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by dustcoin 7y ago
According to the article, the data the city is using is from 2005. It is likely access has increased in the past 14 years.
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by dustcoin 8y ago
This is false information that is commonly repeated. The ships produce more of a particular pollutant, sulfur dioxide (SO2), not CO2. Personal vehicles produce barely any SO2 (gasoline contains no sulfur, diesel contains a small amount) s
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by dustcoin 10y ago
Using the numbers in this article[1], 1% of the taxpayers make only about 24% of the total income in CA, not 80%. [1] http://www.sacbee.com/site-services/databases/article9349178...
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by dustcoin 11y ago
>During snow emergencies, cities should work with parking garages to make overnight parking for cars, free. It'll solve a lot of problems. DC did in this case. The city warned about the emergency routes ahead of time, offered free
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by dustcoin 11y ago
The noise could be filtered out with enough samples, so this mitigation only increases the number of attempts required and does not prevent the attack.
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by dustcoin 11y ago
They have publicly posted financial reports: https://www.torproject.org/about/financials.html.en
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by dustcoin 11y ago
They are already factoring that in, using a 5% risk-free rate.
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by dustcoin 11y ago
The author is claiming 5% is an historical average, which is plausible because in past decades, both interest rates and inflation were much higher.
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by dustcoin 11y ago
This analysis is only looking at the price of the S&P 500, not the total return. An investor that sits out half of the year will miss out on about half of the dividends paid, which are always positive. EDIT: Here is a graph highlightin
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by dustcoin 12y ago
Ben Horowitz begins all of his blog posts with rap lyrics: http://www.bhorowitz.com/
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by dustcoin 12y ago
The contributions to a Roth IRA (but not the investment returns) can be withdrawn with no tax penalty, so there isn't much reason not to max it out if possible. Employees should always contribute to a their 401k at least up to the comp
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by dustcoin 12y ago
$250k/yr doesn't allow for $2k/mo more spending than $225k/yr after factoring in federal taxes. California state income tax is also more than double that of Michigan's at those income levels.
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by dustcoin 12y ago
From my understanding, the $1200 price is for the privilege of getting a dedicated table in the club, not really the bottle of alcohol itself. This is still very expensive, of course.
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by dustcoin 12y ago
They (ab?)use the transaction that occurs when money is refunded to a debit card. http://jonbwhite.tumblr.com/post/66853226398/how-square-move...
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by dustcoin 12y ago
They are offering a 20% bonus on purchases with BTC. https://inpay.pl/doladowanie-t-mobile-bitcoin/
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by dustcoin 12y ago
Less than 50% of Americans always pay their full balance, around 33% usually or always carry a balance. http://www.gallup.com/poll/168668/americans-rely-less-credit...
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by dustcoin 12y ago
The $200M figure is a typo. The article's source lists 64500 people with >= 100M RMB ($16M) in 2013. http://up.hurun.net/Humaz/201312/20131218145315550.pdf [Page 9]
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by dustcoin 12y ago
Nothing in that article states that the coins were sold above market price. The only publicly known data points were some significantly below-market bids (<$500 when the market price was ~$600) that did not win.
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by dustcoin 12y ago
The url isn't facebookwww? though, it is facebookcorewww?. The additional 4 characters didn't have to be "core", but the fact that it is an english word and relevant adds significant difficulty to your estimates.
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by dustcoin 12y ago
A majority of non-citizens in Voter ID states self-report that they were required to show photo ID (which they could not have had) Non-citizens can acquire legitimate photo ID (a driver's license, for example).
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by dustcoin 12y ago
I assume that the SEC gained access to his exchange accounts' transaction history and discovered that he did indeed lose money trading.
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by dustcoin 12y ago
The complaint implies that he lost 64k BTC trading. Based on my observations of pirateat40's behavior and personality during the time he ran the scam, this is a much more likely outcome than him secretly holding on to a large number o
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by dustcoin 12y ago
From the SEC complaint [1]: During the relevant period, Shavers transferred at least 150,649 BTC to his personal account at an online BTC currency exchange which, among other things, he then sold or used to day-trade (con
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by dustcoin 12y ago
It is misleading to refer to the US prison system as privatized, when the percentage of the total inmates that are in private prisons is only around 3% [1]. Privatized prisons do create a huge moral hazard, but currently the pro-prison grou
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by dustcoin 12y ago
The owner of the private key corresponding to a bitcoin address can cryptographically sign a message proving they control the address. This functionality is built into most modern bitcoin wallets.
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by dustcoin 12y ago
I haven't heard of a single MtGox creditor that has expressed anger towards Satoshi.
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by dustcoin 12y ago
>mutual funds Vanguard offers many low-fee mutual funds. Non-depreciating: The long-term return of stock indices and some bond indices beats inflation. Attainable: $1000-$3000 minimum to open an account Liquid: Funds can be boug
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by dustcoin 12y ago
The corollary to this is that people also have a vested interest in thinking their failure is the product of bad luck or circumstances outside of their control.
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by dustcoin 12y ago
According to another article, http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Squatters-don-t-sit... , it is suspected that the squatter is intentionally running the AC full blast with the windows open.
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by dustcoin 12y ago
These jurisdictions likely have special laws regarding contests with prizes. For example: http://business.financialpost.com/2011/09/08/why-many-contes...

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