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by vannevar 5y ago
Does your "Toddler's Guide to Economics and Taxation" say anything about freeloaders who leverage public services in a stable republic to build a fortune and then refuse to pay their share of upkeep on those services and that
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by vannevar 5y ago
Running groups were pretty common in the US in the 70s, when running became mainstream. Then it seemed to become more of a solitary activity, outside of organized events. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_boom_of_th
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by vannevar 5y ago
Ah, got it---I completely missed that they used open-close for the day after .
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by vannevar 5y ago
Sure, there is social hierarchy within the tribe. But the tribe members all share a common culture. The phone isn't necessarily about being cool, it's about conforming to the rest of the tribe. A tribe that all uses Android is pos
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by vannevar 5y ago
The group isn't defined by the phone, it's defined by the relationships. The phone is just along for the ride. Think of it as an aggressive virus that displaces weaker ones in the social network.
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by vannevar 5y ago
Right--being cool is being different from people outside of your particular clique. It's a group of people all being different in the same ways. Goths, punks, jocks, etc.
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by vannevar 5y ago
>Teenagers are pretty social and try hard to fit in. This factor alone probably explains why teenagers amplify Apple's market advantage. They have a stronger impulse for conformity with their peers: ie, they tend to all use the same
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by vannevar 5y ago
Right, but the opening price will be gapped up from the previous day's closing price, which was before the show. It actually makes the situation worse, because the rise is truly instantaneous, without even milliseconds to get an order
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by vannevar 5y ago
In theory that could be true. But as others have pointed out, there are many other reasons for delisting besides bankruptcy. The scenario you paint is possible, but I still think it's unlikely---less than 15% of the stocks involved we
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by vannevar 5y ago
I thought it was a little odd for someone to write an article about how the restaurant industry is "so fucked", then proceed with a dramatic expansion of their business during the pandemic, and then write another article about h
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by vannevar 5y ago
That doesn't explain why the 1-day SPY Buy row is 10x the 1-day SPY Positive Mention row---they should be about the same, as they are in the other rows, since they're essentially random samples over the timeframe.
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by vannevar 5y ago
That still presents the same problem, just deferring it to the start of the next trading day. It's not really a viable strategy for the ordinary day trader if almost all of the gains come in the first milliseconds of trading. As an asi
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by vannevar 5y ago
You're right, that seems to contradict the author's assertion that Cramer's 1-day performance beats the S&P 500 by a factor of ten. Maybe he made a simple math error somewhere---forgetting to adjust the daily SPY return b
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by vannevar 5y ago
The article doesn't provide some key details regarding the one-day returns, particularly the precise timeframe used. If the price of a stock rises sharply the instant it's mentioned on the show then decays gradually, and the basis
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by vannevar 5y ago
Maybe so. But delistings probably wouldn't have a big impact on the 1-day results, and the analysis already concludes that Cramer's long-term returns are not good.
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by vannevar 5y ago
Sorry, off topic...but I have to ask: "Sweaty?"
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by vannevar 5y ago
> as the trial results for vaccine effectiveness against infection for all the vaccines were clearly and widely reported to be significantly less than 100% > This is not true. It is absolutely true. The difference between 0% and 5% is
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by vannevar 5y ago
Nah, I've seen it done successfully many times. It's really not that hard if you actually try. What's described above isn't even close.
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by vannevar 5y ago
How is it micromanagement? You're reporting to each other.
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by vannevar 5y ago
>It doesn't matter what the Manifesto says. Well, it doesn't matter if no one in the organization has read it or committed to its principles, sure. The same can be said for a constitution, a contract, or the Bible. Just because
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by vannevar 5y ago
>The only way I have ever seen scrum manifest is as a daily meeting where everyone on the team reports their incremental daily progress to the manager. Then you've never seen scrum, regardless of what your manager told you.
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by vannevar 5y ago
You definitely don't need to have "all the abstractions" ready in your mind. All you should be doing in scrum is summarizing the current status and what you need from the team. Standup isn't for solving your issue, or ev
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by vannevar 5y ago
Scrum is a floor on communication, not a ceiling. There's nothing in scrum that says the team can't meet outside of the daily standup. The standup just ensures that everyone has a chance to hear what's going on with others on
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by vannevar 5y ago
Even your own contribution? Scrum is a team thing---if your scrums are terrible, its because you and your teammates like them that way for some reason. You have no one to blame but yourself if you let it go on for 12 years.
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by vannevar 5y ago
If you don't remember something the next day, it's probably not important enough to report anyway. Scrum isn't a recitation of minutiae for its own sake, it's a quick summary of progress and blockers. I would hope you co
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by vannevar 5y ago
> Modern "scrum" gets in the way of just accomplishing business goals by pretending that they're perfectly predictable. Where did you get that idea? The Agile Manifesto literally says: "Welcome changing requirements,
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by vannevar 5y ago
Probably so. But as long is there is wage growth for hourly workers, however modest, the scenario where a worker at Business A earning $10/hr quits to take a job at Business B to make $11 will happen frequently enough to generate the
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by vannevar 5y ago
The difference between a zero chance of infection and a 1 in 20 chance is obvious to me, and I would hope, to most people. I'd be happy to offer you a 0% chance at winning $1000 from me in exchange for a 5% chance of winning $1000 from
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by vannevar 5y ago
This should probably be titled "Record number of American hourly workers got a raise in November." From the article: "Nick Bunker, research director at the Indeed Hiring Lab, noted that quits were high in the low-wage hotel a
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by vannevar 5y ago
>It is now obvious that the vaccines do not prevent covid. For the record, that was obvious when the vaccines were released, as the trial results for vaccine effectiveness against infection for all the vaccines were clearly and widely re

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