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by wgerard 8y ago
I'm sure no one would ever admit it, but I'm like 75% positive Amazon did the same thing on Etsy when they launched Amazon Handmade. 75% because I'm just recalling based on some forum posts I read around the time they launche
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> I wouldn't categorize smartphones as conspicuous consumption per se, because even when blinged out in gold they still tend to be pretty understated in comparison the the dinner-plate sized Breitlings that finance bros used to wear
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by wgerard 8y ago
> in a fast rising market Everything I've read about New York real estate has suggested that it's slowing down considerably and pretty buyer-friendly right now. Granted that's mostly about residential real estate, but I wo
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by wgerard 8y ago
> The next generation is far less materialistic than generations of the past. Ehhhh, I dunno that I'd go that far. It's just different shit. I think we all know plenty of people lined up the second a new iPhone or Pixel is ann
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Williamsburg, Dumbo, Park Slope, downtown Brooklyn, just to name a few. I'll spare Brooklyn residents the pain of ratting out their less well-known haunts.
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Anecdotally, that doesn't really seem to be the problem with New York and definitely not the problem the article is talking about. Ground-level stores don't seem to be suffering from staffing issues, largely because in New York it
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by wgerard 8y ago
> - Resident state college education. This may mean delaying your start a year to establish residency but can pay off big time. UT Austin has an excellent CS program an in-state tuition is quite affordable last time I looked. I was curio
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by wgerard 8y ago
The systemic risk is that those defaulters now lack capital to spend on other things, e.g. mortgages. There's a lot of concern already around millenial home-ownership rates, for example.
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by wgerard 8y ago
A simpler guide, perhaps, made by an incredibly talented former co-worker of mine: https://ohshitgit.com/
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I was under the impression that retail order flow is mostly useless to HFT and they make money on large institutional moves - retail investors just don't affect the market enough for it to matter. Is that a wrong assumption? If not, se
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Really surprised to hear that - we use Mailgun and haven't had any issues with latency at all.
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Bringing this to a top-level comment: People wildly underestimate how dedicated and adept some people are at finding PII given even minute details [1]. The only real way to avoid sharing PII is to stay off the internet entirely. Even then,
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by wgerard 8y ago
You're grossly underestimating how dedicated and adept some people are at finding PII given even minute details [1]. The only real way to avoid sharing PII is to stay off the internet entirely. And even then, pandora's box has alr
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by wgerard 8y ago
Bit hard to do when they're calling your work, visiting your house, swatting you, etc.
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> Are there any actors which are bad for the market? I mean, this is a somewhat flippant answer, but anyone engaged in massive fraud: P&Ds, Madoffs, Enrons, etc.
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by wgerard 8y ago
Eh, I think the sentiment is more like that saying "Economists have predicted 10 out of the last 3 recessions". There are always lots of reasons to be concerned, lots of leverage that could crash catastrophically (and often does).
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by wgerard 8y ago
Hey, Jason's co-founder here. In general I think this fear about candidates cheating is mostly over-blown: I don't think it happens anywhere close to the frequency that people worry about it. My counterpoint is usually this: Peopl
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by wgerard 8y ago
Hey there, The other co-founder here :). We were actually big fans of Starfighter, it was a huge inspiration to us both when starting this company. I'd still love to talk to you three about it. Sorry for the wall of text, we think abou
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by wgerard 8y ago
Eh, I imagine that mostly has to do with Ballmer stepping down and not about slashing expenses.
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"But in my experience, Apple PR does not lie. Do they spin the truth in ways that favor the company? Of course. That’s their job. But they don’t lie, because they understand that one of Apple’s key assets is its credibility. They’d say
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by wgerard 8y ago
I guess, I feel like all you've shown is that the SEC's teeth have been filed down the past couple years. That makes sense to me given the current administration's overall stance towards regulation and enforcement. It's
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by wgerard 8y ago
The SEC isn't the DOJ. They can't enforce criminal penalties. Their agency is pretty restricted in what they're allowed to do; the strictest penalties they're allowed to enforce include barring people from: * Managing se
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Worth mentioning: Wasn't just a random person, it was Egor Homakov who has a history of finding pretty interesting exploits particularly wrt Rails and Github.
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My co-founder and I believe so strongly in this that we started a company around it. So many companies are willing to let perfect be the enemy of good. It's why this concept of an MVP has to be hammered in over and over again. And yet,
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> Why? Hmm, I guess fundamentally I find it hard to believe that a large corporation would acquire a smaller one just to let them run completely independently - it just seems counter-intuitive unless the acquirer is a holding company, ba
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> Are there instances where the thesis that “folks who outsource the business side to the acquirer” stay? Hsieh? I mean, I don't know too much about the inner workings of Zappos but I find it hard to believe that the FB->IG relat
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by wgerard 8y ago
There are most certainly problems with Wikipedia, but it's incredibly hard to take this author seriously when they decide to champion the cause of Gary Null, a person who says things like: > If I tell you that HIV is sexually tran
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by wgerard 8y ago
Wait, I'm confused: Are spammers using Apple devices? I always assumed they were just generic VoIP devices in boiler rooms (or bots, obviously). Why would you invest that kind of money into a device for making spam calls?
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I mean it's true that either someone pays you or they don't, but there's still plenty of grey area: 1. Some people might pay you but it's not enough revenue to sustain a business 2. People may not pay you now but are wil
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by wgerard 8y ago
> there are de facto more shares in existence. > because there are de facto 20% more shares in existence Sorry, what? Am I misunderstanding you? How does short selling increase outstanding shares? It's hard to parse the rest of t

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