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by digz 12y ago
Adjust those for cost of living and the US would be even more competitive.
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by digz 12y ago
Also possible that this could be related to his sale of Ars Technica. Massachusetts imposes its own capital gains tax, and he may have been liable for a significant portion of that, especially given that it sounds like it was MA domiciled.
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by digz 12y ago
Now google will index searches of its own searches.
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by digz 12y ago
For what it's worth, I have a pilot's license and also fly a quadcopter. A big part of the issue is the separation of powers and who exactly has the right to regulate model aircraft. Congress explicitly and deliberately precluded
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What's the Optimal Number of Immigrants?(johnhcochrane.blogspot.com)
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by digz 12y ago
Your points are all very valid of course. While utility theory has largely been superseded by prospect theory, like Newtonian physics, it can still be useful for back-of-the-envelop thought. Furthermore I'll be a devil's advocate
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by digz 12y ago
Reaching consumers is hard, even if you have the superior product. Facilitating such a transaction should make one proud. The 'psychological exploits' are a marginal component, but again, why is it inherently bad for someone to fe
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by digz 12y ago
Saying that free markets are best is not the same as saying free markets are perfect.
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by digz 12y ago
Why is helping people find products and services that will enrich their lives an inherently bad thing?
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by digz 12y ago
Of course. However in the marketplace of ideas, it's important that as a society we don't embrace the trappings of a command&control economy. I am merely reacting to the OPs (albeit extremely benign in this case) view that a
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by digz 12y ago
Having studied with the originators of the efficient market hypothesis (Fama), I regret to inform you that what you describe is not a feature of EMH but is rather frequently attributed to it in an attempt to discredit it. There is nothing
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by digz 12y ago
While I have some sympathy for your point of view (after all the guy is free to say what he wants) I still think the argument is facile. A few thoughts: - As others have pointed out, talent is not fungible. Just because you can program Yo
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by digz 12y ago
Also, I'd venture a guess that if you sum up the total cost that has gone into Facebook's Poke feature (development, maintenance, deciding whether or not to turn it off), it would dramatically eclipse the 1.2M that everyone is so
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by digz 12y ago
>> And, by the way, who appointed Christoph McCann arbiter of what it good and valuable in this world? This is such an important point, and why free markets work best. If people derive value out of Yo, then terrific. If they don&#x27
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by digz 12y ago
I went to a conference* in 1994 in which Kip Thorne gave a talk on time travel. He made an offhand comment about evidence that backwards time-travel does not occur that was along similar lines. 2 points: 1) Not inconsistent for 'real
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by digz 12y ago
This is an important point. Further to that, Uber should be a company with very clearly understood ROI. They put X number of dollars into a new city and get Y number of users and make Z number of dollars over a few years. Because they&#x
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by digz 12y ago
I haven't read the paper, just the article. It's possible some of these are directly addressed, but I would want to know more before any credibility is given to the conclusions. Some alternative explanations: - The 'lowest p
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by digz 12y ago
Not totally liquid. That's a lot of bitcoints being sold. The buyer could not go ahead and sell all of those coins immediately after getting them without severely impacting the price. The buyer would probably need a couple of weeks
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by digz 12y ago
Actually is does mean that it's worth what it sells for. The nature of seized goods increases the risk premium demanded from a buyer resulting in a lower price. Sources of risk: 1) Goods aren't as they seem. Drug dealers may no
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by digz 12y ago
While average education levels are of course important, they aren't as important as density of high achievers and the flexibility of the top group to remain challenged. It's top achievers that are able to become the best in their
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by digz 12y ago
Or you can just not subscribe to AT&T. Austin's a great example of a place where customers have choice. Cable provider(s?)/AT&T/DSL/Google Fiber/LTE/LTE/LTE/LTE.
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by digz 12y ago
I dunno... Looking through the table of contents there's pretty good coverage of a lot of very specific research that goes well beyond basic capm/ff/var/bs/garch. The goal of this book is clearly not going to be to
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by digz 12y ago
The 'tens of billions' is also without context of how much money HFT save investors by basically keeping spreads at zero, and nearly always guaranteeing liquidity. Providing liquidity to the market isn't a public service...
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by digz 12y ago
I'm shocked that it didn't fall because of the Oculus deal, but look at twitter vs. fb in the last 48 hours... heavily covariant. https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...
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by digz 12y ago
Of course. The signal here is that investors want to cash out. Even if investors aren't selling shares as part of the offering (haven't read the details yet, so not sure one way or another) and Box is simply issuing new shares a
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by digz 13y ago
Agreed. Though I've only played the 3D version twice, my win rate is 50% and i only see it increasing. The 2D version is a little more challenging.. I think I win roughly 25% of the time as luck plays a bigger role (at least with my
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by digz 13y ago
I've had a Phantom for a while, and more recently the Phantom 2. Have never had any issues whatsoever. I don't discount that these happen, but as with most things, there's a pretty big sample bias in complaints. Also of note
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by digz 13y ago
I get muuuuuch more than 6-8 minutes with my phantom 2 and gimbal. I don't like to push it, so my longest flights are usually ~15 minutes, but I always have at least ~30% battery remaining. In addition to providing power to the gimba
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by digz 13y ago
I haven't used ICQ since 2000 or so, but as soon as I read your comment, I immediately remembered my old number! For context, I rarely remember my anniversary. EDIT: I just logged in. Out of the hundreds of contacts I had, there&#x27
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by digz 13y ago
Totally agree. All you need to say is I'm not being paid market.

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