jeffem

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by jeffem 10y ago
You sure about that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profit_margin
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by jeffem 13y ago
I don't think I've seen anyone claim that gold is easier to hide or bury than bitcoin. Maybe some people do but that's not the issue most people are talking about when they compare bitcoin to gold. The main distinction that they're pointi
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by jeffem 14y ago
"One of Ivanov’s losses was in a long game in a closed position (the kind where computers perform poorly)..." The top computer engines have been strong in closed positions for many years now. If this person did cheat, he most likely was se
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by jeffem 14y ago
Are you saying that AirBnb, for example, can't be the regulatory body for its customers? Or is there a reason why it's necessary for the government to step in?
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by jeffem 14y ago
How are those "problems inherent in the peer-to-peer model"? Aren't those problems any business in the industry has to face?
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by jeffem 14y ago
You have a point, but you're taking it too far. I agree that companies need to take a look at how their industry is regulated and what purpose those regulations serve. But the fact that companies can come into these types of industries, op
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by jeffem 14y ago
The most surprising thing to me is that the casino let the betting go on for over 2.5 hours.
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by jeffem 14y ago
1) What actors and activities are you referring to exactly when you say "Wall St"? There are lots of players, and they have different roles. The performance of a given stock/fund is irrelevant to many players (exchanges, market makers, et
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by jeffem 14y ago
What experience do you have in financial markets that you believe you've come up with "the most efficient design for stock market trading possible"?
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by jeffem 14y ago
Mindscape has a Visual Studio extension called "Web Workbench" that makes installing and using SASS really easy (as well as LESS and CoffeeScript). I installed via NuGet and I don't remember ever having to leave Visual Studio. The install
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by jeffem 14y ago
It's sad to see a comment like this on top of HN in the same way it would be to see a misinformed post about "hacking" rise to the top of a trading forum. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you, and those who upvoted you, have littl
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by jeffem 15y ago
Those are fair points, although I did qualify my statement with "In the absence of fraud". If the employment agreements forbid the behavior then that would be a clear case of fraud. When it comes to implied expectations, I'm not sure it's
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by jeffem 15y ago
The article doesn't mention an important fact: All of the defendants named in the suit are based in California, a state that does not enforce non-compete agreements (with some minor exceptions). Assuming that these companies agreed not to
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by jeffem 15y ago
The fact that companies (some of which you're probably a happy customer of) spend millions of dollars on sports advertising and sponsorships is evidence that they find value in them
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by jeffem 15y ago
It's impossible to not have goals and not plan. The author's suggestions: "Get up earlier", "Talk to more strangers", etc. are goals in and of themselves. Whenever this topic comes up, what people are really talking about is the degree to w
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by jeffem 15y ago
The only guaranteed outcomes of a blackout are: 1) site owners forego potential revenue that day 2) customers cannot do business with them that day 3) users cannot access those sites that day Depending on which sites participate, the immedi
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by jeffem 15y ago
I wonder what the comments here would look like if the ban would have been on a different advertising medium, say, online advertising. I'd be willing to bet the great majority here would oppose it, and I'd be willing to bet that people woul
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by jeffem 15y ago
I was just going to ask the same. I've been thinking about moving away from GoDaddy for a while and this would be just another reason among many. I take it on a case by case basis whether I do business with a company, and I'll continue to
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by jeffem 15y ago
Developers really need to understand their users and implement these cheats intelligently or they create frustrations of their own. As an example, I played a football game that obviously had some type of tackling assistance. When I dove to
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by jeffem 15y ago
You're scratching the surface of a much deeper issue. Yes, a lot of people would be annoyed if they were bombarded with train salesmen. On the other hand, the fact that this man and others like him are able to bring in this kind of money
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by jeffem 15y ago
I thought this was a pretty poor article. For one, there's debate over what actually drove up the price of wheat ( http://www.economist.com/node/16432870?subjectid=2512631&#38... ). The author glosses over or fails to acknowledge some of t
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by jeffem 15y ago
I made something similar using only html: <img src=" http://www.mysite.joke/walkingman.gif&#62 ;
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by jeffem 15y ago
They must be accessing prior flight search history in some way or they made a really lucky guess with their default selections. I've recently searched for flights on Expedia and Southwest (I don't think I've visited anywhere else). Google a
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by jeffem 15y ago
If you're joking you got me. I can't think of another commodity whose value is affected by the government to the degree of fiat currency. Even if you leave the impact of government borrowing/spending aside, a dollar (or any other fiat cur
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by jeffem 15y ago
If you asked me a few months ago I would've said 60-70 but since I started time tracking I've found it's only 40-50 hours on average. This is with being strict about what's considered work time (meals, "general research", etc. are all off