throwlogon

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by throwlogon 6y ago
I believe the poster has $450K in cash, in addition to the real-estate holdings, and that is already more money than they know what to do with. I don't know if it makes sense to mortgage "the base" to add more cash to that p
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by throwlogon 6y ago
I don't know why this is getting downvoted; companies in other sectors (e.g. oil) get involved in US politics regularly. But there's little precedent for media companies to take action in US politics overtly. (IANAL, but I suspec
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by throwlogon 6y ago
Demanding a "deeper, more consistent, and prolonged commitment than in the past" from people whose profession you've already made more difficult is pretty galling. It may be the case that their careers were going to get more
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by throwlogon 6y ago
If the alternative is artists not being paid enough to make a living, then one side has to push until the other side loses. The work is being given away so cheaply by tech companies trying to commoditize their complements that there isn&#x
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by throwlogon 6y ago
> [T]he other party has every right to tell them No Deal. Sure, but that's different than "You can't charge tech companies more than they themselves are making from the music." Of course you can, and you can do so lo
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by throwlogon 6y ago
Exactly this. Bandcamp's straightforward, egalitarian deal is exactly what any artist below the superstar level needs. Put your stuff out, set your price, handle your own publicity, Bandcamp takes their cut. That's it.
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by throwlogon 6y ago
> You can't charge tech companies more than they themselves are making from the music. Sure you can. Tech companies are constantly losing money at the margins, by paying out more than they take in for a wide variety of things. It&#
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by throwlogon 6y ago
There's some symmetry to the way the Internet Archive assumes consent to reproduce other people's content, and people assuming consent to take advantage of the Internet Archive's mirroring. I don't know if this is in li
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by throwlogon 6y ago
I don't know, the "it's just" part kind of indicates that the real probability of things remaining correlated were not what LTCM thought they were, to the point where they couldn't afford to stay in the position lon
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by throwlogon 6y ago
The coin flips are in fact what I was alluding to. I guess we disagree as to whether what LTCM was betting on were a form of coin flips.
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by throwlogon 6y ago
> Instead you [the bank] go to an anonymous arb firm, for $1m in bonds, and you say, "okay we're going to sell you the bond that is actually ours, you will sell it back to us, here is your fee, now we can sell this bond back to
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by throwlogon 6y ago
I'm not quite sure what you mean, but if you can't reduce the size of your position without losing your shirt, you're not really winning; and if staying in your position requires you to put up more money than you can raise, y
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by throwlogon 6y ago
What does "launder arbitrage" mean?
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by throwlogon 6y ago
> If LTCM was given enough credit to stick it out, they would have made a killing. Anyone making bets will eventually win big if there is no limit on credit, just by betting bigger and bigger until they catch a break. But there's a
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by throwlogon 6y ago
A burnt-down courthouse is less of a threat to civil liberties than actual paramilitaries literally grabbing people off of the streets. We're better off when vandals are the bad guys, rather than state security. EDIT: I'm not su
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by throwlogon 6y ago
I disagree as well. The violence is an unintended consequence, but it's also a known consequence, and has to be taken into account. You can't separate the good and bad consequences of a decision and wave off the negative ones be
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by throwlogon 6y ago
> If you're savvy enough to know how to buy cryptocurrency Savvy enough to know how to buy cryptocurrency, but not savvy enough to not buy cryptocurrency.
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by throwlogon 6y ago
What you described sounds like a pain.
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by throwlogon 6y ago
> strong disagreement about the cause of a bug That sounds more like a hypothesis than an opinion. In the less testable world of opinions (over, say, business strategy) it isn't always possible to settle things by experiment, making
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by throwlogon 6y ago
No, by idle I meant idle , not what's left over after you've already put in a day's work.
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by throwlogon 6y ago
> [T]he vast majority of it was driven by engineering-management-career resume-building and was actively detrimental to the editorial/content-production/journalism side of the house. Why didn't the non-technology side prev
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by throwlogon 6y ago
> I guess stable just wasn't good enough I suspect that's meant to be rhetorical, but from a business perspective, was stable good enough? Sometimes what works now won't be competitive in the near future.
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by throwlogon 6y ago
I think there underlying question is why can't we afford to hang out, and why can't a business afford to let people hang out on their premises? The average person seems to have no large stretches of idle time. Neither did the peo
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by throwlogon 6y ago
Do the Duluth trousers "anchor the bottom of the pocket bag to the side seam" as well? To me this seems like a clever solution that I haven't seen before.
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by throwlogon 6y ago
Slavery wasn't and still isn't that long gone. The reductio ad absurdum where any mention of a color is considered harmful is based in the assumption that the issue is with mentioning color. It might be useful to distinguish wh
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by throwlogon 6y ago
> It's easy to use Monte Carlo methods and find that when n is large, the average cluster size is approximately 2.15013 It never occurred to me before, but running simulations and looking up the result in a dictionary of constants m
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by throwlogon 6y ago
For many reasons. Anecdotally every BMW owner I know is constantly taking their car in for repairs.
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by throwlogon 6y ago
Most empty malls are in places where economic demand, including demand for land, is very low. Investing money to make efficient use of something that cheap is unlikely to be a profitable move.
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by throwlogon 6y ago
On the other hand, it may be the case that steps such as those this Google VP was taking are what is reducing the likelihood of a bad outcome.
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by throwlogon 6y ago
In that case you still have to trust the escrow service.

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