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by bsandbox 2y ago
Very cool! Have been trying to complete murph workouts in prep for Memorial Day, and this app would be a perfect companion for counting the reps, which get pretty hard to track in your head during the workout. So, feature request - please a
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by bsandbox 13y ago
Reminds me one of Michael Lewis' anecdotes from The Big Short. Something along the lines of one of the big Wall Street banks transferring tens of billions of dollars to the Fed by literally gathering up a set of bonds from their safe,
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by bsandbox 13y ago
It's a great book, a classic, and it's interesting to know how highly pg respects it. When I look at leaders, the thing that I see more and more is the ability to not stress out about situations. Coming up with solutions is less
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by bsandbox 13y ago
I think people's sense of personal safety is a bigger driver than revenge. In general, people want a hard line on anything that impacts their sense of personal safety. In order to feel safe, people want punishment to prevent others f
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by bsandbox 13y ago
Making endeavors like this scale is an interesting problem. On the surface, this is inherently unscalable, but it does prove that a novel idea can spark latent compassion to create something truly awesome. The obvious thought is applying
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by bsandbox 14y ago
Or, Right Click > View Page Source
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by bsandbox 14y ago
Those outcomes are likely. Although it's also possible that: * next-quarter results are "less bad" than expected, and the large band of short sellers have to start buying to cover * insiders feel that the stock is unfairly priced and are w
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by bsandbox 14y ago
Certainly possible that they would make more money, but I doubt it. Doing some (very) rough math, HBO has about 28M subscribers. Cable customers pay $18 bucks a month for HBO, of which HBO usually gets 50%. So an overnight change in the
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by bsandbox 14y ago
It's not that they wouldn't prefer to get their money earlier. It's that they are in bed with the cable companies, who have significant power because they provide a huge chunk of HBO's revenue. HBO don't want to risk losing that revenue b
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by bsandbox 15y ago
Yes, initially. But as the manufacturing processes mature, these prices reduce dramatically over time. Price reductions of an order of magnitude are not unusual over the course of two or three years.
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by bsandbox 16y ago
I'm unaware of any collection of humans in history that did not practice some form of religion. I suspect that religion will become extinct only when we humans do too.
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by bsandbox 16y ago
That raises an important ethical question.. should we not let them know about vim?
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by bsandbox 16y ago
That was my general perspective too.. ie. that Anglo was the biggest source of the problem. So I was surprised to read this line: "In October 2008, the Irish Independent published a list of the five biggest real-estate deals in each of the
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by bsandbox 16y ago
In a nutshell, that's it. People have a sense of resignation on the whole thing. There is very little prospect of things improving any time soon. The choices would appear to be a) adjust to a lower standard of living, or b) get out.
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by bsandbox 16y ago
Also, having bought my fair share of consumer electronics, I've found that the research and anticipation of buying a product is sometimes as much fun as the afterglow of owning it.
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by bsandbox 16y ago
Another hidden benefit that they may or may not make use of - Apple can directly observe their users interfacing with their products. With websites and to a certain extent with software, usability data collection is a given. But for consu
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by bsandbox 16y ago
I'd imagine that most people who have worked for larger companies for reasonable amounts of time should have plenty of these stories - after all that's how good employees generate their value, through innovation. I've worked on projects in
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by bsandbox 16y ago
I'm in. Just released an MVP so will use this as motivation for the 1.x update!
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by bsandbox 16y ago
Along with 8% return, the other big constant in retirement planning is retirement age of 65. Over time, this is going to be seen much more as a variable than a constant. If markets don't perform, retirement age is going to rise pretty dra