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this is a feature not a bug.

The study was posted here a couple days ago. http://ftp.iza.org/dp12282.pdf

Vs unhedged bund. Pretty lame.

this will accelerate the rollout of congestion pricing in the US.

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 f…

Lawyers aren't known for their stock picking, I wonder if she was piggybacking on insider trading by M&A lawyers.

Business Majors don't, but MBAs do. Business majors want to focus on their career, MBAs are mostly there and ready to settle down.

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. Peopl…

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 s…

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 rac…

Should, but sadly doesn’t at the moment. We need more housing.

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…

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’…

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.

[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 tha…

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., …

From the post: Basically, write Javascript without functional programming techniques. That doesn’t seem like a good solution. So . . . what am I misrepresenting?

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 a…

His take on microservices, 11 years later: https://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html

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 o…

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/09/11/the-most-misre...

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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 coord…