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zone411
8y ago
And the author of this article, who was also very active in the same thread hasn't made up his mind?
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8y ago
What airlines often do if they are worried about this is to hedge through oil futures.
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zone411
8y ago
But most of them failed because a jump in oil prices in 2006-2014. We're below these levels now.
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zone411
9y ago
Yes.
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zone411
9y ago
I wrote the script to parse the Ethereum blockchain from a local copy myself.
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9y ago
As per my other post here, you don't need anything more than a file to hex converter like http://tomeko.net/online_tools/hex_to_file.php?lang=en and the ability to calculate the gas cost to post on the Ethereum bl
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9y ago
Not too long ago, I checked the number of images that were posted on the Ethereum blockchain and I also posted a test image ( https://etherscan.io/tx/0x3ee5575306ddc235b0586984172888b47e... ). There were 74 images with h
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9y ago
There is a big NIMBY issue for drag strips that are not in the middle of nowhere because of high noise levels.
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9y ago
Many of these bikes are actually e-bikes. I think it would be a good improvement if taxis and ridesharing cars didn't care so much about dropping off people exactly at their destination but instead found a safe spot within half a block
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9y ago
The issue is that you now have ICOs (including by public companies) that use the term "blockchain" just for the hype, even though the supposed "blockchains" they use don't fulfill your conditions.
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9y ago
Why was there enormous work involved? Were you rebalancing very often? Note that Coinbase's fund will be made up of only four cryptocurrencies, not 25 like yours.
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9y ago
Exactly, the comparison to hedge funds is not valid. Vanguard S&P 500 ETF has an expense ratio of 0.04%.
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9y ago
Coinbase also confirmed on CNBC that their transaction volumes are lower compared to the peak in Dec/Jan - matches up well with lower transaction volumes in Bitcoin and Ethereum (despite transaction costs going down), fewer new wallets
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9y ago
Except that there are real studies showing an association between wide faces and testosterone levels: http://www.ehbonline.org/article/S1090-5138(13)00027-5/abstr... and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Pitching ideas in freezing water: Finland's eccentric answer to Dragon's Den
(euronews.com)
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9y ago
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=4332
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9y ago
There are additional issues due to the heavy weight on the track - the brakes and the tires will get used up much faster for example.
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9y ago
Since it's a trade secret, it's hard to know exactly what they do and how much human input there is - but a couple well-known quant hedge funds are Renaissance Technologies and Two Sigma. They were both started by mathematicians&#
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9y ago
One thing I haven't seem mentioned is that when you're driving yourself, you anticipate and prepare your body for the changes in direction and acceleration/deceleration, so the car appears to drive smoother. If the disengagem
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9y ago
They will also need to take off a lot of weight from P100D's 4,941 lbs to make it worthwhile. Even they can reduce the weight by 1000 lbs, it'll still be very heavy... It's a luxury car with a powerful engine - not exactly wh
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9y ago
How did you think your comment that "you would have to be nuts to short" on an article about shorting Bitcoins would be taken? Please explain how Tethers can be used to manipulate and increase Bitcoin price.
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9y ago
Bitfinex prints Tethers, not Bitcoins.
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9y ago
100% correct. It's painful to see how little otherwise intelligent tech people know about investing...
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9y ago
Sorry, but what? What exchange is printing billions of $ of unbacked Bitcoins?
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9y ago
That's not how it works... If you believe that "upward momentum" or "downtrend" mean something, why don't you go long now and sell at the first signs of weakness? Easy money, right? In reality, there are no sim
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9y ago
Here is the closest I've seen to a statement: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/lookingglass . I don't think the explanation that "The Mr. Robot series centers around the theme of online privacy a
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The wages across income levels were not stagnant in 2016 ( http://www.epi.org/publication/the-state-of-american-wages-2... )
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AlphaZero: Reactions from Top GMs, Stockfish Author
(chess.com)
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I'm not sure if that's what the great parent meant but think about two sports cars on the race track: on every lap at the end of the straights, the better accelerating car will be going faster and therefore need better brakes to s
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9y ago
Interesting. It may be possible that while the style of play of Master is able to exploit the errors of human players easily and score convincing victories by many stones, Zero is closer to playing Go perfectly, even if it means winning by
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