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by vmurthy 4y ago
>A similar thing happened with Bear Stearns. It beat the market consistently every month... until it didn't. IIRC it blew up very very quickly Very subtle difference,though. I am simplifying things here but IIRC, Bear Stearns blew u
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by vmurthy 4y ago
Lol. I’ve read part of this book but didn’t see the full title. This is a book by Simon Singh. https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/aw/d/0385495323/ref=tmm_pap_swa... Check out his other book - Fermat’s Last The
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by vmurthy 4y ago
Quite a quick read and sounds somewhat better than knee-jerk reactions people might have The 3 policy changes in the paper : ``` Evidence suggests that three priority policies would have the greatest impact in reducing overall firearm homi
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by vmurthy 4y ago
>I know people in extended families regularly sending money between themselves Not a lawyer but I remember reading that the IRS (or equivalent) would be watching for patterns (large amounts/frequent transfers in just below a thresho
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by vmurthy 4y ago
Sigh. Seems this is only for their business platform. I'd happily use their API if this works for sending messages to my friends and be rid of their iOS app.
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by vmurthy 4y ago
You missed out the difficult part of distribution. This isn't exactly easy or cheap. Ask Walmart or any other retailer. Even the direct-to-consumer ones have to spend a lot on distribution.
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by vmurthy 4y ago
Company is obliged to do so if you want to leave :)
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by vmurthy 4y ago
They can refuse to give what is called a "relieving letter". That's a letter to future employers telling that this person left on good terms and his/her experience is genuine. It's a bloody effective weapon unfortun
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by vmurthy 4y ago
> 1. What sort of transaction costs between people today are _practically_ the most important to leading to a creation of a firm? My take on this : I have skill-a , you have skill-b. Skill-a plus skill-b would make a device that would so
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by vmurthy 4y ago
I can't vouch for everyone supposedly writing smear articles/commenting on Musk but my own problem is that there is a public cost to his antics like "Going private" , "just bought 9% of TWTR" , "won&#x
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by vmurthy 4y ago
HN has its fair share of cynics. Just like in a stock market you need bulls and bears , you need people to peek behind the stories and tell whether there is substance or full of shit. It's up to us (the other readers) to be influenced
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by vmurthy 4y ago
It's not the P/E itself but ALL the future earnings discounted to the present using an appropriate discount rate that counts. See the uncertainties involved here? :) If you can predict a range for the future earnings and discount
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by vmurthy 4y ago
Ha! I followed a rabbit hole and found this gem : Listen to how 3Hz sounds like. It's hypnotic https://www.omegawatches.com/en-au/watch-omega-speedmaster-m... (Search for 3 Hz and click the Audio icon)
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by vmurthy 4y ago
As a dad to a 7 year old (and another one on the way :)) , I find the following books wonderful. They evoke wonder in me and hopefully I will be able to transmit some of this to the kids . 1. Euclid's Window 2. Music of the primes
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by vmurthy 4y ago
Did you mean UBS perhaps? :-)
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by vmurthy 4y ago
Article title implies that the company was somehow doing something shady. This is horrible reporting The key part of the article : "Looters set fire to a UPL warehouse containing the pesticides during a wave of looting and arson in Jul
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by vmurthy 4y ago
The original post should go to /r/whatcouldgowrong :-( How is this anywhere close to legal? (Not the layoff but the BYOD policy for accessing sensitive patient data ) .
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by vmurthy 4y ago
"Moving bits, not atoms" :-). Have you had a look at India's progress in FinTech / Telecom ?
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by vmurthy 4y ago
I am crying look at this. We're lucky to get 50 Mbps here in Sydney,Australia :(. The "gigabit" speeds here seem to be in the 250 Mbps range [0] [0] https://www.techradar.com/au/best/best-nbn-1000-pla
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by vmurthy 4y ago
Hmmm, are you conflating the hardware the runs Windows or do you mean something else?
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by vmurthy 4y ago
For the curious, macOS Monterey includes a cool tool called `networkQuality` that does what you want. It checks the upload/download speed and more. Check out this[0] article or `man networkQuality` from your terminal [0] https:/&
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by vmurthy 4y ago
The problem with an example like this is that a (hypothetical) friend of yours could have bought into Apple or Amazon or MSFT back then and had a ton of money now :) . I was about to suggest index funds but looks like the FTSE-100 has been
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by vmurthy 4y ago
I learnt a lot from the previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24666968 Sigh. I am stuck on a 40" 1080p Dumb tv :(
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by vmurthy 4y ago
>I decided to move away for big tech Please correct the tile to "from" . Reading the original title made me think that a start-up guy moved to big tech for his children.
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by vmurthy 4y ago
Soo .. did I disagree with the OP of this thread? ;-)
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by vmurthy 4y ago
>Am I supposed to be mad at him? Families of the victims should be mad , yes. He preyed on their need for solace and made money out of it :-( I took away a lesson (which is closer to the ethos of HN) If something has gathered momentum (s
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by vmurthy 5y ago
Starts at EUR 349 in case someone is just looking at the website to find out the prices (like I did) :)
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by vmurthy 5y ago
You’ve to remember that they have an (ancient == valuable ) source of customer data. They started off as a news aggregator and must have had a decade of customer data to utilise while showing these videos. I remember reading in the book (t
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by vmurthy 5y ago
Hmmm , from memory , instant coffee is usually Robusta type of bean which is more acidic. The study you are looking for , then, are studies which track robusta v/s arabica. I doubt someone could get funding for this , though :)
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by vmurthy 5y ago
@varun_ch : Great going! I saw your "About" [0] page and you are only 15! Awesome time to be learning and finding more about code. On a side note, I feel old :( [0] https://varun.ch/#projects

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