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by klochner 5y ago
this is a feature not a bug.
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by klochner 7y ago
The study was posted here a couple days ago. http://ftp.iza.org/dp12282.pdf
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by klochner 8y ago
Vs unhedged bund. Pretty lame.
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by klochner 8y ago
this will accelerate the rollout of congestion pricing in the US.
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by klochner 8y ago
In an email to Barron’s the head of the SIPC cast doubt on the idea that it would insure checking or savings accounts. “SIPC protects cash that is deposited with a brokerage firm for one limited purpose...the purpose of
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by klochner 8y ago
Lawyers aren't known for their stock picking, I wonder if she was piggybacking on insider trading by M&A lawyers.
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by klochner 8y ago
Business Majors don't, but MBAs do. Business majors want to focus on their career, MBAs are mostly there and ready to settle down.
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by klochner 8y ago
i love them. They could easily take half the cars off the road and transform downtown. They're more convenient and a fraction of the cost of an uber, and they're fun to ride. People should not be riding them on the sidewalks, i&#x
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by klochner 8y ago
From the DAI site: > If the value of ether held as collateral is worth less than the amount > of Dai it’s supposed to be backing, then Dai would not be worth one dollar > and the system could collapse. > Mak
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by klochner 8y ago
Most infuriating about the SF housing debate is the the utter lack of economic knowledge that aligns groups like sierra club and low-income advocacy groups with rent-seeking or racist NIMBY homeowners.
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by klochner 9y ago
Should, but sadly doesn’t at the moment. We need more housing.
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by klochner 9y ago
No one seems to be talking about how venture investors have transformed into cryptocurrency hedge funds over the past year. The conversations you see from VCs has similarly changed - instead of talking about teams building enterprise value,
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by klochner 9y ago
Tren Griffin is a big proponent of Charlie Munger’s use of mental modals. This post has a good list of models: https://25iq.com/2015/08/22/a-dozen-things-ive-learned-from-... Tren’s weekly ‘dozen things I’ve
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by klochner 9y ago
Hashing does not materially impact the global price of electricity. Also, hardware is a fixed cost, fixed costs don't affect the price at which miners would stop mining.
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by klochner 9y ago
[X] Open Source Tools [ ] Massive Data Sets [ ] $Millions in Computing Resources I'd put it roughly on par with finding a general cure for cancer. While unlikely, quite amazing that the cure for one of the largest
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by klochner 9y ago
You're agreeing with him. Gold and tulips are commodity currencies, they have value outside of their uses as a currency. The dollar and bitcoin are not commodity currencies, i.e., they have no value or use outside of their use as curre
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by klochner 9y ago
From the post: Basically, write Javascript without functional programming techniques. That doesn’t seem like a good solution. So . . . what am I misrepresenting?
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by klochner 9y ago
The flagged comment was accurate - post claims FP in javascript is an antipattern, but then says FP is the most sane way to write javasript. Ergo author is claiming javascript is an antipattern, tldr clojurescript. /shrug
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by klochner 10y ago
His take on microservices, 11 years later: https://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html
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by klochner 10y ago
Any concerns about adverse selection? I'd want to use OpenDoor if their pricing model came in above what I could reasonably get in the market, and would be more likely to wait it out if they came in low.
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by klochner 10y ago
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/09/11/the-most-misre...
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by klochner 10y ago
hunch
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by klochner 11y ago
Many developers prefer to work like Navy Seals or Jazz Musicians. It's objectively more empowering, arguably more fun. Some jobs require an army or a big band, i.e., a lot of coordinated precision - objectively less freedom and autonom
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The sad state of web development(medium.com)
3 points by klochner 11y ago|0 comments
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by klochner 11y ago
Expedite Financial, San Francisco Come help us build a mortgage bank from the ground up. front-end: rails, angular, react (+redux), es6/es7, webpack, sass back-end: scala, rails, postgres dev-ops: chef, ec2 We are a well funded and qu
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by klochner 11y ago
In addition to being aligned with business strategy, this is a great recruiting strategy as well. I'd be giving Newegg a call if I were a patent attorney looking for my next gig.
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by klochner 11y ago
I was talking about income tax at time of exit. If you pre-exercise and file an 83b, you realize profit as long-term capital gains rather than ordinary income. It's hard to pre-exercise if doing so costs you $100k+ in exercise costs (
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by klochner 11y ago
In the US, one benefit of two-tier structure is that employees can early exercise options at a very low stock price to get preferential tax treatment (taxed at long-term rate rather that ordinary income). With all common it's likely to
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by klochner 11y ago
That scenario would only be "market rate" if the market put a higher price ( market price ) on luxury-car-driving engineers. In that case it would likely not seem absurd because presumably there would be some extra inherent value
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by klochner 11y ago
Interesting point re: not staying at the seed stage long enough for a bubble. What we're seeing instead is multiple preferences layered on in subsequent rounds. So seed/A investors think they're doing well when the company r

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