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by veyron 15y ago
I am strangely reminded of that episode in 30 rock where tracy realizes he can just pay a fine to make obscene comments and do obscene things on TV ...
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by veyron 15y ago
go to page 88 (the one with - 88 - at the bottom) of the 1040 instructions at http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040gi.pdf There is a section "How Do You Make a Gift To Reduce Debt Held By the Public" and it clearly states "You may be able
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by veyron 15y ago
s/price/prize/
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by veyron 15y ago
It is deductible for the next year's returns
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by veyron 15y ago
Ok take a step back. Suppose that mercedes benz is only able to sell half as many cars as normal. What will happen? Will they keep the same number of employees? If the US is any example, the answer is clearly no. And once families lose
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by veyron 15y ago
You are forgetting the law of demand here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_demand
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by veyron 15y ago
I think tlammens said it best in the discussion from 6 hours ago: "headlines like this are the cause of a recession rather than the facts behind it." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3280507 Not to be a negative nancy, but these discus
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by veyron 15y ago
You have to think about more than just the first-order effects. In general, a company will sell more products if they can sell for a lower price. "Germans worked hard producing goods which they turn around and send to people outside German
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by veyron 15y ago
The troubles that we are seeing now ARE caused by the Euro. It tried to combine strong exporting nations like Germany with weaker tourist nations like Greece. Were the Deutschemark a separate currency, it would be stronger than the current
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by veyron 15y ago
The banks and large hedge funds manage so much money that their opinions and positions actually impact the market prices. For example, akin to the "Colbert Bump", there is a "Buffett Bump" where position prices rise as Buffett releases his
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by veyron 15y ago
Even if the debt is 15 Trillion and one ratings agency felt we didn't deserve the highest rating, investors are champing at the bit to purchase bonds.
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by veyron 15y ago
The very same agencies that are generating the headlines are leaking the headlines to hedge funds hours before. There is a current SEC probe of S&P over concerns that employees disclosed info about the downgrade to hedge funds hours be
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by veyron 15y ago
%s/Chromsky/Chomsky/g
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by veyron 15y ago
Is this approach (sending the commands to a backend) preferable to a javascript-based repl (using something like emscripten)?
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In Defense of Liquidity Rebates and other Structures in the Equity Markets (veyronb.wordpress.com)
2 points by veyron 15y ago|0 comments
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by veyron 15y ago
Yes but I still can't access the site ...
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by veyron 15y ago
bar.com seems inaccessible. Can someone who saw the site in the past few hours confirm that http://web.archive.org/web/20110707211652/http://bar.com/ is up to date?
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by veyron 15y ago
The way uniq should have been implemented: awk '!x[$1]++'
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by veyron 15y ago
The designer thinks to use the tools he or she is most familiar with, just like the developer.
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by veyron 15y ago
Every time I read an article like this I wonder if there is enough demand in the real world for a new social network ...
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First president with a CS degree?(en.wikipedia.org)
13 points by veyron 15y ago|4 comments
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by veyron 15y ago
The real problem here is that many parents have very strong opinions regarding teaching sex in school. obligatory south park reference (nsfw): http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s05e07-proper-...
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by veyron 15y ago
Have you looked into solutions with deeper integration? I am thinking of WebAssign. iirc they work with the textbook publishers to give more integrated problems (i.e. they would take a textbook problem like "What is the derivative of cos(
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by veyron 15y ago
IIRC the individual posts are sorted by votes so upvoting should be sufficient
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by veyron 15y ago
What exactly does "This." signify? In terms of magnitude, is it similar to "I agree" or to "I strongly agree" or to "I vehemently agree"?
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Rambus Loses Chip Pricing Jury Trial Against Hynix, Micron(news.businessweek.com)
1 points by veyron 15y ago|0 comments
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by veyron 15y ago
Is there anyone liveblogging the proceedings?
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by veyron 15y ago
For exporter nations, a weaker currency means that they don't need to charge as much in foreign nations for the equivalent value in the local currency. Let's take porsche cars as an example. Porsche pegs a price in euros, and the price tha
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by veyron 15y ago
The euro benefited Germany immensely because weaker nations basically hindered the appreciation of the common currency.
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by veyron 15y ago
Thanks for linking. How do people make those info graphics?

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