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by wgerard 6y ago
> Except that the aspiring pro athlete is doing esports now. They are trying to get World of Warcraft or Fortnite pros. First and foremost, I doubt many children who aspire to be Fortnite pros would have ever considered being a professio
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by wgerard 6y ago
> It honestly scares me to hear my nieces and nephews, all around the 10 year old mark, talking about aspiring for internet fame more (and in some cases exclusively) than any other actual profession or healthy aspiration. Er, isn't
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by wgerard 6y ago
Ahh, gotcha. Cheers then!
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by wgerard 6y ago
> My personal performance of investing in all three categories (total market index, S&P 500 index, NASDAQ-100 index) matches every chart you can find online over last 5 years; the total index funds are carrying the baggage of all tha
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by wgerard 6y ago
> You're not wrong, but for most people, most of the time, this quibble is not worth getting into. Sure. I assumed we were talking about whether passive investing could potentially cause negative effects at scale, not whether your a
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by wgerard 6y ago
> Going with index funds is no more and no less than investing in the entire market I don't think that's entirely true. When most people talk about investing in index funds they're largely talking about funds like eg. $SPY
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by wgerard 6y ago
To be fair, I think WSB bucks this trend a little. People report the huge losses there, and it's part of what makes it so interesting. In fact, I would argue that the most well-known posts are often from people losing huge amounts of m
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by wgerard 6y ago
The article touches on this: > The latter method [encouraging recreational hunting] has sometimes backfired dramatically when surviving animals spread across the state. In some places, for-profit hunting outfits have worsened the problem
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by wgerard 6y ago
Actually IIRC last time I looked it was more like city researchers usually subtract depreciation on the vehicle from the earnings, which can be quite substantial (IRS rates are roughly a quarter per mile). Uber doesn't subtract that, s
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by wgerard 6y ago
> Taxis existed before Uber and others. To be fair, taxi service in seattle was quite awful during the pre-uber times. It was usually best to pretend they didn't exist unless you were at a location they congregated frequently (the a
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by wgerard 6y ago
I said this in a sibling comment, but I think the confusion is: > I think what's confusing is there's two different wages being thrown around here: Are drivers guaranteed at least $16.39/hr, in addition to $0.56/minut
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by wgerard 6y ago
I think what's confusing is there's two different wages being thrown around here: Are drivers guaranteed $16.39/hr, in addition to $0.56/minute and $1.33/mile driven while transporting? The questions I think are mos
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by wgerard 6y ago
I think it's quite common for drivers to have both the Lyft and Uber app open, and to take the first/best available ride that pops up from either app. The question is whether you'll be paid by Uber while completing a ride fro
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by wgerard 6y ago
I'm also curious about this. I wonder if they'll start requiring drivers to "clock on" and "clock off", and you won't be able to accept rides outside of that dynamic. I know it already kinda works like tha
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by wgerard 6y ago
I said this in the thread when the arrests were announced ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23529035 ) but I had a similar thought again reading this. Just a little funny and bizarre to see people react extremely differe
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by wgerard 6y ago
Yikes, I haven’t kept up with it much clearly. But yeah, there’s a valid non-malicious reason to believe Tesla is overvalued.
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by wgerard 6y ago
I think this is a fundamental misunderstanding of what short sellers do (which is where most of the "fraud" accusation comes from). Some short sellers DO claim fraudulent behavior, e.g. Enron was famously predicted to be fraudulen
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by wgerard 6y ago
Pump-and-dumps are an entire class of fraud that fundamentally relies on you being long.
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by wgerard 6y ago
We're probably unlikely to come to an agreement here, I think because we have fundamentally different opinions on what constitutes a hobbyist (and, I think, also a video game). I really fail to see the difference between someone playin
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by wgerard 6y ago
> It may have to do with the difference in "I will play this game instead of staring into the void" vs "I will buy that game and set aside time to play it". Would people on the subway play candy crush if they didn&#x2
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by wgerard 6y ago
I'm confused why there's some implication of diminished frequency with "casual" gamers. On the subway, it's not uncommon to see people playing games like candy crush on their commute to and from work. The average su
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by wgerard 6y ago
> then you should also use major media organizations' 2016 predictions as evidence of greater delusion Why? They responded to evolving evidence and sentiment (specifically, the FBI announcement on the 28th). 538 gave Trump a 30% cha
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by wgerard 6y ago
> Weren't everyone's predictions wrong in 2016? Actually if you go look at the NYT polls, Trump had a monumental surge in the later half of October that caused the result to look much closer. Probably no small part of this was
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by wgerard 6y ago
I think you're incorrect about the perceived power of a former US president, but regardless I don't think perceived power has any impact on whether the FBI chooses to investigate or not. That might be a fairy tale some black hats
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by wgerard 6y ago
Former presidents are still privy to a lot of information (e.g. they receive national security briefings still). Hacking their technology accounts is absolutely a threat to the security of the US govt, and is one reason the Secret Service s
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by wgerard 6y ago
Wild. I'm like 99% positive I know the couple and the newsletter they targeted, because I used to work for an ecommerce company that also came under fire from said couple semi-frequently. Of course, like adults, we just rolled our eyes
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by wgerard 6y ago
Caveat: I'm fine with this decision from GH, just clarifying. I believe it's the same usage as used in music recording, e.g. > an original movie, recording, or document from which copies can be made.
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by wgerard 6y ago
This is incredible! While we were trying to build up a corpus of transcription data for our company, I often thought we should build something like this an open-source it. We ended up building a one-off hacked-up thing to do it instead, but
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by wgerard 6y ago
To be fair, I remember this being a problem even when I participated in middle school debate ~20 years ago. If you make a bunch of points that the other team doesn't refute directly, you get to nail them on it later. Short of you speak
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by wgerard 6y ago
Just to play devil's advocate a little: You should look up some of the ethical issues around cobalt mining [1], which Apple is at least indirectly complicit in. Netflix famously made their culture documents transparent to much derision

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