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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 mo…

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 ac…

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 ca…

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 companie…

> [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 …

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…

> 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 t…

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 m…

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…

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.

> 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…

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 y…

What does "launder arbitrage" mean?

> 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…

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 gu…

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…

> 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.

What you described sounds like a pain.

> 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 al…