also use a separate unique identifier for support purposes, but not use it for authentication.
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Ask HN: Why aren't usernames encrypted?
2 points by tvladeck 14y ago|6 comments
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by tvladeck 14y ago
It doesn't matter how efficient or inefficient RG was with their Rails app. It's almost certainly true that they could have done things better on their end, and their performance penalty wouldn't have been as severe -- but that really is
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What Data Can’t Do(nytimes.com)
10 points by tvladeck 14y ago|0 comments
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by tvladeck 14y ago
I think this is such a sham analysis. I came away not understanding what the core tenet of the piece even was -- it seems that HFT is the villain. What really drives the IPO market is (a) the business cycle -- i.e., how many new companies h
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The IPO Market is Broken(venturebeat.com)
1 points by tvladeck 14y ago|1 comments
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by tvladeck 14y ago
Point taken. You're right, it's a different market. Good luck!
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by tvladeck 14y ago
At the bottom they lay out the charges. All of us can do the arithmetic, but their example works out to 6.4% of a $20 sale! And of course once you back out the overhead and direct costs of selling, the amount of your potential profit that e
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by tvladeck 14y ago
I actually find it very insightful, even if it has been repeated a number of times. And repetition hasn't eroded its truth. At the end of the day, real estate on a screen is means to an end, not the ultimate end itself. The ultimate end i
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by tvladeck 14y ago
I read this, and I had a ridiculous number of "Aha!" moments. A few for me: -Context vs. control: In any place where your expecting creative contribution, it makes literally zero sense to define the contribution by the input. You hire peopl
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by tvladeck 14y ago
Because there is a small chance that the deal will not close. So the shares today are worth close to that, but not quite.
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by tvladeck 14y ago
Good point. This has certainly complicated my thinking.
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by tvladeck 14y ago
> I paid for the phone. I own it. I can do whatever I bloody please with it. But you didn't pay for it. You paid for part of it. The phone provider paid for the other part of it. In exchange for the use of something you didn't completel
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by tvladeck 14y ago
My view is that requiring the user _not_ to unlock the phone is a perfectly reasonable element of the agreement between the user and the phone provider. It's all about what both sides are getting -- and it's certainly true that you are not

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