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It's true that Bitcoin doesn't have a lot of transaction volume, but this isn't where you'd see that. "Spot volume" (trading volume) is taking place on centralized exchanges -- not…

Pretty sure he meant "freshman or freshwoman"

I moved to SF two years ago after living in NYC for 4 years. When people here ask me if I miss New York, I tell them I miss aspects of it -- the bars, restaurants, nightlife, art, …

This is why paperweights exist. Office buildings all used to have ventilator shafts which effectively created lower pressure in the interior of the building. In order to make it wo…

In my experience, finding a framework when you're searching for a solution is not a consolation prize. When the consolation prize is the only prize, it feels like the first place t…

Here's the way I look at it. Once your 401k or other retirement savings are on track to give you a comfortable retirement, that's like an option -- you are effectively guaranteed a…

The key insight is that you are unlikely to be experiencing the thing at a special time in its life. This is the Copernican principle (which J. Richard Gott uses in his version of …

There is an analogy to clustering (an unsupervised learning technique) here. Take the simple case of 2 dimensions (each observation is plotted in 2D space) with possible values of …

That's a hilarious comment, and a good point. But you can tell when your ad blocker is messing with site functionality beyond just blocking ads (i.e., the false positives your pare…

To take it a step further: Is it immoral to eat whole foods for all 3 meals a day? Research has shown we get most of the nutrients we need from our first meal (of whole foods) each…

I've always wondered why they don't use this to price discriminate even more. They always say the "actual value" of the education is way more than $55k per year or whatever, becaus…

I think your point #2 is right on. This article is wondering why recent observations are not behaving the "backward bending supply curve of labour" [1]. But this curve assumes a co…

This is a really good point. Now I'm pissed that I contributed to a Roth earlier in my career. Another one that no one has mentioned: state income tax. I live in CA but would put a…

IIRC, the lead for an angel syndicate can make deal-level carry (as opposed to the fund-level carry that is described here). This leads to some incredible risk-taking: there is no …

I feel like this is misleading without the % share of the total. These top 50 represent 2.7% of the total. OK, that sounds bad, but I'm not really sure how to interpret it. Even if…

Don't know why you're being downvoted. You astutely point out that just as defunding can cause a move toward privatization (or the belief that only private enterprise can solve a g…

That's not how it works at all. It's a market: there is a limited supply of impressions/clicks, and it is _buyers_ who decide the price. Buyers are rational -- I like to take that …

I grew up a few miles south of Roebling, NJ -- a company town created for the Roebling Steel Mill. Some nice pictures here: http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2013/05/roebling_a_li…

This is in my opinion the best simple A/B test significance calculator. I like it for two reasons: 1) The multiple testing correction, which many people ignore when testing > 1 var…

I wonder if there was any secondary equity sold. Spiegel famously took out $10M back in 2013 and bought a Ferrari. As an investor/BOD member, I think you need to balance between gi…

I've heard that the Durst family made an app for changing the lights on One World Trade Center. They guard its distribution pretty tightly, though. I have a fantasy about going on …

This is a good point. If these are each used by 2 people, it's not very interesting. It's sort of implied by the attention these stories get that the problem is much bigger than th…

So, is man-made climate change solved? If the whole world agrees that we will all collectively take steps to reach an agreed upon level of temperature rise in 100 years, what else …