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by wils1245 9y ago
I think you’re both overstating how widely known this controversy is and understating how bad suing a tech blogger would look (see: Streisand Effect). I’m a techie and have barely heard about this. People who went and bought new phones will
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by wils1245 9y ago
This story is a good example of how the tide of public opinion has turned against the tech industry. There’s no tech angle here - some percentage of people pay for sex, and some percentage of that group uses their work email to do so. Some
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by wils1245 9y ago
Saving on taxes is a good reason to contribute to a 401K. Just be mindful of the fees.
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by wils1245 9y ago
Age is unquestionably a useful attribute to use in targeting advertising. But in certain cases we've decided to impose rules that make advertising suboptimal in the interests of building a more fair society.
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by wils1245 9y ago
The tide of public opinion seems to have turned against argument 1. I don't follow law close enough to really know if legal decisions have also been turning against it.
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by wils1245 9y ago
And the next day, those age-based ads will be replaced by other user attributes closely correlated with age. A US Supreme Court case comes to mind, Batson v Kentucky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batson_v._Kentucky In
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by wils1245 9y ago
The incumbent taxi industry is way worse than you describe. Prices aren’t five bucks more, they’re often 2X, with worse drivers due to the lack of a passenger feedback loop. Not to mention that a substantial portion of those profits getting
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by wils1245 9y ago
Would you describe the present environment as chaotic? Rideshare companies have solved the problems you describe. You can debate whether it’s fair that they’ve profited by breaking the rules. But they’ve made a very compelling case that the
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by wils1245 9y ago
It’s been so crazy to see things like that just papered over in thread after thread. People talk about trading volume as though they have the faintest idea what the true, non manipulative volume is. The term “market cap” being thrown around
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by wils1245 9y ago
Why do you think that it's a reasonable expectation that an economy offers a 1000X multiplier on your money? Where is this value supposed to come from? By altering the means of exchanging capital a significant number of people get 1000
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by wils1245 9y ago
The regulations are more about regulating the ability to make money off of naive investors, in my view. You should be able to offer the ability to make risky investments to people, but there should be enforcement mechanisms to ensure you&#x
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by wils1245 9y ago
Their slogan is pretty funny: "The next cryptocurrency." Like the last one, only newer.
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by wils1245 9y ago
He is an improvement on some social issues, but Friedman credits him for his anti corruption drive, which is a joke. M.B.S is every bit as corrupt as those he’s arrested.
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by wils1245 9y ago
Speaking from the US, it's too bad that pharmacists are so disempowered here. I was just in France, and my friend came down with an eye infection. He went to a pharmacist, who just gave him antibiotics and told him to come back in thre
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by wils1245 9y ago
Parent comment is likely referring to the lawsuit against them which has recently seemed to take a turn for the worse for Uber.
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by wils1245 9y ago
During my last job hunt I was told that some companies target 30% of total comp in stock. If you get options and the stock goes up, you can do quite well.
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by wils1245 9y ago
Kind of an ironic example, lawyers have terrible working conditions. Pay is great, but the partner system of advancement is dehumanizing, and encourages cutthroat behavior and insane working hours.
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by wils1245 9y ago
Do you still think the Tether is still held by the thieves? They traded it for other cryptocurrencies, out of Bitfinex, the second they stole it. That is, of course, if it actually was a theft, and it was actually for $30 million. It's
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by wils1245 9y ago
Bitfinex controls Tether, a single source cryptocurrency supposedly backed by and pegged to the US dollar. The market cap of Tether has risen $188 million dollars to $678 million in one month: https://coinmarketcap.com/curre
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by wils1245 9y ago
If you believe them you must believe that they've received $250 million dollars in the month of November alone. https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/ This on a daily pattern that looks like a step func
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by wils1245 9y ago
At this point the arguments for or against the idea of cryptocurrency are pretty irrelevant. Bitfinex has injected millions of dollars of fake money into the ecosystem, users are reporting an ability to withdraw money from it on Reddit, and
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by wils1245 9y ago
For me, their innovation was that they were the first online retailer that inspired rock solid confidence in their delivery. If I order something on Amazon, it’s at my door in two days. Every time. I don’t need to check my shipping status,
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by wils1245 9y ago
Ok, fair enough, I was lazy in my Googling. But the point stands. Money yielding 0% and wasting away due to inflation is a straw man.
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by wils1245 9y ago
A quote from The Four Pillars of Investing: "Of the four key areas of investment knowledge — theory, history, psychology, and investment industry practices — the lack of historical knowledge is the one that causes the most damage. In f
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by wils1245 9y ago
GBP inflation is currently less than 2%, and there are many very low risk options to account for it. The fact that money sitting in a checking account depreciates due to inflation is a terrible argument for cryptocurrency. No one actually d
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by wils1245 9y ago
I’d be interested to see a timeplot of the timing of ICO’s against the price/trading volume of bitcoin. My feeling is that there’s a lot of wash trading / market manipulation of bitcoin going on by the perpetrators of ICO schemes,
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by wils1245 9y ago
I think economic competition between cities can be a healthy thing, but these sweepstakes style contests for things like corporate HQ’s, sporting teams/events, etc seem to usually get really out of hand. It feels like there’s some comm
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by wils1245 9y ago
I had a driver once who was using a rental car under an agreement tailored to ride sharing. I can’t recall the company he used, though.
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by wils1245 9y ago
>>I feel deranged pointing this out, but hiring triple the headcount you need to run your business is not a progressive social value. I don't know what it is. To me it feels like a byproduct of an overemphasis on a certain kind o

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