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LOL, no. Buffett’s success has been done year by year for over 60 years. Take his best year out and his success is basically the same.

Note also that he’s intentionally hamstrung himself for the last 46 years or so by investing through Berkshire Hathaway. Had he kept investing through his partnerships he would have made another $80 Billion from performance fees. Had he just invested his own money his returns would have been much higher given he’d have far more investment opportunities,
The linked article actually gives a decent amount of credit to the forgery for the downfall of democracy.

"The revelation of the counterfeiting plot created a huge loss of confidence in the corrupt, democratic government. Military officers who were aggrieved over their pay failing to keep up with inflation, overthrew the democratic government on May 28, 1926. ... A scheme to counterfeit currency and make a forger rich had led, indirectly, to the downfall of a democracy which was followed by a forty-year dictatorship."
There are a lot of misconceptions about the nature of national debt.
You should read about Modern Money Theory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDL4c8fMODk
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/opinion/deficit-tax-cuts-...

Remember, the US is monetarily sovereign. The government has the ability to create and destroy US dollars. Things you don't need to worry about:

- Default. If it happens, it would be a purely political move, not an economic or financial one. The US federal government can always afford payments. A check from the federal government never bounces. They can always just credit bank accounts. In fact, the government can abolish the debt instantly. They can simply redeem all Treasuries with bank reserves.

- Interest rates. The Federal reserve controls short-term interest rates. And the supply of long-term Treasuries doesn't impact interest rates: increased government deficits lead to an increase in the size of bank reserves which lead to an increase in demand in Treasury bonds that matches the increased supply, since banks want to swap low-paying reserves with higher-paying debt instruments.

- China. Treasuries are like a savings account, while bank reserves are like a checking account. If China or pension funds (or anyone) sell off their Treasuries, it's akin to transferring money from a savings account to a checking account. What's the harm in that? And why would they do that? That would decrease their interest income.

Here are real concerns about ballooning national debt:

- Inflation. This can happen since the government is stimulating aggregate demand, in a classical Keynesian way. But it hasn't happened for a while, and if it does, the government can raise taxes. That shrinks the debt and decreases aggregate demand.

- Foreign exchange. With all the new USD floating around (because government spending = money creation and taxation = money destruction), there's a risk of a weaker dollar. But that has its upsides. And China's currency peg at least keeps the prices of Chinese goods fixed.

- Spending it unwisely. The government can't buy everone a pony. There aren't enough ponies in the world, and it would wreck the pony market.
> cheap and effective persuasion machine is also available to anyone with nefarious ends

In theory, once it’s discovered to be persuasive, then it’s no longer cheap, as advertisers start bidding up the limited inventory.
Thanks, I'll create an issue for it.
I infer GP was talking about his users on OSX, who would have to download/install python3 to use the distributed software.
Buffett started out as an expert in the kind of arbitrate deals that are much more available in bad markets than good. Still he was able to average 40% returns his first decade despite the lack of a good bear market.
On T-mobile in the US, spotify streaming doesn’t count against mobile data quota ;)
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That's because the government's deficit is the people's surplus, by simple accounting identity. Paying off the debt would be catastrophic. Andrew Jackson did it, and 1 year later we had a financial crisis. Clinton gave us a surplus, which led to a financial crisis. It's very simple: either the government is in debt to the people, or the people are in debt to the governmet. The latter is a perverse situation.

Please read about Modern Money Theory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDL4c8fMODk https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/opinion/deficit-tax-cuts-...
I try to trigger myself to do a quick session on learning a foreign language. It’s not easy at first, but apps like Memrise, Duolingo or Drops support such short sessions.
That is exactly what I am describing when I say that value flows into and out of bitcoin. There is nothing stopping bitcoin from "expanding and contracting" [I think you mean inflating and deflating]. At the very least something like money laundering has such an effect on bitcoin - because pre-laundered money does not have a 1:1 value ratio with clean money. Of course I'm sure there are more legitimate examples, although I wonder what percentage of BTC volume is laundering...
Is this really progress, or have we taken a huge step backwards from the NASA days? Keep in mind, a collaboration between NASA, Russia (for launches) the CSA and ESA helped build the International Space Station. The space shuttles had some design problems, but they lasted for decades. NASA rockets cost a lot, but SpaceX is heavily subsidized.

I don't want to diminish what SpaceX, Rocket Lab, et. al. are doing. It's incredibly impressive and important. I realize a lot of NASA was cold war tech was a hidden way to invest in ICBMs. I wish it wasn't that way. I wish space exploration wasn't growing private. It wish it were open, publicly funded; without secrecy, corporate work and non-disclosures.

> The Falcon Heavy won't surpass NASA's Saturn V moon rocket, still all-time king of the launch circuit. It won't even approach the liftoff might of NASA's space shuttles.

Then why? Tax payer dollars are going to subsidize private rocket research. The SpaceX videos are more sensationalized than any NASA launches.

Back in the 60s, NASA scientists envisioned space stations with 10k person capacities by 2010. The Biosphere II hit some major problems, Challenger exploded and tons of other issues started to chill everyone's expectations. That future that was so hopeful started to fade.

We praise Space X, and some of Musk's absolutely fucking retarded ideas, along with his many successes. Somehow, I feel like, a few decades ago, scientists in this field thought we'd be much further than we are right now. They promised themselves so much...
There's something sublimely humorous about the fact that ex-employees from the world's largest ad distributors are working to start an ad campaign.
It’s actially way harder to earn high returns on $400 Billion than it is $4B. Buffett’s returns have been declining for 50 years because of that. As his portfolio size grows it increasingly limits his investment options.
To further clarify, any communication would have to be superluminal. Sure there are people who claim that there's some unobservable superluminal background to the universe that makes non-local hidden variable theories possible but I don't know that I'd call that the simpler explanation.
Don’t worry the link will be reported and erased from the front page really quickly anyway.

It’s the same story for every critical thread about Altcoins. But at least this time we kinda have a confirmation that this is some kind of manipulation because the linked article have absolutely no reasons to be reported. It’s an original work with great tech insights.
Could you please not post like this here, regardless of how wrong someone else is? it just makes the thread even worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Doing this will invite bad bots to spam my inbox.
Putting aside the fact that this change was made to increase performance, I'd rather have a language that's useful, expressive, and semantically powerful by default, instead of one that is less powerful and harder to use but slightly faster.
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Seems to be some conflation of the concept of equity and options on equity in the article?
Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Infected Over Half-Million PCs Using NSA Exploit
Can MPEG overcome its video "crisis"?
Buffett’s investing algorithm hasn’t changed in 65 years. Every day he reads financial reports. If he likes a companies business model, he makes a mental estimate of the companies value, and then looks up their trading price. If there is a big enough discrepancy in his favor he will start buying.
Yes really. It's called modern money theory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDL4c8fMODk
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/opinion/deficit-tax-cuts-...

The US federal government pays for things by crediting bank accounts (hence money creation). The fact that the federal government also issues Treasury securities is a political constraint, not strictly required from a technical standpoint. The Federal Reserve then uses Treasures as a reserve drain when they are trying to hit their overnight interest rate targets.
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I was thinking more along the lines of undetected hyper surfaces or wormholes.
> from Dostoevsky to quantum physics

I can't really explain it, but that (embarrassingly) sounds like exactly what an engineer would say. As if people are supposed to swoon over Dostoevsky and quantum physics. It just reeks of pseudo-intellectualism and try-hard-ness. Compare that to @torstenvl's laundry list, which might seem a bit esoteric, but it definitely sounds genuine.
I remember buying some Trader Joe's strawberry soymilk about 18 years ago and then discovering that it was nonvegetarian for this reason. Nonvegetarian soymilk isn't something you see every day (I guess unless you worked for Trader Joe's in 1999).
I can definitely remember this being possible a while back when I was using Spotify.
Blizzard is paying Afreeca to host the GSL. Blizzard is paying others for Overwatch and Hearthstone tournaments. There's no reason for Blizzard to force organizations to pay to run a SCBW tournament. If Blizzard actually has a defendable position, they should share it.
I worked as a BA until I got work at a non-profit doing lightweight database admin and legacy app administration. Now in my second year I'm helping rebuild our internal apps with react and .NET. I'm hoping to set myself up well for my next position.
Yup that is what equidate does. Basically a forward contract on the underlying shares. I have done this with some AirBnB shares.
I love Spotify, but it bugs me that I can't use Siri to launch music from it. It's the only thing Apple Music has over Spotify imo.
So just because Jeff Bezos has worked tirelessly at Amazon for over two decades that means he's trying to show mommy and daddy he's a big boy? That seems like some next level armchair psychoanalyzing.

For some people "work" is the culmination and intersection of a number of hobbies they have thought about for decades. Some people are lucky enough to have the line between work and play to be so blurred that they get paid ridiculous money to have fun.
BS is peddled by industries seeking to grow their business. Medical professionals are also susceptible to industry-sponsored BS-vendors:

https://www.propublica.org/article/when-evidence-says-no-but...

Oxycontin was supposedly non-habit forming. Decades ago DES was sold to prevent miscarriages, but actually caused them, and gave those women's daughters vaginal cancer.

No one can actually be fully trusted, so people trust who they think is trust-able. I prefer the middle path... Consult with the professionals, but take their advice with plenty of salt [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt
At least it's winter. The experience in summer would probably be quite awful.
Got it. Thanks for sharing!

I wish there were a better clearing house for this sort of collective experience. I guess HN serves that purpose, to an extent, but it's hardly organized.
That's typically a bad rating online.

https://xkcd.com/1098/
I have a credits section on the help screen. I'd be happy to add anybody in there who contributes a patch.
I have done two transactions with them. One was a SPV direct transfer on the companies cap table which was pretty straight forward. The other one was a forward contract which was a little more unease but the opp was worth it.
It's a widely held misconception that the government needs to finance its spending. It doesn't. It just spends money into existence. Treasuries are a political constraint, not a technical one.

Please read about Modern Money Theory.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/opinion/deficit-tax-cuts-...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDL4c8fMODk
Having just read about Equity Zen following your comment, I'd also be interested to know what people think about them. Their FAQ lays out a pretty compelling case for their value prop to all parties, so I'm curious if there are any strong arguments against them, especially from a company's perspective.
I'm personally getting tired of ecosystem lock-ins, so Spotify is a great alternative because they're available everywhere. Also, the UX of Spotify Connect is great.
I couldn't figure out how to upvote posts when browsing HN through the lynx browser. So this pass-through proxy replaces the caret with an "[upvote]" text that is clickable in a lynx browser. User data is not persisted in the server.
Not exactly, this is a similar concept though

http://s3-accelerate-speedtest.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com/e...
You are absolutely right, and you have discovered Modern Money Theory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEiNLmg2tYA
Linear A would like a word with you [0].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_A
What is ASL5? or EUD?
And aren't research masters / phds almost never actually paying for university, after getting a research position? Paying for the degree is for undergrads and "professionals"
How many people only order an egg on bread at McDonald's?
But if a fixed-line provider did that it would be considered a violation of network neutrality and the pitchforks come out.

How can a future challenger to Spotify compete in such am environment? etc
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Sure. How do you suggest responding to comments too laughable to warrant a serious response?
Pretty sure that’s not a thing anymore if you’re on their newer plans.
> I don’t know anyone who needs an electric car

I imagine you live in the USA where gas is insanely cheap? think about people paying > $6USD/gallon.
Are Wheels Coming Off Bitcoin's Bandwagon, Crunched by Reg Concerns?
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We eventually ban accounts that keep doing that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Can't speak for Google or Apple, but I know that Spotify's entry into a country is largely dictated by rights holders. They themselves would like to offer everything to everyone, of course.
> If one if distracted by trying to satisfy the borrow checker, they might overlook a logical error.

I see it the other way around. I let the compiler deal with the borrow and type checkers and to tell me what I missed, while I focus on the logic of the code.
Morin khuur – Horse headed fiddle
The two-stringed fiddle Morin khuur has figured prominently in Mongolia’s nomad culture. String instruments adorned with horse heads are attested to by written sources dating from the Mongol empire of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The fiddle’s significance extends beyond its function as a musical instrument, for it was traditionally an integral part of rituals and everyday activities of the Mongolian nomads.

https://www.discovermongolia.mn/blog-news-morin-khuur-horse-headed-fiddle/
It's a hot niche right now, that's for sure.
To be fair it’s also buggy as hell on iOS and Mac.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16160947#16162079

>CA was basically paying you $1000 to take the car
Did you try calling them as well? If not I can tell you it is useless. I tried once. Waited 45 minutes and then the lady was we can't do anything but will escalate. 5 minutes later get email saying "Hi we have escalated". Nothing down for two weeks after that. Called again and same process rinse and repeat.

It would seems a pretty simple ticket request to resolve. Will be moving to Gemini moving forward.
"death of Javascript except as a compilation target"

It has kind of already happened. Except Javascript is the compilation source as well (ES6->ES5) - but that'll change hopefully.

Once we get WebAssembly + Electron then we have a true build once run anywhere dream, like Java could never have imagined.
ReasonReact currently only handle browser routing (it hooks directly into window.location API. So for ReactNative, it could do it the way you used to do with Javascript.
Please don't use HN for political or national battle.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It was the stimulus package no?
I don't get it. "Percentage of points coming from smashes" seems like a worthless metric for detecting cheating via favorable RNG seeds. The relevant metric would instead be average points per smash. And for that Mitchell's results are not particularly out of line with the other entries (the distribution is 464-511, with an average of 480; 491 doesn't look at all suspicious in that context).

Wouldn't this rather be a sign of people making different strategic tradeoffs? Mitchell spent more time breaking barrels but at the cost of getting fewer bonus points for finishing the level in time.
Do you save a copy of the page, or just a link. Curious also what people who use Evernote typically do?
As others have pointed out, users flag comments that break the site guidelines.
Does Apple Music offer something comparable to Spotify's Discover Weekly playlists?
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Sure. I'll have to read up on how that stuff works, but I'm keen to make my version as playable as possible.
I find movements like "responsible ads" or Adblock Plus's "acceptable ads" to be totally missing the point. Ads are, by design, intended to manipulate you. Most of us don't tolerate people or things that so blatantly manipulate us in the physical realm. If a salesman comes to my door unprompted, I'm perfectly happy to cut him off mid-sentence by closing the door. When he tries to sell something to my grandmother that she doesn't want or need over the phone, I have a right to be angry at him for trying to manipulate someone I love.

How is it that so many people agree with me here, but then eagerly defend online advertisers' rights to manipulate them? They claim that so long as the ads are unobtrusive, then no problem - even though the ads still have the same goal in the end. These people want to be manipulated. How is any of this rationalized?
As I previously posted here in HN, this author suggests PGP for immutable database where Bitcoin is projected as serious use case http://rajeshanbiah.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/technology-predic...
You are talking as if people (whatever their status in the food chain maybe) currently without access to information are making fantastic decisions.

What happens in reality is they fill in the blanks of missing info, based on their biases(everyone has them - just take a psyc 101 course), trusting the wrong sources and methods. And all this cascades and chaos of its own.

Are the Chinese going to fuck up and make mistakes? Most definitely yes. Are these fuckups going to be greater than what is currently unfolding in self certified "enlightened" democracies? No idea. But it's not as open and shut as people like to think.

Just as the negatives will surfaces the positives will too. And those positives won't be discovered in countries without these systems in place.
> exactly out of the Russian playbook

Please keep national swipes and politicla battle far away from here.
Both prey on our increased dependency on an instant dopamine release.
Ukraine cyber police support cryptocurrency legalization
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15940121 (Dec 2017)

Looks like the mods noticed this time.
Best Buy stores will stop selling music CDs
I was at first skeptical but Google Music was better than I expected that it was responsive and helped me discover new music. Apple Music however...
OK so without trying to push cardano too hard, one of the major design points of cardano was to design a cryptocurrency from the ground up by building a security model, writing formal proofs for the system, and implementing said proofs in isabelle as formal verification of the underlying software for the network.

I would recommend looking into it if you are curious or would like to try to verify anything I said. They are doing a lot of cool stuff and I think the project is really interesting but I've been trying to keep my posts from getting too wordy so I'll cut myself off here.
SpaceX never claimed that it's advancing rocket science.

NASA recovered rockets and landed on the moon years ago.

What they didn't do was lower the cost to orbit.

_That_ is SpaceX's thing
Reliable might be an open question, and something 2-3 times the price of a Corolla or Civic is affordable to a very particular demographic.
> I now have four additional completely useless Google Accounts

I wouldn't call them useless. With Google's propensity for algorithmicaly-determined account suspension it's probably wise to have dedicated accounts for each combination of ( person / device ) * ( Google service ).

Certainly I would encourage anyone with a reliance on G-Mail to create separate accounts for other services.
I'm not a lawyer, but I think this kind of stuff pretty clearly counts as fraud under existing law and that these ICO scammers in general would definitely be vulnerable to lawsuits, however:

A. The coin operators can remain anonymous.
B. The coin operators could live in any jurisdiction.
C. It's nearly impossible to prove that the operators are the ones who stole the token (which makes the scam particularly ideal).
What social media does to mental health is comparable to what cigarettes do to the lung health.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

I saw a post yesterday using http://cloudping.info to compare latency numbers between us and AWS. It’s similar enough in concept (and gcping.com wasn’t first), but I can’t vouch for its accuracy. They both seem directionally correct though. Stuff nearby is about right, and our backbone makes a big differnce for lots of routes.
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the fiat currency required to fullfill the 22 million coins being cashed out would be removed from other areas of society
Indeed, ripping people off typically comes with plenty of legality issues.
Sure, "no hidden variables" is interesting/weird. And interference is interesting/weird. And both of those things happen independently from entanglement.

But entanglement itself seems very not-weird to me once you buy into those other things.
I don't actually know. :(

My understanding would think diet change could work. But only if you manage to starve the bacteria. Anti biotics are much more straight forward and effective here. Obviously finish your dose.

That said, I've never had an ulcer, so have not actually read much. Other than finding it was none of the root causes I heard growing up.
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It's much cheaper (and safer) to throw away a satellite than to develop and fly a shuttle.