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As a spiritual predecessor I would recommend the movie The Long Goodbye (1973)
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The strategy they are describing (selling covered calls) is actually less risky than holding the underlying. They make more than just holding the underlying when it drops or stays flat, and in exchange they make less when the underlying goe
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Nontech companies are only using spreadsheets, forms, and storage. But they spend their technical manpower on implementing business logic in closed source locked-in expensive software. I don't think its much more work just to implement
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It may be my pure naivety about management software, but I assume it just consists of spreadsheets, forms, secure login, data storage, and simple queries. I cannot imagine anything with this combination that couldn't be implemented in
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Enterprise software is such a mystery to me. I can't imagine any company ran by <40 yr olds ever paying $100k+ a year to VMWare, Symantec, Oracle, ... To me it just looks like older companies paying to keep from having to deal with
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by unabridged 4y ago
Hacker News has a really good dedicated search engine: https://hn.algolia.com/
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I don't think regulation is the answer. The US government should just create app.gov with a 1% fee or something and out compete them.
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by unabridged 5y ago
Hardware. If Firefox had a phone to compete with Android, even if was $1000+ it would gain ground. Also selling laptops to compete against Chromebooks. The hardware has to be top of the line and work perfectly with the OS. Work with every m
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by unabridged 5y ago
You are missing the most important point C) the outgoing president refuses to leave The rioters wouldn't have ended democracy, but if they caused enough commotion to prevent certification there was a significant risk Trump would have t
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If they used and published a fair algorithm for matching, they wouldn't really be involved in the matching they would just be providing a venue. Similar to a city providing public space for people to meet, like a fair. Do you think the
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by unabridged 5y ago
Instead of regulation, I'd like to see the government offer a free service. A digital commons. In this case the public library version of Tinder, with strict rules of who can be banned and where everyone is treated equally.
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>bullish on blockchain technology (which I see as basically git with trust/consensus features built in) Blockchain and smart contracts are the perfect technology for managing a company's assets and voting rights, especially for
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by unabridged 5y ago
I would be surprised if Cisco went bankrupt overnight, but to me their future looks quite bleak. Every day less companies need to buy their hardware as more move to the cloud. The biggest tech companies can build their own hardware. And the
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by unabridged 5y ago
The first response to this should be "oh, so you are making me a partner". Family = shared ownership.
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I've always wanted to see soccer played with two balls on the field. I think it would be many times more interesting.
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Tether doesn't hold arbitrary crypto (except a small amount to pay transaction fees on the blockchain). They are just a window where you can exchange tether tokens on the blockchain for USD in a bank account. The exchange of tether tok
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by unabridged 5y ago
The US government really doesn't use this much capital control in the current financial system. Look at the fx markets, look at all the dollar denominated bonds and paper issued by foreign companies and governments. They don't nee
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The US government currently doesn't care if I sell billions of USD and buy JPY instead, as long as I pay the proper taxes and they can see the transaction. I imagine crypto will be treated the same way, they just want to monitor the on
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>So, instant payments are coming in the next 18 months [3] (it is actively in testing currently with a handful of participants), and free accounts for everyone is a stroke of legislative pen. What's blockchain solving? Blockchain wi
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by unabridged 5y ago
Why would the people running Tether not just park the money in a US Treasury ladder and collect the millions in interest each year? No hassle, no loss of sleep. Why play games? Why risk blowing up your cash cow and going to jail?
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by unabridged 5y ago
This is an extremely low valuation for how famous BD is. They could have gone public and sold 10-20% of their stock for $1B.
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by unabridged 6y ago
99.9% of the interactions with the internet should be read-only and could be delivered via something like IPFS. Make browsers read-only by default and closely monitor when information is sent out.
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by unabridged 6y ago
The difference is the treatment of poor & homeless. Public transit buildings/vehicles are some of the only inside spaces where they can spend time. Then people with enough money avoid public transit as much as possible. Then they v
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by unabridged 7y ago
I think its just pure fear selling off way too much. The stock market only appeared to be on a huge bull run, the amount of money in the system doubled since 2008: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MABMM301USM189S Sin
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by unabridged 7y ago
Easy. Cut bandwidth costs. Even just putting everyone at the lowest price and removing all tiers would change the market completely.
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>Until the Democratic Party and liberals admit to these things, moderate their tone, I am never, never, never coming back, and I voted for Obama twice. I always find this argument fascinating. "Some people made fun of white males, t
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by unabridged 8y ago
Not completely magical realism, but I would suggest Vonnegut. Murakami slightly reminds me of a younger version.
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Decentralized trust is a way to "open source" a customer/merchant database. If centralized trust is required the company controlling it can charge people to use it, for example think of listing fees as ebay charging people fo
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by unabridged 8y ago
Part of me is hoping this is in preparation of releasing an open source version of windows
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by unabridged 8y ago
Not one mention of an ETF (ie the availability of bitcoin to retail investors). The large run up in December was in anticipation of multiple bitcoin ETFs by major companies, the futures market was just the appetizer. And the fall was caused

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